It’s weird how she doesn’t apply the same logic to people who hate fascists. They call me the scum of the Earth! Why shouldn’t I hate them?

Yes, that would change geopolitics dramatically. That also probably won’t happen for a few decades until the ice caps melt a lot more, though.

You realize Finland is farther North than Ukraine? There’s lots of ice most of the year. With hilly terrain. And it’s very forested. There’s not a lot of actual crossing points in that border, in an invasion it would require building lots of infrastructure that just doesn’t exist. Moving troops and tanks across the border would be slow and difficult. I think Russia would change its tune on Finland if they suddenly started building lots of infrastructure to enable border crossing, but for now it’s not really a threat.

The fact that House ethics reports aren’t all public is wild.

Nothing ever happens.

Penises aren’t for sex, they’re ornamental.

I just want to see how it all turns out.

The left argues relentlessly and sabotages each other, but the far right tend to kill each other when the infighting starts.

But it doesn’t? Iraq is on the other side of the world from the US, Ukraine is on Russia’s border, they’re just totally different contexts.

Autocorrect didn’t think that was a real word.

It also comes from a lack of any sort of grounding in actual praxis or history. Without seeing how ideas interact with reality we just end up debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

Liberals are scratched.

You don’t have to justify all invasions to justify some invasions?

Yeah I went through that phase.

I grew past it when I accepted that direct democracy and consensus decision making and leaderless horizonalism can’t work while under siege by capitalist reaction and counter-revolution. That kind of structure might work in peace, not class war.

I came to that conclusion from watching and experiencing the failure of the 2010s protest movements - you can’t fight a revolution if everyone is debating everything all the time and there’s no leaders. There’s a good historical retrospective about this called If We Burn, highly recommend. The most important conclusion from the book was, if you don’t pick your leaders democratically, they will pick themselves.

But actually I use Axe 7-in-1: bodywash, shaving creme, shampoo, conditioner, moisturizer, toothpaste, and protein shake.

The single greatest thing people can do is get involved in literally anything.

I disagree. I think that the single greatest thing people can do is read, especially history and political theory. I just finished with Revolutionary Suicide and am currently rereading The Wretched of the Earth, and next on the agenda is Blood In My Eye.

It’s been my experience that the people most angry on here, the people that refused to vote, etc, are also the people that never get involved in real activism past protests. I really just want people to engage, now, while there is still time…

You want people to engage with the Democratic Party, specifically.

You didn’t address this, but what about the Uncommitted Movement? They engaged with party politics and involved themselves in party business! They nominated delegates and went to the Convention to lobby the Party leadership! They were at the table! But in the end, it accomplished literally nothing, and the Democrats didn’t even let a single Palestinian-American speak at the DNC.

What did they do wrong, in your opinion?

There’s something really amusing about all of these being works of fiction.

Prove it.

I’m sure I’ll really appreciate the new shared use trail in my community after they take away my hormones.

You realize some of us are going to die, right? I’m trying to be patient here, but you don’t seem to realize the stakes. People need to take large bites or we aren’t going to make it. Doing stuff for the sake of doing stuff is not a political action plan. This is going to take a political organization bigger than each of us individually, something that can do more than pass a local sales tax for road repairs or a new community pool. It’s not enough to have done something and tried. We have to win.

And that’s not going to be Democrats. They are tied to the sinking ship of elections, and they will keep wasting their time in them long after Republicans have rigged everything and made winning impossible. Sure, you can get some small wins that way, like shared trails, but the big stuff? Like my access to healthcare? That’s off limits. Republicans will kill me if I play by the rules of the game.

We have a couple months to prepare. That’s it. After that? Anything can happen.

There’s literally nothing in your comment that actually, directly, blames Trump voters. You have to use your words on the internet.

Also? There won’t be any midterms. Elections are over, you need to get with the program and be prepared for something other than playing voteball every two years.