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Derek Powazek 🐐Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.
It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.
I was talking about this, but if you're able to cast a vote for Harris and against fascism and you don't, I'm talking about you, too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement-president/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement-president/
Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
Oblomov@fraying it's not even surrendering, it's being complicit, but the coward way (unsurprisingly: fascists are essentially cowards)
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LESSON 1: Do Not Obey In Advance
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and th...
Zhi Zhu 🕸️"We must always take sides.
Neutrality helps the oppressor,
never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor,
never the tormented."
-Elie Wiesel
In choosing not to take sides, you still have made a choice.
#Trump #Hitler #Quote #Meme #Memes #Quotes #Election2024 #2024Election #Vote #VoteBlue
sandra_love@fraying hello there
Michael Gemar@fraying If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice.
You still have made a choice.
Kitt Hod@fraying Timothy Snyder talks about "Do not obey in advance," in On Tyranny. Other lessons resonate here, too. https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth
Twenty Lessons on Fighting Tyranny from the Twentieth Century
Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From across the fearful twentieth century, here are twenty lessons about what it takes to oppose tyranny, adapted to the circumstances of today.
Colin from Edinburgh.@fraying
Both sides support rule by the #US #Oligarchy and agree on far more than they disagree on.
Granted, one side is clearly much worse than the other, but #Democracy long ago left the building.
Neither side is really committed to doing anything that will actually improve the lives of the average #American very much.
#America will remain the plaything and playground of the ultra-rich.
Derek Powazek 🐐 (@[email protected])
Anyone who tells me there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats will be invited, impolitely, to fuck all the way off. This is not open to discussion.
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WikiParty@fraying Picking a side when both are genocidal, is picking the genocidal side.
@michaelgraaf grow the fuck up
usr_NeXT@fraying With respect, I do not agree with the negative reactions to the LA Times and WaPo having a non-stance. I loath the politics that make Trump a phenomenon; however, I applaud WaPo (to which I do not subscribe) when they, as a journalistic institution, pass on political endorsements. My belief is that is how it should be.
@sandifop Cool story bro. So you wish papers didn't do endorsements, even though they have for DECADES. WaPo did it recently for other positions!
Sucking up to corporate power doesn't help anyone. They're doing it by refusing to endorse the one real candidate we have. You're doing it by caping for them.
You should both stop.
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