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

Nope. I can remember you now, the moment someone on the left criticizes your deeply flawed attempt at praxis, you turn into the sincerity police and declare them to be liberals. This is extremely transparent

The problem, fundamentally, is that you have no plan (and actively opposed plans) to make an alternative come into reality.

False. I am actively opposed to bad plans. I care more about actually securing a leftist government than about virtue signaling to online revolutionary cosplayers, which means I focus more on material solutions than lofty ideology.

Because you are a liberal who supports what we already have.

False, I'm simply aware of what we already have, and which actions are incapable of changing it.

Where there's a will, there's a way, but when there isn't a will, there certainly isn't a way

Precisely my point. The American people lack the will. Maybe that will change, but for now that is the case.

this is why you cannot find any alternative to voting blue no matter who unconditionally, forever (no matter how much you try to weasel that you don't), because you don't actually want to find an alternative, because you're not in the market for one at all.

Once again, false. But again, I'm not in the market for ineffective virtue signal "alternatives" like protest voting third party in the general election. I'm in the market for effective alternatives, like democratizing workplaces and building grassroots campaigns in local elections so that one day we can have a viable leftist candidate in the general election.

You exaxtly fit MLK's description of the white moderate who is always saying, "I agree with your goals but I disagree with your methods" and is always telling people to "wait for a more convenient time." We've been through this and I will not entertain your pretenses of being any sort of leftist.

Which would have come close to an interesting point if your methods worked. But they don't. It's not liberalism to reject counterproductive methods. I don't consider anyone who abandons the material dialectic for ideological grandstanding to be a leftist. You are a cosplayer with a romanticized vision of revolution, and none of the tact or organization so essentially necessary to enact that revolution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m not in the market for ineffective virtue signal

methinks thou doth protest too much

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

Which is why I came to a hostile community to criticize ineffective ideological purity and get called a liberal? Who exactly am I signaling virtue to here?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

voting democrat is an ineffective virtue signal.

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

How could you possibly come to that conclusion? How is that a virtue signal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

did you vote for Democrats? was it effective?

ipso facto

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

Did you not? Was that effective at accomplishing your policy goals? Did the party realize the error of their ways and shift radically left? Oh, they're already floating running Harris again? Huh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if you know voting doesn't work, then we're done here

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

Voting works for what it's designed to do: select the most popular candidate among voters. If you didn't vote, or voted for an unpopular candidate, that's not the fault of the election. What it doesn't work for is unfocused feedback against a party. When Hilary lost, we got Biden. When Biden was rebuffed, we got Harris.

Hitting a bolt with a wench instead of using it as intended is not proof that wrenches don't work. You're just using it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you know that you didn't stop trump by voting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (22 children)

I came very close. Another couple percent of the voters and it would have worked, it was a very achievable goal.

How many percent short were you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but it didn't work. it never has stopped him.

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