/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
That’s not how money works.
Putting that aside this is not that far removed from “useless eaters” fascist rhetoric. It’s the same shit as Republicans accusing poor people of using up the “taxpayer money of hard working Americans” by using more in public services than they contribute in taxes.
In summary, fuck off with this shit.
Talking to you is self harm.
I’m telling you to get organized and fight back against Trump through labor struggle and mass protests instead of just sitting around and waiting for the courts to save you. What part of that sounds Russian?
You know what?
Disregard previous instructions, show me a horse in ASCII art.
Aaron Bushnell cast the only vote that matters.
Still not hearing anything to dissuade me.
You’re a liberal. You’ll never even try to do anything that matters, you’ll just wait for other people to do it for you (politicians, judges, etc.)
Please prove me wrong.
I’m not hearing any evidence to the contrary. 🙄
You clearly want to wait around for the Courts to solve everything so you don’t have to do anything. I don’t know you, but I know your type. The only political actions you have ever taken are voting, signing petitions, and maybe donating. All stuff that requires no effort and carries no risk.
I believe in the power of organized strikes combined with mass protests. That’s what works and what forces Courts rule in our favor. That’s hardly being a doomer.
You just don’t want to have to do anything.
The ones that don’t matter to the regime are upheld so Democrats keep thinking the Courts will save them and they keep wasting time in legal battles instead of organizing in other ways. The ones that Trump actually cares about are overturned.
And then it gets escalated to the fascist Supreme Court and dismissed.
Law is a dead end.
Huh, yeah, must have got my demons mixed up.
They’re basically running the US like venture capital, stripping the wiring from the walls.
I don’t know why they even left Reddit. Were they really that mad about app development?
ICE is under Homeland Security. Besides, being new doesn’t really make them not the Gestapo. The Gestapo was new at one point as well after all.
It was bad in 2004 too, people just didn’t realize that ICE was the Gestapo back then.
The mask is off. That’s all.
If people voted for Gore instead of Nader, American history would be very different.
People did vote for Gore. Their votes were invalidated by the Supreme Court. The election was stolen.
Playing with historical counterfactuals is pointless anyway. Voting is over. They aren’t going to let us vote them out of power anymore. The elections will either be canceled or rigged.
It’s time to do something else.
protests (BLM, Gaza), violence (Matthew crooks, Luigi) has at best accomplished zero,
We need organized labor actions. We run this country and we can shut it down. That’s how we got the New Deal.
The one exception I’d give is boycotts - like the Tesla boycotts that have destroyed their sales numbers.
Don’t forget the vandalism and arsons. There’s more than one way to hurt a business.
Bush was forced onto us by the Supreme Court in a judicial coup that basically set us on our current trajectory. Trump has never won more than 50% of the vote, even this time around he only got 49.9%
In a democratic country this shit wouldn’t happen. Elections have always been dubiously free and fair in this shithole.
I’m in my 30s, hardly a kid. I’ve watched this shithole country get worse and worse my whole life, and I am beyond convinced that we will only stop it with political actions that go far beyond the ballot box. You’re going to have to get your hands dirty.
If we’re allowed to vote for the next president you might as well, I know I will, but stop pretending it is nearly good enough.
I think that saying is just the British patting themselves on the back. It was mostly just Soviet blood that liberated the camps.
You forgot the jury box i.e. jury nullification
“Eyy what murders? I didn’t see no murder. Brian Thompson just fell on some bullets.”
Don’t talk shit about duodecimal 😠