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Just your average friendly neighbourhood radical.

  • Voting for the bad, but marginally less bad option

    "Lesser evilism" is hitting rock bottom, Clyde - and so is liberalism itself. That is perfectly apparent - liberals refusing to believe it is irrelevant. "Voting harder" will not stop that, and the chances of voting even slowing it down was a decent argument in 2020, but not after liberalism showed the entire planet it's true hand in a little place called Gaza.

    Insight a revolution?

    Do you have the power or the know-how to do that, perhaps? No? Then I guess the answer is no, isn't it?

    I will tell you what I tell every liberal that demands convenient solutions as soon as an actual leftist points out the gigantic gaping holes in the liberal world-view - start by doing the work of actually understanding how you got into this mess in the first place.

    It's not much, but it's a start. And it's a shit-ton more politically pro-active than simply voting for some guy in an expensive suit.

  • All I’m seeing are people telling me both parties are the same,

    That's not exactly true... they serve the same status quo - and they wouldn't be able to do that very effectively if they were exactly the same.

    You don’t just cede to outright fascism just because.

    Both parties might not exactly be the same... but both of them are perfectly fine with fascism. After all... both parties have happily funded, supported and enabled Israel's (a fascist state) genocide since the '70s - and that's just the one US-sponsored colonialist bloodbath the media is actually telling you about.

    There's a saying amongst leftists - fascism is just colonialism coming home to roost. And guess what... you have decades' worth of colonialism inbound. Somehow, I don't think a cross on a ballot is going to cut it.

  • Yes, white liberals.

    What white liberals say is "good" for them is diametrically opposed to what is good for everybody else. I don't think Palestinians (and the majority of the world's people whose sympathy has now decisively swung their way) believe that a "quieter" genocide (which is what white liberals want) would be "good" for them, for instance.

    it’s a harm reduction measure,

    There's a fine line between harm reduction and appeasement.

    I have been given very few options

    Just a suggestion... but perhaps it's time you start to think critically about the people and institutions "giving" you these (so-called) "options?"

    It might not sound like much - but everything has to start somewhere.

  • Let me rephrase then - your political establishment has proven that it will happily subject you to the exact same fascist policies that it has been practising in the outside world for a very long time now... and you expect people who point this out to you to also provide you with a solution to this state of affairs?

  • I think for the majority of people.

    So... basically white liberals that wants everything to continue as normal as long as the political establishment remains quiet about it?

    we are allowed to vote for one or the other.

    How does that change anything?

    I think it makes sense why most people would want to vote for the good cop.

    It's one thing to not realize it's a "good cop/bad cop" routine - it's quite another to realize what it is and then still fall for it by pretending that the (supposed) "good cop" isn't a cop.

  • Then what’s the next step?

    So 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?

  • no solution

    It's not their responsibility to provide you with an easy solution. If you want consultants, hire some.

  • Biden is the less dangerous fascist.

    For whom?

    It’s a harm reduction measure.

    No it isn't. That's the whole point of the "good cop/bad cop" routine - it's to get you to "co-operate."

  • Prison state is a more apt term - after all, that is what borders are there for.

  • There must be easier (and safer) ways to make novelty bowling balls.

  • Just capitalism playing along with genocide - no different than they did seven decades ago.

  • Oh look... a right-winger that couldn't recognize a leftist if one where to bite him in the arrse is whining about leftists.

    Yawn.

  • They say "uninspiring centrist" as if there has ever been something like an "inspiring" centrist.

  • Oh the French? You mean the state that helped arm, train and fund the people that perpetrated the Rwandan Genocide and is still, to this day, protecting the architects of said genocide?

    Color me surprised.

  • Hold on while I dig out the world's smallest violin for them.

  • I know colonizer-speak when I see it.

    I know everyone wants to point out that she may be referring to the brutal colonialist exploitation that lithium ion battery technology rests upon - but the way the quote is placed and framed tells me instead that we are not being told everything about this "techno-miracle."

  • “Global action requires working together to access critically important materials,” Meng said.

    So... nope.

  • Allow me to rephrase, then.

    Why worship a piece of colored fabric and when you can worship a piece of paper that literally institutionalizes the practice of slavery instead of abolishing it?

    I guess that's just not "troublesome" enough for the average white liberal, eh?

  • Christian Nationalists are what is destroying america.

    So it's not all bad news, then.