Hi. I'm a progressive thinker interested in ideas and methods of developing a world in which there is as little suffering as possible.

My thinking style is a little bit futurist, a little bit hippie, and very pragmatic. I'm not into pie-in-the-sky ideas. I want to talk about actions that can be implemented to make change happen in time to stop what's coming (a terrible eco-dystopia).

I'm 50. I find most of the internet to be a childish & boring place. Most memes aren't funny. Most people that think they're comedians aren't funny either. I'd rather have a serious conversation.

I'm a cis white male. I believe in dignity and respect for all people, except conservatives.

I also believe that we need to take more direct action to make change. I think the most important conversation we should be having is akin to the trolley dilemma, except one track has american conservatives on it, and the other track has the entirety of humanity and all the other forms of innocent plant and animal life on it.

I'm pretty big into military tactics because I think this is the most direct method for change.

Do I belong here?

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    9 months ago

    I don't think "murdering all conservatives" is a particularly useful ideology without something to back it up, otherwise you basically just continually cull everyone to the right without a specific outcome in mind. Violence is not the solution; the solution is communism in any / all of its forms. Violence is just the path forced on communists because the powers of capital will not give up their power without it. For evidence of that just open up any history book; every time communists start to gain ground they get absolutely obliterated via the power of incredible violence, or they don't because they have developed the people to match that power. Capitalists never win in the marketplace of ideas, because capitalism is a terrible idea. Capitalists win in the marketplace of violence because they can convert people-power into military power at a lower cost than communists can via the power of exploitation.

    If you think communism is some pie in the sky idea, then I would encourage you to stick around anyway and ask questions in good faith, because I can assure you it's not. The only reason it feels that way is because it's not an overnight solution, it's an extremely long drawn out process. Humanity didn't decide all at once to stop being nomadic and settle down into an agrarian lifestyle spawning civilization as we know it. Humanity didn't decide all at once to be done with feudalism and move into mercantilism/capitalism, these things took time. Communism takes time too, through direct action, organizing, etc.

    There isn't an overnight solution that solves all of humanity's problems, including "toss all conservatives into the pit." I mean we still should do that, because we have to do that, because if we don't do that then they will never let us have our bread, but that's not the solution. That's just a tool that is being forced upon us in order for us to achieve our main goals.

    Anyway to answer your question more directly, anyone belongs here if they can listen, learn, and support each other's liberation. If you want to do those things then welcome. We aren't as scary as the internet makes us out to be, we're just fiercely protective of our comrades and their journey of liberation.

    Also main

    Edit: Also holy shit they already got banned for being transphobic. Fucking hilarious. Of course someone with a core ideology of "I like to murder people" is also a transphobe. If you haven't thought about one thing you probably haven't thought about any thing.