#socialist party

[i-am-trans-gwender]

But did Karl Marx put into account Kermit causing 9/11?

[starberrywander]

Just putting this out there; I used to be hesitant to vote because I get anxious about not knowing what to expect. So if you're in that same boat I'm gonna give a step-by-step guide of how the voting process worked for me when I did it. Hopefully this will help alleviate some anxieties and encourage more people to vote.

Also idk how much different a federal election is from a state one (which is what I voted in) but lets assume for the sake of this that they're pretty close to the same. If there are any differences, those of y'all who have the experience are encouraged to chime in.

Step 1: Register.

Its been a while so I don't remember every detail but basically just google "voter registration (your state)" and you should get a step by step guide on how to register. If I remember correctly I had to submit two forms of ID & maybe a proof of address (can't remember). Good news is, the whole process is online no phone calls involved. You can take your time and no one is waiting/listening so there's no pressure.

From then I think I got a confirmation email when my information was verified and then a voter registration card was mailed to me. Again, no phone calls no texts no direct communication with anyone so if that makes you anxious I am here to say that was not a factor in my experience.

Step 2: Take note of the voting date.

Google can tell you this. And also probably lots of signs out in public leading up to the day. And social media. Its easy to find.

Step 3: Learn what will be on the ballot.

When I went it wasn't just "pick one candidate and you're done," there were elections for multiple seats and also votes on a few state-specific policies. You're probably gonna be picking multiple things, best to be aware of them all beforehand so you know what your opinion is.

Step 4: Show up.

The voter registration card that was sent in the mail should have the address to the location that you will be voting at on the card. I assume its typically going to be at your local town/city hall because that's where mine was but definitely double check because you have to be in the correct location in order to vote.

Step 5: Prepare to wait.

When I went it was packed. Took a while to find a place to park and had to wait in line for quite some time. I think there was also a no cell phones rule but I'm not sure.

Step 6: Confirm registration.

Where I went there were some poll workers at a table with big 3-ring binders with lists of names. You just go up to them and show your ID (or whatever else they need) and they check if your name is on the list. If it is, they will point you in the direction you need to go. (I think they also hand out some kind of ticket? Its been a while but I remember holding a piece of paper the whole time. I think this was for accessing the voting machine.)

Step 7: Wait in line.

this is straightforward. Just wait. No effort or thinking needed. No worries. Prepare to memorize the patterns on the walls lol.

Step 8: Vote.

There will be poll workers directing people where they need to go. When its your turn they'll bring you to an open machine and set it up.

Then you just go through the pages and make the selections you want. You can go back if you need to. There are descriptions of what things mean. There's no time limit. When you're done you submit and that's it. You can go home.

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Hope this helps some of y'all feel a little less intimidated by the idea of voting.

And those of y'all who have voted in the past please add anything that you think is relevant. This is specifically what I can recall of my experience in a Tennessee state election. Idk how much things differ from state to state, and between state and federal elections. I also don't know anything about mail-in voting so additions would be appreciated.

[godinvent]

The argument people use of “well who would want to clean the sewages and toilets if everyone is able to be whatever they want to be under socialism”

Literally for a period of time, hell even still, a power washing simulator game was one of the most popular games people played, and power washing videos are very popular. Same for videos about construction like building brick walls. Honestly asmr in general provides a way for people to see these menial jobs as something they actually enjoy, so yes there would actually be people that want to clean sewers and toilets.

[falseandrealultravival]

Some people like eugenics even if they are not far-right (Essay)

Shizue Kato(A left-wing female lawmaker)

Eugenics started in the USA and is famous for being adopted by far-right Nazi Germany. They used it as a standard for ethnic cleansing and carried out a large-scale genocide of the Jews.

You might think this was before WW2, but it was enacted in Japan after WW2. It was the "Eugenic Protection Law." This law took away the reproductive functions of disabled people without their consent, robbing more than 16,000 people of their futures.

The people who worked to enact this evil law were female Diet members Shizue Kato and Masako Fukuda, who gained the eligibility to be elected after WW2. They belonged to the left-wing Socialist Party!!

