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"They're hurting the wrong people"
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You mean "I ignored anyone who told me anything I didn't want to hear" right?
Yes you did. You absolutely voted for this exact thing.
We knew it, and we tried to warn you over and over again.
Terry, Sarah, this is what you get for voting for a hateful monster. Twice. You can starve for all I care. Your choice has led to death and destruction.
do you wanna stop fascism? want to see trump and elon musk lose power?
working class solidarity is the first step
our entire lives, we’ve been tricked and manipulated into fighting among ourselves, because they know if we worked together, we would be able to take them down.
why do you think, every time that something bad happens, there’s all the media spin about who we should blame?
they love to do this for age, think about all the boomers vs. gen X vs. gen Z articles and social media posts you’ve seen
but they do the same shit all the time with different things. their aim is to split the working class into as many splinter groups as possible.
we need to stop letting the assholes in power divide us like this.
unfortunately, that means extending solidarity to people who haven’t earned it, including people who chose to vote for Trump.
most of these people were tricked and manipulated. many of them have been fed a steady diet of misinformation. many of them are proud, insufferable bigots.
but being smugly superior, insulting, rude or intolerant isn’t how we change people’s minds. the best way to do that is by having a two-way conversation.
we are all so busy yelling at eachother. it doesn’t work. we need solidarity.
You're right, I think. All the smug schadenfreude has always felt hollow to me. Where does it get us, anyway? Just another distraction from the goal of worker solidarity, fostering an attitude that's actively harmful to that goal.
The ruling class are not the workers.
The “smug” class has distracted us for far too long.
This is the class we are dealing with.
I choose not to make the same mistake I did in 2021. Compassion is for those that earnestly seek it.
Terry Zink hasn't.
That is true, but it is also fair to point out that you are proposing solidarity with someone who voted for fully supporting these negative things happening to other people, even if there was only a vague sense of what that might mean, and is specifically upset now that it unexpectedly turned around on him and his circle. We have to stand with and support someone we might have to fully expect to continue doing the exact same thing as the opportunity arise.
It's true his interests overlap our own, and raising everyone up is in our best interests, but just realize that we want to give liferafts to people who would prefer to poke holes in the liferafts of others. We want to save people who are acting like spoiled, entitled children and who we have no reason to believe will act any different after they've been saved. Just understand that afterwards we need a system that will survive this type of behavior.
The mistake you're making here like in the other thread is that fascists do not see themselves as the working class, but the ruling class. They believe they are better, and should be rewarded for being better. They are the manipulating class, the dividers, the media spinners, the oppression.
How do you do solidarity with the folks that want to oppress us?
They tricked themselves a SECOND TIME, after we WARNED THEM. How do you warn someone a third time? Do you see them extending their hands and help us?
we need solidarity
Solidarity they never give.
Solidarity they destroy once it's convenient.
Trump should have been rotting in prison, not lauded and praised.
My bet is that Trump will throw the biggest fascist - Steven Miller - under the bus at the point another suburban soccer mom gets killed, or some ICE agent with a hardon to be John Wayne loses it like the Minneapolis jackass did and shoots into a car with small children in the back seat and kills one or two.
Trump cares only about Trump (fuck America, the US is filled with rubes and marks perfect for his con-man ass to scam) and whoever he can use to make himself even bigger, he will.
The dude is massively insecure but knows how to sell and market his "brand". And he did and the weak minds in the conservitve, poorly educated corners of the country bought the slick sales pitch.
The rest of us are fucked, but at least seeing the pricks in Washington DC for what they honestly are.
Oh, the shit the country's got to endure because a child fucker is willing to burn the nation to the ground so as to stay out of jail.
This is wishful thinking tbh, I think the more likely outcome is that things escalate to the point that protests become widespread and radical enough (maybe becoming riots) that Trump suspends elections citing the riots as his reasoning, meanwhile ICE is used to round up and silence the opposition, until the protests/riots escalate and the national guard are brought in to "restore order". If I was a betting man, I'd put money on it. It's probably the goal.
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I'm not making any mistakes. I know they want to be the oppressor, they feel justified in oppressing us, I see and recognize all of that, and it changes nothing about my position or my reasoning.
The reality is that the average fascist is a loser with literally nothing going for them. That's what appeals to them about fascism, they get to feel big, strong and powerful, vicariously, through state violence.
I understand how you feel, and I sympathize with you that they don't deserve to be treated with respect and compassion. I don't care at all about their feelings, honestly, or their suffering.
But the reality is that their suffering doesn't stay isolated to them. They lash out, they harm others, they drag everyone and everything down with them, all the way to hell.
All I am saying is "be compassionate". That's all. I'm not saying you should tolerate them, or their opinions, or even be nice to them. I am asking you to recognize their humanity, realize that you could be in their position, and think positively, in terms for how we can improve the world, long term.
Lashing out at these people, calling them names, dunking on them, being cruel to them, I understand that they deserve that, but it doesn't actually HELP anyone. It doesn't improve material conditions. It only makes things worse.
That's literally my entire point, and I really don't think you've even really addressed it. You just wrote a lot about how nazis suck and they can't be redeemed -- but that is all beside the point. We should show compassion towards everyone, no matter who, simply as a matter of harm reduction if noting else.
also, lowkey laughing that a self-described anarchist thinks we should send trump to prison. what do we do when we abolish prisons, comrade?!
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More like “I refused to believe I was voting for this”
Yes the fuck you did, dipshit
Fuck the irony is delicious. I love that.
When you vote without thinking of consequences, you did vote for that.
Why does he need you guys to do controlled burns? Can't he just take some of the concentration camp inmates to rake all of Yellowstone?
Yeah you did. You voted for the richest of us to feast on everyone else. That was explicitly why every mega rich motherfucker threw their salt behind Trump
Just saying "I didn't vote for this" won't make it better sadly for this stupid fuck.