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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're thinking of it as doing chemo when there's no cure. That's not what this is. This is deciding to just take a nice little nap in the comfy snow because your legs are so tired and you'll totally get up again in just a few minutes, rather than choosing to get up and push forward through the darkness in the hope, however slim, of finding an actual shelter.

No, they were right. Chemo is the right analogy. Fascism is cancer, liberalism is chemo, leftism is the cure. Cancer kills, chemo is miserable but it's better than dying of cancer, and a cure isn't ready yet. Your options are to die of cancer waiting for the perfect cure, or doing chemo to live long enough to maybe see that cure.

This "buying time to organize" line is constantly thrown around, I don't buy it as sincere at all, for starters.

It's constantly "thrown around" because it's true. Your posturing as the sincerity police doesn't change that fact. The Dems told Palestinian activists to wait their turn to talk, MAGA stripped their degrees, arrested, and deported them. It's easier to organize on the sidelines than from prison.

But regardless, time is not on our side,

Exactly, because of the idealists who refused to help buy more

buying time only means allowing conditions to deteriorate further, it's just procrastinating and kicking the can down the line.

No, conditions are deteriorating either way. Buying time is just slowing that deterioration, so enough structure remains to build upon.

And how do you effectively organize an alternative to the status quo and present yourself as separate from it while simultaneously trying to rally around it and supporting it unconditionally?

It's not unconditional, it's based on two conditions: as long as fascism is getting enough votes to win, and as long as there's no viable alternative. I see plenty of suggested alternatives, but none that are viable. This mindset vastly overestimates the political will of the average voter, and vastly underestimates the time and effort necessary to effectively organize an alternative.

People aren't just going to spontaneously rally around a vague impetus for revolution. Certainly not enough people to actually succeed. They need to see a specific plan of action, organization, and popularity. Third party candidates pulling <1% aren't it. You're suggesting a cancer patient replace their chemo with keto and essential oils.

When there's a cure, I'll be behind it 100%. Until then, I'm sticking with chemo so I can live long enough to see a cure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (21 children)

liberalism leads to fascism. it's the cause of cancer, not the cure in any sense.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've tried reasoning with you before so I know you won't listen, you are a devout believer in voting blue no matter who and I'd have about as much luck trying to reason with you as if I tried to convince my parents to become atheists.

Everything you say is wrong, and your words constantly show your true beliefs that you refuse to admit. For example, "The Dems told Palestinian activists to wait their turn to talk," when in fact they disrupted protests through force, arrested many of them, denounced them as antisemites, and refused to give even the token gesture of allowing a Palestinians speaker at the convention. You don't mind any of that, because despite what you'll say, you don't care about the issue.

I have no interest in discussing anything further with you.