They were elected with the support of GHQ, which ruled Japan, and this law took away Japan's vitality. The birth control movement was their starting point, but they ended up stepping into the demonic work of sterilizing disabled people, which was originally unrelated to them.

As a result, the "baby boom" ended, and Japan later fell into a society with a declining birthrate and an aging population. If you create a legal system that makes it easy for grandparents to erase their grandchildren, that's the result. I have to say that the left-wing female lawmakers were very shallow and stupid.

Rei Morishita

2024.05.30

極右でなくても優生学が好きな連中がいる（エッセイ）

優生学はUSAで始まり、極右のナチス・ドイツが採用したことで有名である。民族浄化を行う基準として使い、ユダヤ人虐殺を大いに行った。

これがWW2前の話かと思うと、そうではなく、WW2後の日本で法制化された。「優生保護法」である。この法律は障害者から本人の同意なく生殖機能を奪い、都合１万６千人以上の将来を奪った。

この悪法を制定するために動いたのは、WW2後、参政権を得た女性国会議員の加藤シズエ、福田昌子などだった。彼女たちは、左翼の社会党に所属していた！

彼女らは、日本を支配していたGHQの後押しで当選したが、この法律は日本の活力を奪った。産児制限運動が彼女らの出発点だったが、本来無関係であった障害者の断種という悪鬼の所業に踏み込んでしまったのだ。

結果、それまでの「ベビーブーム」は終息し、のちに日本は少子高齢化社会に落ち込む。祖父・祖母が孫を欲しがらぬことを手助けする法制度を作れば、結果はそのようになる。なんとも浅はかで愚かな左翼女性議員たちだったと言わざるを得ない。

[greatrunner]

I never felt one way or another about AOC. I never truly understood where she and the Squad stood for the public good and the working class. And that's mostly bc I didn't really engage with US politics on the pretense that our representatives were terrible.

What was she doing besides espousing about Black and non-Black representation in politics? It's weird seeing people class AOC as a socialist, because, even with the faintest grasp of what socialism stands for (at the time), that struck me as wrongheaded.

So, years later, now that she's basically towing the party line and honestly never stood for anything else but her own interests, it really sucks that Socialists are getting dragged through the dirt bc of her and Bernie Sanders.

But, I also understand there is a level of responsibility that Socialists need to take for this backlash. Because, unbeknownst to me, they basically surrendered their political power to allow Sanders and his apprentice to represent them, and rally around the Democrats in 2016. The impression was definitely, "We don't have the power, so we're going to work with the lesser evil to platform our policies."

Like, live and learn, but, goddamn. That's embarrassing.

[oediex]

16- and 17-year-olds will be able to vote for the European Parliament in Belgium for the first time this year.

Belgium knows a system of mandatory voting, in the sense that showing up to vote is compulsory - you don't have to vote for anyone if you don't want to, you can abstain from voting right then and there, but you do have to show up. For this reason, the Constitutional Court of Belgium ruled this would also need to be the case for 16- and 17-year-olds as well.

This would mean they would be susceptible to being sanctioned if they fail to turn out. However, yesterday, it was decided by the government that young people will not be given a fine if they don't turn out.

While those over 18 can still be fined and sued, in practice, people who don't turn out to vote aren't usually prosecuted.

Voter turnout in Belgium is one of the highest in the world, with 90% in the last federal elections (2019). Elections are always held on a Sunday. (I'm always so confuses when elections are held on weekdays in other countries, haha)

Mandatory voting was written into the Constitution in 1893, after a general strike organised by the then existing Belgian Labour Party (the first socialist party in Belgium). Voting was made mandatory so that bosses could not pressure their workers, who were usually from lower social classes, not to go vote (by making them work or threatening to fire them, for example).

If you live abroad, you can vote by mail. You can also vote by proxy.

[daughterofdessalines]

The Democrats are fake AF. If they were not so obsessed with their colonial agenda ( and ACTUALLY doing something positive for the country ) then the outcome would have been better. They need to STOP gaslighting Americans!

[wastedandbasted]

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We need to do what France did. Combine leftist forces.

