• ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Not really, it just boils down to "Ha ha, you understand the futility of electoralism in the hell-empire but fear the brutal violence of it’s enforcers too much to take stronger action.berdly-smug " It’s the smug sniveling of the teacher’s pet justifying their spinelessness to themselves by ratting on you, and I absolutely do not have to hand it to them.

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            “Ha ha, you understand the futility of electoralism in the hell-empire but fear the brutal violence of it’s enforcers too much to take stronger action.”

            Yep. Describes me to a T.

            If I was going to refute this, I’d say people are firebombing more and more walmarts every day. We firebombed a police precinct after all

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          Considering the Republicans won the last election, I’m not so sure

          “People on twitter will really be like “you believe in firebombing a Walmart? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, winning elections” and then not win an election”

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        So Basils main critique is that there aren’t enough Walmart fire bombings. ?

        But they are only willing to join that side once someone else initiates the Walmart fire bombings.

        I am not personally sure if that is the main problem with firebombing walmarts, if in fact anyone is presenting it as a superior tactic to voting. Walmarts are often full of people, even at night when they bring in very marginalized workers to tidy and stock.

        But apparently Basil would be fine with it if only it werent idle fantasizing.