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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Start using language that resonates with blue collar workers, instead of scary commie words. Organize. Organize, again because it’s so important. Get elected; start small, don’t shoot straight for president: city council, county commissioner, lieutenant governor, climb the ladder and flood government at all levels with hick-coded progressives. Organize, a third time because what’s going to give the people the edge is direct open communication between them. This might be the age of the Vtuber senator, lean into it. Caucus with Dems until we have the numbers alone.

    It’s not impossible, we just have a lot of catching up to do. Lobbyists and PACs aren’t intrinsically bad things, they are useful tools to navigate the political landscape. But at the end of the day it’s gotta be people-first messaging. Embrace populism, embrace the circus, stop treating the average American as a rational actor. Grassroots propaganda.



  • I’m worried more that it won’t be effective. Power is a numbers game, be it guns or dollars or people. Presumably, the strength of the left is that, properly communicated, it’s the inevitable will of the majority of the people. That’s the weapon.

    The problem with the left isn’t that the message is wrong, it’s that it’s not being communicated effectively to the people that empower it. If the people were unified, and organized, nothing could stand in their way.




  • I’ve long ascribed to the theory that, if time travel is ever invented, no one kills Hitler because WWII was inevitable and Hitler actually bungled a lot of key decisions. I’m praying Trump is the same. Maybe this is the most painless purging of nationalist sentiment across the timelines.





  • What? No it isn’t. Fascism is fascism, neo-liberalism is neo-liberalism. You can certainly make a compelling argument that neo-liberalism eventually begets fascism. But fascism is already fascism, it’s not waiting to be begotten.

    When the viable options are the road to fascism, or the destination itself, non-fascists are best served choosing the road. At least on the road you have a chance of slowing down or steering down an alternate road, or even turning around as remote as that possibility is. When you’re at the destination, it’s too late.


  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workstoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comWhat year is it?
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    Going online to gripe about DNC strategy to other online leftists accomplishes nothing but generating more apathetic non-voters. Organizing in effective ways can actually accomplish something: mass letters directly to the DNC, banding together into massive documented coalitions, mass petitions.

    If the Uncommitted movement had tens of millions of registered voters come together and pledge to vote Harris if and only if she took a harder stance on Israel, that might have helped.

    When you’re speaking up to the wrong audience, and thereby doing more harm than good, yes you should shut up. Toward that audience, or at least with that message. The Democratic party is a lot of unsavory things, but they aren’t totally stupid. They have a great number of analysts developing strategy based on the information they have. If you want them to change, they need actionable information that supports that change.

    Complaining in already largely leftist anonymous online spaces is not actionable information.


  • How I “want” you to vote is pragmatically. If you vote 3rd party in a FPTP election, you’re pragmatically indistinguishable from a non-voter.

    If you’re a leftist, the pragmatic strategy is to recognize the ratchet effect and vote for the “halt movement” party over the “full send fascism” party. It’s much easier to push leftist policies and promote leftist representatives under a neo-liberal regime than under a fascist one. At the absolute minimum the neo-liberals decelerate the plunge into fascism.