queermunist she/her

Love to be in full Sun while doing work 🙄

At least have an umbrella or something?

… no I think that’s actually the first of your worries. You need to find a new job, which means you need to work on your resume immediately. This is something you should start thinking about now because we’re basically in a recession.

If you got laid off how would you even apply for another job? Write up a resume on your phone? Sounds like a nightmare.

The hole is in the middle of a parking lot because the chatbot hallucinated the job order.

You aren’t asking a big enough question to actually grasp what the lesser evil even is.

The first question you really want to ask is “what is the primary contradiction?” We can discuss what that might be, US hegemony or Western imperialism or neocolonialism, but this will inform our understanding of how we should vote. Only once we identify the primary contradiction should we cast our votes in whatever way will advance the struggle against it.

Let’s say we identify US hegemony as the primary contradiction. Does voting for Harris help advance the struggle against US hegemony? No! She would have been a fine steward of the empire, if she was president the hegemon would be in better shape than it is under Trump and the struggle against it would be even harder.

Trump is wrecking the empire, and in light of this, Trump winning is actually a lesser evil. What we see under Trump is the US pulling back from all of its soft-power while threatening its own allies. Yes, it has become more violent, but the violence isn’t a sign of strength. The US is in a weaker position than it has ever been in my life. All is chaos under heaven, the situation is excellent.

But, if Trump winning was the lesser evil, does that mean we vote for Trump? Also no! It’s important for him to not actually ever be popular within the US, because that also erodes his own legitimacy among the US population and makes the US itself harder to govern. The fact that he “won” with 49.9% of the vote isn’t the best outcome, better would be losing the popular vote again, but it’s still good because forcing USAmericans to confront the weakness of their elections also weakens its position as the hegemon. They look at their own elections, look at Trump winning twice without ever getting a majority, and ask “do we live in a democracy?”

(The answer is no by the way.)

His unpopularity is why there was an uprising against ICE in Minnesota. There wouldn’t even be protests against ICE if Harris was president, and there weren’t under Biden despite him deporting more than Trump in his first term, but under Trump people can easily see what they have always been: colonial occupation troops. Under Democrats the streets are empty, under Trump the people fight back. The BLM uprisings happened under Trump, but it was Bill Clinton that gave us the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to fill the prisons with Black people. This has to be factored in when we ask what the lesser evil is.

They’re both great evils, so identifying the primary contradiction is the only way we can identify what is to be done.

Notably, this is not accelerationism. The goal here isn’t to make things worse so they get better. The goal is to make the US empire weaker, because we have identified US hegemony as the primary contradiction and that’s what we are struggling against. Revolutionary defeatism, in other words.

The “I don’t know why you’re laughing” moment was 🤌

>gets compliments

“Am I being bullied?”

There are degrees of sickness, right? An asshole business owner who feels entitled to run red lights and speed because they’re white and have a nice car and know the police chief’s son probably doesn’t need life imprisonment or execution.

I mean, I wouldn’t really be too upset if they were, but it just seems wasteful.

On the other end, people in the Epstein files might need to be hospitalized for more than a single human lifetime.

The “monster” framing precludes the idea that they even can be rehabilitated. Monsters don’t get healing, they just need to be put away or put down. That’s still an improvement over letting them run rampant, but it’s a waste.

So what if it is?

It doesn’t change the fact that they need to be involuntarily committed for rehabilitation and have their assets seized. For their health.

Lasers are coherent, I think you need a lasing medium for that.

You could focus the light into a single point, sure, but that’s not really a laser in the technical sense.

There’d also be people who refuse to eat human meat and everyone else would make fun of them.

Women receive hatred for being assaulted.

You didn’t even try.

You can’t dismantle systems of oppression without liquidating the oppressors.

We didn’t end slavery by asking nicely, it took a civil war. Then, because we didn’t kill every slave owner and seize all of their wealth, they just reconstituted themselves as landlords. They defeated Reconstruction, regained power, rehired all their old slaves back as sharecroppers, and the oppression continued. The old slave catchers just became police, and they rounded up Black people and then put them on chain-gangs to be slaves for the State. Even today we have prison slaves working the fields.

If every slave owner was hanged and their family’s wealth redistributed to their former slaves, none of this would have happened.

If you don’t oppress the oppressors they just come back and resume their oppression. You have enemies. Start acting like it.

Our ends require oppressing the bourgeoisie.

That’s basically true, but I think capitalism would overthrow direct democracy.

People would vote for higher wages and then there’d be a coup.

He lost ONE gun debate and now the coward won’t debate anymore smdh

I was too dysphoric as a teenager to even think about being naked around another person.

Yeah, I use USAmerican to differentiate it from the rest of the American nations.

AmeriKKKan is also acceptable.