Uh, we all knew it was awful when Biden/Kamala did it, but we also knew it would get even worse under Trump. But then we got “Both sides are identical, it can’t possibly get worse under Trump”. And now, here we are. Clowns to the left of me, fascists to the right.

If the only people who know about the protests are the ones in them, what good are they? The whole point of a protest is to be seen. The fact that we’re not seeing them is a valid critique against their efficacy.

Little Johnny is daydreaming in Latin class when the teacher calls on him to conjugate the verb they’re discussing. Caught off guard, he whispers to his neighbor “Shoot, what verb are we conjugating?”

“Hell if I know”

Johnny stands up, “Helifino, helifinas, helifinat, helifinamus, helifinatis, helifinant”

I’ve never done opiates, but that sounds kinda like just the right amount of alcohol and weed. It’s a tough needle to thread, but I have fond memories of nights drifting off to sleep perfectly content, perfectly warm and comfortable. The brain is tingly and fuzzy, the body almost feels like it’s on the edge of vertigo, in a cozy falling-twisting sort of way; like sinking into an impossibly soft mattress that just keeps going. Warm but not sweaty, calm but not numb, everything exactly as it should be.

Democrats have political and financial capital, which tend to be powerful assets in running a successful campaign. Any new party needs to:

1. Inform the general population that they exist
2. Inform the general population what their platform is
3. Persuade the general population that their platform is desirable
4. Convince the general population that they’re capable of implementing their platform

These are not trivial tasks, made more difficult without a track record or money.

Oh personally I think that kind of strict anti-hierarchical position is too idealistic. I don’t think the people who propose that kind of extreme decentralization have ever tried to organize a functional endeavor composed of more than a dozen people. I’d like to believe a totally voluntary, spontaneously organized society could work, but I’ve coordinated too many projects to really believe it.

As far as I can tell, the anarchic perspective defines hierarchies as inherently compulsive. The claim is that organization that otherwise resembles a “hierarchy” is fine so long as it’s voluntary. You can still have people who are good at coordination in “charge” of coordinating things, with the caveat that that “authority” can be rejected at any time.

I’ve heard “heart-on”

I meant this one specifically. Ukraine is next

"what would the universe look like if the word ‘fish’ started with ‘p’?”

More tie dye, for one.

Altoid sours

Based on my own genealogical research, the trend I typically saw was 6-8 kids, between 18 and early 30s, about 20% of which died. Plus consider that some of those will be sons, and some daughters never become mothers, 25 is pretty spot on for the average age for a mother-to-mother generational gap.

Apparently there’s a “Hear me out” trend where people justify wanting to have sex with particularly unusual characters. If your “hear me out” is considered too normal, you can be criticized.

Generally you don’t yeet your heart out with such force either

Organize. Unify our message, develop platforms to educate, inform, and coordinate action. Quit with the purity tests and infighting.

Fill local offices with leftists so they can build their resumes and demonstrate their capability, and the intrinsic popularity of leftist policy. Elevate those leftists to higher and higher offices, to continue that demonstration at higher and higher domains, until they permeate all levels of government.

But that will take time.

In that time, we need to mitigate damage. That means electing Lesser Evils in races where no leftist has sufficient popularity to win. Petition the Lesser Evil relentlessly, leverage our organization to force their hand when possible, constantly trumpet a unified message on every platform we can. We don’t yet have the popularity to do more than that. Once we do, circulate the signal and rush to unified action.

Disparate individuals fighting amongst themselves while they complain to each other might as well be nothing. Spoiling the vote with 3rd parties in races they can’t win might as well be nothing. Protest abstention might as well be nothing. Fascism marches in lockstep, disorganization cannot defeat it. Not at the soapbox, not at the ballot box, not in the jury box, not with the ammo box.

Organize, organize, organize. And mitigate damage in the meantime.

So all we have to do is leap towards fascism every other term to get baby steps to the left? Doesn’t seem very sustainable.

For a sufficiently defined “goingToCrashIntoEachOther” and “don’t”, isn’t that basically how it works?

I’m a sigma male.

Sigma mail in the recycling after I read it lol gottem

Is it really “voting against genocide” when they voted against all the arms shipment pauses that are now being overturned? They voted against an administration, that administration lost, and now the winner has hit the ground running making the genocide immediately worse. What’s “objectively more moral” about increasing arms shipments to genociders?

And how, precisely, did “holding the Dems accountable” work out after 2016? Did they “learn their lesson”?