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Essentially, there have been two reactions over on grad today:
I'm foreign, keeping out of the inevitable political arguments. Just be mindful of the rules and report those who break em
Don't give a single fucking shit about anything but performative ideology.
I have very little time for the sort of oik that treats reality like something they view from an emperor's box.
The women, immigrants, trans and minorities of the US thanks you Hexbear! You've shown those damn liberals how to make the world a better place! Jeffrey Epstein's closest friend will be saving Palestine any day now, just watch him.
They prop up whatever the Russian troll factories prop up. You can tell by what's unsaid, how much less of a problem they have with Trump.
Don't blame at all trumps voters, nooo, you need guilty somewhere else 🙄🙄.
Don't put a vote system, if you can't choose your favorite candidate 🙄🙄...
The primary contradiction (settler colonialism)
"I don't really believe in voting"
I know.
You believe in "left leaning" authoritarian military dictatorships that pay lip service to communism or whatever alternative political ideology you espouse, where the only left leaning thing about them is telling the people that their practical enslavement through disciplinary labor measures is necessary and good for them all.
They think they are for some higher value but in the end they're just like this:
"stupid idiot victim of the system. why don't you commit politically motivated violence like a cool person"
«I actually punched a sexist at a concert once, I'm doing infinitely more for the cause than your bullshit 'voting'.»
We did it, Patrick! We saved Gaza!
Look, I also thought the whole "don't vote" schtick was kinda annoying, but personally, I place most of the blame on:
a) those who actually pursued this outcome (fascists)
and
b) the DNC for their limp-dicked campaign strategy of being the Republicans-but-less-so while appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist
appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist
I feel this so much in my fucking bones. They've been doing that since Hillary's campaign. I think I've given up hope that they'll learn, considering they've had this long already.