Shocked Pikachu…

Sorry, I’m not sure if you’re trying to make a point or just provide a TL;RD?

https://www.vera.org/news/from-fighting-wildfires-to-digging-graves-incarcerated-workers-face-danger-on-the-job

Because it makes it easier for those still comfortable enough in the status quo to dismiss revolutionary action, and keeps them safe and secure in the idea they’ve been indoctrinated with that “the system might not be perfect but it’s the best we’ve got”.

No one really did it to Germany at all, nor anywhere else, including the country Hitler got his inspiration from.

The truth is WWII wasn’t fought over bigotry and hate and the fact that people were being exterminated on an industrial scale, it was fought so those in power could stay in power and maintain the status quo, and also make a handsome profit. War always is.

Fascism is capitalism in decay, we will never be rid of one, without abolishing the other.

Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s not the original line.

E: it’s the suggested cure for insomnia

Definitely not rare, more like malignant, aggressive, terminal…

But the cancer analogy does work, because you can’t cure it with band aids (like elections), you have to cut the fucker out at its core, radiate the remaining tissue to make sure none is left behind (via education and a complete overhaul of how society functions, with zero tolerance for bigotry), and continue to get regular check ups to make sure it hasn’t returned, and if it does, radiate the fucker again before it metastasises.

That’s the spirit! 😂

Sure, but you’re still waiting for the government to legalise it for you, which is never going to happen (not for those of us who would target billionaires, anyway).

You only need to wait for the purge, and in a queue, if you’re going one-on-one, but never forget - we are the many, they are the few, all we need to do is unite.

The American dream has always been a lie to get people to grind the 9-5 (more like 3 jobs and a side hustle nowadays) for the benefit of the capitalists who steal the value of our labour, and to manufacture consent for all sorts of evils via another lie that is exceptionalism.

Also, while we might not call it the American dream in other countries, the same capitalist bullshit is peddled all over the globe.

It’s about fucking time people stopped believing in it, the more people get disillusioned, the likelier we are to achieve actual change, and not just a superficial change to the heads of the pyramid.

Only one thing could have broken our movement—if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed, with the most extreme brutality, the nucleus of our new movement. -Adolf Hitler

And quite frankly, we’re long past that point.

If you think there is any other way to fight fascism, you’ve not been paying any attention, and clearly don’t have a fucking clue what fascism actually entails and how it functions.

ETA: moreover, fascists, who are the actual terrorists literally holding the world ransom and exploiting us all and destroying our habitat for their own gain, count on people like you to turn on people like me and call us the terrorists to ensure they maintain their power. You have a choice to make.

In other words, “no, I won’t stop desperately trying to reform an unreformable system and ignoring that it is working exactly as it was designed to, instead, I’m just going to insist on playing by the rules of this system that was designed to work against me over and over and over again expecting a different result to magically manifest in to reality”

Stop trying to force misogyny on me.

Stop doubling down on misogyny then. You might not have known initially, but you do now, and no longer have an excuse.

It’s crazy that I tried so hard to convey the fact that women are valuable and needed

Perhaps if you didn’t double down on your refusal to use human terms when talking about human women, you might come across more like someone who genuinely cares, rather than someone virtue signalling for a pat on the back.

“Thanks for explaining why using this word in that way is problematic and makes the people it is attempting to describe uncomfortable, but I don’t actually give a shit and will continue to use it regardless” 🙄

Or, and hear me out - stop desperately trying to reform an unreformable system and ignoring that it is working exactly as it was designed to, abolish it, and build something better instead.

It would!

E: I wish I could find the original artist

Yeah, but those people don’t get defensive when you comment on it, while those who are raising the red flag immediately do. It’s pretty easy to tell them apart from that point forward.

I’ll look it up, thanks for the recommendation!