There’s a lot of ‘either-or’ fallacy going on here.
You can be pissed off at Biden and Harris for their enabling genocide; angry at the DNC for making the same mistakes again and again that keep opening the door to fascism, recognize Trump as the worst case scenario, vote for Harris despite the bullshit above cuz she was the clear lesser evil, be angry at other voters for either overtly supporting fascism or allowing it to win in some self-defeating act of defiance, and recognize that people are burnt the fuck out and drew the line at both sides supporting genocide to just clock out and let the world burn cuz nothing else is working.
Pointing your finger at any one person or concept isn’t going to accomplish shit. We’re dealing with a system that’s absolutely saturated with compounding failures.
The solution? I don’t fucking know. Probably nothing Lemmy’s TOS would allow us to discuss. But two or three or fifty etc things can be true at the same time, and what we DON’T need to be doing is fragmenting communities that see eye to eye 99% of the time - that’ll just package ourselves up in little bite sized pieces for the fucking Nazis to steamroll like they did the last time.
There literally is only one party(no pun intended) worth holding accountable, and that is Biden, Harris, and the Democratic party leadership. Sure you can be angry at other voters for not voting how you wanted, but that’s not productive, and ignores the issues that made them vote however they did. The Dems one job was to appeal to their voting base, and they failed miserably. Holding them accountable is the only solution that actually addresses the issue, which is that millions of people are dissatisfied with them. You’re not going to bully a huge amount of Americans into changing their minds, but putting pressure on the Dems, whoch is what the ‘undecided’ voters were all about, might eventually yield results. It might have even happened in this last election if other so-called progressives hadn’t taken such a strong stance trying to silence them, or accuse them of being russian trolls. If the polling numbers had been worse in the year leading up to the election, if the ‘blue no matter who’ crowd had taken a stand, if people hadnt theown away their only leverage months before the election even happened, then maybe the democrats would have altered their campaign trajectory and we wouldnt be in this situation. As it is the DNC are the only ones who are truly at fault.
As it is the DNC are the only ones who are truly at fault.
They certainly hold a large share of the blame, but my point is they’re not the only ones who fucked up.
Since we’re following parallels to pre-Nazi Germany, let’s compare it to that. They had a similar cascade of failures that lead to the Nazis rise in power, so as a ‘what if’ kind of thought experiment, what should _____ have done in order to prevent that rise (and ultimately the Holocaust)? The blank applies to any of the key players, ranging from the established government, to the individual citizen, and everyone/every group in between.
All of them fucked up to some extent - some WAY more than others, but the important bit is that their collective effort (or lack thereof) failed.
I’m sure you see where this is going. Fast forward to today and we find ourselves in the same boat, riding the razor’s edge edge of that exact same failure… but as dangerously close as we are, we still haven’t gone full Nazi, so we’re still (barely) in ‘what should ____ be doing’ territory. Not what should we have done, but what should we be doing.
And like I said in my previous post: I don’t know. Probably something we’re not allowed to discuss per Lemmy’s TOS, so I guess we just skip that part of the conversation while we’re here. What’s left? Mutual aid. Planning. More planning. What are the most immediate threats we’re facing under the worst case scenario, and how are you prepared to handle those? Do you have a passport? Where do you plan to go if you need to use it? Is it up to date? Are you equipped to defend yourself in the event that you belong to one of the groups Trump targets via stochastic terrorism? Do you own a firearm? Have you cleaned it in the last decade? Is the ammo still serviceable?
Those are the kinds of questions we need to be asking ourselves and anyone in our life who’s part of a group targeted by Trump. Here and now, I don’t really give a shit about the DNC. What’s done is done. I’m worried about what I need to be doing to keep myself safe. I’m worried about whether or not my trans neighbors will be able to stay safe, or the immigrants who have come to support my community through their labor, or, or, or, – you get the point.
What we need right now is unity. If it becomes evident that Trump or his admin lack the capacity or spine to go full Nazi, then fine, let’s spend our energy on bitching out the DNC. Right now we have bigger fish to fry.
Do what you need to do to be safe, and please help others on that path as you’re able.
