Political Memes

You think the camps are opening straight after the election? Come on, this takes time.

Okay. What direct action can I take to keep me out of the camps between now and Trump coming into power?

As for action, anything which is available to you. Even providing sysadmin support for orgs would be something one can do.

That would strengthen the orgs, which is a good thing to do.

It would not keep me out of the camps unless you have some delusion that American society is going to make a 180 based on my actions in the next few months.

Affecting change takes years. Generations. Which is why it's important to fight for change now, and why it's important to buy ourselves that time to fight for it.

Not quite sure what point you’re trying to make against my analogy here.

The executions of the French Revolution were enabled by the capture of the state apparatus. Control of the state is absolutely a useful tool, and rejecting democracy as a means of acquiring control, or denying enemies control, is nothing short of foolishness. And certainly the French Revolution didn't occur all in a moment. Revolution is only as powerful as the opinions backing it - right now, what do you see in the American people as regarding opinions towards your ideology? You really think you've got a shot right now?

Make the vote. It's a day of your fucking life, at most. It buys you extra years to build what you need to build; to educate who you need to educate.

Don't let fascism win because of apathy towards who controls the state. Who controls the state is important, even if you don't like that it is.

The point I am making is that there’s always progress and reaction growing together in capitalism due to the increasing inequality. The fact that progress is happening doesn’t mean the society isn’t growing more and more fascist.

So by that logic, society has been getting more fascist effectively every day since the 17th century, correct?

Is your society doing genocide when it wasn’t before?

My society isn't doing genocide when it wasn't before. It remains backing a genocidal ethnostate. It was backing a genocidal ethnostate before. It was backing a genocidal ethnostate since before I was born. Funny enough, my society was doing genocide itself, and not that long ago - but that's no longer occurring. Are we less fascist?

Is your society on the threshold of masks-off fascism when it wasn’t before?

... how can that be a criteria for fascism? That's recursive.

Is inequality increasing or decreasing?

Increased slightly in the US - GINI increased from 36ish to 40ish.

Are working class people’s lives improving or not?

Yes, absolutely. That people's lives are not improving enough is a different issue.

You know the answers to all these, but you choose to limit yourself in thinking that things were somehow improving because some things were getting better.

You're operating from the axiom that society is getting more fascist continually, despite the logical absurdity of that considering both US and world history, and the mechanisms you've proposed, and are desperately searching for evidence to back that up, instead of the reverse. Evidence should shape your opinion; your opinions should not shape the evidence you accept.

What does that have to do with the point I was making?

That there was no plausible path away, contrary to your claim?

You keep asserting there is a path away without the groundwork being lain.

You realize those gay rights came from below against the wishes of then, state?

What rights did they get against the wishes of the state, again?

Much like the gay and civil rights came from below in the USA against the wishes of the state and capital?

... you do remember where most gay rights progress happened in this country, right?

Funny how only direct action keeps getting the goods, innit?

Oh, I wasn't aware direct action was what elected numerous liberal state legislatures and appointed liberal justices to the Supreme Court, silly me. I thought they were elected or something. Silly me. I guess we are living in an anarchist commune, contrary to my initial beliefs.

It doesn’t matter if Nixon would love to be a dictator. It matters if society was ready to accept fascism, which USA wasn’t back then, but is now.

So fascism is when the dictator is untouchable. That's the only criteria for fascism. Great. Guess Pinochet wasn't a fascist either.

It also legitimizes your stabbing, since you voted for it. So why would anyone help you stop it.

This is the same stupid spiritual approach to politics that MLs spout. Sorry for being too much of a sinner for the anarchists to let into heaven.

And anyway, you don’t have any plan to stop it.

... because I advocate for voting for the knife... I have no plan to stop it.

Okay. Thanks for being a mind-reader, but apparently not a text-reader where I advocating for the creation and strengthening of alternate bases of power to the state.

One has to ask themselves, why would the killer actually give you a choice in the matter. What is the benefit to the killer to killing you slowly. This is the question you don’t want to face.

Because the metaphor falls apart when you start asking questions of motivation, because the state is not some single satanic entity for your paragnosticism to oppose. The state consists of numerous and opposing forces, many of which can be played against each other, and most of whom do not share goals. It's the same delusion as treating 'capital' as one thinking, malicious class entity instead of a disparate group of interests - something even fucking Stalin recognized the absurdity of.