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And the Log Cabin Republicans exist. And the Association of German National Jews existed. Thinking that one is special enough to not be subjected to the oppression that others will face just shows that they are ignorant of history in addition to the betrayal.

Suppose there are 10 people eligible to vote.

3 of them are known to support a fascist and will vote, no matter what. They have religious figures reminding them and pressuring them to vote for the fascist and watch propaganda daily that maintains their outrage and support.

1 of them is a big supporter of the neolibs and will vote for them no matter what.

1 of them is a pragmatic leftist who grudgingly will vote for the neolibs because there is no other viable choice.

1 of them is undecided either because they don't think fascism is that bad, or think it won't impact them, or don't consider how it could impact people who are not as privileged as them, etc.

The other 4 are:

• 2 who are too filled with apathy to care about voting
• 1 who the fascists keep setting up artificial barriers for in order to prevent political engagement
• 1 who is thoroughly indoctrinated in the cult of anti-electoralism

That's 6/10 eligible voting (in line with the proportion of eligible voters that voted in 2024).

Further, historical data shows that when fewer people vote, the fascists win because of their dedication to their cause and authority figures coaxing them to do so. This data is readily available in terms that are easy to comprehend, even for those without technical or scientific education.

So, the breakdown is:

Fascism: 3

Neolibs: 2 or 3

Coin toss on whether the fascists win, because, of those deigning to engage in the electoral system, one of them is not convinced that opposing fascism is really that big of a deal.

What about third parties? They don't matter in this but because it is first-past-the-post and only a majority of participating voters is required.

But, the majority of polled people support left-of-center policies! Why are we forced to vote for neolibs?! Doesn't matter. 4 out of 10 eligible voters are going to vote in support of right-of-center ideologies. If more eligible voters voted, that wouldn't be an issue and the voice of the majority would be heard. But, between apathy, voter suppression, and the anti-electoralist/accelerationist cult, 40% are not voting. And that's still "good" compared to the last half-century.

So, there you go. Barely even scratching statistics and simple to digest as to why voters who refused to do their duty to oppose fascism share the responsibility with the neolibs.

Murdering it with SIGKILL? Well, that's how I do it in Wayland, as well as when not running a DE.

Knowingly putting others lives at risk by refusing to do what is literally the least one can do, that is, voting in a strategic manner to prevent literal fascists who have repeatedly taken action against LGBTQ+ and made statements in support of committing genocide against them, POC, and people who are neurodivergent and/or impacted by mental illness is not what an ally does. It is an action that demonstrates that the non-voter/protest voter does not find vulnerable peoples' lives important enough to warrant the effort needed to climb down off of their pedestal of egotistical moral superiority to do meaningfully lend support to their fellow human beings' right to exist.

Nah. sudo kill -9 it.

Yet refusing to accept the reality of mathematics that showed that, in a FPTP system, not voting for a viable candidate opposing a fascist only helps the fascist is acceptable? Nah. The blood is on the hands of both dems and non-voters. Non-voters/protest voters don't give a fuck about trans people, as shown by their actions.

You can indeed buy better hardware for many purposes for cheaper.

Want a gaming laptop? Or a runs Linux out of the box laptop? FW is not even close to the best value there.

Want a laptop with well-documented physical specs, including CAD drawings to make readily modifiable and upgradeable, potentially being the last laptop chassis that one needs to buy? Nothing else comes close to touching FW.

I avoid ads, so, maybe they're inappropriately marketing as gaming laptops. I'd not call that a scam but would say that it's ethically questionable, at best. FW is a laptop for people prioritizing long-term repairability and tinkering over everything else.

...FW16 is a great Linux machine. It also had CAD drawings available that have been allowing me to sketch out possible physical modifications. It also has a PCIe 4.0 x4 available for either the GPU they sell or any other device that I decide to make.

What specifically about Framework do you think is a scam? I'd genuinely like to know since that's been the opposite of my experience.

Good to know! Thanks for reporting back with results.

There just isn't a large leftist movement in the US. They aren't going to win more than a few seats.

There isn't a visible leftist movement in the US for two primary reasons: targeted suppression by elites and intelligence agencies, and anti-electoralism/apathy. I'm not convinced that anti-electoralism isn't, at least in part, indirect suppression. The number of eligible non-voters is vastly greater than the participating electorate.

And blaming them while running further to the right is exactly what's happened every election in my lifetime.

This is the same thing that I have seen. However, looking at the data, they're not actually incorrect. Leftists, largely, have been refusing to participate in electoral politics, which removes their voice from the party's effective constituency.

