Tyrannical and erratic Hexbear ban for defending a war criminal vs. free and democratic lemm.ee preemptive ban for not supporting genocide

Libs will just yell at you about how it’s the best economy ever and you’re probably just doing life wrong or something.

There are a few criticisms of Dems from the right that I agree with. #1 being that they are all elitists and smug.

The solution is to recognize that this electoral system is a complete failure and acknowledge that it must be completely done away with in favor of something that works

Here’s my plan, and I’ll even tell you without being a

Abandon electoralism as the primary method of achieving anything, its become blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention that things will not improve under our current system and wasting time trying to get people elected will not help anyone

Next is to establish a network of interconnected mutal aid groups, to provide to the people all that they need and deserve. The government has shown it doesn’t care about maintaining any actual infrastructure or protecting the vulnerable which leads to my third point

We need a vanguard, both to protect the people who need it and to punish those who would oppose our work. They would be armed and trained and held to a higher standard than our enemies

With the support network and vanguard in place, we can spread our message and gather support up, it won’t be easy but it will be better than sitting on our hands and having a heart attack every four years for the rest of our lives

The thing to learn is that there’s no hope to be found in the ‘democratic’ system that’s in place. It’s going to get worse, not because we didn’t vote for the genocidal fascist with the exact same policies as the other uncouth genocidal fascist, but because of more fundamental forces are going to continue to play out either way. It’s about getting past that step in ‘what should I do’ to the next one.

You can struggle with yourself over the premise but once you acknowledge it’s true, you have to pick yourself up and move on to planning for the future we’re stuck with and how to connect that end with the future we all deserve.

You can tell yourself that you’re voting left but the Overton Window still shifts right. Look at immigration. Look at the courts. Roe. It’s taking a hard right with the “left” candidate already in office.

If it’s going to go right either way, then focus your efforts on something else.

The change that I make might not “do anything”, but I am not going to just punch in Team Blue and then sit back and blame things on other people not voting the way you think they should have voted. That’s not doing anything at all.

2 genocides

Now you’re literally just making shit up lol

Restraining them by -checks notes- sending them weapons and allowing them to use their satellite data to bomb them? By trying to redefine antisemitism as criticism of Israel and therefore trying to validate their actions?🤔

Fuck off and die you disgusting ghoul

Ok so try political change that destroys a system that forces you to vote for blue or red genocide every 2 years

I have personally been harmed by Biden’s policies

Um, sweaty, have you considered that no, you haven’t?

It’s capped for people on Medicare. It’s not capped generally.

It’s not the action, but the goal. The actions you describe are indefensible, but the goal of those actions is not societal destabilization.

Wtf is this gibberish? The ACTIONS are the causal factors leading to “societal destabilization”, are you saying the genocide and taking on board Trump’s immigration policy is fine in the long run because the intentions or “goals” are good? Wtf are you talking about you disgusting little shit?

I don’t like for anyone to know who I am, but my face and my name is on my city’s YouTube channel dressing down my entire city council for inaction over a ceasefire resolution - which they then fucking passed. A Palestine flag has been flying outside my house for months. Go read my comment history. Between the hilarious stories of personal tragedy, you’ll find an unwavering position.

You’re a piss poor liar and a fraud, a fake-ass reddit clown, all that nonsense chest-thumping is rendered meaningless the minute you accept the conditions of the DNC, if the beginning of any statement implies or begins with “Yes Joe Biden committed genocide…BUT” then that explicitly defines genocide as conditional and open to negotiation, the absolute definition of a wavering position

Not only have you DONE NOTHING, but you’ve explicitly endorsed genocide, YOU helped normalize it and no amount of post facto bargaining is gonna wash the blood off your hands fool

You have no credibility with your generalizations

lmao you dumb fuck that’s the best you got? “Boo hoo”??? you’re crying about how we need to normalize genocide while sitting there pretending like Joe Brandon has any chance of victory after June 27th and you want to talk about credibility? You’re so blinded and twisted up by political resentment you don’t even realize your political cohort is in the middle of a civil war to oust the rotten lich you elevated as a figure of praxis activism

Wake the fuck up, stop trying to “own the tankies” for five seconds and go watch some mainstream coverage, maybe then the gears in your capitulationist skull will finally figure out you’ve just been a rube for a political class who doesn’t give a fuck about your morally compromised ass

I think you should join a communist party and work towards building some dual power

I agree with you.
I don’t only vote in every single election and argue with strangers online. I go to city council meetings. I email and call elected officials to argue policy. I design, print, and uh… distribute stickers with political messages around town. I’m directly involved with government transparency efforts, and I’m about to start prying at my local RCV group to figure out why they haven’t attempted to field a ballot initiative

This is all still well within the bounds of electoralism. Certainly more than most people can say, but it doesn’t truly get at the heart of what historically drives major change, ie organizing and directly contesting.

And, yes, my assumptions are purely assumptions, but they’re rational, I think - the majority of opinions here (or perhaps loudest voices) argue for not voting, and I cannot connect that sentiment to one that trans folks and/or POC would embrace, since that strategy helps the people who want to harm them. But your arguments - which I understand to be that folks should take action, openly acknowledge the failure of the current system, and still vote - would benefit trans/POC folk, and that does invalidate my demographic assumptions.

People here are largely not suggesting simply that change happens by sitting on your thumbs and not voting. People here are arguing that voting, and electoralism in general, is a lost cause for enacting positive change. You should spend a bit of time on Hexbear and see the demographics, the trans space here is one of the largest on Lemmy and one of the most active. I believe the last informal survey found around 40-50% of Hexbear is trans.

I have to be honest. I don’t think I’ll read The State and Revolution. I am interested in your viewpoint, but 100+ pages on a sort of weirdly organized website aren’t really something I think I’m capable of sticking through.
Is it a correct assumption, though, that your intent was to express that the revolution/change would occur through gradual and peaceful social change rather than violent revolution?

No, it’s not a correct assumption. Gradualism has never worked in the favor of the Working Class, historically. State and Revolution does not mean individual acts of terrorism are the way to go, either. The point of the text is that reform cannot work in a bourgeois democracy because the class in power will not relinquish power willingly. See what happened to Allende in Chile. Instead, revolution is more of an inevitability, so it’s up to leftists to prepare and organize so that the revolution can be properly steered. Occupy Wall Street is an example of a movement with no solid base. Same with Chaz.

I really do suggest reading Leftist theory, you can download State and Revolution and read it on an EReader if you like.