Cowbee

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (43 children)

Accelerationism works both ways, I suppose, but there legitimately are fascists in the republican party.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (30 children)

There's nuance, because leftists saying voting isn't going to change anything meaningfully as far as moving towards the left is still true.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

You don't understand, she gave us the clue. It has to be this way.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"G? As in, Gussy?!"

[–] [email protected] 169 points 2 years ago (122 children)

There's nuance. Obviously, vote for the liberal over the fascist, it's not even close. However, the fascists are absolutely represented in government, while there's no leftist candidates to speak of. Leftists have to plug their nose and vote liberal, while fascists gleefully vote republican.

Voting is entirely for loss prevention, because ultimately it absolutely impacts minority groups and people who stand to lose a great deal by a republican victory. However, leftists will not be able to move America to the left by voting.

That's why grassroots movements and building up of parallel structures are so important for leftism, it cannot work within the confines of a 2 party Capitalist state, and must be built from the bottom up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Leftists go to Lemmy because Lemmy is FOSS, ie leftist, and was made by a Communist. Reddit mostly has liberals.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

He made an account 20 minutes ago just to post inflammatory, hyper-conservative reactionary comments

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

He made an account 20 minutes ago just to post inflammatory, reactionary comments from a hyper-conservative angle, lmao.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Better than a liberal, I guess, though still pretty lib

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Do I escape the liberal label if I use a manual espresso machine, rather than automatic?

After all, pour over gets to split Anarchism and Maoism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Urbanization and multi-use buildings, change office buildings to residential buildings and enact working from home more.

High speed rail.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Pretty simple to sum it up as collectivization of industry, or as abolition of Private Property in favor of collective ownership of the Means of Production.

Anything else, such as a rejection of hierarchy or a focus on democratization of production, is an abstraction and benefit of the previous statements.

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