China's improving material conditions will do the heavy lifting for us. Life in the West will continue to get worse, life in China will continue to get better, and eventually people will shift their positions to align with that new material reality. Ironically, politically disengaged Westoids might be easier to convince than Western """socialists""" because they're not as ideological.
Oh! Masks of Nyarlethotep features Kharisiri, Peruvian vampires that harvest fat from their victims. In the story they're servants of El Padre de los Gusanos (The Father of Worms) and are feeding fat from their victims to their god under his pyramid tomb. They're actually what remains of the Conquistadors that desecrated the tomb and broke the seal, releasing the god into our world.
So, yeah, there's so much more to vampires than the same old regurgitated blood suckers they keep forcing down our throats.
Voting for 50 death camps is a lot more effort than you're acknowledging; voting for the "lesser evil" is extremely demoralizing when the lesser evil wins. People in Minnesota would stay home if Harris was president, even if she implemented exactly the same immigration policies as Trump, because they voted for her. Voting is what gives governments their legitimacy.
I voted for the lesser evil in 2020 and then the lesser evil went on to start a genocide. That's not low effort.
There was already an economic war on Iran, which was already killing people and destabilizing their government. Harris would have waited a few more years for the economic war to collapse Iran's government and turn it into a situation similar to Syria, and only then would have started bombing. By then, Iran might not have been able to exert control over traffic through Hormuz.
Harris would have been a better manager of the empire. Instead, we got Trump, who is on track to lose to Iran.
Well. It was on the ballot. It just wasn't likely to win because it wasn't an issue considered important by the two major parties. You could have voted PSL or Green or one of the other parties, as over three million people did in the last election.
Besides, by that logic, Israeli aggression wasn't on the ballot either! Do you think Harris would have stopped Israel from starting war with Iran? The war with Iran was already beginning in 2024 before Trump even got into office. Maybe it would have taken a different form, maybe it wouldn't have happened this year, but Israel was going to attack Iran and the US was going to follow.
How is it there's a plant-based brand that's literally called Morningstar, and it isn't the subject of a million Christian nationalist conspiracy theories about their food being made from children or the company being run by Satanists or something?
If you act alone, all you can ever do is wait for the next election to vote for 50 death camps to stop 51 death camps.
Protesters in Minnesota didn't wait around for the next election to get ICE off their streets. They fought back, and ICE was forced to retreat. They didn't vote Bovino out, they forced him out. The fight isn't over, but waiting until an election that might never come is not how you stop the death camps. Don't sleep soundly between every election, wake the fuck up.
i think this is a uncharitable interpretation of what i said. armed police don’t need to disarm. the police force doesn’t need to be demobilized. they would be formally declared no-longer-responsible for protecting landlordism, potentially with something as simple as a ban on evictions, but possibly a more explicit right to shelter-in-place.
I think that depends on which police you're talking about.
US police, which are armed with surplus military hardware and are reliable reactionaries, absolutely do need to be disarmed.
I'd actually include xianxia and wuxia fandom in this too, Chinese pop culture is starting to penetrate the West.
Maybe we'll see a cultivation blockbuster trilogy in the next decade.