[relaxedstyles]

[head-post]

Socialists-Greens alliance wins Dutch elections to European Parliament

An alliance of the Labour Party and the Green Left (PvdA/GroenLinks) claimed victory in the European Parliament elections in the Netherlands, according to exit polls on Thursday.

An alliance between the Labour Party and the Green Left (PvdA/GroenLinks) won the European Parliament elections in the Netherlands, according to exit polls on Thursday.

A total of 497 candidates, including eight of Turkish origin, from 20 different parties competed for 31 seats in the election. Voting started at 7:30 a.m. local time and ended at 9 p.m. However, final results are scheduled to be announced on the evening of 9 June, after the conclusion of voting in all EU member states.

The official results will be announced on 19 June.

According to an exit poll conducted by public broadcaster NOS and research firm Ipsos, turnout stood at around 47 per cent of the 13 million eligible voters. This marks a notable increase from the previous European Parliament elections in 2019, when turnout was around 42 per cent.

The Labour Party and the Green Left alliance won eight seats, whereas the Freedom Party (PVV), led by Geert Wilders, seemed to fall short of expectations. The PVV, which was leading in the last general election on 22 November, slipped to second place in the European Parliament elections. Exit polls suggest that the party will send seven MPs to the European Parliament.

The elections, which began in the Netherlands on Thursday, will continue on Friday in Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Estonia.

Meanwhile, Wilders expressed a desire to form a joint European faction with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni‘s Fratelli d’Italia, leader of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group, and the Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen, leader of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, according to Euractiv.

Read more HERE

[starberrywander]

We don't need to keep letting democrats and republicans dominate our government. Voting for the lesser evil just permits evil to stay. Voting for "damage control" isn't halting or reversing damage, its only *maybe* slowing it. We need to start voting for better, not for getting worse slower.

Things are not getting better under these Big Two parties, we can't keep letting them get our votes when they have not earned them. And while the ideal situation is to get third party candidates into office, they don't have to win for supporting them to have an impact. Simply showing the Big Two parties that their actions are losing them votes -Showing that we refuse to give them any more free votes- will pressure them into letting up on the unpopular policies that they try to push.

Voting for the lesser evil may have the better short term outcome, but the long term outcome is that nothing gets better. Using our support to increase the prominence of third parties, even if they aren't winning right now, allows us to move toward genuine improvement and genuine solutions. They cannot win in the future if we do not build them up now. There is no magic solution that will get them in office without voting for them. We need to actually work for it, even if the payoff isn't immediate.

If you want it, stand for it. All the way. You don't have to win for it to mean something. (though we can win. Maybe not the presidency, but third parties have won numerous seats in various levels of government over the years. Those seats have an impact too.)

[1900scartoons]

Seven - Count 'Em - Seven - Presidential Candidates - Uncle Sam Has a Button For Every Day Of the Week

August 2, 1908

Uncle Sam is drawn to resemble a different presidential candidate each day of the week. Sunday he resembles the Republican Candidate, Taft. Monday he resembles the Prohibition candidate, Chafin. Tuesday he resembles the Populist Party candidate, Watson. Wednesday, he resembles the Independence Party candidate, Hisgen. Thursday he resembles the Socialist Party candidate, Debs. Friday he resembles the Democratic candidate, Bryan. Saturday he resembles the Socialist Labor Party candidate, Preston.

The 1908 Presidential Election was in full swing.

See Also: William Howard Taft; William Jennings Bryan

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/5744/rec/2033

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"La vieille Espagne se transformer," Le Petit Journal. October 1, 1933. Page 4. --- Problèmes et conflits du travail. - Propriétés confisquées. - Salaires de misère. --- Voici le troisième et dernier article, d'une série consacrée à l'étude de la situation actuelle en Espagne. Au lendemain de sa révolution, ce pays se trouve en présence de difficultés communes au monde entier, et aussi de difficultés particulières. Nous avons traité des difficultés particulières, tout au moins des principales mouvement autonomiste catalan; question religieuse. Il est intéressant de voir maintenant comment la république s'efforce de résoudre des difficultés économiques créés par la crise.

UN DEMI-MILLION DE CHOMEURS L'Espagne compte environ 450,000 chômeurs, officiellement. Le chiffre réel est forcément plus élevé encore. Mais en outre, le niveau des salaires de ceux qui travaillent est un des plus bas du monde civilisé, de sorte que bien des ménages d'ouvriers vivent dans une situation proche de la misère.

