We need to stop Trump from being elected or he will destroy democracy.
We need to shoot all the Trump supporters.
Nooooooooo, not like that!
You can, if you stop abstaining or voting third party out of protest. You can’t blame the electoral system for being ineffective if you don’t use it right.
Y’know the old saying about the best and second best times to plant a tree? Sweeping political change takes time. You need progressive candidates to prove themselves on local and state levels.
It’ll take 6 years to replace every governor and congressperson, and based on the landscape I see, at least 5-10 years to promote enough progressives to a position suitable to candidacy. 15-20 years of voting for capable progressives in every race from school board to governor will provide us with a rich crop of experienced candidates.
That does mean voting lesser evil until you can get proven progressives on the ticket. That’s just reality. If you don’t vote for a candidate that wins, you didn’t get even the most meager semblance of representation. Not getting what you want because the voters that disagree with you outnumber the ones that agree is the fundamental principle of democracy. Show up. Vote, for someone who might win.
Republicans planted their tree 50 years ago. Progressives’ best move in the next few elections is show up in droves to big tent blue wave, and then splinter when the Republican party is defunct.
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I’m too tired for this argument, but I’ll have it anyway: All revenge is bad. Revenge is an idealist, destructive, sadistic behavior that should be treated like the pathology it is. Now, it’s not totalizingly bad in the sense that some people taking revenge invalidates the entire project that they were associated with, some locals beating an piece of shit police chief to death after a city has been liberated is not such a big deal, but from a theoretical perspective we need to acknowledge that it is never good, nor is it even neutral, but rather it is, in fact, always bad, even if in some cases the bad that is facilitated is insignificant compared to whatever good a given project seeks to accomplish.
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What? You think I get my rocks off on “tone policing”? Why would I seek an “excuse” for it? It’s not even a question of tone, it’s a question of real content, real actions, because it is a question of rehabilitative versus retributive justice.
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I mean, if someone is really mad and pulls some shit, that doesn’t make it not incorrect, it just means there were mitigating factors to the misdeed. The logical consequence of saying people just aren’t responsible for themselves when they are angry is that they would feel emboldened to give in to their worst impulses when they are angry despite the fact that being mad does not actually negate your ability to control yourself, just makes it harder.
(And of course of killing is the only viable option, go for it)
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