@benroyce

I do regularly say "I don't want to live in this world any more".

Between utter failure to make progress on stopping global warming, to the rich pushing fascism on the rest of us, so they can avoid the consequences of global warming, it feels like everything is going to keep getting worse for hundreds of years.

@alienghic

my attitude is to go down fighting

if you're surrounded by 20 goons, you can feel hopeless

or you can go out swinging with a stupid grin on your face

that's my approach

"rage rage against the dying of the light" and all that

anyone who just curls up in a ball and accepts defeat?

this is not the real left

all there is, and ever was, in this world, is the good fight

you fight, you may lose

you may also win

if you give up you will lose

there are no better terms in this world

@tek @alienghic

😂

it's true though

i can't stand fucking whiners "on the left" talking defeatism. or so fucking stupid they don't understand that that is what not voting is

even if they are invested in some other attempt to defeat #fascism

that other track will have tactical thinkers going "oh, but also #vote, that's good vandalism/ sabotage"

all these fucking whiny entitled lazy assholes "on the left" are nothing but willingly and meekly submitting to fascism if THEY DON'T FUCKING VOTE

@benroyce @tek @alienghic @Barbramon1

Most of my life I have watched Democrats split their early vote around five plus candidates, while the GOP usually offers only one in opposition.

It speaks somewhat to party unification and effectiveness if one party is already at least going through the motions of being on the same page.

@Barbramon1 @Chancerubbage @benroyce @tek

I sometimes wonder if the left's pattern of arguing and being unwilling to compromise wasn't at least partially caused by COINTELPRO style disruption and psychological warfare.

@dnkboston @alienghic @Barbramon1 @Chancerubbage @tek

the left has gotten lazy

our ancestors on the left would look at us wringing our hands and be disgusted

you act, you fight, you vote

anyone who can't do that and is trapped in inaction is not really on the left, they're in some pathetic psychological cage

@benroyce My ancestors--my relatives--would tell us to shut up, go to the voting booth, AND get in the streets/document/expose/protest/get arrested. Because when *their* ancestors couldn't vote, they were getting threatened by "both sides", and in some cases tortured. We're not that far away from that.

This is for real, and we need to start acting like it.

@alienghic @Barbramon1 @Chancerubbage @tek