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Hold liberals accountable or else you will be negotiating on who dies first with fascists (lemmy.world)
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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I didn't say you said it I said you were an example of it. Hell you just did it again, every 4 years you say. Exactly the issue. You people think it's a one-time game. It's not , it's constant. It's every Congressional race it's every senate race it's every state race it's every School Board Race. The fight is unending. Also yeah some people deserve fascism, they're called the people that sit on their ass and let it overwhelm them. People that aren't willing to fight it are the ones who deserve it. Cuz they're the ones that enable it more than anyone else.

I agree it takes groundwork, what kind of ground work is my question though. Real groundwork? The kind of groundwork that endorses democracy and respect for democracy? The kind of ground work that keeps progressively moving us away from fascism step by step? Yeah that's the kind of ground work we need. That's the kind of ground work you're sitting here arguing against. Your groundwork is vote one time in one election and then turn your nose up at the entire process and sabotage anyone who wants to keep fighting. You all or nothing people are the problem. When you're steering a nation it takes a long time for the rudder to move. It takes constant pressure to change course. That course change is going to take years and maybe even decades but you have to keep pushing on the rudder. If you never try you go where you were headed in the first place. That's what your endorsing here. One brief nudge and then sitting on your ass. Doesn't move anything.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works -3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What do you think about direct action?

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do you define Direct? I'm open to a very wide range of it whether it's from going door to door all the way through throwing bombs into the carriage of a tsar. Action's fantastic particularly at local level, in fact primarily at the local level. Up to and including Carriage routes.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

Show us how, genius

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

If you're capable of implementing a structure that can actually stand, direct action may be warranted. If not, then not, unless violent anarchy is better.

Start small. Build your structure and run some group that way. ..and expand.