this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Lemmy does have quite a lot of tankie types that cannot agree that two things can be bad at the same time (see US and Chinese imperialism).
I personally find it most frustrating how much effort they put into discouraging people from organizing in electoralism. I've written about it somewhat at length before, but I will try and be brief. Indeed all war is class war, and elections are still one of the many fronts in a war and it is foolish to abandon it; leaving the path open to fascists to exert even more influence. We should be forming our own third party and using it to spoil races (note that there are more elections than just presidential). In others we should be pragmatic and vote the lesser evil to give our movement space to grow and maneuver.
We could have more Mamdani or AOCs types, but we also need to support them. We complain a lot about not getting what we want out of elections, but to no surprise we make no effort to be heard officially. In a sense we are showing up to a marathon without the months of training and wondering why we don't make it very far. Elections don't start with checking a box at the ballot that is where they are ending. We should at least aim for local elections and try for a spoiling effect to get some of our comrades in deputy positions.
And to be clear I am not saying that elections are the only form of organizing we should be doing. Just that its an unforced error to ignore it.