Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast
But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.
And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.
If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.
It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.
Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.
Not fighting other leftists just makes sense. What grinds my gears are people who think we HAVE to embrace Democrats. Embrace, not just vote for the lesser evil. Those people can fuck right off with their big tent politics: The EXACT thing the Democrats used to get us here.
This concept doesn’t apply here. Democrats aren’t on the left. Liberals are not a part of leftist infighting or lack thereof.
Tell that to all the people constantly hounding leftists to treat Democrats as leftists.
As a non-American it’s kind of wild to me that people are still complaining about the democrats when you elected Trump.
Yeah they’re not good. And you should fight them. But if my only choice is the democrats or trump, I’ll choose the Dems and then immediately get back to fighting them.
The problem is that the Democrats are as crucial to them being the “only choice” as are the Republicans. And we see how they still fight tooth and nails to prevent progressives being put on the ballot from inside the party.
At some point you got accept that repairing your old heap of crap car is more expensive than getting a new on, where the old rusty parts aren’t constantly making the replacement parts rust away too.
It’s a two party system. They’re half of the entire government. It’s important. Like I said, it’s NOT the people saying to grit your teeth and vote for the lesser evil, but the people who say Democrats should be embraced. Democrats are the pieces of shit that backstabbed Bernie and surprise picachu faced TWICE against Trump. Even assuming ignorance, they’re fucking fools of the highest calibre and deserve zero respect what so ever.