This is the meme. You’re doing the meme. You are convincing yourself that sliding into fascism at our current rate is better than sliding into fascism at a hypothetical faster rate. That’s the meme.
My strategy clearly works - civil rights happened because of riots, women’s sufferage happened because of radical disobedience, labor rights happened because of literal paramilitary skirmishes, the 7 working class revolutions around the world unseated the ruling class through violence. It works. Hell, the American revolution happened this way.
And no, not voting and political demonstration are not the same thing. You can vote for lesser evil to slow fascism in the government while also using other means to facilitate change. They are not mutually exclusive strategies, they are complementary. Refusing to vote has never made a difference, it’s a bad strategy.
Again, no on is talking about refusing to vote. We’re talking about not spending all of our energy carrying water for fascist collaborators and calling it harm reduction.
You falling for the Good Cop / Bad Cop routine is not harm reduction.
We discussed this already. Yes, they are, and you claimed they had a good reason. It is in fact a terrible reason.
No one is talking about “spending all of our energy carrying water for fascist collaborators”. If you don’t have the energy to do more than one thing at a time, that’s a you problem.
We as a society don’t have the time to go door knocking for fascist collaborators who have not only done nothing to stop fascism but have actively created and supported the systems for it. You do not, in fact, need to go campaigning for Democrats with Tottenkopfs on their chest or who were attorneys general and had no problem enforcing the racist police system of the largest prison-industrial complex in the world. You can, in fact, just ignore those people and focus on things that actually get results
Yes, sliding, as opposed to speeding. That is something.
Where did you get that idea? I’m just saying your strategy doesn’t work.
This is the meme. You’re doing the meme. You are convincing yourself that sliding into fascism at our current rate is better than sliding into fascism at a hypothetical faster rate. That’s the meme.
My strategy clearly works - civil rights happened because of riots, women’s sufferage happened because of radical disobedience, labor rights happened because of literal paramilitary skirmishes, the 7 working class revolutions around the world unseated the ruling class through violence. It works. Hell, the American revolution happened this way.
So what if it’s the meme? It’s true.
And no, not voting and political demonstration are not the same thing. You can vote for lesser evil to slow fascism in the government while also using other means to facilitate change. They are not mutually exclusive strategies, they are complementary. Refusing to vote has never made a difference, it’s a bad strategy.
Again, no on is talking about refusing to vote. We’re talking about not spending all of our energy carrying water for fascist collaborators and calling it harm reduction.
You falling for the Good Cop / Bad Cop routine is not harm reduction.
We discussed this already. Yes, they are, and you claimed they had a good reason. It is in fact a terrible reason.
No one is talking about “spending all of our energy carrying water for fascist collaborators”. If you don’t have the energy to do more than one thing at a time, that’s a you problem.
We as a society don’t have the time to go door knocking for fascist collaborators who have not only done nothing to stop fascism but have actively created and supported the systems for it. You do not, in fact, need to go campaigning for Democrats with Tottenkopfs on their chest or who were attorneys general and had no problem enforcing the racist police system of the largest prison-industrial complex in the world. You can, in fact, just ignore those people and focus on things that actually get results
Terrible strategy. Do both. There is nothing to gain by not using every tool at our disposal.
Every fascist collaborator you spend labor on only brings us closer to fascism.
And every overt fascist you don’t vote against brings us closer to fascism and faster. I don’t know why this concept is so difficult to understand.