ToastedPlanet @ ToastedPlanet @lemmy.blahaj.zone

she/her

---

Read more

Posts

46

Comments

1,180

Joined

2 yr. ago

Also, not every country has been taken over by fascists yet.

Kamala was running for president. Biden dropped out. Kamala wanted to end the war.

I am afraid that the time to vote your way out of this is at an end. There is no way Republicans will willingly give up all three branches of government.

Musk has control of the US Treasury Department payment system. Obviously not. Fascists don't hold elections.

I'm trying to get people to act in their own self-interest. It may be too late for us, but someone might learn something someday. People who survive the collapse of the US and climate change might make better choices.

If we don't tell people what went wrong here they will do it again.

Accelerationism has made things worse for everyone. Now we have a US president who has declared his intention to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip of Palestinians. If you want things to get better then you have to act in a way that is useful to that end. That means voting for parties that are to the left of fascists and that have a chance of winning. In the US, that's the Democrats.

The US is currently a Russian puppet state under Trump. The US isn't even acting in the interests of our allies at this point.

Most of Europe is a collection of democracies in a defense pact and economic union. That is in no way comparable to empire. Europe is historically responsible for the condition the world is in now. France is the only European country that still has real ties to nations in Africa. The idea that Europe as a whole still has imperial ambitions is completely untethered from reality.

We live in interconnected world. Ignoring each other isn't going to cut it anymore. We are on our way to putting the most peaceful period of world history behind us. Any country that values democracy, personal freedom, self-determination etc, are on the same team. The countries that want to carve the world into spheres of influence which are currently the US, India, Israel, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea are not on that team.

The EU and NATO are the kind of model we should want to see pop up all over the world in places like the Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America. If smaller countries don't group together militarily and economically they are going to be completely overtaken by larger countries.

Red fascist ideology is about building a hierarchy, specifically an ideological hierarchy, which is mutually exclusive from the leftist position of deconstructing hierarchies.

The Nazis described themselves as national socialists. They were lying. So are tankies.

I just don’t think our legal system is competent to separate the Dylan Roofs from the Marion Bowmans.

Even if our legal system was, that wouldn't stop a fascist government from using the death penalty to kill its targeted out-groups indiscriminately. Also, the death penalty isn't a useful tool because it doesn't fundamentally correct the underlining social and economic conditions that lead to the kind of violence it fails to deter.

Under some subjective moral systems the death penalty aligns with an ideal of justice. However all it does is kill more people. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. That is to say, no one learns anything of value from this process and dead people cannot learn. Justice does not demand punishment equal to that of the crime. In other words, justice can be obtained without necessitating us commit the very actions we have deemed to be unacceptable.

We should want to live under a system that is more humane than the criminals it prosecutes. Our punishment for failing to do this will be to be subjugated by our own flawed system and to have no one to blame but ourselves.

This is tragic. We can expect more of this over the next four years at least.

We need more people to say stuff like this. Trump's entire stick is controlling the narrative and getting everyone to bend the knee so they say nice stuff about him. Any attempt at a counter narrative, no matter how mild mannered is a threat to his narrative and control over the discourse.

His social media response is damage control. We'll be in a better place if we start talking about how immigrants are great and trans people want to be ourselves. Talking about how we would all have more money if we taxed billionaires would help to. The fact billionaires remove wealth from the economy by never paying taxes, never paying wages, and price gouging us all at the grocery stores.

The rule of law means that no one is above the law, not even the president. If the president is above the law then we do not have the rule of law. Being labeled a felon is the idea of a punishment, but since there are no consequences to this sentencing there is no punishment.

At least imposing a fine would have been consistent with precedent. At that point it would have been an issue with our laws being to lenient. That would have been a much more easily remedied problem than doing away with the rule of law, a founding concept of modern western civilization.

The rule of law was dead when the Supreme Court ruled presidents have immunity for core constitutional responsibilities and presumed immunity for official acts in Trump v. United States. This is another nail in the coffin.

If this is the lesson a majority of people learn we will be ruled by fascists for more than the next four years. Refusing to exercise power is self-defeating and will not inspire any revolutions. If we let things get worse they will get worse, because there is no floor to how bad things can get.

The same is pretty much true with my family as well. However thanks to the internet we have access to a larger subset of people than just our families.

It isn't a system we should want to continue anyway. Immigration should be an opportunity for equality, not indentured servitude.

That's the thing. It's not enough to only be against something, although we still need to do that too. We have to be for something. We should definitely pick things we would be happy with too.

Thinking back to school, I had an ethics teacher ask the class what we thought the meaning of life is. The consensus from the class was whatever we believe. Then our teacher asked a follow up, in that case, what do we believe it means. No one had an answer.

We need to decide what we believe is important to us, what we value, and then figure out the most useful strategy to making that reality. We want to dismantle hierarchies, but that means thinking about what our lives would be without those hierarchies.

Right now, people are being told to imagine a world without certain groups of people, on the false promise that the elimination of people will improve their lives. We need to get people to imagine a world without certain classes of people. The elimination of class will give us economic freedom so that we will have the means to improve our lives.

Put a hold on that popcorn. It's not a civil war. Elon and Trump are in agreement. What's happening is some MAGA supporters are going through the five stages of grief. They seem to be somewhere around anger and bargaining. Trump conned his supporters like he conned his employees before them. Now Trump supporters are working their way to accepting Trump was always going to enrich himself and billionaires at their expense.

Now would be a good time to start pulling people away from MAGA. People need an alternative. Taking the wealth of billionaires as well as the source of their wealth would be a good start. Not to mention systemic change to our government's institutions.

There can more than one lesson to learn from an election. Democrats need a populist narrative to push a progressive and socialist agenda. Leftists need to learn to exercise power and keep fascists out of power. The only way to get the DNC to stop being neoliberal is to co-opt the party the way MAGA did to the Republicans. Not voting lets the fascists win and allows the Democratic Party to shift to the right.

We had the ability to stop Trump's second term, but we failed to counteract the spread of accelerationist propaganda and impress the need to exercise power on the behalf of underprivileged people. No amount of fuck ups from the Democrats and their consultants justifies refusing to use our only tool to win political power during elections.

Only if we assume the only way to convince people of anything is to brainwash them as children. I would like to give people more credit than that. People can be convinced that they're wrong, but it takes time. To that end, it's useful to be vocal sooner rather than later.

With 4B in South Korea I think it was bad from the start and not a case of co-opting. With people championing 4B in the US it's a case of it's still new, but unfortunately has roots in a bad movement. Hopefully 4B in the US will reject the terf aspect of 4B in South Korea, but that will take work.

And socialists too! =)

The main issue is that 4B in South Korea specifically is a manosphere esq movement for woman. It ends up with the same reactionary bent to it as it is not about equality but separation. It ended up with terf rhetoric as well.

Here's some articles to read:

https://www.them.us/story/how-4b-actually-leaves-trans-people-behind

https://time.com/7177557/4b-us-women-resisting-patriarchy-essay/

Shepherd, who is trans, notes that the many South Koreans participating in 4B have developed hateful anti-trans, anti-gay views, given the “bioessentialist ideology” that places immense import on child-bearing as a marker of womanhood. “Korean women aren’t transphobic or homophobic, I have friends there and they love me and my transness,” he adds. “I’m saying that the most stalwart members of the 4B movement, those who champion it the most passionately, usually fester in queerphobic forum spaces like Womad. This wasn’t intentional in the creation of the 4B movement, but a separatist movement based in biological essentialism is a movement that can very readily foster that environment.”