In fact, as the famous anti-colonial author Aime Cesaire pointed out, there was never any difference between nazis and western liberalism. Everything the Nazis did, you guys are have already done against colonized peoples. The nazis became infamous in the West bc they treated other westerners like colonized peoples
i’ve been organizing against the genocide in gaza for a couple years now. i went to highschool in the boston area so i spent a lot of time going to college encampments to support them and stuff like that. i think it’s actually fucking crazy to assume everyone who voted for kamala agrees with her on everything instead of realizing she was shoehorned in as the only candidate opposing an outright fascist who has also done everything to make the situation in gaza worse.
And for the millionth time: The genocide fundamentally happened because enough people, time after time, have decided that imperialist mass murder isnt a red line. It doesnt matter whether you “agree on that particular issue”. By voting for her, you gave the signal it wasnt a red line. You enabled it. You’re a monster
Protesting and boycotting means nothing if you still voted. But you not voting thereby allowing someone arguably worse for Americans and Palestinians across the board to get into power is really what’s gonna make the difference. They’re so much better off now. Also we draw the red line at Palestine but screw what’s happening in parts of Africa, South American, India, and Eastern Europe who have had it just as bad for just as long who are having their aid threatened now that Trump is in. 👍
1. I do vote, for communists. Not for genocidal imperialists. As you pointed out, both parties do FAR more evil than genocide on Palestine. Supporting either enables the system. 2. Yes all citizens of the first world benefit from imperial privilege, but you still shouldn’t VOTE for imperialism. A silly question
I mean if you rationalize it you’re completely entitled to vote third party in a solidly predicted state. That’s what I did, and unsurprisingly it went where I thought it would go. now even if you were in a swing state and you went third party, it wasn’t happening. If every third party voter went blue we’d have the same outcome. it’s such a marginal difference that the proportion of people who vote on well researched moral conviction can do so, unfortunately, without consequence.
the electoral system exists as a two party duopoly, it would take a massive internal collapse of either party to see another rise in its place, but unless there’s a complete systemic upheaval we’re not going to see a prominent third party any time soon. I mean RFK pulled quite a lot of people from name alone, and yes stupid people in my opinion but regardless he got 5%. It’s nothing! Biggest independent contender in years and all he can get is 5%? A third party cannot win electorally
I feel like the path forward is following in the footsteps of Mamdani in NYC, and yet we were robbed of the chance of someone like him running in the 2024 primary because the mindset of maintaining status quo with Biden was just too overwhelming. How many ignorant people prevented the actual base from a fair election. A lot changes in 4 years but the DNC acted like it was all fine, that Biden and Biden-esque figures were the best they had. Hopefully the lesson is learned, but I doubt it.
I mean in 1848 I’d probably be too occupied with meeting my material needs to research in depth about the presidential candidates, especially with information not traveling nearly as fast as it does now. But assuming I knew about both fully there’s no way I’d support a pro slavery pro genocide candidate, I’d seek a way out, and in the case of today electorally I took an out by voting for De La Cruz. But it doesn’t mean I don’t think that when presented with two options the “lesser evil” ought to
Basically, you guys are no different than nazis. Nazism was a historical continuity with Western Settler Colonialism. Everyone who supports the genocidal imperialist parties of the west is complicit. Frantz Fanon and Aime Cesaire both agreed on this, and they are the greatest anticolonial thinkers of all time
be chosen, I mean it’s no way out but it’s a softer fall to fascism. Also I just don’t get your insistence to equate me to a nazi sympathizer for my stance. And you even agree with me, that a third party cannot emerge electorally. I’m arguing that while it’s viable for a left wing populist movement to radically alter society for the better, that the electoral duopoly is still another avenue that ALSO needs to be pursued. You’re pushing collective guilt onto myself, but you can’t possibly claim
i didn’t really support anyone i didn’t donate, i didn’t tell anyone to vote for kamala, and i told people the entire campaign kamala is an asshole who’s towing the liberal party line which is going to get people hurt. when it came time to turn in my ballot i did put down kamala because she’s an easier opposition but the presidential election is a wash anyways the much more important elections to create change and local solidarity are local elections and rn there’s a chance to create bourgeois
I don’t know dude I feel like my actions of not endorsing Harris but denouncing Trump and voting for PSL aren’t exactly imperialistically aligned. Do you appreciate this Trump presidency more than a hypothetical Harris presidency because it’s more likely to radicalize people against blatant fascism? Or because the incompetency will better enable the fall of American Empire? Or would a Harris presidency be better in your opinion as we’d see fewer liberties eroded and some climate awareness etc?
OP I’m telling you I hate Harris and Trump but I’d rather we have Harris in office right now, despite my understanding that my vote didn’t matter at all, thus the PSL protest vote. The genocide is continuing and it will continue and maybe the less right wing Harris would have been swayed. It’s possible her shitty grift to the center right campaign might have been a facade and she’d have been more receptive to public opinion (I doubt it) but the odds were higher than with Trump
how am i genocider? i’ve been involved in organizing actions against the genocide in gaza for years and am actively involved in organizing against ice. i dont think you understand #3s point about how you don’t seem to have any actual analysis of what the difference between voting harris and voting trump actually does and how choices about who to vote for can carry a lot of weight in your ability to effectively organize against the winner of the vote
voting for the presidential party you most align with ~that has any chance of winning~ is being a realist, not a nazi. the nazi party rose to power by feeding into people’s fear and insecurity gradually, not by being less evil than the other choices on a 21st century american ballot. you’re repeating not only false equivalencies but also ad hominem attacks on average laypeople doing their best. that’s not inspiring change; it’s just turning people off to other ways they could be helping.
because op lives in a bubble where the only way to change any human injustice is by throwing away your vote in a presidential election as a form of performative activism. that is the real answer we’re beating around here. not charity, not volunteering, not local elections, not spreading more actionable awareness of what other people can do right now. just “look at me! i’m superior, because i didn’t support this one person who lost an election anyway!”
