I mean, redpill/ blackpill/ hard right wing BS thinking is what got everyone in this mess in the first place. I'm not sure why doubling down on it would help.
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That is why its so important to teach the values of socialism in context of self identified selfishness.
If we can guarantee that everyone has the means to live healthy and comfortable…
Then you are guaranteed to live healthy and comfortable.
If everyone looks after their neighbours, then your neighbours will look after you.
We are a long way away from a world where human psychology does not contain an ego, first step to mediate that is to accept it and find a way to be at peace where it can no longer cause harm.
It's not an exclusively American trait, it's just human nature. Uproar generally only happens when the material security is not being met by the ruling power. For example, the French revolution arguably only happened because of food shortages at the time, which was blamed on the aristocracy. That's why the smart demagogues provide just enough material security and freedom so as not to agitate the entire population.
Yep, there are two things that can trigger regime change: precarious drops in material conditions and concerted foreign intervention. The Ancien régime's food and debt crisis, Czar Nicholas' economic collapse, post-WWI German austerity and economic struggles, Cold War coups and power plays all over the world, etc... It's the same story over and over.
The core value of sedentary civilization is stability and predictability. No population has ever, or will ever, flip their lives upside down and plunge into an uncertain power vacuum out of the goodness of their hearts. And yet ideologues on the internet insist that they can will revolutions into existence with memes.
Americans are just disconnected. That's why we don't see mass antiwar protests at the Whitehouse. The only mass protests we see are organized and planned in advance.
I’m getting damn tired of this style of post.
We get a rare drop, where circumstances suddenly allow a leftist position to become the mainstream position. Then inevitably, someone posts “America only cares about because it started impacting normies”.
And somehow the reaction is not “Hell yeah it did, brother, now is our time, let’s rolllllll!” but instead passing that tweet around while going “tsk-tsk”.
What the actual fuck are we doing? If we got a gift horse, we’d probably say “Hold up lemme enroll in equine dentistry school for next semester”. Like goddamn.
To get them to care of the war at all, especially the MAGAts, is a goddamn miracle really. We should be pushing them to want to end it and exposing them to leftist, not neo-liberal, actual leftist thinking.
OP is a psyop. He's doing "both sides" bullshit and then banning anyone who disagree with him.
OP is a psyop.
A psyop to convince people not to vote for Kamala Harris in 2026?
an op to convince people that both parties are the same, so it doesn't matter if you vote. The bad faith argument that voting for harm reduction is the same as voting for harm. It's disingenuous and only serves to break leftist coalition and cause infighting, which only really benefits one side... the right, and it's a textbook tactic of right-wing bullshit.
So yes, a psyop, or duped by a psyop. Eitherway, a dipshit.
This is an anarchist community, so here's an anarchist perspective. Voting is not and cannot be harm reduction.
The idea of a ballot being capable of reducing the harm in a system rooted in colonial domination and exploitation, white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, and capitalism is an extraordinary exaggeration. There is no person whose lives aren’t impacted everyday by these systems of oppression, but instead of coded reformism and coercive “get out the vote” campaigns towards a “safer” form of settler colonialism, we’re asking “what is the real and tragic harm and danger associated with perpetuating colonial power and what can be done to end it?”
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/voting-is-not-harm-reduction
Harm reduction is harmful
Voting as harm reduction does more harm than good. Accepting reforms through voting makes people settle for a partial goal; it is a concession. From this position of compromise, the state entrenches its position, and it becomes more difficult to push further, for voters fear losing their partial gains. Accepting harm reduction also divides the movement, because some will be satisfied with the crumbs, while others want it all (see the split at the ZAD). Harm reduction also assumes that the harm (the government) cannot be removed entirely, which is an argument that there can be no anarchy.
Voting is not harm reduction
For the vast majority of issues, there’s no difference between the political parties. They are all the parties of business, climate destruction, deportation, incarceration, police, surveillance, drone strikes, sacred site desecration, et cetera. By getting you to believe that there is a lesser of two evils, the state dampens your desire for abolishing it, because you are meant to believe that things will be worse if you don’t vote and support a political party. Look at the fact that the George Floyd Rebellion occurred under Trump, where liberals, and progressives, and leftists didn’t get what they want, where the harm was supposedly greater, than under Biden, where those same people lie dormant, accepting the lesser evil world as a blessed reprieve.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-why-you-shouldn-t-vote#toc1
This entire argument assumes no one does anything other than vote
Which to be fair, is kind of the case for the majority of the population, which is perfectly fine for, and encouraged by, the people of power
here’s an anarchist perspective
Both-sidesism isn't anarchism. It's nihilism. It's the "nothing matters, so there are no rules" surface level "anarchism" take. You can't hide behind hedonistic nihilism by calling it "anarchism". You might as well just come out as the edgelord you want to be and tip your fedora.
- Anarcho-nihilism is a thing. Personally I find it a little bleak, I think we should have a vision to move towards.
- So we can criticize voting itself, but not the parties that perpetuate it?
voting for harm reduction
To claim Joe Biden was a "harm reduction" candidate, you need to ignore how he extended much of Trump's Term 1 policies and - by refusing to prosecute and imprison any of his first term cabinet - paved the way for even more egregious abuses in his second term.
The Biden Administration did nothing to curb the abuses of the Republican Party. And, in many cases, normalized and entrenched the fascist policies and powers accrued to the executive branch under prior terms of office. When the ink is dry on the history books, he will be remembered as an enabler of Trump's fascist regime in much the same way he was an enabler of the Bush fascist regime from 2001 to 2009.
Eitherway, a dipshit.
Harris adviser says VP ran 'flawless' campaign
I have to wonder if you genuinely believe people who say this.
The logic:
- everyone against genocide is a Russian bot
- they're still saying genocide is bad
- therefore they're a Russian bot
They're one of those 100 posts a day weirdos that seem hopped up on Adderall. Or they're a bot.
Ai would like a word with you.
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I dont know where OOP got that idea from. Americans were never for this and polling data bears that out, especially relative to most wars which have had extremely high levels of approval at the outset, even for ones like Vietnam and Iraq that later became massively unpopular.
If you look at Trump's approval rating, it only really starts to move when gas prices move. Also historically. I think it is quite obvious where OP got their idea from.
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