PosadistPotatofish

This is the right answer. I'll write her in too

Yeah the political theater is just that-- theater. Aside from occasionally checking in to laugh/sob at how awful it all is, I'll be devoting my energy to things that actually matter.

As for voting, I guess if something local pops up worth voting for I'll vote in that. Nationally, the Democratic Party has shown its enthusiastic support for fascism and genocide so there's nobody I can vote for except maybe Cornell West or whoever the Greens or the PSL run. The one thing I know is, I won't vote for Biden or anyone like him. Arab and Muslim Americans are calling for a boycott of Biden, and it would be like breaking a picket line to vote for him, only 1000x worse becauase instead of exploitative work conditions it's literal genocide.

Ok fair, yes. The issue of how to survive long term when there's a hostile state threatening and surrounding you has genuinely been one of my biggest reservations about Anarchism as a whole and is why I come down in favor of having a state

Celebrating when our indigenous comrades suffer a setback in self-determination is not a good look. As MLs we should support their fight against Capital even if it doesn't precisely follow doctrine. There's much to be learned from Zapatismo.

The Zapatistas don't even call themselves Anarchists or claim n Anarchist lineage. Don't be smug against them just to own terminally online anarchists

There's no comparison. Bush has a much higher body count and was a more effective imperialistic mass-murderer. He certainly did his part to empower fanatics -- the wAr oN tErROr got all those racist bloodthirsty chuds baying for blood. As for eroding the facade of democracy, I don't know what you can call stealing the 2000 election and then ramming through unpopular wars other than proof that America has never been a democracy.

Bush did immense permanent damage -- the millions dead by his policies and the aftershocks will never come back to life.

Trump just rode the wave.

People who think Trump was as bad or worse than Bush are just telling on themselves that they don't think nonwhite people living outside the imperial core are fully human.

Look mate I (consensually of course) encroached and expanded in yo momma last night so I think that makes me your daddy. STFU and stop being such an embarrassment. I won't have no NATO bootlicker for a stepchild!

NATO provoked the war by encroaching on Russian borders. The invasion could have been prevented by just not trying to expand a hostile military alliance. Analysts across the political spectrum warned of this during the Bush and Obama years at least.

Calling for Russia to get out of Ukraine without calling for a resolution to the provocations that caused the war in the first place is ignorantly delusional at best, deliberately disingenuous at worst.