What I’m really driving at, is how can we have a shared culture that is safe for Marxists, anarchists, and people who would define themselves as Liberal? That was uncomfortable to type, but in order to affect material change we have to learn to speak each other’s languages and treat each other with empathy, while remaining open minded and learning from each other. It doesn’t advance any cause to dunk on each other for Internet points.
The tricky part is where is the line drawn? Some ‘anarchists’ are just accelerationists. Some MLs are just Soviet flavored conservatives. Some Liberals value the system itself more than marginalized people.
I propose that the shared value we all have is empathy. Regardless of how you felt about voting for Kamala - or whether you feel the system must be improved or destroyed - if you want to see the lives of marginalized people (and by extension, all of us) improve, we should be able to find common ground.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not talking about the recent thing we’re all doing our best not to panic spiral about. I’m talking about common ground in shared spaces and future politics.
Some things are not eligible for compromise. Human rights are non negotiable. We can debate about voting systems and trade policy but the only other is those who aren’t willing to treat the least privileged members of society the way they want to be treated.
This is exactly what I was hoping to crystallize
That’s a good way to look at it. You don’t herd cats, you show them something they want and they’ll herd themselves independently :)
This could be distilled down to ‘empathy’ almost. It’s very easy to fall into patterns of chasing rage bait and lose track of ourselves
He just doesn’t want you to make him work 😔
What kind of armor plated ball is that, the claws aren’t doing anything
I don’t think many R voters in NC have any contact with news outside of the fox breitbart oann whatever conservative talking head is popular now.
On the other hand I agree that if they heard about it it wouldn’t have changed their vote, though.
The police live in a different reality where they get to role play as a public servant without any of the responsibilities or oversight
It’s for the good of FICSIT… …and humanity
Fuck yes. Well put.
You don’t have to be a martyr, but you must never be a coward.
Well obviously you aren’t Comrade OctopusFucker.
The sky is turning red / Return to power draws near
That’s a cool little fella
Slice it up, bread it and deep fry it (or just pan fry, if you don’t like to have fun)
Oh why didn’t you just mention the BEEEEES
Did GWB ever get around to endorsing her?