Politics, activism, and social commentary, maybe? Could be a drama magnet, but it does seem to be a sizable chunk of the threadiverse.
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Perhaps I've misinterpreted your usage of "last line of defense"?
These aren't regular conservatives that we're dealing with. MAGA is a fascist movement. The MO of fascists is to gain and hold power for their in-group by *any means necessary*. While it should never be our first option, we need to be willing and able to violently resist them, because they sure as hell don't have any qualms about violently subjugating us.
Interesting, this is the first I've heard of the "reputation rehab" angle on the guy. Do you have any further reading you could link me to?
Rather than going full Inglorious Basterds, I think it's important to have both "carrot" and "stick" options for these people. It doesn't really do us any good if there's no way to come back from having been involved in hate groups. Just make sure to keep the Richard Spencer treatment available, to provide them some motivation to get their heads right.
public shaming is the last line of defense we have against these types of people
Wait, really? I know liberals tend to like weird pseudo-pacifism, but have y'all really committed so hard to it that you think "public shaming" is our last line of defense?
Get armed, and get trained. You may end up needing it. *We* may end up needing it.
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Yup, that’s why I’m a Mutualist.
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I read it as being about pegging.
db0, I think you're cool overall, but your characterization of PugJesus here is pretty unreasonable. :/
Oh hey, I guess I made this one active. I'll be posting there more in the future, since some of my anime_irl posts really belong there instead.
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It's yet another demonstration of how ineffective electoralism is at stopping fascism. The Democratic Party is centrist (or center-left if we're being generous). Centrism isn't really an ideology, just a strategy for winning elections. Principles are just tools to be either used toward that end, or discarded. It does tend to be pretty effective, which is why it's so prevalent.
Fascists, however, are committed to gaining power *by any means necessary*. While centrists are constrained by rules and norms, fascists have no such limitation. By discarding any moral restraints, fascists become far more effective at the centrist strategy than centrists could ever hope to be. In turn, the centrists are forced to double down on discarding any principles that they may have grown attached to, following the lead of the fascists in an attempt to catch up.
Generally speaking, anarchy isn't some lost golden age that anarchists want to return to, it's something new that we want to create. Both past and present societies have anarchistic elements that we can draw inspiration from, but none of those societies really live up to our ideals.
There are some that characterize anarchism as equivalent to direct democracy. I disagree with that, but I do think it can be categorized as a further evolution of democracy. Autonomous democracy, if you will. It retains the idea that everyone is equal and that we don't need monarchs to govern us. However, where democracy sets up a centralized apparatus for majoritarian, society-wide rule-making and enforcement, in anarchy the rules are created and applied in a decentralized fashion where they are needed, by mutual agreement.