The christofascist dictatorship is here, you’re the one enabling it by describing it as “status quo”.
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Valthorn@feddit.nu 4 months agoSo when the republican christofascist dictatorship comes, at least you will have a clean conscience, knowing you didn’t vote for preserving satus quo, shitty as it may be. Good for you!
I hope, if you can’t find it in yourself to put a ballot in the urn for the lesser evil, that you can put a bullet in the head of the greater.
Adkml@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Holy artificially inflated upvotes, Batman!
Des@hexbear.net 4 months ago
ole Genocide joe is sailing this ship into fascism just as fast as any republican
Valthorn@feddit.nu 4 months ago
Yes he is a conservative and will crush all attempts to end capitalism, but you have to admit one party is clearly more zealous about ending democracy than the other.
InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 4 months ago
one party is clearly more zealous about ending democracy than the other.
You don’t get it. Bourgeois democracy is a sham. It has never served working people the way they tell you it has. “One party is clearly” blah blah blah. No. Both parties are playing one of the two roles of the “good cop/bad cop” routine. That’s all this is! It can be true that one side can cause more damage while in power than the other side, but at this point, it’s just batty (and wrong) to think that the side with the blue donkey logo is going to do less harm. Even if we forget that it’s the latter side currently funding and helping orchestrate a fucking genocide, it only ramped up and made worse all the terrible policies implemented when the red elephant had ostensible control. Don’t fall for it. Both “sides” (aka both cops) only want to fuck you over and they’re doing it as a collaborative effort. Voting for either of them only sends the message that you have indeed fallen for the act and that you’ll keep supporting them as long as they keep up that act, which of course they will. If you feel that voting serves a purpose, or that it can be still be used for good, then vote for someone who actually shares your ideals, which neither fascist cop does.
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Genocide is not a lesser evil, it is the greatest possible evil. It is a moral event horizon, and you will not succeed in your efforts to convince principled communists to damn themselves to hell alongside you.
Valthorn@feddit.nu 4 months ago
Which is why I ask, will you arm yourself and make sure there are no republicans to put on the ballot in the first place?
420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 months ago
You’re not really engaging seriously here, but “if voting doesn’t work, what is to be done?” is actually the first (and too often last) political thought most people have outside of our mostly useless sham democracy. And you’re right that fascists deserve to be shot (though you aren’t yet asking why Democrats’ don’t seem to believe that), so it’s understandable your thoughts would go straight to shooting them.
What you’re missing is that this whole conversation has happened countless times before, to the point where there’s an established name for “well why don’t you just go shoot the bad guy?”: adventurism. A bunch of anarchists tried it against high-level state actors 100+ years ago and it accomplished nothing of note, and the consensus among communists is that it’s a bad strategy. It lacks “stable or serious principles, programme, tactics, organisation, and… roots among the masses,” so it doesn’t develop into any systemic change (and makes your organization vulnerable to bad actors). Turns out you can’t take a shortcut around building a mass movement.
Building that movement is the logical conclusion you’re looking for, not random outbursts of violence.
Valthorn@feddit.nu 4 months ago
I thought perhaps the part where we organise was implied, but that’s my bad. Obviously just shooting the first republican you see won’t do much. It seams then that the preferred tactic here is accelerationism. Make it way worse quicker, so more people become friendly to the revolution.
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Why yes internet rando, I am stockpiling weapons and have detailed murder plans, here is my address and social security number!
Dumbass fedposting
Valthorn@feddit.nu 4 months ago
I didn’t ask for details, I was merely curious if you are prepared to take your conviction to its logical conclusion. Letting dictatorship happen doesn’t sound like something a principled communist would do either. Sadly I am on the other side of the planet, so I wish you good hunting. Until the republican scum are cleansed from this world we cannot rest.