Not by voting, but tomorrow I will hold up a sign near a road for 2 hours. Trump will have no choice but to step down after that.
Protests are for building public solidarity. You know, organizing… the only way for the masses to accomplish anything in the face of fascism. It’s not for convincing Trump of anything.
I’m starting to believe that the saying “All roads lead to Rome” might’ve been a warning.
Another fairy tale is thinking that Vooting Bloo No Matter Hoo can defeat fascism.
Im vooting! I’m vooting!
The american government was designed to serve exactly the people it’s still serving (rich merchants and landowners). It’s working extremely well, they just lied to you about what it was designed to do.
Or peaceful protests with arts and crafts.
Managed opposition.
True… but you can sure enable one by not voting.
Repeat after me …. The democratic party is funded by the same wall street military and prison industry profiteers that fund the republican party and they are fundamentally opposed to shifting policy to the left and adopting economic democracy to any extent in their platform to the point they would rather ensure a right wing candidate wins by sabotagingrg any popular pro workers rights candidate rather than nominate anyone left of their platform which makes american western neo liberal democracy a defacto class dictatorship!
I noticed you conveniently left out " Christian nationalists" from your list of people funding political parties. Why is that?
Bro i was born and raised to be an evangelical nut job so you don’t have to project your qualms with white Christian nationalism on me.
Those with capital who are in control of our political system are first and foremost fascists. They don’t care about christianity so much as it serves them as a tool to manipulate those dumb enough to buy into it. The whole perpetuating industrialized genocide to make a profit selling military ordinance and keep humanity under the boot of endless militarism is more dangerous than religion. Intertwining the two is a recipe for disaster but the main danger here are the war mongering billionaires not whatever imaginary friend they use to peddle bigoted hate and idiocy onto the masses
My point is only one party accepts money from them. One party wants fascism. The other wants oligarchical capitalism.
Hate both, don’t conflate both.
Oligarchal capitalism is fascism. Fascism js essentially the combination of corporste power and government or corporatism. The democrats are fascist lite but still fascist. They took their marching orders from the same billionaires and got us to the precipice of where we are now. They have no remorse and just continue to make excuses. Read the writing on the wall ffs.
No, it really isn’t though.
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
They both suck, but let’s be clear about why they suck. Oligarch capitalism sucks because of wealth disparity and financial oppression.
Fascism sucks because of the punishing of “out” groups and strict social control. And also wealth disparity and financial oppression.
Capitalists don’t care if you’re gay or black as long as you have money.
US capitalists certainly do. I don’t know how many more examples it will take for gringos to stop going on about how “this isn’t America” like bro that’s ALL it’s ever been. I can’t point to a single time in US history that there haven’t at least three ethnic groups persecuted and disenfranchised, and that’s without even mentioning the violent political persecution.
If it always pushes racist war criminals to the top, that’s what your society was built to do. You don’t get a hundred thousand sausages and say “man, we gotta put different meat in, we can’t seem to get the machine to make any burgers” like, please look at the fucking mechanisms.
Ok yeah. But not voting still enables the fascist. You can still vote for harm reduction, then protest/riot for progress.
Harm Reduction = Let Others Suffer instead of Me
I’m so selfish for not wanting to end up in a concentration camp. And the rest of the world is now so much better off with Donald Trump at the helm of the biggest military in the world.
Things are definitely better in places like Ukraine and Gaza. The Trump regime has absolutely had their best interests at heart. /S
Can the Chinese even discuss politics like we do here? Haven’t seen anything on rednote beside “political studies” and some Marx praises.
Must admit it’s a bit more difficult with all of it being in mandarin, but god damn, are they under surveillance.
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Le chat mistral told me differently. I’ll have to talk openly about politics with a Chinese citizen before I change my mind.
It’s not fucking normal that a country with such an economy doesn’t have people on the global scene.
You have us, Europeans, you Americans, Aussies, Japanese, Indonesians (VPN), Singaporeans, … All here talking to eachother.
Chinese? Nope. Great firewall of china. I couldn’t even speak to my wife when she was in Shanghai unless it was on WeChat. Her emails were blocked. WhatsApp was blocked. The other phone she tried to use VPN on became completely useless.
China controls their population. Until enough Chinese citizens are able to tell me otherwise.
Brilliant economy, brilliant growth, but god damn, allow them to come out of their hole.
Oh, come on. About 90 million people listened to everyone and their (non-conservative) mother say how this might be the most important election, Trump won’t give up his power, they’re going to enact Project 2025, it’ll be nothing but a revenge tour, they’re fascists, a second Trump administration is an existential threat to this country, Trump is compromised, this administration will end American democracy, the people who stood in his way last time aren’t around any more, etc… 90 million people heard this… then still chose to stay home and let this happen. I’m sorry Biden/Harris didn’t sweep us off our feet, but we deserve this. Don’t you dare say we “tried” voting against it.
If Did Not Vote had been a candidate:
So you think it’s right to blame people who did what they could? Just because others voted against them? Prick.
Wow, personal insults, classy. And “people who did what they could”…? Are we reading the same words?? I’m calling out my fellow Americans who decided not to do all they could. Those who literally didn’t do the absolute minimum to prevent all of this: gestures broadly at the everything by voting. And I’m not acting above it or anything. Maybe I should have done more outreach? Apparently we didn’t hammer home the dire consequences clearly enough…?
Still, what in my rant makes you think I’m targeting anyone who made any effort at all?? I’m saying to people who did nothing: they and we need to do better. We literally won’t have a country anymore otherwise…
The voting in the US is literally predetermined during redistricting and as real as the outcome of Wrestlemania so not sure what you’re talking about
You can’t redistrict the electoral college.
Police state? XD
The NYPD budget would make it something like the third largest military if compared to countries’ military budgets. The NYPD’s main purpose is to protect capital which, per “stop and frisk” and similarly racist policies, are intended to harass minority groups. If there is a safety issue where minutes matter, they are only hours away. If a shop window gets broken they’ll be there immediately.
Apparently the NYPD has a budget of $5.4 billion, with is a lot, but would be about place 40 compared to military budgets
