I was literally going to reply to this pointing out that “protest voters” fit better as the scorpion than MAGA people. The MAGA people didn’t know that Trump was an objective disaster. They just thought he would make a disaster for their enemies and leave them alone. The “I’m too left for Kamala” people did know, and they still decided Trump wasn’t worth resisting, because they wanted to make their point. Or, as the scorpion said, it’s in their nature, and they just felt really strongly that that’s what they wanted to do.
The “I’m too left for Kamala” people did know, and they still decided Trump wasn’t worth resisting…
Citation needed. I saw them actually resisting, unlike the liberals who paved the way for Trump’s facism. But they claimed it was OK this time, but cause it was the “good guys” doing it.
When it’s time to not vote for Democrats, they’re all yelling and super vigorous, activists with all kinds of passion. When a pro-Palestine, pro-worker candidate comes along, they start shitting on him. When it’s time to get in the streets, it’s fucking crickets.
That’s why I don’t like them. Surely that makes sense. If I saw them actually “resisting” or at least encouraging other people to resist, I’d be a lot less contemptuous of them.
No we haven’t. FDR put in place universal healthcare, universal retirement, jobs for people that want to work so that they’re not subject to whims of the economy as to whether they can feed themselves. Postwar Britain guaranteed housing at reasonable rates to its people. The EPA, the CDC, clean water in your house, all this stuff happens because somebody makes it happen.
Democracy works, if you make it work. All that FDR stuff happened because people had spent decades fighting for their labor rights in the streets, harder than the wealthy were fighting to keep them down. That’s it. That’s how it functions. If instead of that, the labor movement had been filled with strategically incapable losers who said “MAN THE WHIGS DON’T FUCKING REPRESENT ME” and then fucked off to do something else, we’d still be working weekends and getting our arms pulled off in the factories.
This is why people think the whole “protest voter” thing is a psyop: Because it makes so little sense as a strategy for producing positive change. As a way of making sure things get ten times worse and the worst people in the world get to profit, though, it’s a fucking fantastic strategy.
I was literally going to reply to this pointing out that “protest voters” fit better as the scorpion than MAGA people. The MAGA people didn’t know that Trump was an objective disaster. They just thought he would make a disaster for their enemies and leave them alone. The “I’m too left for Kamala” people did know, and they still decided Trump wasn’t worth resisting, because they wanted to make their point. Or, as the scorpion said, it’s in their nature, and they just felt really strongly that that’s what they wanted to do.
And hey, now we’re sinking! Thanks. Great.
Citation needed. I saw them actually resisting, unlike the liberals who paved the way for Trump’s facism. But they claimed it was OK this time, but cause it was the “good guys” doing it.
I’m mostly talking about the people on Lemmy. This kind of stuff is what I’m talking about:
https://lemmy.world/search?q=kamala&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=5466182&page=1&sort=TopAll
https://lemmy.world/search?q=biden&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=5466182&page=1&sort=TopAll
Compare to:
https://lemmy.world/search?q=mamdani&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=5466182&page=1&sort=TopAll
https://lemmy.world/search?q=no+kings&type=All&listingType=All&creatorId=5466182&page=1&sort=New
When it’s time to not vote for Democrats, they’re all yelling and super vigorous, activists with all kinds of passion. When a pro-Palestine, pro-worker candidate comes along, they start shitting on him. When it’s time to get in the streets, it’s fucking crickets.
That’s why I don’t like them. Surely that makes sense. If I saw them actually “resisting” or at least encouraging other people to resist, I’d be a lot less contemptuous of them.
Always have been.
Center people are a psyop
You just hate me cuz I’m right.
No we haven’t. FDR put in place universal healthcare, universal retirement, jobs for people that want to work so that they’re not subject to whims of the economy as to whether they can feed themselves. Postwar Britain guaranteed housing at reasonable rates to its people. The EPA, the CDC, clean water in your house, all this stuff happens because somebody makes it happen.
Democracy works, if you make it work. All that FDR stuff happened because people had spent decades fighting for their labor rights in the streets, harder than the wealthy were fighting to keep them down. That’s it. That’s how it functions. If instead of that, the labor movement had been filled with strategically incapable losers who said “MAN THE WHIGS DON’T FUCKING REPRESENT ME” and then fucked off to do something else, we’d still be working weekends and getting our arms pulled off in the factories.
This is why people think the whole “protest voter” thing is a psyop: Because it makes so little sense as a strategy for producing positive change. As a way of making sure things get ten times worse and the worst people in the world get to profit, though, it’s a fucking fantastic strategy.