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Still digging, not seeing your comments on Mamdani.
But the way you run defense for Biden and Cuomo without actually committing to them? Doesn't leave me hopeful that I can call you a "comrade" in any sense.
Critiquing the Soviet Union? With Nuance? Actually Based. I wanna see what happens when you read William Hinton's (admitted racist) firsthand account of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in his book "FanShen" and his secondhand account of the reversal in "ShenFan".
I use the first as evidence that we can do better when we talk to each other - that "ground game" you maligned in this thread. I use the second to describe the Strong-State's problem of accountability for leadership's incompetence, and the incentive for workers to outright Lie as a survival measure.
There is hope for you yet. But I would love to hear you explain what soaking in a rightwing geography has pushed you to.
And yes, I still want to hear your thoughts on Zohran Mamdani. They're buried. Either I need a new interface that makes this search easier, or a restatement.
Simply searching 'Mamdani' by user 'PugJesus' comes up with:
(someone else) If we fill them with Zohran Mamdanis, on the other hand…
Me:
I 'ran defense' for Biden when he was the only fucking candidate with a realistic shot at beating the fascist. Sorry for not wanting more Palestinians to die, for not wanting Ukrainians to be murdered by genocidal Russian imperialists, for not wanting literal millions abroad to starve and waste from sickness for lack of US aid, for not wanting US LGBT folk and marginalized groups to be murdered en masse, and, selfishly, for not wanting to have my health insurance as a Filthy Poor(tm) with a chronic disease stripped so I die vomiting blood on my bathroom floor?
I've literally never ran defense for Cuomo, in any way shape or form.
Cynicism. The idea that these people are ready to be our comrades with just the right phrasing is, unfortunately, insanity. The core issue is not misinformation, or the wrong policies - otherwise you would be right, there is hope. The core issue has been the development and cultivation of sickened values over the past 70 years that are directly contrary to functional politics.
Values are much harder to change than political allegiances, and political allegiances are already notoriously hard to change. Whatever the solution is to our problem, it doesn't include turning rural fascists into comrades any more than the Dem attempts to turn rural fascists into conservatives has worked.
Thanks for the tutorial.
And yeah, I'm falling into an old pattern of arguing with people I agree with. Im actually arguing against a real Liberal I see elsewhere, but don't have the standing to argue against without social consequence.
Damn. My bad comrade.
100% real. But a LOT of them have this double think about the older values too. The values they act on come from a cultivated fear that's been maintained so long its seeped into the whole ass person. This is the core of what Fascist Movements look like, unironically.
They need cult-deprogramming. Which means extracting them from their entire current cultural context, and replacing it. This is easiest with an online-only dudebro that'll probably end up a mass shooter if we don't. But a whole community? A whole Trump-worshipping church?
The "Republican Jesus" memes never escape Liberal circles. They need someone they can recognize as their own to call them out. I won't be happy until there's protests outside of Megachurches calling the Pastor a "Grifting Antichrist", telling the Parrish to Repent this Sin.
No worries. It's the internet, no one knows I'm really a ~~dog~~ socialist. And I often argue on practical grounds, with what can be achieved in this immensely right-wing country, so I understand that I can come off as more 'liberal' than I am. But ultimately, my position is that action is only sustainable with popular support, so we need to do what we can now to minimize the damage of the immediate actions of government, and work to establish the conditions for popular support of actual leftist policy.
Doing just the former is putting off death another four years and accepting injustice - better than the alternative of embracing death and intensifying injustice, but obviously not good. Doing just the latter is self-defeating; like handing your enemies a hatchet to bury in your back. The least one could (and should) do is dull the blade's edge and put it on a high shelf before turning away to write your manifesto.
As much as I'd love a modern Hussite movement, warts and all, I think the evangelicals have hit on a psychological profile that's too refined and modern to be simply dislodged.
Unfortunately, I think only time and decreasing religiosity in each passing generation will defeat them.