The Right completely lost it’s shit when a black man won the White House. The election of a black Asian woman will make them catatonic. They just can’t accept what is happening in their dystopian little fantasy world.
Catatonic, or inconsolably violent?
Catatonic and quietly insane.
They scream and cry but they’re ball-less pussies and they know what happened the last time they actually tried something. This time we wouldn’t restrain ourselves nearly as much.
Some will be violent. Some will be vocal. Some will grumble and move on. The violent ones will be the ones who make the evening news. They may also cause serious disruptions.
For the most part, I think you should prepare for disruption equivalent to a blizzard or hurricane. Stock up on canned foods. Get containers for water. Order Life Straws if you don’t have them already. Stock up on batteries and charge any rechargeables you have. Make sure you know where your flashlights are. Load up on propane tanks for your grill and have a plan for how to use your grill safely. Add to that self-defence tools in case of civil disturbances in your area – we’re going to keep non-lethal but still painful self-defence tools for our self-protection. And then wait things out and try to stay safe. Check in on your neighbours, and stuff like that. I wrote an article on what I think you should do to survive Election 2024 with more details.
It is exhausting being blue and living in a red state. When I go on a vacation to a blue state, I question why I’m living where I am. I imagine many are asking themselves the same thing and moving.
Be grateful you’re white, I would not go back for any money, it’s like wearing a pride shirt and a yarmulke to a taliban rally.
I’m not grateful for it, but I do recognize the societal privileges that come with it.
It grates on me seeing inequality for silly reasons like race, sex, religion, or sexual orientation etc. My state isn’t so red I’m seeing Confederate flags all the time, but its the subtle ‘wink wink’ justification of mistreatment that I see. When I call people on it doing this, I get met with immediate confusion, and then anger as they realize I’m “one of those”.
I grew up in the Midwest, then the south.
The Midwest was conservative, but mostly in the ornery ‘bah, leave me alone!!!’ kind of way that hates big gubbermint while complaining when their subsidy checks are late.
The south was mother fucking insane. It was clear the only thing holding them back from going full Christian Sharia was fear of the federal government, again while cashing every federal check they could and basically living off welfare. They were the only ‘REAL AMERICANS!!!’ according to them, and the fact that I was born here just meant that I was a really sneaky illegal coming to take their jobs they weren’t willing to work.
I’m so glad I managed to escape, but it always feels like they’re trying to follow me out of their shithole to destroy the good parts of this country.
My state (Georgia) is… purpler?.. Heading in the right direction.
Atlanta is heading in the right direction.
The rest is just going crazier.
When the election committee and gerrymandering aren’t completely and utterly destroying local elections, that is
Yep. Still a lot of fuckery going on.
And our media? Worthless.
Just a friendly reminder that the US media’s business model is engagement. The goal is not to improve lives or help in anyway, and in some aspects perpetuating harm is a self fulfilling operation
As Capitalism decays, fascism and Socialism/Communism rise among the Bourgeoisie/Petite Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat/Lumpenproletariat respectively. It’s only going to get worse and more polarized, hence the necessity to organize.
Wew. The eloquence of Comrade Lenin (and I don’t mean John)
We are seeing precisely this, the downvotes make no sense you can’t deny reality.
A lot of people on Lemmy.world tend to be anti-Marxist, which generally happens when you defederate from the Marxist instances, at least in my experience. I’m used to it lol
There is nothing wrong with being pro Marxist. All the more power to you and engaging politically. The issue is you guys – at least here on social media and forums – seem unable to divorce any conversation from marxist-leninist theory. Every discussion, topic, analysis is exclusively locked in this worldview because you’ve decided fervently that this is the ultimate frontier for humanity and anyone that slightly disagrees with this perspective is a capitalist neo-liberal bootlicker that needs to be flogged and burned on the stake.
Every time. Every. Single. Time.
I think it’s more that related topics have Marxism brought up. I certainly don’t spend all my time reading theory and trying to get people to read theory, I also love coffee (especially espresso), hiking, cooking, gaming, and I have a job. However, when there is a lot of discussion and misconceptions going around, I do my best to correct them. It’s easy to think Marxism is someone’s whole existence if you don’t see them outside that context.
If I am relaxing, I am usually on my Hexbear alt anyways.
Because you are just as exhaustingly childish, naive and deluded as the Randistanis, who believe destroying the government will suddenly lead to perfect freedom and prosperity.
Removing the government creates a power vacuum that leads to all powerful rich oligarchs, just like removing the rich creates a power vacuum that leads to all powerful government bureaucrats like the ones who destroyed the USSR and turned China from a genocidal Maoist regime into a prosperous capitalist dystopia that’s only happy because it was such an incredible improvement.
History shows us the common man is at his most free and happy when the government (or monarchy) and the rich (or nobility) are fighting each other with such fury that they weaken themselves and the people can stand up and live their own lives.
As the Chinese say: heaven is high and the emperor is far away. That’s a good thing, you do not want to live under he CCP and their perfect surveillance.
Because you are just as exhaustingly childish, naive and deluded as the Randistanis, who believe destroying the government will suddenly lead to perfect freedom and prosperity.
I don’t believe any of that, actually. I do believe revolution is necessary for Humanity to move forward, but not that it would immediately lead to perfect freedom and prospertity. That needs to be built, and it can only start by the proletariat siezing the Means of Production and wiping away the old Capitalist state.
The rest of your comment is gish-gallop historical revisionist nonsense.
I do believe revolution is necessary for Humanity to move forward,
Everybody believes in revolution, their revolution, and if you follow them they promise you’ll get everything you ever wanted:
The American revolution is one of the few that actually worked out, and it just transfered power from England to the new ruling elite landowners in America.
What works is everyone organizing and showing unity, revolution just shuffles the deck so the new leaders can declare victory while learning to walk on their hind legs.
You have no points, only a lack of historical knowledge. The revolutions in China, Cuba, and Russia brought huge increases in life expectancy, literacy rates, access to healthcare and education, housing rates, and more. Read Blackshirts and Reds.
You know who else had massive increases in life expectancy over that period? EVERY FUCKING ONE!!!
If you copied any western medicine and hygiene, your life probably doubled.
The revolutions in China, Cuba, and Russia brought huge increases in life expectancy, literacy rates, access to healthcare and education, housing rates, and more.
The revolution in China brought a catastrophic wave of death.
Meanwhile the same people across the channel had incredible prosperity without the 50m dead from the GLP and CR, while inventing incredible technologies the mainlanders can’t even understand, much less copy like everything else.
China is absolutely crippled by the genocidal failed regime that is the CCP. They’re only prospering now because Deng is a proper capitalist, and that’s where the life expectancy comes from:
Mao was the only proper communist, and he just got everybody killed because he was a complete idiot. I’m sorry your ideology is so transparently broken.
And the Soviet union did well at first because Lenin relaxed communism in favor of partial capitalism, which Stalin reversed and killed millions in his purges, leading to the Holodomor and other catastrophic failures, which brezvhnev repeated and lead to the failure of the ussr.
Nothing but failures all the way down.
But thank you, for actually identifying with both China and the ussr, you make it much easier to prove you obviously wrong compared to the whiny little shits who dream of an ideal communism that never actually happens.
