• deaf_fish@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I did watch the video. I agree that mass movements are what is required for change. I don’t understand, what am I buying?

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      1 month ago

      You’re “buying” that elections make organizing easier. Just like Homer is buying that a rock can keep tigers away.

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        1 month ago

        How would having a more evil leader, one who hypothetically locks down freedom of speech and starts arresting people, make organizing easier?

        Seems like that would make it harder to do.

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          1 month ago

          I don’t know how to explain to you that the issues we’re facing are systemic and don’t depend on the “right” individual being a leader.

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            1 month ago

            How did we get here? I never said we needed to have a “right” specific individual being a leader.

            All I’m saying is that I believe that if I have a choice to organize a progressive movement under either 100% Hitler or 90% Hitler. I would choose 90% Hitler. I feel like I’m not alone in that.