RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116133383689609626
This isn't about courting voters—they intend to consolidate both parties to agreement on the dehumanization of many groups of people in hopes of continuing the fascist/authoritarian tightening of control.
This isn't about the "culture". It's not about what people in general feel. This is about power, control, & the ability to murder people.
Trans folks are fighting for their lives.
To abandon them right now is unthinkable.
This isn't about what we the people want.
This is about what powerful people want us to want.
Or at least, the promise of lube... that never arrives.
@violetmadder @Quasit @artemis
"Slow and steady wins the race"
It's around here somewhere, honest. They're trying REALLY HARD to find it, but you know it's just so difficult and the Republicans keep getting in the way.
@HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis I don't worship Bernie. Genocide support is an absolute dealbreaker no matter WHO supports it.
As it should be for any decent human being.
Is that the new Democratic position? That genocide is okay sometimes, depending on who it benefits?
@HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis
Let me get this straight: if two people show up with guns and say that they're going to murder your children, your response will be to decide which of them is...BETTER?
You wouldn't fight back? Not even for your children's lives? Two people tell you that you must choose which of them will kill your family, and you just ACCEPT that choice?
I really hope you're some sort of AI bot, because I don't want to believe that a genuine human being would react like that.
As for not voting, I vote - not that it's any of your business. But only someone in a complete state of delusion (or an AI bot, or a paid shill) could seriously claim that we're going to be allowed to VOTE our way out of fascism. We're way past that.
We have to fight, or die. In this case "fighting" means a prolonged general strike. We shut down the economy and drive the oligarchs (and their Republican and Democratic flunkies) out of the country. Forever.
@Quasit @HakeemG @artemis
Earlier today, they literally posted, "I'm pretty sure you can actually vote out fascists." Apparently that's what Normandy was: aggressive voting.
Honestly, it's been somewhat amusing laughing at them, but it's getting repetitive and I think if there is a real human behind the account they're getting a troll's joy out of it, so I'm just blocking them now.
@TheGreatLlama @HakeemG @artemis
Yeah, I tend to agree with you on that. This isn't a serious person, if they're actually a person at all.
But I like that they don't seem to be as effective on Mastodon as they've been on Facebook and Reddit in the past.
Maybe I'll dig up my "How to spot a DNC shill" article and post it here with some updates.
@Quasit @TheGreatLlama @artemis
Just popping in to say thanks for the heads up, and a preemptive block. The Schumer/Jeffries apologists have nothing constructive to offer at this point. Zero.
Imagine, in 2026, looking out from the party that lost the House and Senate to the Insurrection Party, that lost to Chump TWICE, and still believing the problem is everyone else.
@Quasit @TheGreatLlama @HakeemG @artemis
"A reminder for Mamdani, the Uncommitted Movement, and everyone else who didn't vote for Kamala to not complain about the war in Iran, you made your bed you can lay in it.
"the chickens coming home to roost"
--
Malcolm X"
apparently this person thinks Brother Malcolm was on the side of the ballot in his proposition
@johnbrowntypeface @Quasit @TheGreatLlama @artemis Yes because this person actually reads books and doesn't get his information from accelarationists on social media.
"The Ballot or the Bullet" is the title of a public speech by human rights activist Malcolm X. The speech was delivered on two occasions, and encouraged black people to vote!
@HakeemG @Quasit @TheGreatLlama @artemis
"In the speech, Malcolm X advised African Americans to judiciously exercise their right to vote, but he cautioned that if the government continued to prevent African Americans from attaining full equality, it might be necessary for them to take up arms."
@johnbrowntypeface @TheGreatLlama @HakeemG @artemis
No doubt he thinks Malcolm X was a big supporter of the Democratic Party. It's amazing what some people can believe when they keep their eyes closed to history!
@TheGreatLlama @Quasit
Tell you what, every time I start posting on this topic, I'm glad my instance restricts mastodon.social
I appreciate all y'all who are willing to come in here & tell people what's up because I simply cannot both write threads like this AND deal directly with the shills. It zaps all my energy.
