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Oh, are you under the impression that there's a group of liberals (as in liberalism in general) out there that doesn't coddle and appease and enable fascism that I could vote for? Because Democrats are putting up the most token of resistance at best, and meanwhile voting in support of the right's shenanigans in congress. Schumer voted for the budget, 4 others voted just the other day for a bill that would effectively disenfranchise millions of women, etc.
If you walk into a voting booth and find someone holding a bomb who insists that your only choice for how to deal with it is to choose between a long fuse or a short one, the only sane thing to do is to say 'Good luck with that' and leave before you get caught in the blast radius. I voted blue for 30 years and it didn't get me less fascism, why do you imagine it would suddenly start working today? The fascism is coming from inside the house.
Why don't you run yourself?
I’m saying that Harris was not a fascist dictator. Simple as.
No, she probably wouldn't have been. But hey, if you're comfortable cuddling up with that bomb because it has a longer fuse then by all means don't let me stop you, just don't act all surprised when it inevitably blows up anyway.
So you’re an accelerationist. Gotcha. The problem with accelerating into fascism is that not enough people have been made aware of their oppression along the way. This is far more likely to result in a lasting dictatorship than the revolution from a longer fuse.
What I am is not complicit with the motherfuckers who are blowing people up; the only solution to the trolley problem is to walk away, because the minute you put your hand on that lever—whether you pull it or not—you become at least partly responsible for every single death on those tracks. You can call that whatever helps you sleep at night.
The choices were genocide or genocide and fascism. Abstaining for my feelings is the same as voting for genocide and fascism. I chose the lesser of two evils, which has always been the only choice in US elections.
I was referring to the person in the voting booth with the bomb, but it extrapolates well to that situation too: if your choice is genocide or genocide and fascism the only sane choice for anyone with a conscience and a shred of compassion is to walk away from both. Never let anyone tell you you only have two choices in a situation, it's a failure of imagination on their part at best and blatant manipulation at worst. Choosing the lesser evil is still choosing evil. I chose something else.
Again, walking away from both is refusing to stand in the way of fascism. My feelings are not as important as my responsibility.
People keep trying to blame this on those of us who didn't vote blue no matter who and it's the worst kind of victim-blaming bullshit. I have one vote, I didn't give it to the fascists or their appeasers and collaborators. If that's not good enough for you then you are cordially invited to fuck all the way off.
If you want to lay the blame at someone's feet maybe start with the guy who said he wouldn't run again and then did anyway, then cocked it up by clearly not being fit and waiting so long to step down. Or the party that has been moving to the right on every economic issue since at least the 80s, has no positive vision for the future, and has now become more concerned about being seen giving only the most token of resistance with those stupid fucking signs that accomplish nothing rather than actually trying to, for example, take a few pages out of McConnell's obstructionist handbook.
If you voted blue you didn't stand in the way of fascism, you enabled it, so don't put that shit on me.
McConnell used the filibuster to prevent legislation from passing in Congress. That doesn’t work on any of Trumps 100+ executive orders.
I’m not “putting anything on you.” I’m saying if you didn’t vote against fascism, then you enabled it. Simple as.
Yeah he used lots of other shit too, like flatly refusing to even hold confirmation hearings for supreme court justices, etc. There are many tools in that toolbox. I'd be content to see Democrats use even one or two, cause those little fucking signs ain't cutting it.
And I'm saying any vote that isn't in support of fascism is a vote against it, and I've already said I didn't vote for the fascists, so it kinda seems like you are.
None of those tools apply to an executive order. The literal only tool in the box for Congress is to force a 15-day vote. They did, and Republicans redefined the entire congressional calendar as a single day to avoid holding the vote.
That’s why they’ve been partnering with the ACLU to bring these cases to the courts.
Because the only attempted fascism has been in executive orders, right? Oh wait, last I heard Mitch McConnell was a member of congress and congress doesn't issue executive orders, do they? I bet there's a clue in there as to what I was actually talking about.
Bringing cases to court is absolutely a good and necessary thing and I have no complaints about their efforts in that department. My complaints have been about their complicity with and appeasement of the fascist program, and the fact that they have the gall to bitch about their constituents expecting them to do their job.
And, as they said, that's stupid and wrong to do, as it's not on them, dipshit