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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Okay, so are you not able to or not willing to answer the question of "what has to happen for you to start giving a shit?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Do you not understand that this topic includes democratic politicians straight up being collaborators, and how that might be relevant to the argument you're trying to make?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The immediate alternative was still worse.

This is right after the election.The immediate alternative is that democrats don't fucking cave on whether they should take part in genocide, when taking part in that genocide is actually incredibly unpopular with voters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

When do you plan on actually contributing to an alternative?

Seriously, what concrete things need to happen before you're like "a better world is worth taking risks for"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

You said:

In the meantime: this is the hole we are in. Act accordingly.

AKA "I'm acting like this reality is inescapable"

And also:

If you could actually fucking do that, I would welcome it with open arms.

AKA "I'd love it if someone were to do the work for me"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

As we all know, systemic forces can not be worse than being robbed at gunpoint.

You do understand that fucking holocaust survivors have called this anti-trans push genocidal, right? Democrats who are also pushing it are also pushing extermination.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

whenever someone tells you to stop letting outright fascists take power

Read Fascism and Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt

Read Economy and Class Structure of German Fascism by A Sohn-Rethel

Then tell me that it is possible to keep fascism out of power through voting.

So what are you doing right now to fight fascism? If the answer doesn't include being active in a socialist organization, the only people that historically have been effective at opposing fascism, then the answer is effectively "diddly-squat", and you should get your ass in gear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Someone saying "your access to lifesaving medication or your life" is functionally the same thing as them saying "your life (slow) or your life (fast)"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

So your solution to getting out of the hole is to pretend like the hole is inescapable until someone else does the work? Isn't that kind of cowardly?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Do you conceive of your entire political reality as waiting anxiously who to vote for in November? Do you not see any political action you can take outside of elections that are ultimately owned by the capitalist class?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (17 children)

"But I'm being oppressed under democrats"

"We will let the other guy torture you if you do not comply(well actually it entirely depends on what white cishet people vote for), and our core base will say you deserved it for not voting hard enough."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (22 children)

The adults in the room like you rely on complicated concepts, like philosophical problems that they interpret shallowly and put in meme format

Meanwhile us goofballs actually see a horizon beyond alternating which boot will stomp on us for the rest of eternity.

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