Previous post for me:
US demands access to tourists’ social media history
Yeah, I won’t be setting foot anywhere there for a while to come
No. Not even California. If they were to secede, that is a different matter.
As a Californian, yes. Don’t trust Newsome. He’s just another corporatist.
At this point if California secedes I expect it’ll be some techbro TESCREAL libertarian nightmare. This is the place that gave us the Californian ideology after all.
Anyone traveling to the US is a fucking idiot. 5 years worth of social media scrutiny. You or someone you know has been critical of Trump or Israel in some way. You’re going straight to the camps.
There are multiple stories of “normal” Western white people being sent into the concentration camp system that was supposed to be designated for brown people. 20 people to a room, inedible food, no medical care or provided medication, a lot of times no water and overflowing toilets, no lawyers, no contact with your family. More than a few people have died in there. They’re not really tracking how many. And why would they? One of them died by hanging with his hands tied behind his back.
That’s still supposed to be for brown people only, and only noncitizen brown people. But they’re coming for the white people and the citizens too, they’re just spending a little time getting it all normalized, and it’s progressing smoothly, no one’s really fighting back so far. Yes. Don’t come to the fucking United States right now for the love of all that is holy if you value your safety. There doesn’t even have to be a reason, they can just grab you out of the line and fuck up your life and freedom completely to meet their quota for the week.
Yadda yadda they came for the trade unionists, I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist, yadda yadda.
They’re always coming for you, and there will never be anyone left to speak out for you, in a society where people are too comfortable to fight back. They’ll get you all, one at a time. There’s nothing to wait for. There is no rescue waiting just down the road. There will never be a time when resistance suddenly gets stronger, they will make sure it always gets weaker. Fight back now, or forever hold your peace.
Pam Bondi issued a memo that anyone who isn’t a trump supporter is a traitor.
Imagine being this deluded in real life.
There’s nothing delusional about this. It is an accurate description of what is happening and how it will get worse. At this point the delusion is to continuing to deny this.
What part don’t you believe is happening? I’m happy to send citations for 100% of what I said has happened so far.
Imagine being this much in denial.
maybe putting gavin as the spokesperson for that campaign isn’t such a good idea. you should try pedro pascal instead.
Take a hike corporate democrat.
He is indeed corpo scum. If (when) we live in Cyberpunk 2077 that dude will 100% be the face of a megacorp. Or at least a cyborg wearing his face.
He kinda reminds me of the bad scientist guy from Stranger Things who was conducting tests on El’s powers.
You guys complain that democrats don’t fight back and the moment one does you shit on them. Just like you asked for the old white man to step down, they gave you an educated black woman and y’all went “eeew not that”
And even after this year of Trump, you guys are still helping trump and Russia with this “Dems are worse than trump so I won’t vote” idiocy
the moment one does you shit on them
To be fair, many of us were shitting on Newsom long before this thing with Trump.
“Dems are worse than trump so I won’t vote”
Mild projection that shouldnt get a pass. Dem’s need to be better to get elected. Simple as.
Enjoy more trump i guess.
But also what’s with complaining about who the democrats picked if you took no part in the primaries or local elections? Did you volunteer? Did you donate money or time to your favoured progressive politician? Have you done anything other than complain online about the candidate Dems picked cause you didn’t want to take part in picking them?
Enjoy more trump i guess.
Continue to engage in strawmen that loses us elections I guess?
Your literal argument and approach are why the Dem’s lost in 16 and 24. Blame voters, tell them they just “need to vote for you because other side bad” and you’ll throw another election.
You already got a fascist elected twice, please don’t force it upon us aain.
Neoliberalism is what led to Trump in the first place.
“Fighting back” would mean dragging the Overton window hard to the left…not just camping out at the edge of fascism and saying, “This is fine.”
Zohran Mamdani got a majority of the vote while Kamala Harris did not in her race.
Who the fuck in this thread said anything about not voting? Be specific and cite the comments.
Or quit your bullshit and STFU.
Also, fuck off with your racist and sexist lies about why people didn’t vote for the goddamn prosecutor who sprinted right as hard as she could.
We don’t give a damn about the united sakes and your two political cults.
The wrong democrats fight back. Because they’re not really fighting back. They’re fighting over slices of the pie. They never intend to give any of the pie to us. They just want us to vote it to them.
You are the reason the fascists are in power. Even if the “wrong democrats” fight back, they are still infinitely better than literal fascists.
No, the false dichotomy that there are two sides and only one side is fascists is the reason fascists are in power. It’s fascists all the way down. That’s their secret. They haven’t infiltrated just one side.
Kind, gentle, cloyingly polite nanny-state fascists are still fascists even if you don’t immediately recognize them as such.
Agreed. It helps when you realize that fascism isn’t really an ideology for the ruling classes. It’s a tool that they use to prevent the working classes from gaining too much power. Once you realize that, it becomes obvious that capitalism is the real ideology, and that any capitalist will use fascism to protect their position.
I agree with everything you said except whether capitalism is the “real ideology”. I’d argue it too is just a tool. Ideologies themselves are a tool. I think when you go even further at taking away more and more of the disguise, the real enemy is and always has been an overdose of pure human greed and selfishness, unregulated and out of control. Capitalism is just a way for that greed and selfishness to stand out in public and say “Look at me! Celebrate me! I am a good thing, I am in your best interest! I can help you do things better!” but it’s just a costume that greed and selfishness is wearing to make itself socially acceptable as it grows further and further out of control…
It’s a really nice costume, logical in a lot of ways, makes sense, pretty convincing, but underneath it there’s still just naked greed and selfishness. If we want to truly better ourselves as a society, as a civilization, as humanity, maybe it’s time to set it all aside and really do some thinking about what the emperor looks like when he has no clothes.
Do we want to keep scrambling on top of each other to create the tallest possible pile of humans so the people on the top have the best view, or do we want to try starting to be fucking hippies and stuff again? We’ll never have zero greed and selfishness. And we don’t want to. If we had been completely comfortable, sustainable, happy living as hunter-gatherers, we still would be doing that today. Greed and selfishness are the drive that allow us to grow and explore and develop and become more than we are. But not out of control, not our only overriding goal, not short-sightedly destroying the very systems of life we need to grow, in the name of profit.
I disagree that greed and selfishness are innately driving characteristics to all of humanity, or that those traits motivate more growth and development than altruism and cooperation. Humans, after all, are a social species. I do agree that capitalism incentivizes greed and selfishness, and that in fact it is not possible to succeed at capitalism unless you are greedy and selfish. Because the material realities of our society make success reliant on selfishness, we have more people behaving selfishly than is “natural.”
Honestly though, this is why arguments about “human nature” are all bunk. We are products of our environments at all times. A hunter gatherer behaved very differently to a modern office worker, and both would struggle wildly to adapt to the other’s environment. There is no one pure human nature.
Don’t come to us! Fighting back needs to happen within our country
Make America the poorest country in the Americas baby!
As an American all I can say is, I wish I could find a meaningful way to join the boycott. Hit them in the wallet once for me.
Shop locally and choose companies that do not fund politicians.
Get fucked gavin
Fuck, no.
