My plan is to not think about voting

And trans people like me become illegal by our very existence.

My friend's sister is trans with trans partner and basically both are operating on nothing but frenzied fear that they're going to have to hide in an attic like Anne Frank

Of course their solution isn't to take up my friend's/her family's offer to arm them and train them, or to like coordinate with others doing the same to form self defense militia, no, they're going to VOTE SO HARD

I wish they were posters on here so yall could help deprogram them

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The answer, of course, is that Trump becomes president again. And Project 2025 flies into effect. And the country goes mask-off fascist. And trans people like me become illegal by our very existence. And Israel “finishes the job” in Gaza with vocal cheering from the White House. And Trump has his enemies imprisoned or worse with impunity. And the world teeters on the brink. And so on.

Biden is doing nothing to stop Israel from finishing the job; once again, libs care more about the branding of the genocide than the genocide itself. For the other “points”: if Trump didn’t do all those things when he had a Republican majority in Congress during his first term, why would he do it in his second term when he has even less reason to throw a bone at the religious conservatives he clearly thinks are rubes?

Infamously, in the fateful early years of the 1930s, the German Communists viciously opposed the governing center-left Social Democratic Party. Calling the centrists “Social Fascists,” they declared that there was no substantive difference between liberalism and Nazism. They refused to ally themselves with the center.

And if they had, how would that have changed anything? It’s not like the centrists would suddenly have a change of heart about Communism and decide that they didn’t need Hitler to keep the left in check.

Instead of echoing the hardline leftists of 1931, the American left should look to their counterparts in France of 2024. The world has breathed a sigh of relief over the shocking upset against Marine Le Pen’s far-right party in the recent legislative elections there. The key to that victory was a last-minute alliance of the centrist liberals and the radical left. It worked.

The key difference being that France has actual left wing parties with the structure to force the sort of strategic round-two dropouts needed to thwart the National Rally. There are no such parties in America that can do that; the Greens, DSA, PSL, they’re all too small and too hampered by the two party system to make that effect. The Squad is not analogous to the Popular Front. Bullying works because the bully holds power over the bullied. There is no meaningful way for small leftist organizations, let alone leftists as an unstructured mass, to do that in America.

We can bully them into ensuring the mercs they send to Ukraine get paid time off.

We demand that all bombs for Israel are manufactured in a unionized floor!!

How rightists need to choke on my ass hair

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Ah yes I extremely amenable to being told by the blue fascist party how I, their existential ideological enemy, should conceive of politics

"Hey leftists, we know you hate our guy and our establishment and we've done nothing but lecture and admonish you but pleeeeeeease vote for our guy? His brain is melting and we need your help!"

Emphasis mine.

I've seen better whining by libs lecturing me personally in r/politics.

Leftists who don't like Biden don't want to see him in office again, so they don't want to vote for him, or they want to withhold their vote until he changes course. Seems simple enough. But that's not how politics works. The point of electoral politics, as it is lived, is not to vote for a friend; it's to vote for your preferred enemy. You will never find a morally pure candidate, or one whose positions perfectly align with your own preferences. So you must find one whom you can effectively bully.

In Weimar Germany...

In Weimar Germany, where the German Communist Party was far more robust and ready to fight in the streets, the revolution-oriented strategy—allowing a fascist victory to raise urgency and bring about a more lasting leftist one—didn't work. Infamously, in the fateful early years of the 1930s, the German Communists viciously opposed the governing center-left Social Democratic Party. Calling the centrists "Social Fascists," they declared that there was no substantive difference between liberalism and Nazism. They refused to ally themselves with the center.

And Israel “finishes the job” in Gaza with vocal cheering from the White House.

Israel hasn't been able to achieve a single military goal in Gaza. Israel is losing this war.

I could go for some pain chocolat rn, ik a place that sells vegan ones at a cheap price

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“You will never find a morally pure candidate, or one whose positions perfectly align with your own preferences. So you must find one whom you can effectively bully.” Put this quote on every billboard for the next 4 months.