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The Clash's "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"

All over people changing their votes

Along with their old codes

If Adolf Hitler flew in today

They'd send a limousine straight away

Everyone's afraid of their own life

If you could be anything you want,

I bet you'd be disappointed,

Am I right?

...

It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember

We're alive for the first time

It's hard to remember, it's hard to remember

We're alive for the last time

Speaking as an agnostic, this site is a bit too eager to shit on religious folks. Only a bit, because I know a whole lot of evil has been done in the names of gods and I know the frustration of arguing with someone who just explains everything with "god's got a plan" or some other unverifiable claim,

But ffs, read the fuckin' room. Fascism is ascendant and we need the biggest coalition we can get to beat it back into a corner. Besides that, Christians in particular are all about righteously walking into lion's dens in the face of certain death over things they believe, and honestly that is the exact kinda energy we are going to need from a lot of people if we are going to get through this. Also, doesn't hurt that they are organized as fuck and a lot do praxis like food pantries and other mutual aid on the regular. You don't have to believe anything to recognize we'd be doing the fascists a favor by not try to ally with these people.

I don't check in on the mortal world that often

Yeah that much is obvious

Everything you've said so far makes it sound like you think this is an unlosable fight.

Well, I do actually believe that, sort of. I think fascism given a long enough timeline inevitably sows the seeds of its own destruction and will radicalize everyone living under it to the point that they're willing to kill and die fighting it. However, the longer that takes to happen the more people and communities that will be irrevocably destroyed by the fascists, so I definitely do agree there is a lot at stake here and we need to push this process along as quickly as it can go whether or not it's inevitable.

Why resist if we are doomed to fail? Things are bad but this is a winnable fight with the people on our side and they're coming our way more and more with every stupid atrocity this dipshit government commits.

At my night classes, someone brought up Epstein and a student my age said that she thought it was released a few years ago. I don't think she's stupid. She has like 5 kids and was attending night school for more job experience.

Yep, so much of people yelling about "stupid" voters is victim blaming people experiencing poverty and the US's lack of social safety nets

In 2002-03, I told anyone who would listen that the Iraq war was a stupid idea, and that went so well (/s) that GWB actually won the 2004 election (unlike 2000)

By the end of 2006, almost everyone said they opposed the war and had always opposed the war, that they were outraged by Abu Ghraib and soldiers being killed by IEDs and etc.

In my experience, Americans aren't bloodthirsty monsters, but they have crappy imaginations and memories, so they have to actually see an obviously terrible idea get played out and be completely terrible before they will recognize that it is terrible, and then they'll tell you they knew it was terrible all along. I don't think we're much different than people anywhere else in the world in those regards, though.

I think calling out specific comments is unnecessary and a bit counterproductive

Well said

I'd say it isn't just similar to the KKK, it is the KKK. The Dems effectively kicked those losers out of their party by the early 1960s, but then oligarch Republicans who had been losing elections since the 1930s because the Great Depression so thoroughly discredited their laissez faire nonsense invited them in by running Barry "I think civil rights is a states rights issue" Goldwater for president, and that anti-social and destructive political coalition has been fucking shit up for everyone ever since.

e; forgot word

Nah, the GOP is a fucked death cult circling the drain and hemorrhaging supporters. Americans on average are about as cool as they have been in a while. It sucks that it takes seeing the ICEstapo horror show play out in front of them for months is what it took, but they're more pro-immigrarion now than they have been in years. Say what you will about the absolute numbers, the trajectory of public opinion overall is good.