Flippanarchy
Flippant Anarchism. A lighter take on social criticism with the aim of agitation.
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If you could have voted, didn't vote for Harris, and aren't actively out in the streets hucking bricks at ICE and trumpers, then I have no respect for you.
You played the game and you played to lose. You played to lose when we had everything to lose, and nothing to gain. You made the 4th worst choice I can think of in the last 30 years.
Harris would have abolished ICE and gotten rid of the cages that Trump set up and Biden ignored, right?
...Right?
Nah you're right. Good thing trump is getting rid of them...OH WAIT.
"What about Trump being evil?"
Yeah he's fucking evil, good going dodging my question.
It's all liberals know how to do. Cannot for the life of them take responsibility. Blame the left for their failure while using the right as a boogeyman to force compliance.
No cages is obviously the ideal case. Fewer cages is obviously better than more cages, which was the choice at the polls.
"I don't believe in voting" fine, enjoy the more cages option.
But the cages didn't go down with Biden. COVID was ignored under Biden. Trump wanted these things and Biden kept them. It's not lesser evil, its incremental evil.
I also didn't say anything about not voting. I voted for Harris. I've proven it before and I will proven it again if needed. It was useless here in California but I did it anyways.
Sorry, couldn't answer your question because I don't live in an alternate reality where trump didn't win. Maybe ask some of the other people here?
So Harris would have kept ICE then, got it.
Probably, since ICE was created by Congress as part of the 2002 Homeland Security Act. The President oversees it, but funding and removing the organization is a power of congress and not the president. You would know that if you bothered to learn a little bit before forming opinions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Act_of_2002
"You see we need to keep the Gastapo, parliament passed it so why stop it?"
I understand Harris can't write bills as president, you dingus. A president has sway over their party. What Biden wanted, Dems pushed. What Trump wants, Republicans demand.
If Harris, a brown woman said "Hey ICE is a racist police organization made post-9/11 to go after brown people, let's push to get rid of it" that would spark movement in Congress.
Then why the fuck are you confused about my answer? Sounds like you are disappointed by the fact that Harris was not all of congress as well?
I want my politicians to fight for things that are for a healthier country. Why is that controversial?
Gotta make sure everyone knows that voting is pointless and that all the marginalized groups would've died even if Harris won. That way no one who refused to vote on such lofty principles as 'it takes too much energy to vote, and it doesn't change anything anyway' doesn't have to feel bad.
Perfect example of the lib thinking that just voting means they actually did something so they don't have to do any direct action. Which is of course why your country inevitably goes to shit.
Bytemeister didn't say they don't have to do any direct action. You made that up out of nothing.
You have to do both. That's what Bytemeister is saying. If you didn't vote, and you're not actively in rebellion, then claiming you're the side who does direct action is an obvious lie. And they're right, you are lying. You're tanking our chances of overthrowing the government through revolution.
And requires that both conditions are true. So if you voted for Harris, then at most one condition is true, and Bytemeister's respect for you remains at its current level.
Shouldn't you be spending your gaslighting budget on your fellow liberals who actually understand what the term genocide means, liberal?
They have to proselytize and guilt trip for a politician failing at their job of winning over voters.
It's not just a politican they are proselytising for... they are proselytising for an entire ideology that has hit rock-bottom. Liberalism's lies have come crashing down - and it's adherents will happily consign colonised peoples to the abyss if it means they can pretend it hasn't.
They will keep talking to themselves as how voting the only thing that matters, everyone has to vote for the 2nd most evil candidature, and then fail at earning votes.
And then blame people for not being interested in "I will have as strong as a border as Trump, I will have the strongest military ever, I will abide by rules for anti-trans states, and I will do nothing about Gaza."
It's not gaslighting if it's the truth.
By voting (or just not voting) you participated in the system. If you want to be against the system, then you need to overthrow it.
