

Well I’m standing firm on not quartering any damn soldiers…
Well I’m standing firm on not quartering any damn soldiers…
Don’t be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!
I don’t disagree they’re not on our side, I just think they’d have been much less likely to plunge the country into a fascist hellscape and persecute the people I care about.
I feel like there’s very little chance you intentionally misinterpreted my comment, so in the interest of keeping civil discourse alive: what’s happening in Palestine isn’t a war, it’s a massacre, and I was referring to the nascent civil war and fascist takeover of the US when I said ‘war’ (and to the things like rampant persecution of LGB (and especially T) people, the open violence against the poor and minorities, etc.).
It’s a fucking war. Sometimes the only option you get is to put off losing. We didn’t do that, in no small part because of idiot idealists who apparently refuse to understand a concept so basic even chimps get it. Now, thanks to that and SO much more, even being hopeful is approaching the realm of deluded fantasy.
I have no problem alienating people who think their own precious idea of morality is somehow so sacrosanct it can’t be compromised even to actually save the lives they pretend to care about.
Yeah, the scenarios where a breakup of the union is feasible are… limited. Governors aren’t going to be able to seize the nukes or military assets needed to establish themselves on their own without some truly extraordinary changes that just haven’t come into being yet. Maybe one day, but it’s going to be a damned rough road before we get there.
If empty platitudes could strike down the bourgeois, you’d be the greatest hero our world has ever known.
When the people can’t even afford the lumber to make the guillotines, what do we do then?
Oh good! Have a very nice day.
I’m confused, the only thing I’ve said about the dems is that they’re less bad than the actual fash but still in large part to blame for this current situation. Not exactly “lefties shouldn’t be mad at the democrats”. It’d be pretty absurd to argue that, even (see: gaza, enabling fascism with their complacency, etc). Imitating their behavior would, you know, be emulating the things that lead to the current situation vis a vis fascism.
I’m really sorry, but I’m not sure what your point is. Aren’t the dems the ones culpable for the rise of fascism in this country, which was the whole point of this in the first place? Emulating them seems like a good way to become a fascist enabler.
I dunno, seems like the fascists are the problem, actually.
The moderates that tolerate fascists and thus enable them are always the problem, actually.
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Rome is burning, even Nero is out there organizing the firefighters, and you want to righteously split grammatical hairs? I don’t even have a fiddle metaphor, this is just dumb on both our parts. For quite a few people, people who are even on your side already, it did not go without saying. For 40%+ of the country it doesn’t even go without saying that trump is a fascist. Your opinions are not objectionable, hell from a quick browse through your comment history we agree on pretty much every point, the only problem here is that your message is getting drowned by your very understandable fear and anger.
Lashing out at your allies when they think your message is getting lost in the rhetoric is going to accomplish nothing except see you have to fight alone, and neither you nor I will survive this by ourselves.
It did, though. Or at least the message you’re presenting seems to indicate that.
The moderates that tolerate fascists and thus enable them are always the problem, actually.
I’m fairly sure you phrased it like this as a retort to the first commenter’s comment, but you gotta see how insisting the blame ‘actually’ lies with the moderates and the people enabling the fascists is pretty clearly interpretable as shifting the responsibility. Both parties are to blame, but you’re implying that the bulk of the criticism lies with the people being passive about allowing the fascist takeover instead of with the people exploiting the resource they’ve found in moderates by doing the fascism.
Dems didn’t get their shit together and exploit the moderates first to prevent this, but while that does make them culpable for the current fascist power grab, it does not make them equally culpable, and that is the position you seem to be presenting.
Who’s talking about voting as resistance, besides you? There’s a conversation to be had about it sure, but it’s not the conversation being had now, here. You trying to shift the focus to a subject you’re comfortably confident about discussing is why you’re being criticized, not for the merit of what you’re saying on its own.
Nnng. I will never understand why a woman would willingly live in that country.
Oof.
So the fascists… aren’t the problem?
The lack of self awareness in this comment is truly sublime.
Sovereign Immunity is a fucker of a concept.