Mao: We should literally kill every landlord
Harris: We should fund a first time home buyers grant of $20,000 for pell grant recipients who have owned a small business for 25 years
Vaush: These are literally the same thing
Mao: We should literally kill every landlord
Harris: We should fund a first time home buyers grant of $20,000 for pell grant recipients who have owned a small business for 25 years
Vaush: These are literally the same thing
We've done it. We've finally manufactured and deployed the wrongest man.
Him going back to this well every election year has to be intentional lol
Ian Miles Cheong walked so could run
The “[historical figure] would’ve supported [modern candidate/movement/policy]” is the most brain dead argument. Obviously, they’re not here to tell us otherwise. But more importantly, despite the iconography being fun, figures like Lenin, Mao, etc were not prophets delivering holy truths from on high. They were just people making the best of their situations and figuring out what worked in the moment. Which is the best we can do, and often that means taking a different tactic than leftists of old. Ironically, playing games of “What would Lenin do?” is the exact opposite of conceptualizing theory in the modern context because it ties leftist politics to people who had decades of evolving context since their deaths.
For anyone curious about the Harris housing plan: https://nhc.org/the-harris-walz-housing-plan-detailed-serious-and-impactful/
It includes:
Tax breaks for builders
Different tax breaks for builders
Up to $25k for first time home buyers who have not missed rent in the last two years. Also sounds like it might be limited to 1 million buyers a year
Funds for local govt to distribute to non profits/housing services
Deregulation ("cutting red tape and bureaucracy")
Remove tax benefits for corporations that buy single family homes to rent
Some vague "rent control" that isn't
who have not missed rent in the last two years
Come the fuck on. What in the hell kind of means tested bullshit is this?
sounds designed in a laboratory to crush tenant strikes
So funneling money to local government jobs stacked with friends and relatives of the DNC? What else is new?
This is some of the absolute dumbest shit I have ever read. What on Earth could Vaush have ever read beyond Wikipedia that led him to this conclusion?
I believe in this context he quoted something Marx wrote about supporting "revolutionary parties in Bourgeoisie elections" and either missed the "revolutionary" part or he claimed the Democrats to be revolutionary.
He took a quote about Marx supporting Communists running in Bourgeoisie elections and twisted it to support voting for Bourgeoisie parties.
and either missed the "revolutionary" part
Lmao
or he claimed the Democrats to be revolutionary
LMAO
He took a quote about Marx supporting Communists running in Bourgeoisie elections and twisted it to support voting for Bourgeoisie parties.
Yea, there's no genuine way to read this other than Marx supporting PSL or other actual Leftist parties, surely people have pointed this out, right? Right?
it came to me in a dream
Sounds like a fever-dream
Vaush lied as naturally as he breathed...
The fact that he provided zero quotes to back up his claims about this, given that he positioned himself as having read these figures works thoroughly, says it all.
Lmao "radical"
Her policy proposal is extremely conservative and unlikely to meaningfully change the course of the housing crisis
Three million new homes!*
*at $1,000,000 each.
Mao is evil and everything he did was evil.
Kamala Harris is good and everything she does is good.
If you like Mao, who is evil, then you should like Harris, who is good.
Harris and Mao actually have really similar policies, which you should be happy about if you like Mao, which you shouldn't.
Being a Liberal must be fucking exhausting.
I'm not the biggest fan
So you are a fan, though
Well, if Kamala Harris wants to lead an uprising against the landlords that will be the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and lead to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the people, then I guess you've actually got to hand it to her.
Posting this very relevant video of Hakim destroying Vaush's "support" for this idea that Marx, Lenin, etc. would support bourgeois electoralism (40:28, so if you're interested, strap on your seatbelt)
Too many liberals have trouble contextualizing theory in the modern era. If Hitler, Mussolini, etc, were alive today, they would have been Bernie/Warren staffers, and would have endorsed Biden after Bernie dropped out. You'd know that if you read more than their Wikipedia articles.
Every time some chud talks about what a dead person would do to support their chud cause, this feels so called for.
https://vlipsy.com/vlip/the-boondocks-huey-throws-a-chair-at-fox-news-host-a5s1ALDX
You beat me to it 😞
I don't have one for Mao and Lenin.
This is like the opposite of great man theory, like sure these dead fucks arnt infallible but goddamn put at least a little respect on their names
"If Mao was alive today" as if Mao lived in 700 BC or someshit, bro he knew what American imperialism was
but it's instead of xi
This should be punishable by death
I feel theres a certain bloc of leftists who, post-bernie, have been ingesting vast amounts of copium to support dems. instead of taking the difficult route of organizing locally and starting from scratch, these guys decided to call it a day and support Kamala. So lame and sad.
"Kautsky!!!!"
stalin would have personally led a gang war so big that cascadia would be a country and vaush thinks the old man would have been a staffer
someone has to have the pic of that pig watching valsh in his pork wagon/patrol car
This is just a rehash of his old "Lenin would support voting for Biden", where he cherry picks a quote or two and runs with it.
Also, as if Lenin and Mao were fully unique Great People and there no current radical leftist leaders that take similar positions, lol
Deeply unserious
crop your darn images or you will be the next person in the dunk tank
Crop workers are on strike
Will no one rid me of this turbulent streamer?
yeah I stan chairman KaMaola
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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