FAQ

Q: why not organize and stop treating the bus as a legitimate entity? why aren’t you working to stop the bus?

A: do both. cut the fuel line. break windows. put oatmeal in the gas tank. but maybe your efforts don’t succeed this election cycle. and if so don’t fucking throw away your vote if it can help your neighbors fucking survive. “harm reduction” is not a political strategy for action. it is a last minute, end of the line decision to save lives, after all other resources have been exhausted.

  • LongMember69@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    My favorite morons ITT:

    ”Both options are cliffs!”

    Yeah because the guy promising to end democracy and bring about Christian nationalism is exactly the same as the moderate we have now. I hope you’re getting paid to be that stupid.

    ”I won’t vote to support genocide!”

    At the end of the day someone becomes president, and spoiler alert the other option is still worse. It’s cute you think your principles are more important than the safety and security of at-risk groups domestically (and frankly abroad as well). Short-sighted and idiotic.

    ”We might not even get ice cream!”

    Okay well organize and protest that after we’ve avoided the cliff.

    ”Haha Americans are stupid for the entrenched political system that they find themselves in”

    Hope you enjoy your five minutes of smugness, because a Christian nationalist USA doesn’t benefit anyone in the world in the long run.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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      8 months ago

      a lot of the individuals ITT are here in good faith i believe. i’m more trying to get meaningful change to happen than sow discord by calling them morons.

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        8 months ago

        You, i like you

        c:

        Ive gotten righty whities to agree with me on all sorts of wild leftist ideas, its about finding the angle and humanizing the problem.

        • spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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          8 months ago

          i feel like sometimes people forget the little username in their phone represents a living breathing life that may or may not have had breakfast this morning :(

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          8 months ago

          A-fuckin-goddamn-men.

          You need to communicate with people. Berating them is entirely self serving. No one ever said “you know what? I am a moron, thanks for pointing out my worldview is entirely wrong and I’m an asshole in those exact words.”

          You can get people to realize they’re wrong, but calling them names is exactly the wrong way to do it.

          I say “talk to a conservative in conservative language” and they’ll understand you. Avoid “trigger” words like redistribution, socialism, LGBT+, etc… use words like “Liberty, freedom of expression, government overreach (when discussing infringement of LGBT+ rights) etc…”