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TDS is definitely a real thing, but allowing the government to detain people for it is insane.
If you only care when Trump does it, it’s Trump derangement syndrome. Biden pushed forward with many of Trump’s worst policies, and Democrats didn’t have shit to say about it then.
Oh, you're a "both sides are the same" person.
Yes, I’m the kind of person who believes empirical data.
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You talk as if trump is “normal”, ignoring the kinds of things he says, how he says them, who he says them to, his tantrums in all caps on social media, his lack of poise, professionalism, and diplomacy. The guy is abrasive as fuck. You must have bad memory.
The Democrats didn’t but the base was sure pissed about it. That party is constantly under fire from its own base because of how much they rely on being the only option that isn’t full-blown insane-o fascism. The country at its core is broken and in a way that constantly reinforces itself. I do not envy the people who have to put the work in to fix it.
The Democrats are also full-blown insano fascist. It’s the same party pretending to be two. That’s why they’re both backing this genocide. That’s why the Democrats always manage to produce enough votes to help the GOP secure their votes. It’s why the Democrats sue anyone farther left off the ballots.
For sure, but the country has no other options. It’s like asking someone if they would prefer to be punched or stabbed and then claiming they enjoy the punching. You didn’t have “get a hug” as an option so stop acting like it’s there.
So you want to fix things by electing the people who broke them in the first place. Genius.
If two people are trying to kill you, you don’t pick which one to ally with. You defend yourself against both of your enemies.
That’s not what I said, but ai don’t know if what I say really matters to you more than acting smug does. Also, I live in a country with more than two parties and I do not participate in “strategic voting”.
It’s exactly what you said. It’s just not how you want it to be interpreted, because it doesn’t align with your self-image.
A lot of people are groomed into supporting fascism by being made to believe they are somehow opposing it by backing a certain fascist. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are doing this right now.
The only way to read your comment as having any level of intelligence implies that there is a third option I’m missing. So what’s your alternative, then?
And “no one votes for the Democrats while knowing that the nation is full of people who can’t afford to take the risk of a Republican administration” is not an alternative. I get the sentiment, but it’s not happening. I’d say it should be primaries, but the DNC doesn’t really do those and their weird, sequential primary is designed to allow them to shape the outcome as it happens.
So please, enlighten us.
So then all your enemy has to do to convince you to surrender, is convince you that they are two enemies, and the next one will be worse.
Democrats are killing people too. Not all of us are willing to continue sacrificing those people to maintain our privilege.
The only viable & moral option is revolution.
You haven’t really answered my question, and I literally already told you that I know that the DNC uses that exact tactic. I also explained that I don’t vote that way. Gosh, you’re stupid.
So what are you doing to start this revolution? What advice to you have for people who want to join in and do real, tangible work like that? Do you understand how big of a jump it’s going to be for the most vulnerable people to go from scarce instability to guaranteed instability and do you understand how scared they are and that they aren’t pawns in your little moral soapboxing?
You talk about not wanting to sacrifice people but you’re demanding they be the foot soldiers in your revolution.
Discussing details would get the comment deleted, and possibly my account banned. I think you know this, hence the abusive goading.
Asking people to risk their lives for each other is not the same as expecting the less privileged to die for you.
“Abusive goading”? We don’t need to talk about the actual act of offing CEOs(and I ain’t no snitch, mind). I specifically asked you about how you want normal people to make the transition to revolutionaries and if you don’t know then just say you’re pissed and, frankly, that’s ok because we should all be pissed right now. Hell, I’d be ok with you acknowledging that people are right to be afraid of the risk. And I’d still like to know what you’re doing and I imagine there is something non-violent, right? Like, how many protests do you go to and are you willing to skip work to go to them?
I’ll even say it for you that I’d love to see more Luigi events happening but I also understand that that’s a lot to ask of someone and if I’m not willing to do it myself then I have no moral ground to stand on to be making demands. We can both agree that it makes sense why you wouldn’t want to respond to that particular sentence but you need to understand it.
Ok. Buy a gun, join a local SRA chapter, join the local PSL chapter, learn to grow some food, form up a community with your neighbors, get a mask that’s effective against tear gas, read What Is To Be Done?/Guerrilla Warfare/This Nonviolence Stuff’ll Get You Killed, pack a go-bag, etc.
Big on the community forming part. I’m pretty good at treating where I live as a community but I’m lucky that others have made it easy here and we still have a lot of work to do in so many places in the world to make it happen more consistently. This is step one, the buying a gun thing is later once average Joe actually feels invested.
Stuff like helping people who get stuck in the snow and being the “weirdo” who waves to your neighbours is a good start, but I really wish there was a better way that did some of the legwork and got even those who wouldn’t normally look for it to see it and be a part. We can ask people to fight over and over but if they don’t even know who the person beside them is they will feel too alone to risk their lives like that(I mean, it’s the whole basis for why unions are a good thing, right?). North America, in so many places, is just a bunch of individual houses where people go to sleep and ignore the world after needing to go elsewhere for work.
I’ll give organized religion one thing and that’s making people actually mingle and exist with their neighbours but even that was essentially done under a form of duress(go to church or go to hell) so I’m not sure how we can get folks to actually show up for community events reliably. Fuck, in too many places here in Canada you can’t even get people to do better than less than a 50% voter turnout for major elections.
Anyway, thank you for responding with actionable things.
Why are you putting this much effort to troll when bots can do it for you.
Your position benefits oligarchy.
I’m just stating facts y’all don’t like, because they’re unflattering to your preferred flavor of fascism.
I’m not going to be peer pressured into supporting either fascist party. Grow a spine.
Politics is not about rational decision making as studies have shown. However most people think that they are completely logical with there political views. In reality they decide on a view and then find evidence to support it. It also doesn't help that the "news" these days is mostly a propaganda outlet whatever party they support.
I disagree with the idea that Biden is just as bad as Trump. Biden barely did anything in office. Trump is going full swing to push forward his policies. At least he has balls. (That may be one of his best qualities honestly)
You are smoking crack.
Disagreeing with someone destroying the economy, spending trillions of tax payer dollars, and making enemies of our allies is a mental disorder? But wasting time making bullshit bills like adding to my Rushmore when it's physically impossible is normal behavior. Got it