TheOubliette

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[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

You seem to have misunderstood what I wrote. I said they installed more solar power than the US's entire history, not a single year.

China is fulfilling its internationally-agreed climate commitments while the major imperialist countries do not.

You should find a more sustainable way to fulfill whatever drive makes you seek out this level of pointless smugness and guesswork gotchas.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Trump was already president once and my political work was actually easier because liberals were outraged and could not understand the complicoty of their representatives. Their representatives merely reflect the cynical apathy of their position that is shielded when they are in power.

If Trump were an existential threat would you just be sitting around posting bad logic? You know he is just an incremental partial detriment in some ways and some vague miasma in other ways. Biden is, for example, a much more coherent genocidal Zionist, as is Harris.

Rather than quibble about how to appease one's inner Eichmann, why not fight against it?

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (24 children)

Climate change cannot be sufficiently addressed without oveethrowing capitalism. China built more solar capacity last year than the entirety of American installations and both American candidates support fracking.

Join a local socialist org!

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (9 children)

You said to Organize and admit a genocide is occurring, while not letting yourself be convinced that voting is the only course of action.

Of course voting is not the only course of action. Voting is incredibly little. What, you check a box? Maybe wait a few hours at most to get into a pilling station? Dear God.

This is an incredibly limited amount of political action, particularly given the way in which box checking translates into any political action (electoral college, media monopolies, biased education, wage slavery limiting political education, campaigns built on donations from capital).

I'm saying that's awesome but what do we do when trump gets elected because no one wants to vote now?

You actually do political work. You become educated and join an organization that does more than act as a sheepdog that turns alienatuon into genocide votes.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

If you want people to work from the bottom up to achieve the necessary changes to prevent this country from being genocidal you will rapidly discover that neither the Democratic nor Republican parties can be that vehicle. They are our enemies and work against us, only dithering with cynical PR and pandering to avoid losing without actually needing to deliver on any demands. Unprincipled attempts to enter and change the Democrats on their terms leads to alienation or cooption, e.g. "the squad" supporting Israel or getting destroyes by capital.

Rather than support a genocoder, please do the actual change work. At least then you can see it fail and then do actually useful things against the genocidal empire.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (11 children)

My comment already contradicts your response, even with its inventions. Please try to address what I say rather than making things up.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (21 children)

You should be against genocide and not vote for genociders.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (29 children)

You can fight the trolley itself instead of justifying supporting genocide.

PS this is the real world not a meme. Political power is not a trolley problem, it is a matter of organization and education. You disempower yourself and others by pretending you can only backseat cheerlead a genocide. Instead of supporting this, go and join an organization that is actually opposing it and start doing work.

In the US, every student is eventually presented with lessons on the Holocaust and asked to think about what they would do. Right now, to be honest, your answer would have to be, "support it using poorly thought out propaganda".

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

It is virtually impossible to work individually against landlords. Instead, form or join a tensnts' union. And maybe some orgs opposed to landlordism.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What democracy? Isn't your argument that you have no choice but to genocide? Isn't your argument that you can never use your vote as leverage to demand what you want?

The strategy portion of what I listed is how you could attempt to be democratic rather than genocide candidate cheerleaders.

[–] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you actually not understand the meme?

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