ArtemisFeb 26

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.

Show threadArtemisFeb 26

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.

Show threadArtemisFeb 26
Just fucking wait. If we follow them down this path in a couple years Democrats will be saying "we need to be more 'culturally normal' & stop talking about women's rights."
Show threadQuasitFeb 26
@artemis The Democratic Party is the oligarchs' plan B for fascism.
Show threadThe Great Llama Feb 26
@Quasit @artemis
Honestly, Gavin Newsom is the dems planning to lose. They've had a year and a half to digest Harris' loss, their own studies told them running right was a mistake and yet here we are. They aren't running to win.
Show threadHakeemGFeb 26
@TheGreatLlama @Quasit @artemis Oh boy, here we go again. Kamala was one of the most progressive candidates of my lifetime. Look at her voting record in the Senate and you will find it was comparable to Bernie Sanders.
Show threadQuasitFeb 26
@HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis
How is it progressive to send billions of our taxpayer dollars to Israel to kill babies?
Show threadHakeemGFeb 26
@Quasit @TheGreatLlama @artemis It's not. You realize Bernie spent three decades doing the same thing, right?
Show threadQuasitFeb 26

@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?

Show threadHakeemGFeb 26
@Quasit @TheGreatLlama @artemis So you're going to vote for nobody. That will fix it. Why not run for office or organize and support a candidate.
Show threadQuasitFeb 26

@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.

#GeneralStrike #Politics

Show threadViolet MadderFeb 26

@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!

Show threadQuasitFeb 26

@violetmadder @HakeemG @TheGreatLlama @artemis

If I wasn't already following you, I'd have followed you all over again for that post! 🤣

Show threadViolet MadderFeb 27

@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.

Show threadHakeemGFeb 27
@violetmadder @Quasit @TheGreatLlama @artemis The only thing you guys won't do is anything, lesser clowns seems appropriate.
Show threadViolet Madder

@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.

Feb 27 at 12:35amWeb