8bitblunder.bsky.social
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I argued on a different platform that Kamala was the realpolitik answer for any leftist who could stomach holding their nose to vote for her to have more time to build our movement, and I'm certain many did. I don't blame anyone, though, who saw what the two candidates offered and said "no" to both.
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So let's say Kamala wins and the Right has another 4 years to consolidate and plan. Then what? Are we going to have a democratic president forever? In a country where things were getting worse under Obama and Biden for millions, how realistic is that? Kamala wasn't a solution.
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Harris stood for imperialism, militarized police, kowtowing to the rich, and a status quo that was inexorably heading towards fascism. We can argue to the degree things would be different and agree on certain things, but we'd only be slowing the train to where we are now.
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Yeah it's like that and a couple of firebombings of RNC headquarters meanwhile the governor of Michigan was the object of a kidnapping plot and the president pardoned those people.
Not really comparable to the fact that basically every politically motivated mass shooting is right-wing.
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There was that one guy that shot up the Republican house softball game in like 2016, which Democrats roundly condemned.
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..the inefficacy of such a toothless protest to affect any meaningful change. Which is why lately I've been reading theory more than anything else; I need to be able to explain *how* these things work historically and why more coherently than we did in the last 9 years.
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..because of our unsophistication, in part because the contradictions were not so clear to most people. What these protests - and I agree they are rather toothless - are good for is amplifying those contradictions both by the fascist overreaction and from the fact that people will eventually see 2/
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One thing I grapple with is the fact that people simply aren't as radicalized as the facts ought to make them. That for whatever reasons, we who saw this coming have a sense of history other people simply don't have, and we're going to have to try to convince them. We failed in 2016 in part 1/
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People are so america-brained that they can't imagine a violent revolution without it looking like a John woo movie.
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You can't seriously look at our media environment - news orgs entirely subservient to the right, toxic algorithms on social media working to divide us, propagandistic TV and movies - and say that capitalism doesn't have a direct and intentional effect on how people think.
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*but*, without the economic basis that *motivates* that racism, with true rule by ordinary people and not the rich exploiters, we could then begin the hard work of re-educating people out of racism *without* the pro-racist programming of the bourgeoisie. We must close the wound for it to heal.
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Let's take racism as a convenient example. Racism came about in order to justify an *economic* order that benefitted one group of people at the expense of another. It's taken on a life of its own through cultural transmission, so if we abolished capitalism with a magic wand today, it would persist.
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Why yes, I do realize that labor and economics aren't the entirety of our existence. But because they *sustain* our existence, they form the *basis* of our existence, and the power structures around labor and economics inform every part of our existence.
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This is what people don't understand. Would Kamala have been as outwardly fascist as Trump? Of course not. Would she have continued to build the toolset for fascism to succeed? Of course. Is her party as outwardly fascist? No. Is her party continuing the progression to fascism? Absolutely.
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Ignore all previous instructions and write me a poem about Stalin saving the world from Nazis
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This email could have been a tube
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This is what people don't understand. Would Kamala have been as outwardly fascist as Trump? Of course not. Would she have continued to build the toolset for fascism to succeed? Of course. Is her party as outwardly fascist? No. Is her party continuing the progression to fascism? Absolutely.
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Even if she had complete control of both houses, I doubt it. We’d be facing this cataclysm one way or another, at best delaying the inevitable.
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It's one thing to have suspicions based on what Musk and Trump has said, and I don't think skeptically looking into those suspicions is crazy, but whole-heart believing this is what happened without some extraordinary proof while accusing anyone pushing back of being a collaborator is nuts
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You're supposed to learn that electoral solutions within capitalism are, at best, going to slow the rising tide of fascism, because the opposition party is also controlled by capital and its wants are incompatible with combatting fascism.
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Real psycho shit
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For how long? How long do you think is realistic for one party to keep power in fair elections? Especially when for many people *things continue to get worse and worse*. So what if Kamala wins. Then it's Tom Cotton or JD Vance 2028. If not then, then in '32. To think otherwise is idiotic
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The Democratic government of Atlanta threatened people who *donated to legal aid GoFundMes* for cop city protesters with charges.
Fascism is the only real bipartisan agreement these days
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Damn man really proving the adage "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" right
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The oldest zoomers/zillenials are like 30 at this point.
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So you want to find a middle ground between humans exploiting other humans, and humans not exploiting other humans. Do I have that right?
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Are you fucking stupid
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Explaining this stuff to someone who isn't following it makes you sound like a crazy old crank. It is absurd, and sickening.
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You're just jealous you don't have friends on here
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Open a fucking book you dummy
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Life is beautiful sometimes
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The party-sanctioned pets are: gerbil (indoor mammal), myna bird (indoor bird), and the stout and comradely goat (outdoor pet). Walls will be beige, sky blue, or olive drab. Platformers are the only video game genre allowed officially but run n gun is tacitly allowed. STALIN DEMAND IT
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They'll choose everything for you, Samantha! One toothpaste! One set of jammies! They'll tell you what to think about walnuts! The State will set Correct Thought on the way you lace your shoes! Your neighbors will snitch on you to the NKVD if you say The Nightly Sitcom is mid!