Maybe I'm putting words in your mouth, but I'm hearing you say:
people who think systems of oppression should be destroyed rather than reformed are losers.
Or in other words:
Reform or revolution? Reform is correct...if you say revolution you're a larper.
I provided successful revolutionary societies as a counterexample to that claim. You know, Batista held elections too, maybe the Cuban people should have just voted him out? The July 26 movement was the equivalent of redditors with no follow through? (I'm sure you're not saying that, which is why I think it's a useful counterexample).
And despite the US's centuries (250 years) of autocracy, I certainly did not and am not saying "the US is like those revolutionary societies." I don’t think anyone thinks the United States is on the cusp of a revolution. I do say it's silly to think that these capitalist republics are “functional” in any sense other than functioning to oppress working people, and it has been silly for a long time.
Help people out of the house before knocking it down, for sure. That’s dual power! That comes way before knocking it down. And we’re not even doing a good job at that yet. No doubt about it, we got a long way to go before we start knocking the house down. But the point we're disagreeing about is that I think we shouldn't waste time propping up the house…help people instead…get people out. And you think we should be patching up the cracked foundations and rotten support beams (or...sounds like maybe you don't think the foundation is so bad, which might be a whole separate conversation).
Don’t take me seriously; I’m a very un-serious person. I do a little organizing in my community, but I haven't found the true marxist vanguard party or the insurrectionist anarchist cell that'll kick it all off or whatever. But the position that the system is not salvageable as a whole is a serious position!