L'homme que l'on a chargé d'améliorer cet état de choses est Don Francisco Largo Caballero, ministre du travail depuis la chute de la mo- narchie. Un homme grisonnant de 64 ans, qui a milité toute sa vie dans les unions ouvrières et aussi dans le parti socialiste. Anti-monarchiste notoire, il s'est aussi, sous l'ancien régime, livré à des manifestations qui lui valurent de brefs séjours en prison. Il y rencontra même Alcala Zamora, aujourd'hui président de la république.

CODE DU TRAVAIL Caballero a fait voter 125 lois. constituant une sorte de code du Travail. Mais la clef de voûte de cet édifice est une loi règlant les rapports entre patrons et employes. Son but est de substituer aux contacts personnels des deux parties les contrats collectifs. Ces contrats ne sau- raient contenir de clauses inférieures aux minima fixés par les lois. Des jurys mixtes, composés de six patrons et six employés, sont constitués dans chaque région pour aplanir les conflits. Et des deux côtés l'on doit s'en remettre à ces jurys. Le gouvernement espagnol tend à prohiber le recours à la grève. En certaines régions, où la situation politique est la plus tendue, la grève est formellement interdite.

Signalons que la loi accorde aussi au personnel un droit de regard sur les comptes de l'entreprise et une participation aux bénéfices. Mais les ouvriers de leur côté sont soumis à certaines obligations de travail effi- cace, de fidélité à leur entreprise, et de discrétion quant aux secrets de celle-ci. Les adversaires les plus résolus de ces lois sont les communistes, ce qui est singulier et intéressant à noter.

Nous avons dit que les salaires sont faibles en Espagne. Il y a il est vrai certaine contre-partie dans le bon marché de la vie. Le salaire moyen d'un ouvrier agricole est de 70 cents à un dollar par jour. Celui d'un ouvrier d'industrie est d'environ $1.50. Les métiers exigeant des ouvriers qualifiés une certaine technique, comme par exemple l'imprimerie paient de $1.70 à $1.80. Les employés de commerce touchent des traitements analogues.'

PROBLEME AGRICOLE Le problème agricole est, lui aussi, très sérieux, et bien différent de celui qui se pose aux Etats-Unis ou au Canada par exemple. Les trois quarts des Espagnols vivent à la campagne. Et des millions d'entre eux sont comme des serfs attachés à la glèbe qu'ils ne possèdent pas. Là encore le chômage sé durement pour chaque poste duvrier agricole, il se présente ving, candidats.

La propriété est peu divisée en Espagne, et de grands propriétaires fonciers possèdent d'immenses étendues de terrain. C'est à cela surtout que s'est attaqué M. Marcelino Dominguo, ministre de l'Agriculture dans le cabinet présidé, et vigoureusement dirigé par M. Azana. On a créé un Institut de réformes agraires. Cet Institut a dressé v'inventaire des propriétés foncières, et l'on a confisqué nombre de res vistes domaines. L'Etat reste propriétaire de ces terres, et les loue à bon compte aux paysans. Quel sera le fruit de cette politique ? On le sauradans quelques années. Si les paysans sont satisfaits, la jeune république sera consolidée. Si au contraire l'ex- périence échoue, les masses paysannes apportant leur soutien aux éléments restés monarchistes, la face des choses pourra changer. Image caption: Voici, au-dessus d'un maigre fleuve, un pont en dos d'âne dans on paysage encerclé de montagnes. Le tout, inondé de soleil, constitue un aspect typique de la campagne espagnole. A gauche un marchand d'habits dans une rue du vieux Madrid.

[lejournaldupeintre]

Socialist victory in Catalan election closes the door on separatist movement

The party has won in the Spanish northeastern region for the first time, while pro-independence groups lost their majority. But Salvador Illa lacks enough lawmakers to form a government and faces tough negotiations. For the first time, the Catalan Socialist Party (PSC) secured a victory both in terms of votes and seats. Collectively, independence parties lost the majority they’d held since the…