In the current conditions, agitators are being brutally assaulted, silenced, and killed pretty much all over the country. So I would have to say that I actually don't want to continue to agitate in the current conditions, thank you.
About half of the American electorate does not vote, but you don't see these nerds doorknocking or other basic organizing. It's incredibly telling that these people will viciously attack others online, but are complete goldfish ouside where the grows. It is so much easier to scold than pound pavement.
That's what pisses me off about the evangelists that come in and pester us. Why argue with people commited to an ideology that have already made a decision based on their knowledge of the situation and political beliefs? Especially when we're a small minority compared to the vast majority like near 200 million who aren't voting (and therefore voting for Trump obviously)
Conservatives read garbage like The Turner Diaries and get their ideology from that, Leftists read the broad spectrum of theory and get their ideology from that. Liberals read Harry Potter and have no ideology.
That’s funny to think about. I’ve re-franchised quite a few formerly disenfranchised felons by explaining that laws changed and they can vote now and helping them learn how it goes. I never thought about the fact that these people care more about attacking other voters than doing the same. I guess if you’re “too good” to hang with leftists, you’re probably “too good” to hang with felons, but I’m a criminal fuck up too, I don’t really feel comfortable around people without records, so it’s easy for me.
Yeah I don’t think anyone who’s not voting or voting third party thinks they haven’t made a choice. Once again they’re incapable of seeing themselves as anything other than “The Adults in the Room.”
I made the choice that not supporting genocide was worth way more than any promise a liberal has tried to make and that's before the completely reasonable assumption that all the liberals promises are completely worthless.
I would posit that whether an action is good or bad is heavily altered by a “spin” factor, namely whether or not one can argue about it and how effective it is. My name is Gyro Zepelli
And crucially, they can only imagine winning an argument in good faith against a good faith opponent, without fundamentally changing the politics of their opponent outside of this one argument. Republicans imagine the mass executions of democrats, while democrats imagine one Republican doing the right thing and voting on some milquetoast reform bill.
Alito and Thomas could very well die or retire in the next 5 years. An opportunity for the first dem court since 1974, or you can get two Leonard Leo endorsed 40 year olds to replace them. Basically, there is an opportunity to pack the courts at all levels for either winner. Or punish Biden...
These people can't conceive of any solutions that aren't defined in the narrow confines of the Constitution. How have none of these people considered maybe the Constitution itself is the problem here?
The Supreme Court was decent for maybe 30-40 years out of ~230, and has been bad for the last 30, and the conservative project to pack the judiciary with dead-eyed reactionaries reached maturity a decade ago...
But give us five more years and maybe we'll turn this around!
i can be a moral choice not to vote or to vote but skip over a race. he uses "moral cost" to imply a constant negative value when the value could be negative or positive. more like a moral consequence which can swing either way depending on your set of moral conditions
"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill"
It is really ironic that he picked a song about rejecting religion and dogma to promote the idea of religious dogma in the form of politics. Fucking dunce.