The concerning thing is how many people seem to appeal to the same system that enabled this to happen. It’s a liberalist attitude of looking for legal loopholes, technicalities and abstract contradictions of ideas instead of recognizing real power and fighting it directly.
Recall Trump’s first term, all the comments of endless smug “gotchas” and lists of laws and constitutional laws broken by Trump. How’d that impeachment end up?
Now we see the same nonsense again, people implying that ICE can be defeated by suing them, thinking that the police assisting ICE will be leashed by the mayor, thinking that this time the Democrat Party will do what Biden didn’t and reverse the slide into fascism.
No, the sad fact is that you can’t just let The System solve this one. You can’t vote fascism away at this point. It requires mass community-led solutions, and the sooner that’s organized, the less people die.
Admittedly I often see this discussion through the lens of Internet comment sections so hopefully that’s making this seem worse than it truly is.
everything to deflect the blame away from capitalism. not that loopholes aren’t useful, but their desperate clinging to them is just that.
i’ve noticed it with people irl too. i feel some of them want to somehow “make it” and have theirs instead of having to tend to their responsibility of fixing things.
some of them are siding with fascists to avoid confronting it, like history taught us nothing.
The concerning thing is how many people seem to appeal to the same system that enabled this to happen. It’s a liberalist attitude of looking for legal loopholes, technicalities and abstract contradictions of ideas instead of recognizing real power and fighting it directly.
Recall Trump’s first term, all the comments of endless smug “gotchas” and lists of laws and constitutional laws broken by Trump. How’d that impeachment end up?
Now we see the same nonsense again, people implying that ICE can be defeated by suing them, thinking that the police assisting ICE will be leashed by the mayor, thinking that this time the Democrat Party will do what Biden didn’t and reverse the slide into fascism.
No, the sad fact is that you can’t just let The System solve this one. You can’t vote fascism away at this point. It requires mass community-led solutions, and the sooner that’s organized, the less people die.
Admittedly I often see this discussion through the lens of Internet comment sections so hopefully that’s making this seem worse than it truly is.
everything to deflect the blame away from capitalism. not that loopholes aren’t useful, but their desperate clinging to them is just that.
i’ve noticed it with people irl too. i feel some of them want to somehow “make it” and have theirs instead of having to tend to their responsibility of fixing things.
some of them are siding with fascists to avoid confronting it, like history taught us nothing.