Protest voting/non-voting literally has the effect of removing one's voice from those that the party represents, it doesn't force them to reshape their politics in any way but that which gives them them reliable voters to campaign to. In a two party FPTP system, not voting for the viable candidate closest to one's politics doesn't send them the message to change, it sends them the message that you are not a reliable voter whose they need to represent or listen to. Anyone saying otherwise is delusional, lying, or potentially a state actor.

It's literally basic statistics.

Do I think that they should knock off their running to center and pushing to the right? Absolutely. It would benefit the populace greatly and we could try fixing some of this shit. But, being a leftist, I am the party's minority constituency. Most people who vote reliability in the primaries and generals are centrists at best and that is the biggest problem.

People have to exert effort to vote in most places, they need to get time off, they need to stand in line for hours, they need to deal with partisan poll workers, and for what?

That's not universally the case. Because of leftists sitting out this election in California, the centrists and far-right were able to:

• vote down an initiative that would have banned forced prison labor
• vote down an initiative improving the ability of municipalities to set local rent controls that was backed by an HIV/AIDS advocacy nonprofit
• vote for a landlord corpo-backed revenge initiative that prevents medical advocacy nonprofits from engaging in political advocacy
• vote for an initiative increasing mandatory minimum sentencing

California is one of the easiest states to vote in. Gerrymandering and suppression are minimal outside deep red counties. And these were initiatives, not candidates - the data clearly shows that it was a problem of voluntary non-participation. My fellow leftist need to extract their heads from their lower GI tract and take responsibility for their choices.

Choosing inaction is a choice and one that only ever helps the oppressors.

Which is a bullshit theory the conservative Democrats have been pushing to keep from dealing with why they lost.

No. That is the bullshit excuse that performative faux-leftsts use. The impact of non-voters and anti-electoralists is plain to see for anyone with the slightest comprehension of statistical math that is so basic that is barely qualified as anything above arithmetic.

Every election in my lifetime has resulted in worsening of the human condition because "protest (non-)voters" can't be bothered to consider the most elementary examples of cause and effect:

Don't voice your view in an established manner and your view will not be reflected.

There's no political representation of us on the left because too many can't be fucked to participate in primaries or the democratic process (as much as it can be called that) either because they buy into the idea that, despite all evidence contrary, not opposing oppressors will somehow make things better or, because, again despite all evidence contrary, offering up minorities, LGBTQ+, and other vulnerable groups as blood sacrifice by enabling the establishment of fascism will somehow magically result in a workers' revolution and utopia.

TL;DR - Non-voters/protest voters and acceleration can get fucked. The are no allies to LGBTQ+ nor the working class as they are unwilling to do the literal least one can do to try to impact positive change, apparently preferring fascists and corpo dems.

with the help of voter suppression.

And amplification of the anti-electoralist/accelerationist cult's propaganda.

True. I don't either. I want the bullshit to stop.

Yeah... I'd argue, from my anarchist view point, that Marx nearly had it. Humans and unjust hierarchies have existed longer than economics, so, I feel that to be an oversight on his part. To my thinking, economic division is a mechanism of creating or sustaining a hierarchy of classes. The problem isn't purely economic nor sociological but both, that is socio-economic (like electricity and magnetism are make up electro-magnetism).

Economics (wealthy disparity), religion (castes), and violence are all mechanisms used to separate people into hierarchies of power and allow a small number to exercise power over others. Any hierarchy of societal power results in repression. The Soviets betrayed the Makhnovists, rolled tanks into Czechoslovakia to prevent self-determination, and committed genocide via forced relocation of "problematic" ethnic groups to destabilize any resistance to their hierarchy of power that made all subservient to Moscow.

I'm posting another comment because you seem to be genuinely interested in discussion the concepts that you are bringing up in your essay. I haven't yet fully read it, though I have skimmed and will spend some time giving out a fair read.

I do not think that I'll have much positive in my critical analysis based mainly upon my philosophical orientation (anarchist) and neurodivergence (AuADHD so, have strong feelings about what I perceive as just/unjust ex. hereditary rule is intrinsically unjust). From a writing style/communication perspective, it does seem, at a high level, to be well-written.

I'll try to remember to get some time to read through the rest of it on the weekend.

No kings. No gods*. No masters.

*"gods" here referring to use of organized religion to coerce others.

I'd say it's a superior text editor.

Emacs

It's a sound choice. I don't like to use it, personally, because I want to use something that uses same motions and syntax as editors on servers that I don't own (ex. customers). And, I'm not a fan of Lisp. It's a great and (self-)extensible text editor/lisp interpreter, though.

As a preface, I used to do this a lot on Reddit. My hobby (sounds odd) was to make a little old-school-blog-style post, detailing what I found interesting in gaming in the last week or so. I got a name for it, for a time, but having long-since abandoned reddit I thought I might try the same thing here, if you'll indulge me!

Happy to have you posting!