• Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzOP
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    3 hours ago

    Drag will reiterate drag’s point that we are now facing the prospect of actually making changes, as you say, against a fascist dictatorship. That’s harder than against a liberal capitalist state. If we’re Sisyphus and America is the boulder, then these people just decided to let the boulder roll downhill and smash into a lube factory. That makes it harder to make changes, not easier.

    What is the plan in this decision?

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      3 hours ago

      I think that if Kamala had been elected, then we would have had four more years of things getting worse under neoliberalism, before getting a fascist in 2028. america is kind of a fascist country, it’s just now that the american people are experiencing it for themselves rather than just subjecting it on others

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        2 hours ago

        Four more years for drag’s friends to live and find a plan to escape the country. Drag thinks that’s a good thing. Do you think it’s a bad thing?

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          I have the utmost sympathy for you and your friends and I hope you’re all okay, and I want to send you as much of my love and support as I can. I wish you all nothing but the best and I hope the world turns. Stay strong, stay hopeful, and remember who the true enemy is, the ruling class, the billionaires, the media, the politicians who sold our future for $$$.

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      I think we might differ on how bad we think the status quo of neoliberal US is, DragonFucker.

      It may be harder, certainly more violent.

      But maybe a wider range of society will be more motivated to take direct action.

      Edit: and yes, my theory does explain Nazi Germany. A weak, capitalist state where Socialists and Communists were gaining ground electorally led to far right non-winners given power because that was more palatable than ceeding more ground to the Left. And after that it left global capitalism in a stronger state than ever.

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        2 hours ago

        But maybe a wider range of society will be more motivated to take direct action.

        Drag has trans friends who live in the USA. Drag does not think their lives are an acceptable price to pay for this plan of yours.

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          I don’t think their lives are either, DragonFucker.

          But Harris wasn’t going to make them safer or even stop things getting worse. Ask them if they felt safer in 2023 or in 2018.

          Your anger is better focused at Trump and Co in particular, and the US government in general than regular random people on the street.

          As for me, I wish I had a plan. I’d just assumed Harris was going to win, but here we are.