Well ain’t that just fucking grim

These links are closer to what you probably intended

these are about nursing home policy not the Libertarian ballot issues though

are you sure you’ve got the link you meant to add to this? because that link goes to one on UK politics

gotta get that sweet corn

the prodigal Jim returns!

Why did the article feel the need to mention US foreign policy from the early Trump administration? I can’t imagine it would be hard to find hypocrisy from the Biden administration itself.

Instead of talking about the US human rights failures, it spends time downplaying the accusations about Uighurs. None of the information constructed here builds into a cohesive thesis.

Why the Bolshevik leadership bent over backward to protect Stalin here is beyond me

beautiful fields of corn

It’s true though, Every place in the US has it’s own unique flavor of absolute hogshit

I don’t get what’s objectionable about this take, it’s not even defending any particular aspect of the US or taking a “but I’m not like them” stance.

New York man

Fascists think they do

I can’t really imagine danger being particularly extreme for anyone other than trans people, for trans folk updating passports is likely a good idea. But keep in mind that blue states would still be relatively safe.

If shit truly gets to the point where it’s death squads and fascist street gangs, realistically there would not be anywhere in the world that would be safe.

I don’t think we need to be worried about full-blown civil war, but preparing for an increase in stochastic terrorism probably isn’t the worst idea.

truth is dead

Douchey rant?

new skill learned: “investigative journalism”

I agree that every person should be free to decide their own level of moderation and its not our place to decide for them, I actually think that’s one of the main benefits of fedi

I might be able to agree if it’s just a section of the media diet that’s made into a safe space and there are other portions of the media diet that aren’t as curated. But I do honestly believe that sometimes people just have bad opinions that they need to be embarrassed enough in an argument to abandon, or at least for the benefit of bystanders

That doesn’t really respond to what I said

but it applies to voting, we can argue about the effectiveness of voting as a tactic but people who vote are more politically engaged than the type of person described in the quote

There are many people who vote, and do nothing else, and that is condemnible. But unless you have direct evidence that the quote originates with someone who explicitly denied the effectiveness of voting in totality I see no reason why the quote would not apply to forms of political advocacy you happen consider ineffective

I don’t particularly want to argue about the effectiveness of voting, beyond to say that I strongly disagree with any bright-line distinction between “electoralism” and whatever other strategies you would care to mention, and that EVERY successful movement (leftist or otherwise) that had the option had the ballot as part of their strategy.

W

winning the elections for state government aren’t the only things that you can make progress on also I would bet that unless you live in Wyoming a good chunk of why your state is red is because the people running your local Democratic party are incompetent (which you could influence)