Actually, according to anti-colonial scholarship, and basic history, everything the US did to First Peoples and Europe did to Africa, the nazis did to other europeans. Western liberals like #2 are identical to the Nazis. What you voted to have done to Palestinians is the same as what germans voted to do to Jewish people
yeah but like harris actually doesn’t do the same level of harm that trump does. she would not have passed legislation harming trans people and women, she would not have been so blatant and terroristic about deploying life and federal police and troops within the US to harrass POC and political opposition, she would not have elected an incompetent set of asses to be in important positions and slashed public funding like that. saying they’re basically the same is just ahistoric and divorced from
This is a historical fact. Nazism didnt arise out of a vacuum, it was inspired by centuries of existing white supremacist thought, codified and legitimatized by Western Liberalism. According to Domenico Losurdo’s a Brief History of Liberalism, the very basis of Western Liberalism is that only White Western lives matter
early european settlers are not The US™ in the 21st century, and you are still absolutely oversimplifying the nuances of two very different genocides and throwing the baby out with the bathwater to champion a cause you’re not even making clear. there were two political parties that had a chance of winning in the last presidential election; you haven’t explained how voting for neither is doing anything actionable to help stop the genocide in palestine when both parties had plans to feed it.
sounds like that’s what you’re supporting by spreading infighting, trying to destroy solidarity of the working class, and sowing rhetoric that creates fear, hatred, and isolationism the exact tools used by western imperialists to quell political unrest and enact counterinsurgency. in short fuck off fed boy
If you’re willing to vote for genocide and to put immigrants in concentration camps, YOU DONT HAVE SOLIDARITY. Dont pretend that yoy do. Holy shit, I’m so tired of you liberal imperialists coopting our language. You sided with the oppressors. You are the oppressor. You’re an enemy of the human race
For the 3rd time, the current state of the world is people in the Global South are born with no opportunities and slave away for western interests their whole life. As Lenin said, First World “workers” who support their bourgeoisie are class traitors. Thats you. You sided with the bourgeoisie
for every author you quote out-of-context, i’m sure you can find 10 qualified statistics, daya analysis, or political professional to tell you a third-party vote in a us federal election at this current point in history has zero chance of doing anything. if you want to make an argument for local elections, i’d hear that all day. but running around starting infighting by calling people nazis, bc you threw away the actual power of your vote as a performative act, is not the serve you think it is.
feeling like arguing on yikyak about who is more pro-genocide based on the 2024 election isn’t forwarding proletariat revolution, yes there’s independent responsibility but the energy ought to be targeted towards those responsible for the catastrophic failure of the 2024 election cycle and those perpetuating genocide directly :/
i don’t preach unconditionally voting for anyone i preach that choosing your vote is a gamble you get to take but ultimately if the parties are the same you should make the choice to put in the weaker of two fascists and organize regardless. but it’s not about what i actually think or say it’s about creating division and making people feel powerless and creating infighting to destroy revolutionary efforts, fed boy
i’m not ok with either nor did i ever say i was nor did i ever support those actions. but you have been supporting them this whole time by supporting the presidency of donald trump and pretending he isn’t committing genocide against trans people and people of color both in america and in the global south. because you’re a fed you want us to be disempowered so it’s easy for outright fascists like him to take power and keep us fighting amongst ourselves instead of fighting the class war against u
no one here is claiming to be a patriot; we’re claiming voting for the less destructive of the two choices given to us does more than abstaining and lessening the size of the voting pool for the sake of saying “i didn’t vote for this candidate that lost anyway— look at all you nazis who did!” none of your arguments are coherent and none of the texts you quoted have anything to do with them.
1. But its not less destructive when you factor in that the US is a global empire that oppresses billions of people. 2. Its also not a coincidence that you benefit from aforementioned oppression of the Global South 3. Nope, I’ve drawn from ideas from several authors quite well. I ask again (because you didnt answer), what specifically have I “misquoted” or “taken out context”?
it is absolutely less destructive to vote for the least destructive candidate that has any chance of winning than to lessen the size of the pool so that the more destructive candidate can win, which is what happened here? i benefit from oppressed people as much as you or anyone else existing in american society, which is awful, but throwing away your vote is not the way to remedy that. the burden is on you to relate the text you’re quoting to what you’re saying, not on me to guess.
imperialism is the lowest common denominator between both you and me and all of the available options at the poll. you don’t have to speculate as to how bad things could be if you didn’t vote for one of the two available very imperialist parties, because you did that, and the more imperialist of the two options won. and in the current reality, i benefit from imperialism no more than you do.
Just saw your trolley problem comparison. Thats it? Palestinian and Yemeni lives are just a necessary sacrifice for the good of your empire? Thats always how it works, isnt it? You Westerners decide that it would just be more convenient if the Palestinians, or Chagossians, or Apache or Inuit just died?
Mm no I didnt. I think everyone should live. You think Palestinians have to die. But this is obviously false because if you guys stopped voting for genocide, it wouldnt happen. So the crux of the matter is this: it would be too inconvenient for you to stop supporting imperialism, so you convinced yourself Palestinians have to die