You played to lose, which was dumb, and you played to lose when there was nothing to gain, and everything to lose (which is even more dumb). If you aren't burning shit, then you never actually cared enough to be against it, you're an apathetic asshole who squandered their only voice to say "I don't care if the facists win, Kamala isn't perfect and I can't stand that". You may not have voted for trump, but you sure as fuck voted for all of this. I have no respect for the people that lack neither the intelligence to make the right decisions, nor the conviction to live with the consequences of making the wrong one.
So you admit to gaslighting, then. Plus one for honesty, I guess.
Soooo... neither participating nor not participating means anything - is that correct?
LOL! Lose what, genius? Did you really think that glorified pig was going to actually protect you from the fascists? I guess you don't understand why the libs institutionalised that very thing we call "fascism" today in the first place, huh?
Wake the fuck up.
Couldn't be more wrong. You are either playing to win, not playing to win, or not playing. In a 2 party system, a non-vote is the same decision as a vote. If you want to not play, then you need to be hostile to the system.
Well, let's see... My grandparents Medicare, my LGBTQ friends and family members rights, retirement savings, what little healthcare we actually had before, literally climate and the ability to live at or near the equator and coasts... Didn't even have to google any of that. I guess if you want the full list, you can read project 2025, and the also draw conclusions from related activities. Oh, vaccine availability and herd immunity. 1st Amendment rights. Habeas corpus just to tack on a few more there.
You wake the fuck up and look and the fucking mess you made because a perfect person wasn't put up against Orange Hitler.
Win what, liberal? Four more years of liberals doing absolutely everything in their power to make life easier for fascists?
Oh... you mean those things your precious liberal racketeers haven't lifted a finger to protect in any way whatsoever? Do tell, genius - what did your "good cop" overlords do when the fascists took away Roe vs. Wade? What did they do when Trump sicced a white supremacist lynch mob on the US capitol?
Except tell you to "vote harder," that is?
Again... wake the fuck up.
It honestly made fuck all difference how I voted. My state went for Harris. My state was always going to go for Harris.
Matter of fact? My state is the only state that actually went MORE for Harris than it did for Biden.
A lot of people agree with you. In fact, so many agree with you that a lot of people in firm red and blue states didn't bother voting. Because of that, Trump won the popular vote, and people said it wasn't the electoral college's fault that he won. But it was. The electoral college made people like you lose hope that you could have an impact.
If more people like you had voted, then Kamala would have won the popular vote. If Trump had won without the popular vote twice, it would be obvious to the layperson than the electoral college needs to go. We'd have much more fuel for a popular revolution to dismantle the electoral college. Right now, people are hopeless. They think most Americans want Trump. Because of people who thought like you.
How many trumpers have you hit with a brick?
You need to re-read the comment.
You voted, so you excuse yourself from the violence you demand of others, I get it. I just see a lot of people saying if you don't do x,y, and z violent thing to stop american fascism you are the problem, coming from people who have likely never been in a fight.
They are saying if people couldn't atleast put forth the effort of slowing facism down, and not now putting their life in peril to stop it, then they are actively allowing it to happen. We had a chance to stop it with civility, but were pretty much pass that point.
When? Like, sometime in the 70's, perhaps?
There are other parties. There was Jill Stein. If you could have voted, didn't vote for Stein and aren't actively out in the streets chucking bricks at ICE and trumpers, than I have no respect for you.
You played the game and played to win. Exactly what both right wing parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, want you to do. You're easily set up to blame your fellow people instead of a system that has made you a tool to their disposal. You're a spineless husk that listens to a leader that supports bombing children on the other side of the world just because the other party is "more evil".
Stop voting for evil, vote for good. Because voting for the lesser evil will still end in evil.
Stein barely got 100k more votes than Kennedy, who had dropped out of the race and endorsed trump.
I understand your satire, but clearly you did not understand what "Playing to lose" meant.
I see 862.049 people who voted for a better world.