Maybe they'll start telling us about how Hillary was the most qualified candidate in history. 🤣🤣🤣
@Quasit @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis
Vote Satan or Cthulhu will win!
How dare you not want to vote for the candidate who will only eat HALF of your children!
Principles and morals have no place in the real grown-up world! Only childish idealists refuse to tolerate genocide! Lower your standards!
@violetmadder @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis
If I wasn't already following you, I'd have followed you all over again for that post! 🤣
@Quasit @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis
D'aww! 😁
I went to protest at the 2016 DNC, the shit I saw there and the way I got SCREAMED AT by some Hillary delegate who totally lost his shit at me... Yeah. I've been hearing all this "lesser evil" shit and allllll the associated insults since I voted for Nader twenty-five goddamn years ago, and FUCK ALL OF THAT NOISE. It's like nobody has ever heard of Good Cop / Bad Cop.
The spoiler effect is a weapon of voter suppression that the DNC jerks off to all day.
@HakeemG @Quasit @TheGreatLlama @artemis
Ever heard of mutual aid, direct action, or labor organizing?
I participate in those. Also I work in mental health.
But sure, go on making huge assumptions and insulting people if that's what you really think is effective.
@HakeemG @violetmadder @TheGreatLlama @artemis
You're here trying to persuade us to support fascists who kill children, and you're calling US clowns?
Are you Donald Trump?
@HakeemG @violetmadder @TheGreatLlama @artemis
I oppose genocide. You support it. It's that straightforward.
You don't have a moral leg to stand on. And now you're not even funny anymore.
@cy @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis @violetmadder
So by your logic, I could vote for Hitler, or Donald Trump, but because my FEELINGS oppose genocide and fascism that would be just peachy keen? There would be no contradiction in that, in your eyes?
That's certainly an interesting way of looking at things. Can't say it makes any sense, but...yeah.
Good luck with that.
@cy @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis @violetmadder
Are you seriously comparing Oscar Schindler, who risked his life to save hundreds or thousands of human beings, to people who vote for candidates who promise to keep killing children?
What "actions" of those voters make up for what they have supported with their votes?
Children are dead. Warmongers caused those deaths. Politicians enabled that genocide. Voters elected those politicians. Somehow you're whitewashing those voters of any responsibility for the consequence of their ACTION of knowingly voting for genocidal candidates.
That's not a kind of thinking I understand, nor am I interested in trying to understand it. It isn't a sane approach to the world, as far as I'm concerned.
There is no forgiveness for genocide.
@quietewe @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @Quasit @artemis
Trans rights are a hard line for me. I will not cross it for anyone. I compromised about Israel and now 27 members of my family are dead. I have a transkid. They will have to go through me to get to her, and I’m a tough old bird.
Compromise in the 21st century is collaboration with fascists. There can be no compromise on human rights, whatever pronoun they use.
@quietewe @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @Quasit @artemis
Furthermore, I posit that Gavin is, at the very least, bro-adjacent if not Bro himself, and I categorically refuse to vote for a 14 year old boy in a man's couture.
@MissConstrue @quietewe @[email protected] @Quasit @artemis
Full bro, absolutely.
• Rich kid
• From San Francisco (not damning by itself, but combined with the other factors...)
• Pays someone to make him seem cool on social media
• "Started a business" with family friend billionaire money
• Has a podcast
I could go on...
@TheGreatLlama @quietewe @Quasit @artemis
I mean, I don't want to be the cat in the room, (I am TOTALLY the cat in the room), but the man had the poor judgement to marry Kimberly Guilfoyle...and that... how do you even come back from that.
@MissConstrue @quietewe @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis
Gavin Newsom has done everything he can to oppose progressive values in any way possible. He started up concentration camps for the homeless in the desert, for God's sake! He shipped the homeless out in order to make the city look cleaner for the visiting President Xi.
He's just a slicker version of Trump, a fascist in a three-piece suit.
@TheGreatLlama
Newsom is a fascist in blue clothing
He's having a good ol' time trolling TFG, but when it comes down to brass tacks, he's for the oligarchy
Case in point: California is trying to tax the billionaires, and Gavin's fighting it
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