Actually it's fucking embarrassing. Democrats winning is not a loss for fascism. You could hope for it for practical reasons perhaps, but what tf does voting the Blue fascists into power have to do with *all* the fascists losing?
Jesus Christ.
Democrats are desperate to co-opt people's rage against Trump's horrifyingly inhumane & violent administration to support their *less noticeably* horrifyingly inhumane & violent version of government.
It's really disturbing. They want everyone to close their eyes, cover their ears, & shout "LALALALALA!" to cover the screams of oppressed people like they previously had been doing.
We don't live in a just, equitable, or "decent" society.
Going back to the pretense would itself be violence.
Watch them complain about *how* & *why* the US government decided to start murdering Iranians instead of complaining that they are murdering people.
They talk like it was obviously inevitable that the US *would* eventually bomb Iran. It's so disgusting.
@esoteric_programmer @artemis Absolutely they should have been dealt with, by not running coup against them in 1953 for a start.
Funny (read absolutely appalling) how so much of today's troubles were created by stuff we did a mere 3 score and ten ago.
@esoteric_programmer @hypostase @artemis Iran was a relatively liberal democracy run by sane people who nationalised the oil.
Britain, France and the US did a coup and installed the ‘loyal’ Ayatollah regime which immediately went rogue. Iran has been preparing for this assault ever since
(Note: there was probably another coup that went just as well at some point)
@artemis If anything, and I say that because I try to be positive today, I think it is reassuring that there are many many many more people now that will never have that wool pulled over their eyes again...ever. It's still not enough. But if you believe that change sometimes (often? always?) follows the way of a exponential graph, we might be doubled from our numbers in 2020.
I don't know, it's a feeling I cannot proof with statistics. I just need a little bit of copium these days.
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It's my hope too. It seems like something may actually be tipping.
I was just saying to my spouse that the reason they are desperate not to have real history taught is that a LOT of people do care about what happens to other people.
Minneapolis gave me a lot of hope too. Privileged white folks *actually* acting in solidarity with POC? That's a big shift.
I think we might be referring to the same internal feeling but just trying to describe it differently. It feels like there is a certain point a lot of people cannot go back beyond even if they tried.
Capitalism is dying, and what I think we have to figure out is how to save as many people as possible from its death throws.
And what positivity about this I have stems from my utmost ridiculous believe and faith in the fact that people are good, want to be good.
We live, we love, we care, we are here!
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