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*shrugs*

I care very much about "politics" because politics care about me in the most toxic and dangerous ways possible.

I care less about elections since electing capitalists who all work for rich fascists is how we ended up in a fascist nightmare on a boiling planet run by nazi billionaires.

And I get that it's hard for some people to understand the difference between those things because they truly believe they're the same thing; but they aren't.

And like, right now some of you are screaming in your head "you can't say they're the SAME" but I never said that; that's a binary you've been taught to reduce to that only serves to protect rich capitalists and their minions.

What I'm saying is the ultimate outcome is the same: a boiling planet, where billions of people die for capital, protected and enforced by fascist security states and the disempowering of everyday people who don't WANT to die for rich nazis.

The destination is the same.

Folks keep acting surprised when the "liberal" capitalists they support to "oppose fascism" adopt fascist policies and make decisions that harm their own base on behalf of ruling class nazis who're filthy rich.

But I'm not surprised, and I'm not surprised because capitalism is boiling the planet, and billions of ppl are gonna die, and folks aren't going to go willingly to their graves for rich nazis to profit. There's only so many ways to maintain that reality, and fascism is high on that list.

Once you understand that rich nazis are nazis because that's how they keep burning the planet for profit even as billions die, that's the type of society that allows it, it becomes incredibly easy to understand why the politicians they own, regardless of stated ideological position, are invariably going to turn to fascism. There is more or less no other way to keep doing capitalism on a boiling planet while billions die.

So I'm not that interested in debating which flavor of genocide you prefer

At the end of the day, fascists and neoliberals have more in common with each other, than they do with me. They both believe some should live, and some should die. That some deserve to rule in opulence, and some deserve to toil in misery for that opulence. Both have acceptable sacrifices. Both have hierarchies of power based on wealth. They disagree about how to identify who is who on the surface, but if you dig down you find they're mostly putting the same types of people in each bucket.

Capitalism is built on unequal hierarchies, exploitation, slavery, the looting of our common environments, and the violence necessary to maintain those things. It can't exist without various forms of supremacy, without the idea that some people matter and some people don't, and in a society built on hundreds of years of inequality and theft of generational wealth, someone who divides who is who by wealth, is going to name the same acceptable sacrifices as someone who does it by race and culture.

Neither of these people are my friends; so expecting them to help me, and not the rich nazis who own them, is illogical. Doesn't really matter who I vote for; much in the same way it doesn't matter whether or not I buy chocolate or strawberry ice cream - it's still ice cream.

There is no way around those realities; at the end of the day the planet is on fire, capitalism is the culprit, billions of people are going to die, those people are not going to die WILLINGLY so rich people can keep extracting profit, and thus it will (and already does) require the application of force to maintain this system even as it touches off multiple genocides. Ergo as long as your leaders are committed to capitalism, they are committed to what any reasonable person would call fascism.

You can dress it up in whatever words you want, and believe me your leaders are going to provide you with many pretty words and a myriad of excuses for why I'm wrong and this is just how it has to be - that's more or less their function within the system.

You cannot change those realities; capitalism goes, or we do, and clearly regardless of stated ideological positions within that construct, capitalist leaders have decided that we're acceptable sacrifices. It all leads to the same place.

*shrugs*

A revolution to end capitalism will be inherently political. It will not however be an "election." And given that the entire structure of our "democratic" systems precludes the possibility of ending the capitalism that's burning our planet and will kill billions, indeed is prepared to employ horrific violence for the expressed purpose of preventing that outcome, ending the capitalism that's killing us, I've merely decided to stop pretending.

It's not that I don't care about "politics"

@AnarchoNinaWrites Taking the very long view, the Capitalist Pigs (yeah, I grew in the 1960s), will also die from boiling the planet. It may take a bit longer, but they, too, shall parish because of their folly. All their wealth will not save them. Death is always the final winner. The laws of Thermodynamics are inescapable.

As far as "fixing things," it is too late. Even if civilization suddenly came to a halt, the amount of warming inertia already in the system leads to a 3-5°C heating. Much of the planet will be uninhabitable or under water. The meltdown of the nuclear power plants from lack of cooling will be the final blow. There are just too many moving parts.

The Capitalist Pigs only think they can survive in their bunkers.

