i wish that were true since that would mean the likes of malcom x, or fred hampton, or MLK jr could still be alive imparting needful wisdom upon the american popular consciousness; or that institutions like the school of the americas, the imf, or the icc would not need to exist; or that needless violent & bloody conflicts like the korean, vietnamese, both iraqi, afghani or ukranian wars would not need to happen; or that episodes like cia induced regime changes and the extra judicial arrests & suppression of the politically active students that’s happening now, wouldn’t need to be a thing.

instead; as history has already proven; we’re going to end up with increasing levels of fascism thanks to propaganda induced ignorance coupled with the wilful ignorance on display here, that perpetuates doom scrolling and the despair that makes the people within your ranks checkout/disengage from the political process that enable political victories for likes of trump, or poilievre, or le pen, or weidel, or meloni, etc.

i don’t doubt your willingness, i doubt your ability and effectiveness; you can’t plan and fight something that your environment won’t let you see.

the m/l methods i’m using to fight the ruling class have proven to be durable enough to outlast 2 centuries worth of varying incarnations of multiple ruling classes and benefits from the writings of “lessons learned” from people that have tried (and failed) various strategies in those last 2 centuries.

ignoring these “lessons learned” and advocating for further rounds of try-and-fail strategies against opponents who HAVE taken to heart their own “lessons learned” is not going to make difference.

if you want to fight the ruling class effectively, read m/l theory and apply it to your life.

we’re not on the same team because liberals are willfully ignorant of the propaganda that western media re-inforces, rendering them useless at stopping those oligarchic billionaires despite the overwhelming numbers that give them the power to do so and living, breathing examples like, mexico & sheinbuam, that prove how easy it is to get started.

china is communist in name only like the west is democratic in name only and the systemic suppression of disenfranchised minorities in the west is so rampant with the current western hegemon that its wealth gap; education delta; & prison system is proportionately the largest in the world by far; you would be able see to for yourself if you could acknowledge the propaganda in western media that makes the basis for your platform so divorced from reality.

fortunately for leftists, liberal acknowledgement of any propaganda not a requirement for those capitalist billionaires to disappear since the inherent contradictions in capitalism is guaranteed to end its own existence eventually anyways and its decay has already started, as evidenced by the ascendancies of all of the fascists leaderships and governments across the entire western world.

The most effective one I know I call “eating the breadcrumbs”

First I follow the breadcrumbs since Neurotypicals and some neurodivergents like talking about themselves and I listen for indicators of things they like and respond w questions that align w them.

Then I eat the breadcrumbs by maintaining a practiced look upon my face that seems like I’m enjoying a snack and pursue each chance I get to make a joke so that I can actually enjoy the conversation. (Alcohol helps A LOT with this part).

It’s a lot like social masking, but it’s targeted at an individual and w a bit more depth instead of a just a public facade.

It’s also more draining than ordinary masking; so I mostly use it in social situations than I know will replenish my energy.

I wish I could enjoy the irony of a “both sides” argument used here to excuse the hundreds of genocides enabled by western media when Eastern media is very much as relatively innocent as Democrats are compared to Republicans in ghoulishness and I do agree that authoritarian regimes are no good, but i already know that the oligarchical authoritarian regime that’s called the West isn’t considered as such here.

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AOC/Bernie drawing huge crowds

you’re aware that the democrats have enabled nearly all of trump’s agenda and neither bernie nor aoc are advocating for the democratic leadership to change course, right?

negative peace

this is what politically moderate people of this world like the Democrats keep creating for us despite warnings from influential leaders and great thinkers like MLK Jr. warning us against it:

… I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice …

doge’s purpose is to suppress wages and working conditions by taking away the few remaining bits and pieces of the welfare state; it’s the american version of british labour’s actions doing the same thing so that they can afford the tax breaks for the rich.

when it comes to hamas or gaza; western media makes eastern media look like an angel considering that western media is literally enabling genocides and imperialist wars.

does it give you warning/notifications if you forget to update it?

Go check the vote counts; the leftists justifiably calling Biden “genocide Joe” remained the same as it always has, excluding Obama, (as did the Republicans’ vote counts also did). the Democrat vote counts took a sizeable dip in this election.

Democrats aren’t even coalition building w their fellow Democrats anymore and blue-maga takes like these explain why and it’s going to keep getting worse until you stop drinking the Kool aid.

and it’ll become just as legal here if anyone ever tried to challenge it in the courts; this seems like a tiny technicality to me.

if by “self-coup” you referring to trump’s election; they did the same thing with their own fascists and their parliament helped in the same way that our congress helped and their repression is also focused on lgbt arena’s like ours is; but goes well beyond minor policy changes and it’s here where they’ve gone further down the fascism timeline than we have.

the united states is part of a civilization that’s changing more rapidly than the rest of it and even then, only its privileged classes; italy’s another part of western civilization that has also changed in the same manner and to a further degree than americans have (so far).

how so?

the people who didn’t vote were all democrats; aka the non-coalition building type of voters so expecting them to do anything other than not voting was unrealistic.

you’re aware that italy is ahead of us in the fascism timeline, right?

they’re ahead of us; they’ve had a fascist leaders for a couple of years and have already legally disenfranchised many.

the vote blue, no matter who crowd is just as reactionary as maga is and just like maga they have no interest in coalition building, only in revenge.