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REMINDER: corporatism IS fascism. USA's political elites are controlled by unelected corporatist oligarchs for whom politics isn't about party or nation but business. checkout how the DNC wants to price out the little people from their fundraisers. this is literal corporate capture but with political parties because oligarchs only care about the state violence they can capture & profit from.

> How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protests
nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden

NBC News · How Biden aides are trying to shield the president from protestsBy Monica Alba

IF YOU WERE NEVER INVOLVED IN POLITICS TIL TRUMP, LEARN ONE THING:

the DNC have always two-timed grassroots activists, no matter how much money they raise for local or state democrats or the DNC itself.

that's why they're pricing out the grassroots nationwide. the bootlicking elite of the DNC depend on billionaire money.

corruption is the gateway to fascism. it's a historical fact.

the corporate capture of today isn't new. it is the 1939 corporatism that never went away.

🗣️ THIS IS WHY YOU VOTE WITH YOUR PROTEST BOOTS ON

i keep repeating: DEMAND democrats, especially the leadership, say they're antifascist and take note of who does and doesn't.

because it should have made people cringe when an unhinged Nancy Pelosi went on tv in the bowels of Congress to declare WE ARE CAPITALISTS.

who is we? the working classes are not the ones making money out of insider knowledge with a portfolio that has it's own fucking subreddit.

that's her and her cronies, not us.

YES, NO REPUBLICAN SHOULD ENTER THE WHITE HOUSE IN A CENTURY

but if all Dems are gonna be like Biden? then neither should the corporatist bootlickers of the Democratic Party.

and that's why i insist in making a distinction between them and people like AOC or Rashid. especially, Bloomberg's existential threat, Elizabeth Warren.

and then there's Bernie Sanders who was smart enough to leave the party back in the day because he knew the fuckery that was Clintonism.

VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION

VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION
it's not a mandate when the opposition is fascist and the billionaire donors of your party's elite are part of that fascist opposition.

VOTING FOR POTUS ONLY MATTERS IN SWING PRECINCTS
not having direct democracy is why it's easy for oligarchs to buy themselves a party. even the Greens, btw.

so don't worry about some shmuck in NYC not voting. worry about people not voting in fucking Maricopa county.

you're white in the South? STFU & hit the pavement

IF YOU ARE WHITE AND IN A SWING DISTRICT, GO TO WORK

it's not Darnell from the Bronx's job to get your neighbors to the polling places.

especially if they're young or Black or both. that's your job.

don't berate BIPOC or LGBTQI people online for telling you the truth about the fascism in this country: it's always been here, it's just been called Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, racism, homophobia, sexism.

so go to work. we all have different work to do

BUT REMEMBER:
VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION
that means you won't be able to delude yourself that you are done just by voting.

let me say it again, with the chest:

🗣️ VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION. YOUR WORK IS NOT DONE BY JUST VOTING.

you know this has always been true, but now, you cannot continue pretending it was "those other people's problem". we didn't even have to tell you. Biden has shown his true political face and it's ugly.

so prepare to not rest until you stomp the last fascist

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

THIS IS WHY SELF-CARE IS POLITICAL WARFARE because there was never a democracy after all and the job will not be done come November.

it's just that you chose to pretend racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, classism —all the social and political and economic hates and phobias— had nothing to do to with .

yet here we are.

so prepare yourself to fight Biden & his brand of Democrats even harder for the bare minimum. they'll sell everybody out for a bad win

AND WHY AM CALLING Y'ALL WHITE PEOPLE OUT especially if y'all out in the south? because more White people voted for Trump, a Republican, in 2020 than at any time in USA history. in the middle of a pandemic. after sitting at the last minute another illegitimate SCOTUS justice to the bench, Amy Barret Cohen, a woman who is literally in her thiclose to heretical flavor of Catholicism, a handmaiden.

61% of white men and 55% of white women voted for Trump in 2020.

that wasn't us. that was you.

so, please, stop yammering about Black people not voting for Biden. literally, every single Black voter could vote for Biden and he'd still lose.

2024 is about YOU going to war against YOUR WHITE FAMILY, WHITE FRIENDS AND WHITE NEIGHBORS VOTING FOR TRUMP.

and... you know... shutting it about what young people say is their line in the political sand; because, let me say it again,

🗣️ 📣 DEMOCRATS CANNOT WIN WITHOUT GEN Z

so live with the fact y'all need to move LEFT for democrats to win

@blogdiva been saying this forever. The Clinton school of democrat centrists are always afraid of going left because they’ll be demonized as communists or whatever, but they need to look at how badly the right tried to twist Obama into a Marxist and pay attention the the lesson there. The pantomime Obama that the republicans created was way to the left of Bernie, and guess what? He won. So an actual leftist could win too.

@blogdiva they are going to fuck it up. They would rather pander to the fascist line than sacrifice stock dividends to appease their voting base.

We have far right fascist and fascist lite to “choose” from, yet people are really having a discussion about quality of life being better with one win or another.

Yall. We are in the late stages of a failing empire. The dems are not our friends. They’re on a life boat watching you drown, audaciously asking for your life jacket.

@blasfemmous @blogdiva

We are watching the response of people who see no escape from abuse, rationalizing sucking up to a "nicer" abuser for better treatment... not wanting to face the fact that the preferred abuser will ALSO let us drown for a buck-- he's just the one smart enough to lie and promise help.

