Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds
Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds
Scratch a anti-harm reductionist and a fascist bleeds
This sounds more like someone with a grudge against America than a fascist. "Eat shit, Americans" isn't exactly a controversial position in most of the world, for what I hope are obvious reasons.
"I'm glad the fascists won so minorities in America can suffer" is a pretty fascist statement to make. Imagine saying "I'm glad Putin won the election, I hope liberasts and Russians suffer"
Which I could easily see coming from a Chechen so you're kinda proving my point. Also while minorities are going to suffer more, everyone suffers under fascism except subservient rich males of the right ethnicity, so there's plenty of suffering to go around for, say, Zionists and imperialists. They're misguided, but this comment alone doesn't make them a fascist.
I'm not agreeing with it, but to translate its more along the lines of "You Americans have spent so long being comfortable and benefitting from the imperialist project of the US and all the death and destruction it perpetrates across the world and have not offered any resistance to their own government in all this time. Liberals have been content to be complaicent in it too as long as a woman gets to drop some of those bombs, for fairness. Now you won't be able to avoid the consequences of the evil imperialist core that all these other countries have been crushed under for over a century and may actually be driven to do something about it, since it actually affects you now."
Which again I don't agree with, but can also aknowledge that its more nuanced than just wishing harm for harm's sake.
"I hope there is a genocide in the US" usually is a controversial position. So is killing all political opponents.
I'm Canadian and I don't want Americans to suffer. But the US has shitty politicians in power that force me between making a choice between people in my own country eating shit or the US eating shit, and the choice is obvious.
The far left and far right are using the same tactics, just different targets for their hate politics.
Hopefully Americans see through the bullshit of the radicals (both left and right) that make them hate certain people in their own country and people in certain other countries (again, the targets vary but the tactics are the same). But it seems there's not much anyone outside of the US can do until that happens.
Dear Tankies
My life matters too much to be pointlessly sacrificed so we can throw the election by voting for Jill Stein
Sincerely, a transwoman not in a blue state.
Sincerely, a transwoman not in a blue state.
All my trans siblings have my sympathy in this fucking shit-ass time we live in, but especially those not in blue states. I hope you make it out - whether out of the state, or out of this period of fucked up time we live in.
Both, I suppose.
I do feel it would be better if they voted 3rd party tho. We know more about those throw away votes than we do of the non-voting group. Gives the big tent party some solid statistics on how to pivot to get them on board for a coalition. It might also mean that we get more 3rd party election wins on local stuff. Tho I think that last part matters more in blue states. As someone who cannot quite move out if their red state I get what you are saying too. My last congress vote had a standard corporate democrat vs a MTG clone.
If you're in a swing state, sure, vote strategically. But if you're not, voting for a third party has a lot higher chance of sending a useful signal to the dominant party.
No politician is owed votes for anything
Every election politicians need to offer things that they will then do when elected in order to attract voters.
When they don't do the things they say they will do, that makes them a liar.
It's amazing how many people fail to understand that when a party loses an election, it's the fault of the party and nobody else.
When they don’t do the things they say they will do, that makes them a liar.
There are times when a promise can't be fulfilled. It has become wildly more difficult for Democratic priorities to pass through the legislative process in the last 25 years as Republicans have used more and more obstructive tactics. I think a very good case could be made that Republicans have tilted the table enough to completely block a Democratic agenda even if they took Congress and the Presidency.
Lisa Murkowski got fucked by her own party literally this week. She negotiated and got legislation passed, only for Trump to basically line item veto it with an executive order.
And I'm so old I can remember when the Supreme Court struck down the line item veto. How can you possibly get an agenda through when there are no rules but what the Roberts court says there is?
No politician is owed votes for anything
I'm so glad you think Nazis should murder minorities because Blue Circus didn't 'earn' our lives.
Thanks.
It’s amazing how many people fail to understand that when a party loses an election, it’s the fault of the party and nobody else.
Tell me, who makes the decision on which party wins in a democratic election?
Is it:
A. The Sports Performance of Good Team and Bad Team
OR
B. The votes of the electorate, who choose who will have access to the levers of power going forward
?
I actually think the lesson is (from listening to lefties, tankies and to dems after the election):
If your strategy relies on votes from the 1% fringes, then you're probably going to lose. If you can't convince normies to vote for you, you're lost.
Both are necessary, is the issue. The normies aren't politically active enough to reliably push a majority of the vote, and the fringe is (by definition) not large enough to do it itself.
You end up with 45% normies and 5.1% fringes, and losing even a little sliver of either means you lose.
Politics in this country is fucked.
"Harm reduction" apparently includes selling billions in weapons to israel while they carry out genocide and shutting down campus protests speaking out against that genocide. Seems pretty fascist to me.