Just your average friendly neighbourhood radical.
No arguments from me.
the Reichlings would’ve made a martyr of him.
I highly doubt it - right-wing politics don't really work like that. When Verwoerd (of Apartheid-fame) got assassinated, no such thing happened. It barely happened after Mussolini got offed. It certainly didn't happen when Shinzo Abe bit the bullet.
I'd say that if Trump died it would have done a lot more than simply dent the whole "sturm und drang" bs the far-right has been peddling - it would have been a real setback for them. I think the post is correct - it's got Trump and his high-up wannabe-bootlickers in the GOP rattled. Only time will tell how much, though.
and I don’t think it’s possible outside the political system,
I wish the CIA and the FBI believed that - if they did, they wouldn't be spending billions every year preventing change outside of the political system.
I’m not going to break the law
If you are unwilling to risk anything for change... fine. But be honest about it - liberals, like you, will go along with literally anything if not doing so incurs any kind of risk or penalty. And the people who actually need and want change has absolutely nothing to gain from trusting you or your liberal politics.
Try to go outside those bounds and you end up in prison, or dead.
Well duh... why did you think those laws exist? Did you really think those fascist goon squads you call "police" that you also fund with your taxes actually exist to "protect" you?
Gee... how much blatant evidence do you need shoved in your face before you actually believe what it is that you are seeing?
And if you die, you won’t be a martyr, you’ll just be some fool who fucked around and found out.
Clyde, if it wasn't for people willing to break the law you wouldn't even know what a week-end is.
And that's your only plan? Kicking the fascism can four years down the road?
Maybe you haven't noticed... but four years of Dem regime has only made the fascists stronger. What do you think is going to happen in the next four years if Biden or Harris (somehow) manages a win in November?
Will we be having the exact same conversations then? Or will you have realized by then that the formal political establishment has no interest in stopping the fascists?
why do rich people want to replace any living being with a silicon version ?
Because then they can patent it.
So it's no surprise that Bill "Anti-Food-Security" Gates, the world's most famous patent racketeering parasite, has his vile little fingers in this.
Protesting? Maybe I’m wrong, but that doesn’t seem to accomplish much of anything.
No arguments from me there - the liberal brand of protesting is designed to accomplish absolutely nothing. That's why it's the only form of protest that is legal.
But then again... there are forms of protesting that aren't liberal-approved - and have proved very effective.
I’m sorry, but, all of those seem pretty pointless to me.
As pointless as kicking the fascism can four years down the road? that's literally your best-case scenario come November - according to liberal-approved politicians and their bootlicker media, anyway.
I'm not telling you not to vote - you should vote. Vote for that sack of lying shit called Biden (or whatever sack of lying shit they're going to replace him with) because they aren't giving you a choice.
The fact that the liberals aren't giving you a choice means the liberals lied to you - you don't live in a democratic society and you never have. But that also means you're not bound to only consider liberal-approved politics, are you?
but one is just tacitly accepting it,
That's really the only thing you liberals are politically competent at, aren't you?
I have to say... you're the first liberal on here that has actually had the backbone to admit it - I guess that's... something.
And yes, I know what tankies are
No you don't, liberal. The fact that you cannot even tell the difference between an anarchist and a Marxist-Lenninist tells me that your competence in this area is pretty much at Average Liberal Standard.
And I trust that I don't have to explain to you how low a bar that actually is?
I'll be posting the correct statement until it penetrates straight through that fuzzy mist of liberal propaganda you insist on burdening yourself with, Clyde. So here it goes again...
It’s not their responsibility to provide you with an easy solution. If you want consultants, hire some.
Get it now?
You’re implying there’s some course of action I haven’t considered.
So, just to be clear... you have never considered any other form of political action other than voting for a rich guy in an over-priced suit?
I'm advocating for you to start using your goddamn brain... but apparently, that's an activity liberals don't have much practice in.
If participating in formal political processes only allows for two options - fascism deferred for four years or fascism now (since that is, by your own argument, the situation you are in) it might be time to start considering not-so-formal political processes, might it not?
argue that Biden is worse.