@violetmadder @blogdiva right, he’s just HIDING his contempt for us a little better than Trump. He’s not on our side. You’re not safer with complacency. Cop cities are still silently rising. Rights are slowly and silently being stripped away.

The problem is, we need to stop talking and acting as if we have “rights” under either of these failing institutions. Until we do that, we are going to have this “most important election of our lifetime” bullshit every 4 years.

@violetmadder @blogdiva the DNC makes more money when there is a republican seated in the executive office. They love a divided nation. They love these little fights we have online. It gets them more donations when we are scared to experience a “further loss of rights”. Yet, they get in office and very surface level things change, nothings ever permanent. 🤔

The more we fight with each other, the less we realize the fight is with ALL OF THEM. We need .

@blasfemmous @blogdiva

Exactly. The "incremental change" and "reform the party from within" shit has been tried for more than half a century. The damage done to our biosphere during that period is catastrophic. We have no time for these games.

@violetmadder @blogdiva unfortunately while they play political monopoly over the next fifty years, we are the discarded structures in their path.

We will be devoured by extreme weather, poisoned water, rising fringe hate groups, the current and future pandemics, all the while—they’ll be campaigning for our support from their bunkers.

The sooner we collectively realize our quality of life comes from the community we build and the power that holds, the better chance we have.

@blogdiva Man, 3 out of 5 white men being pieces a shit is not surprising but stark to see on paper

@hannu_ikonen @blogdiva
We're talking about 61% of white men **who voted** in the 2020 US presidential election, right? Not 61% of white men in general? (Because I think something like 35% of eligble people didn't vote. That's probably skewed though -- probably a higher % of white men voted, and a lower % of eligible non-whites voted. Because vote suppression measures etc. But I haven't actually looked.)

@mmlvx @hannu_ikonen @blogdiva when you do, you may be shocked at how low voter turnout actually is.
We need mandatory voting, as they do in AU.

@blogdiva As someone in a county that voted 78% for Biden and had 86% turnout, I’m not sure where to focus my efforts, because local-to-me isn’t a problem. I have a small family with no one in swing or red states.

Best I can do is try to extend my reach by amplifying others and contributing to tight races, particularly those with liberal to progressive candidates.

@deirdresm @blogdiva
I’m in a similar situation, and here’s my thinking:

Pay attention to state and local races, and push the envelope of justice within each district. Are there city council candidates willing to check police power? State candidates ready to defend abortion rights?

(For example: I’m knocking doors for •someone• this fall, likely Ilhan Omar.)

We can vote for harm reduction in the presidential race •and• vote for more appealing candidates in local races.

@inthehands @blogdiva

Great metric. Because of the potential crisis in secretaries of state, I’ve been focusing on those races, particularly in swing states.

I’ve also been looking at AG races as that affects a ton of people’s lives. A good AG/DA vs. a bad one can be a huge change in local justice, particularly in states with abortion restrictions.

@deirdresm @blogdiva
AG/DA is a great example. Ask me how George Floyd’s murderers were convincted, and I’ll tell you about how a good state AG (Keith Ellison) yanked the case out from under a bad county DA (Mike Freeman) that most people had never paid even minute’s attention to until he nearly botched (or buried) one of the biggest cases in MN history.

@inthehands @deirdresm also, school elections boards. was thinking all day, maybe it's time to put together a list things people could do beside giving money... or complaining, LOL. people showing up at places the mainstream has forgotten does make a difference. there's many ways of showing up. it's also a good way of reminding people that disabled people do vote and have long histories of political engagement.

@blogdiva @inthehands Rick and I have tried on school boards, but have found candidate statements are often deliberately generic to the point of being misleading.

That’s one case where it’s super easy to do far more harm than good if you’re not super high information about each possible candidate.

We try, though!

One of our county supervisors hates parking, and as a disabled person with POTS who needs proximity, I always give him a good snarl. :(

@deirdresm @blogdiva
Public info on school board races is typically next to useless. Find a friend or two who works in the local public schools, and they’ll tell you what’s on the teacher grapevine.

@inthehands @blogdiva I need to leverage my cat’s special access for sure. (She has her own decorated box in the principal’s office!)

We’ve found listening to the public zoom meetings rage-inducing at times. :(

@inthehands @deirdresm that! if you had kids, go have a convo with the teachers. also, find out from them if the school or parents' groups need help on election day with childcare, food and that sort of thing. that's an election focused kind of organizing that people don't think of but is so needed. sending food to the schools can make a difference on that day.

@inthehands @deirdresm but there's other actions that do not have to be related to actual voting day. i'll start an open thread when i get some spoons for it.

@inthehands @deirdresm @blogdiva what the teachers want isn’t always ideal - in my kids’ district the teachers were on the right side of the recent Moms for Bigotry takeover attempt, but many teachers at the “good” (rich, underpopulated) middle school oppose changing the lines so that there isn’t a “bad” (poor, overcrowded) one anymore. Everything has to be interpreted in context

@njwatt @deirdresm @blogdiva
Yes, of course, teachers are all people and people have all kinds of opinions. Taking things at face value in a 1:1 conversation is no less foolish than taking them at face value in public statements. But the original request was about where to find data given scant news coverage, and teachers and their opinions will provide data aplenty.

@deirdresm @inthehands am out of spoons but will definitely come back to this the next few days and start an open thread of things folks can do now, during & after the vote

@blogdiva @inthehands Totally understand. May your spoon recovery be swift. ❤️

@blogdiva @deirdresm
All that. Showing up with annoying frequency at underattended local events is something I’d like to get better at.