And yeah I'm painfully aware of how shitty things are - but the solution isn't refusing to eat my vegetables. We can vote for the non openly fascist candidate AND do these other things concurrently as opposed to doing neither.

Is it written in an underground zine somewhere in a shitty bar in portland that says "if you vote the anarchy police will hereby rescind your punk license"?

I'm pretty sure we can all vote for whoever isn't Trump and still have enough street cred to be throw bricks through a Starbucks window.

God, I'm so fucking tired of this shit. This "voting doesn't result in meaningful change" or "incrementalism is actually bad" does nothing to further progressive policies . What it *actually* does is increase voter nihilism from demographics that would otherwise vote blue - hence Trump.

I'm saying that and my user name is literally "no brain cells"

"Voting not how you get big change, like the Affordable Care Act or the dumpster fire that is America right now. No I mean before nearly half of Americans voted for a racist lunatic sex offender"

These are not serious people

Like if your plan is “durable socio-economic change via general strike or revolutionary cadres” it’s actually on you to explain why e.g. that’s going to be more meaningful than the New Deal, Great Society, or the Civil Rights laws in changing society!

full op ed here: www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

I've heard horror stories about lengthy in-person screening processes and aggressive organizers kicking dozens of people for, essentially, personal feuds. This is NOT OPTIMAL, to say the least.

but i think we as liberals have been similarly remiss in refusing to understand the social dynamics--we liked the results, so we didn't look too closely at the machine. but what were the social-structural dynamics that made this movement of cultural change go?

indeed it's a question that baffles conservatives. curtis yarvin made his bones in the reactionary thinksphere by putting together the "cathedral" conspiracy theory to explain it!

the culture did change, the culture changed on many fronts, this change was in some ways driven by an amorphous movement we call "woke 1." but how did that happen? it's a real question--for such changes are never inevitable!

like i dunno to take just one personally salient case, it's really hard to express the level of everyday transphobia and homophobia i grew up with. "that's gay" was like everyone's go-to way of talking shit. now the other day a random bartender apologized for misgendering me

Apparently, I’m sexist (where did my original tweet specify sex/gender btw) for suggesting that you need to actually enjoy someone’s company and like spending time with them (broadly described as friendship), for a relationship to work

I hate this fucking website

you can just call me a man infiltrating wombyns spaces (binary transfem inclusive), you dont have to dance around it with this coward shit implying gendered dynamics winking and nudging about it. i'd respect you more