I linked to the timestamp, it's a long ass video. The front part of the video is great, total normal TC content. Post video though, he gets into his personal politics somewhat, and here I'm thinking "oh, secret Marxist reveal?", but then he gets into partisan politics and it's a full-blown crash out about defiling the constitution and how Dems are always trying to make things better, but republicans show up to undo it all. He reads from the declaration of independence, waxes on about the constitution, the whole nine-yards.

It's really great. Lots of respect. He puts it all out there. If he's interested, I think Cowbee has a reading list he might be interested in.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Idk where I'm going with this.

I totally understand what you're getting at. You could watch this and think "LOL fucking lib" and then just dismiss it. It's very similar to looking at this and thinking the exact same thing. What's interesting is the comments in that thread compared to similar threads from about a year ago when the New Kings protests were popping off. When sorted by Top, the comments rank the sentiment by "we've all been cringe before becoming radical", to "whatever gets libs to turn on ice", to "fuck the constitution". That's the road liberals in MN on are in various ways. Direct contact with fascists is doing more than any amount of posting ever could, and it would seem, externally, people are more compassionate to people's expressions of liberalism in direct response to this contact with fascists.

Like you said, people are going to arrive at their own criticism. People in MN are going to wonder WHY Democrats are voting to give ICE more money, and they will likely encounter people who will tell them they have to shut up and vote or else the Republicans will give them even MORE money. Positioning ourselves to on ramp those people getting attacked is correct. If our reaction was to dismiss people in the kind of limbo state TC seems to be in at the end of this video as "libs" then we miss out on the opportunity to push them in our direction, to build the bridge and help them walk across it.

This group that we're talking about is standing at the edge of a river without a means to cross it. We can help them cross that river. None of us crossed it on our own, someone, even if it was some dead philosopher from the 1800s, helped us cross that river.