me joking about how it’s good to commit terrorism on billionaires knowing full well the power of humor at shaping normative understandings:

mfw I don’t need to destroy my body at my job:

The magical being who would’ve turned you into a girl deemed you to already be one, so is just confused by your wish

Did they fuck us over when they could’ve prevented this? Yes. Does being mad at them help? No.

Being mad at the rich is helpful, but being mad at voters and potential voters is less so. I guess I forget how hard it is for most people to let go of unnecessary blame. Sorry

I included a few of the biggest capitalist organizations, not simply people manipulating mass media. Our fascist reality is not simply the result of people embracing bad ideas, but the conditions that drove people to believe them.

People saw an economy that wasn’t working for them combined with a party that favored the status quo more than the voices of their voters. Democrats being in the pockets of old billionaires prevented them taking popular positions and making politically wise decisions. Decades of neoliberal policies created economic stress that made populism the only winning strategy, and the Democrats never adapted.

I’ve talked to young people who voted Trump, and it was clear to me that there was more than propaganda responsible for the Dems losing their grip. Depressing activists, even the ones who loyally vote, did a great deal to kill support from groups that were the backbone of your party. They had no pro-Democrat narratives, only anti-republican ones, and that wasn’t enough.

I never said the parties were the same, yet that’s the only way you can interpret my point. The Democratic leadership will never change, so one way or another, they must be removed from their position in politics. If we fail to do that, fascism or feudal stoked civil war will occur ad infinitum. However, you seem to interpret me as some apathy inspiring anti-voter, because that’s so much easier for your intellectually lazy ass to handle.

It must be so convenient to never adjust your views, even when reality proves them wrong. I’ve changed my opinions given evidence to the contrary; could you ever do the same?

I got Google; wasn’t trying to be specific

Sorry, but if you blame the people we need to help and work with, things will never get better. Blaming an electorally apathetic working class convinced that the system is corrupt is wasted energy. The rich capitalists standing in the way of popular left wing policies are why people didn’t think they needed to vote. The system was too corrupt to think it was worth upholding, even if things are far worse now as a result.

I don’t blame people for thinking electoralism didn’t matter or didn’t help, because the system gave them every reason to think that.

This honestly smells like the white washed “civil rights era” mentality that pretends nonviolence is the only strategy for positive change. MLK Jr. was inspired by Gandhi’s nonviolent movement, but he was well aware of the violent side of that story. After Gandhi was ignored and imprisoned, his mass movement turned violent, accomplishing the actual change.

Dr. King’s strategy was to be a “reasonable black person” with the unspoken promise that white lawmakers would have to deal with “unreasonable” black people should they ignore him. It’s why anti rioting legislation was passed hand in hand with civil rights legislation. They capitulated, but also looked to set up barriers to violence in the future.

The militarization of the police over the past half century can be seen as an extension of those anti rioting measures. Liberals want us to believe that nonviolence is our only tool, because that allows them to ignore our nonviolent efforts without fear of reprisal. The people we should direct our ire to aren’t just the fascists, but the pro-police politicians in general.

Can I at least get fixed? 🥺

Probably not, but thank you for asking!

I hope you can find a dom for you babe ;3

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Sorry! Punk Rock Loser (GRS)

This is true, but that still wouldn’t explain why you think it tastes bad. My guess is that you never had good tasting water, which for the most part, just stays out of your way when drinking it.

Water is boring because it has no taste, but with practice you can appreciate the unique pleasure only a single oxygen and a pair of hydrogen can provide.

You misunderstand Trump. He might be a symptom, but he is not a sustainable strategy. He rode the wave and no one else will be able to; that is how strongman dictatorships tend to pan out. Everyone from billionaires to normal people will be sick of fascism after this. The billionaires will want a yes man who doesn’t extort them or make business volatile, while everyday people will want peace and safety.

In that environment, everyone will want the return of liberal democracy, only US institutions will be permanently weakened. We can’t know how the situation will unfold, but oligarchs will seek to solidify their gains while only restoring what benefits them. I personally think a feudal era will occur, with a weak central government that eventually allows for fiefdoms, which could eventually lead to actual civil wars.

I say this shit knowing full well the cost of third parties. I know they vote split and I know our system punishes it. Yet I’ve learned a valuable lesson from the death of our liberal democratic system: the Democrats will never change. They lost the election by ignoring the youth, assuming they would always have that support even if they repeatedly told us that our opinions don’t matter. They pretended the economy was fine and that people shouldn’t complain because their measure for a healthy economy was far beyond what people could actually tolerate. They chose capitalism over democracy; simple as that.

Call me an edgy kid, but I’ve been a voter from the day I was eligible; someone who never missed an opportunity to fulfill my civic duty. And yet I’m the now the one saying that the Democrats are not people we can work with. I’m the one saying that they’re closer to the Vichy government than the resistance. We need to break from them because working with them will bear no fruit. They only do good things to serve their own interests, not as payment for left wing support.

If you think the Democrats will change without serious challenges to their hegemony, then you really haven’t learned. They’ve taken the wrong lessons from the last election, and doubling down on following fascism rightwards. They kick out people trying to reform the party while dismantling environmental protections at the state level where they still have power. They’re increasingly throwing minorities under the bus and serve capitalism harder than ever because they’ve taken this loss as an excuse to be worse, not a call to improve.

I’ve been a long proponent of damage mitigation, which is why I don’t advocate not voting. Unfortunately, the Democrats’ response to this has actively made the situation worse by making people believe that voting for them can change things. Even with a large majority in both houses, Trump is already equipped to override their will using everything from the yesmen courts to his personal Gestapo.

I’ll repeat the sad truth of our situation till the day I get shipped off to a death camp: Trump’s death is the only thing that will stop him. We’re in the endgame, and there is no snapping the people he’ll kill back to life.

I guess I should’ve been more clear: Going to jail and earning less blood money are both extortion, but they’re not comparable