@c_merriweather

A) being wrong has never stopped rich fascists before

B) Climate catastrophe doesn't work that way - it's a sliding scale, so there is no "too late" there is only how many *more* people you're willing to let die. For me, that answer will never be "all of them" so I have no use for "too late."

web.archive.org/web/2024062022

An Earth globe balancing on the edge of a stick, symbolizing climate crisis
Scientific AmericanIt’s Never Too Late to Take Climate ActionThe depiction of the climate crisis as a cliff—once we fall off the edge, it’s game over—is nonsense

@AnarchoNinaWrites @c_merriweather I believe the only future we have as a planet is one where a federated Earth, #Unity. comes about through steps: 1)#Education 2)#Equality 3)#Justice in that order & on a universal scale.

We need transformation, change is not enough it usually just maintains the adversarial, hierarchical, patriarchy and capitalism. This transformation is happening now, the part each of us contribute will effect the outcome. It is hubris and ego when we talk about the Earth burning, it will survive (nature does). The Question is how if at all will humans be a part of it?

As a famous Beatles once said "you may say I'm (we) a dreamer(s), but I'm (we're) not the only one(s) "

@Herefordrob I'm definitely a leftist and a socialist, and I can't say I appreciate someone who talks like a fortune cookie telling me talking about the world burning is hubris and ego and then saying the most basic shit possible as their reasoning why.

Go bother someone else, I'm not buying what you're selling.

@AnarchoNinaWrites @Herefordrob if you're saying the US political system is broken (yes it is) but however similar both parties are only one of them denies climate change exists & is determined to undo environmental & clean energy mandates. So those who didn't vote for the less shit option are part of the problem & moved us along that sliding scale closer to annihilation. So Herefordrob is right, who knows how much of a part humanity will play in the future when we're all this stupid.

@Fuzzbuzz That's absolute nonsense; continuing to support capitalism at gunpoint when capitalism itself is burning the planet is absolutely a form of climate change denial.

I stopped reading after that; go away.

@AnarchoNinaWrites such an ego on you, no wonder socialism & the left is damned. Too many fuckwits like you skulking online thinking they're part of the solution when they're as much the problem as the far-right. Except they have know how to take power. Fuck off to X and channel your crap there, you'd fit right in.

Fuzzy

@AnarchoNinaWrites and if you can't vote for someone who would at least introduce environmental & clean energy policies you're as big a problem for humanity as any MAGA wingnut

@Fuzzbuzz What part of "fuck off" did you not understand you absolute fucking muppet?

We are not talking. I am not interested. Go away or I will just report you for harassment. Run along now.

and btw? You're either full of shit or have no idea what you're talking about - probably both:

yahoo.com/news/biden-granted-m

Yahoo News · Biden granted more oil and gas drilling permits than Trump in his first 2 years in officeBy Ben Adler

@AnarchoNinaWrites pathetic response - you just can't make unpleasant choices. You have all this idealism for humanity online but in reality you're just a nihilist.
If more on the left had voted Dem progress would be made - slow progress - but wasn't that your whole point? - the sliding scale -? they acknowledge there's a problem & put some policies in place that will save lives. Now the world will get an administration actively fighting against the idea climate change even exists.

@Fuzzbuzz I do not care what you think about me. I do not care that you are wrong. I do not care that you pretend to be an antifascist while shitting up my mentions supporting politicians that adopt fascist policies in the open. My profile makes it 100% clear I am never voting for another capitalist on a boiling planet owned by nazi oligarchs again. We have nothing to talk about and now I am telling you to go away. I won't tell you again, I will simply block and report you.

Fuck. Off.

@AnarchoNinaWrites the real problem is your ego & flippant responses to critism. You just don't have the self-awareness to see you're as much part of the reason there are now climate denying fascists in charge. You didn't vote for the alternative & you bear as much responsibility for the outcome, death and climate fallout of the next 4yrs & beyond as any MAGA. Preening your eco credentials online won't change that.

@Fuzzbuzz have you considered perhaps the more progressive choice for yourself would be to commit to doing some activism and organising to create immediate material change rather than just yelling at women who disagree with you on the internet?

@lucretia perhaps a more progressive choice for them would be to actively vote for an alternative to a fascist, climate denying party that denies rights to large swathes of the population

@Fuzzbuzz @lucretia

The Democrats aren't progressive and haven't been since the 60s.
We need radical, systemic change and don't have time left for the incrementalism you seem to think is the solution

@Shivviness I agree with you big time, but in the short term the only power we have is the power to vote & unfortunately pragmatism is a dirty word. If more people had used their vote strategically over the years- for Dems instead of not at all - millions of women would still have rights over their own body, we wouldn't be facing a roll back on climate protection & clean energy & we wouldn't be facing the reality of a war against all the hard won rights of the past 70yrs