And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss. People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: "How strange! But never mind—it's Nazism, it will pass!" And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.

— Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)

That subreddit has gone to shit. I guess Palestine and the Israeli genocide of Palestine was just a flavour of the month issue for liberals, that must now quickly be forgotten about as elections draw near.

Feel like the obvious response here is "what do we have the power to change then?" Because healthcare isn't up for debate either, or ending the regime of daily extrajudicial street executions, or doing anything to ease extreme poverty, or even reproductive rights when you consider the balance of the supreme court...

The Drej Queen of the Drej Tank says that you can't fight the Drej. No one can! They're pure energy! It isn't up for debate. You don't have the power to change everything. Or anything. As it stands, the Drej are committed to ending the human threat no matter what. It sucks but its the truth and there is not currently an opportunity for you, as voters, to influence or change that.

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This is exactly how average Nazis felt. Not the officers or concentration camp officers (well maybe some of them), but the regular folks who accepted the evils of their government because it was "just the way it is." And they were still Nazis and share some of the responsibility.

I need to get my grandfathered Irish citizenship... Yesterday...

Every single person who says this should be told "Then the logical conclusion is insurrection to topple the government that dictates that genocide is an inescapable political reality. Anything short of that and you don't give a shit."

Objectively on issues of immigration, policing, war, and welfare cuts (I'm sorry welfare "expirations") the Biden admin has been worse than the previous Trump admin, the data is in, the dems took Trump's policies and ran with them

The only remaining argument dems have to distinguish themselves from Trump is that he "EMPOWERS" the right-wing and "EMBOLDENS" white nationalists.....good argument, because it was/is true

But that argument as a reason to vote died after Oct 7th, now a dem victory WILL also embolden the right-wing; specifically the genocidal right-wing of the Democratic Party who for decades have been looking for a right-wing mandate to reorganize the party into a proper business first imperial party, and despite their unpopularity with the proles if they win under the shadow of genocide than that is a mandate under every definition of the word

Doesn't matter if their unpopularity soars and they lose every election after from 2028 to the collapse, they and the media that serve them will proceed as if every democratic voter is a die-hard zionist and will never ever in a million years budge on genocide, war, policing, immigration, etc

Even the rhetoric will start to shift, because why not, "they voted for genocide, they'll vote for anything" the right-wing dems will ride that high for as long as they remain a cohesive party and who's gonna nay-say them? The media? AOC lmao?

Trump is a threat, but the "progressive" movement can survive him and most likely will grow organizing against him

But if the dems win, the progressives are permanently dead on the national stage until collapse conditions metastasize, to say nothing of actual radical orgs who will suffer under an empowered right-wing dem party with a genocidal mandate

support for israel is like taxes

The concept of politician having to earn votes is so lost on libs. I'm gonna take a self-care day off and go hiking on election day. Neither candidate earns my vote. What is it that is so hard to grasp.

Democrats: Death camps half full.

Republicans: Death camps half empty.

"look, this is germany, there is no candidate that the party will allow that doesn't want to cleanse the jews. it may not be nice, but that's just political reality. how do you not understand that?"

I think this might be an American Civic Religion thing where America is so monolithic, and so grounded at the center of their reality, that they can't imagine a world where America doesn't exist or even a world where America can meaningfully change. America is the core of the natural order so trying to fight it is like trying to fight the ocean. They can only conceptualize resistance and rebellion as a russian plot, never an organic political action.

We are dealing with fanatics blind to the world as it exists.

I dissent; and refuse to collaborate in the genocide of people who look like me.

Death to Amerika. Death to the settlers. Death to the collaborators.