There’s a lot of ‘either-or’ fallacy going on here.
You can be pissed off at Biden and Harris for their enabling genocide; angry at the DNC for making the same mistakes again and again that keep opening the door to fascism, recognize Trump as the worst case scenario, vote for Harris despite the bullshit above cuz she was the clear lesser evil, be angry at other voters for either overtly supporting fascism or allowing it to win in some self-defeating act of defiance, and recognize that people are burnt the fuck out and drew the line at both sides supporting genocide to just clock out and let the world burn cuz nothing else is working.
Pointing your finger at any one person or concept isn’t going to accomplish shit. We’re dealing with a system that’s absolutely saturated with compounding failures.
The solution? I don’t fucking know. Probably nothing Lemmy’s TOS would allow us to discuss. But two or three or fifty etc things can be true at the same time, and what we DON’T need to be doing is fragmenting communities that see eye to eye 99% of the time - that’ll just package ourselves up in little bite sized pieces for the fucking Nazis to steamroll like they did the last time.
There literally is only one party(no pun intended) worth holding accountable, and that is Biden, Harris, and the Democratic party leadership. Sure you can be angry at other voters for not voting how you wanted, but that’s not productive, and ignores the issues that made them vote however they did. The Dems one job was to appeal to their voting base, and they failed miserably. Holding them accountable is the only solution that actually addresses the issue, which is that millions of people are dissatisfied with them. You’re not going to bully a huge amount of Americans into changing their minds, but putting pressure on the Dems, whoch is what the ‘undecided’ voters were all about, might eventually yield results. It might have even happened in this last election if other so-called progressives hadn’t taken such a strong stance trying to silence them, or accuse them of being russian trolls. If the polling numbers had been worse in the year leading up to the election, if the ‘blue no matter who’ crowd had taken a stand, if people hadnt theown away their only leverage months before the election even happened, then maybe the democrats would have altered their campaign trajectory and we wouldnt be in this situation. As it is the DNC are the only ones who are truly at fault.
They certainly hold a large share of the blame, but my point is they’re not the only ones who fucked up.
Since we’re following parallels to pre-Nazi Germany, let’s compare it to that. They had a similar cascade of failures that lead to the Nazis rise in power, so as a ‘what if’ kind of thought experiment, what should _____ have done in order to prevent that rise (and ultimately the Holocaust)? The blank applies to any of the key players, ranging from the established government, to the individual citizen, and everyone/every group in between.
All of them fucked up to some extent - some WAY more than others, but the important bit is that their collective effort (or lack thereof) failed.
I’m sure you see where this is going. Fast forward to today and we find ourselves in the same boat, riding the razor’s edge edge of that exact same failure… but as dangerously close as we are, we still haven’t gone full Nazi, so we’re still (barely) in ‘what should ____ be doing’ territory. Not what should we have done, but what should we be doing.
And like I said in my previous post: I don’t know. Probably something we’re not allowed to discuss per Lemmy’s TOS, so I guess we just skip that part of the conversation while we’re here. What’s left? Mutual aid. Planning. More planning. What are the most immediate threats we’re facing under the worst case scenario, and how are you prepared to handle those? Do you have a passport? Where do you plan to go if you need to use it? Is it up to date? Are you equipped to defend yourself in the event that you belong to one of the groups Trump targets via stochastic terrorism? Do you own a firearm? Have you cleaned it in the last decade? Is the ammo still serviceable?
Those are the kinds of questions we need to be asking ourselves and anyone in our life who’s part of a group targeted by Trump. Here and now, I don’t really give a shit about the DNC. What’s done is done. I’m worried about what I need to be doing to keep myself safe. I’m worried about whether or not my trans neighbors will be able to stay safe, or the immigrants who have come to support my community through their labor, or, or, or, – you get the point.
What we need right now is unity. If it becomes evident that Trump or his admin lack the capacity or spine to go full Nazi, then fine, let’s spend our energy on bitching out the DNC. Right now we have bigger fish to fry.
Do what you need to do to be safe, and please help others on that path as you’re able.
some knowledge…
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