Nah. “What do you expect someone to do that changes anything” was the question. One must win the battle in one’s own mind. You’re the one using the word concrete now, for the first time.

Did you mean to reply to the comment under mine? They posted the electoral reform stuff.

As someone with some decent math education, I’d love to see you explain this. The word math is not a magic incantation you can invoke to automatically be right.

Then fuck off with the vote blue no matter who bullshit

Liberals stop trusting establishment politicians challenge: impossible.

What you gone do when the police state begin
Well it already began but I guess it depends
On what’s really going on what’s happening, huh
Military target practicing
They finna write another Patriot Act again
The days is short the nights is long the fight goes on
The pistol and the pipes are drawn

-Tariq Trotter aka Black Thought in Guns are Drawn by the Roots from the album The Tipping Point (emphasis mine)

Angel of mercy, people are suffering All over the world A spanish boy could be killed every night of The week

[Verse 3] But just let some white boy die And the world goes crazy for blood - latin blood

From Adios Hermanos by Paul Simon

Understand the difference between substantive and bourgeois democracy, read history and theory, join a communist party, engage in direct aid for their immediate community, start a bail fund for their community if they have money, maybe start a library of things if they have a bunch of old, usable stuff, etc… There’s tons of things to do, but they’re hard to do while throwing up your hands and quitting before you’ve started.

Not voting does not give your vote to anyone. It gives your vote to the “did not vote” column, the current undefeated champion of us elections. Do you libs even hear yourselves?

“We can do this nicely” reeks of the “negative peace which is the absence of tension” which MLK wrote about in the Birmingham jail letter. If by “doing this nicely” you mean unarmed, nonviolent protest, then the jury is still very much out on whether that can achieve meaningful change. Also, do you believe in civil disobedience? That is, does your version of “doing this nicely” preclude breaking unjust laws? If so, you will achieve nothing.

ARMED protest specifically in the civil rights movement. The Black Panthers were strategically competent in taking advantage of open carry laws. Those laws still exist in certain areas of the country and absolutely should be taken advantage of if any protest movement is to be taken seriously. I mean, this is still baby talk. It does not even rise to civil disobedience since it is within the law.

Majority rule? What the hell is that? In the us? WHAT?! Most people are working class, so majority rule would be socialism by definition. Your comment is a very strange false dilemma. Reform or revolution is an interesting question, but you’ve basically dismissed it outright in your second bullet point by misrepresenting revolutionary theory.

Yeah protesting only how the rich and powerful will allow you to will get you nowhere.

Civil disobedience can work to an extent when the enemy has a conscience or is supported by subsections of the population with a conscience, but it requires breaking unjust laws. I am beginning to think liberals would rather die than do so. Further, the enemy has no conscience.

Right. Bourgeois democracy is a sham.

Of course! I would never seriously suggest puritanica. It was a terribly weak joke though my apologies

Why share the crap info from a crap source which someone has already pointed out is likely a psyop? Especially after neglecting to engage with that comment. Irresponsible.

Yeah, the self-flagellation, defeatism, and guilt are just the ego flaring up in response to reality contradicting the propagandized view of burgerland which we each must destroy in our own minds. None of the three are helpful, yet it seems to be all we have at the moment.

Puritanica? Idk Edit: I’m sticking with Burgerland. You have no idea how relevant it is where I live.

I will certainly be tuning out all election news if it’s Vance vs. Newsom. Barf. They’re both despicable, slimy, punchable face-having, out-of-touch assholes.

I think assassination as a political tool is a few millennia too old to be just a putin thing.

I saw some mastodon posters calling this a distraction from the Epstein files as if anti-communism, installing far-right dictators, and privatizing everything weren’t already the highest priorities for burgerland.