Pragmatic Leftist Theory

Not Christianity, Jesus.

I was invited here to participate in discussion. But when I visit, all I see is a bunch of anti-tankie posts from a prolific anti-tankie, an Atlantic smear article about DSA from months ago, and a few genuinely good discussions. Let’s get those numbers up, and start drowning out the “based” memes.

I checked the sidebar and it doesn’t say.

The Republican base is an increasingly unsteady partnership of tech-bro, white nationalist, red-pill MAGA nuts, and salt-of-the-earth conservative types who vote R because that's what their pappy did.

I'm no lover of firearms. In normal times, I think firearm proliferation makes for a nervous and violent populace. These ain't normal times though.

The issue on here, on Lemmy, where we're speaking, is that many leftists don't care to make a strong distinction between 'flawed liberal moderates' and literal fascists. A constant refrain on here is the idea that things have been getting worse since, apparently, the inception of liberalism itself, and steadily spiraling towards fascism, so what does it matter if fascism happens today or twenty years from now? Electing non-fascists just puts off the inevitable. And, for reasons both personal and philosophical, I find that an immensely repugnant way of thinking, not to mention strategically and historically unsound. "Trump is worse than Harris - so what?" Fucking people suffer because of it, millions, including many whose lives will be ruined or ended, and for no gain to marginalized folk anywhere.

You can snap your fingers tomorrow, and it's the day after the revolution, time to sign the Constitution. How does it work?

You know it, you hate it, it's the electoral system of the United States! It's also one of the main reasons I created this instance.

I'm not a Mod guy. I've got shit to do, I don't have time for this. But I think it should exist so I made it.