Revolution? Yeah, revolution can bring anarchy, but I certainly wouldn’t give the fascists any credit, as I’m not an accelerationist.

Odds of revolution seem low though

Edit: also, to be clear, I don’t believe any form of government is ‘just’

Fascists will not bring anarchy

Wow, that got weird

I disagree with your premise itself

You seem to be under the assumption that I’m a lib who accidentally took “defund the police” too far. I’m an anarchist who believes we shouldn’t have laws at all

On the contrary, corrupt cops should be called out.

All cops are bastards

How is demonizing someone for their profession any better than demonizing someone for their sexual orientation

Lmao, classic

Ew, copaganda

Oh shit new counter statistic just dropped

despite making up only 12% of local police forces…

Yw!

Question 1: What is your SSN?

Was 2024 the first time you voted 3rd party or protested the D-R binary?

In 2020, I intended to vote for Hawkins, and then within an hour of voting, I was temporarily convinced of the utilitarian perspective, and I regretted it the last four years

At what point in time did you decide you were going to protest/third party vote (and if there was a “trigger moment,” that would be enlightening)?

I don’t remember a specific first time, but regularly throughout Biden’s presidency. I said to myself, “I can’t believe I fucking voted for that guy- I’m not voting for these people again”

How long has Gaza/apartheid Israel been in, say, your top three concerns when voting (decades, years, months…)?

Since it became clear that the US was enabling a genocide, in late 2023

I’ve been trying to answer this all day, and struggling to do so. I think it’s because I use living in a deep red state to excuse my decision so that people aren’t allowed to be as mad at me. But I’d also like to think that I’m principled enough to have made the same decision in a swing state, even though that’s not the answer that people want to hear.

My hope was that by outspokenly refusing to vote for Harris unless she pledged to withhold weapons from Israel, if enough people did so, she might actually adopt that stance to earn our vote. Proceeding to then vote for her anyway, despite consistently implying she wouldn’t do anything different than Biden, would have felt… idk the right word- hypocritical?

I get shat on for putting principles above practicality but, if everyone did that, we might live in a much better world. Though I’ve heard pragmatists say the exact opposite about idealists.

Voting at all is already an activity that is incongruent with my values, as it legitimizes a system that I believe in dismantling.

I guess to answer your question, I probably would’ve voted for Harris if she pledged to withhold weapons from Israel, or, if in a swing state, if I happened to be temporarily convinced of the utilitarian perspective, but it would probably have to be within like an hour of voting, and be disgusted with myself after

Though I’m typically not a fan of deontological ethics, living in a deep red state, I afforded myself the opportunity to remain principled in a stand against genocide. If I lived in a swing state, however, I may have given more weight to a consequentialist perspective and made a different decision, though I would’ve hated myself for it.

I could say a lot more, but I wanna let you take this conversation where you want it to go, so that’s the core of my mindset behind that decision

Does voting for De La Cruz count as abstaining, for the purposes of the conversation you’d like to have?

I’d recommend a refurbished pixel of the newest version you can afford and then put GrapheneOS on it. Moto G Power 5g has better battery but worse camera. the Galaxy S line is pretty good too, with incremental upgrades so you can compare specs against price