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FAQ

Q: why not organize and stop treating the bus as a legitimate entity? why aren’t you working to stop the bus?

A: do both. cut the fuel line. break windows. put oatmeal in the gas tank. but maybe your efforts don’t succeed this election cycle. and if so don’t fucking throw away your vote if it can help your neighbors fucking survive. “harm reduction” is not a political strategy for action. it is a last minute, end of the line decision to save lives, after all other resources have been exhausted.

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[–] whoreticulture@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If the United States does not seem like a fascist country to you, you are probably very privileged and politically undereducated. We are funding a genocide for an ethnostate. We have a hugely inflated prison population for whom slavery is legal. No country even comes close to the amount of money we spend on the military, look it up it's not even close.

Sure, we have democratic elections, but so does Russia. When the "good guys" win the presidency, the United States is still doing all those things I mentioned.

[–] nomous@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lotta hyperbole and angry assumptions about who's privileged and politically uneducated in this conversation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

[–] whoreticulture@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism

There are so many definitions, I don't know why you insist on one that apparently doesn't include slavery, genocide, and military worship.