So, again... if Trump gets elected it’s somebody else’s responsibility to tell you what “the plan” is because the Dems sold you a rotten one?
Sooo - which part of...
It’s not their responsibility to provide you with an easy solution. If you want consultants, hire some.
...didn't you understand the first time around, liberal?
Just admit that you are perfectly fine with the US slaughtering brown people, liberal - as long as the blood doesn't stain the white picket fences in your pristine suburbs.
Then you don't have to go around accusing people using terms you don't know the meaning of, okay?
The goal of government should be to ensure that power serves the people.
Who told you this? The people in power, perhaps? Surely they would never lie to you... would they?
The idea behind democratoc forms of government
There is no such thing as a "democratic" state - the society you exist in is either democratic or it isn't. Spoiler alert - yours isn't... which means it doesn't matter how loudly politicians or the media tell you how "democratic" everything (supposedly) is, does it now?
If US society was in any way democratic, you'd have something resembling universal healthcare already - which you don't.
If US society was in any way democratic, the US wouldn't be the world's number one warmonger and funder of fascist terrorism - which you are (and have been for a very, very long time).
it will seek to serve the people.
So do tell... how has helping a genocidal white supremacist state perpetrate mass-murder on brown people half-way around the world "served" you today?
The thought-terminating cliches - oops, sorry, I meant to say "theories" - you have been sold isn't matching up with blatantly observable reality, are they?
Perhaps you need better theories? Or, at the very least, theories that actually qualify as theory?
Power will always serve it’s own self-interest
Yes... it will. And institutionalizing power is simply the most logical way for power to serve it's own interests.
I am having difficulty imagining such a system.
That's because you're not supposed to - in the same way that peasants were not supposed to imagine existing without "divinely ordained" families of inbred charlatans lording over them.
If you live in the US in 2024, you have the option to vote for Donald Trump, Joe Biden, or abstain.
This is a very liberal thing - even these (so-called) "conservatives" (who are really just liberals far along the "liberal-to-fascist pipeline") are willing to contemplate shaping politics outside the formal political establishment. But liberals naively believe any such thing is impossible - someone should really study this.
How is abstaining or voting for Trump helping anyone?
There's a lot more to politics than just elections, for crying out loud. Did antifa wait for an election before beating the fascists off the streets in 2016?
so maybe by ensuring a Trump presidency you can accelerate the destruction of the current US government.
Lol! The only thing a Trump presidency is going to accelerate is the Dems being able to run a blow-up doll in 2028 and knowing perfectly well that people will turn out in force to carry it into the Waffle House after four years of Trump's abuse. The US political establishment is far too large and labyrinthine to be brought low by one person - it's going to take a lot more than Trump. You know... the guy whose brilliant idea of a "coup" was simply to sicc a white supremacist lynch mob on the capitol?
Donating money?
Good job, liberal - nothing I've ever posted flew that high over anybody's head. You just made most tankies and fascists seem coherent.
But I don’t see much effort from the left.
Gee, I wonder why there is absolutely no leftist ideas being spread by capitalist media. It's a complete mystery, I tell ya.
then the only people who will run are those in favor of the problem?
This isn't very hard to understand, liberal - institutionalied power is the problem, and it only tolerates those that are in favor of it. How is it that you don't already know this?
Power must be obtained and exercised.
Then why do have a problem with fascism, then? It would seem like it would be right up your alley.
better question, for who would Trump be less dangerous?
The vast majority of people on the planet, actually. Trump is incompetent at US foreign policy - ie, he is incompetent at imperialism. The US position in the middle-east, for instance, weakened dramatically under Trump. This is a good thing, overall.
there is no 3ed option in America
So I take it you are willing to admit that you don't exist in a democratic society?
Of course American power furthers American power.
If you're just fine and dandy with US imperialism I don't see why you should have a problem with fascism, then.
Why not run for office?
And become a part of the problem? How will that solve anything?
Why not try outreach to working people or at-risk communities?
Oh... you mean this?
Gee... I wonder why the left never does anything like that - it's a complete mystery, I tell you.
Since when has that ever phased right-wingers?
Japanese people are not a monolith - stop treating them as one.