I never meant to imply a pacifist would be required to engage in violence, only that they would have to indirectly support it at the very least, lest their own principles be engulfed by those who would see to their extinction.

Remember everyone, you can just mullvad into a different country while yours passes increasingly facistic laws. Japan is gonna see a lot of traffic.

Nah court jesters were entertaining and a king would regularly execute ones that overstepped their privilege. Trump isn't laughing.

They're ragebaiters and they have a hell of a megaphone.

It's a tough go for the people who believe in pacifism or nonviolent change.

The Washington establishment is called that precisely because it has been legitimized and established. If you want to delegitimize it, that could serve as the first step to achieve a solution. I'm not saying our views are even contrasting, our methodology is.

Spreading the good word doesn't mean much when there's nothing that follows. No plan, no suggested actions, just small groups struggling to do what they can. All we can presently do is slow the bleeding. Getting tired of bleeding doesn't mean to just stop holding the wound.

There is no alternative. Third party is not an option and if you think the DNC hates progressives, you're not looking at the RNC. Democrats are the only window. The only solution under the current system. Yes, decry the system is broken and we will nod on solem agreement. Short of a revolution, the Democrat party is the best current solution.

Anyone who isn't a nazi should be voting blue. Any other option allows a nazi to be elected. This is a trolly problem but with the whole of the United States and to a degree the globe. Stop overcomplicating it.

Mamdani is a progressive democrat, if course the establishment democrats are against him. Yet, he's about to become mayor. Yes we all know the DNC scuttled Bernie which is why I never said to fund the DNC I said vote blue. An establishment dem is better than a republican. A progressive dem is better than an establishment dem.

The only way a progressive gets elected is as a Democrat. Mamdani proves it. We can't even do ranked choice voting because Republicans would never win again, so they block it.

You're screaming what we already know. There is no ignorance, you are no town crier, you are simply noise for the sake of it and I'm sick of the unintelligent cacophony.

I didn't ask if it was your country, I said present a viable solution and steps to achieve the better outcome. You are no different from a baby crying for milk. You don't care how you get it, don't care what happens to get it to your mouth, you just want it now and refuse to be silent until it happens. People like you slow progress with your incessant babbling.

You have energy with no direction. Outrage without clear purpose. And you often act like an anchor to things you'd otherwise be able to benefit from. Worst of all you are incapable of distinguishing severity. You are a mind broken centrist (or ultra leftist) that can't figure out we can get rid of all the kid touchers with the left, while the right is defending them whole sale.

We cannot have a left of left party while the right still exists. We cannot remove the right by allowing them to be elected.

Yeah people like you just don't have a solution. You'd rather wait for a cure to the cancer than to get treatments done. We all know the treatments aren't perfect, we know we're slowly dying, why the fuck do we need you screaming it? You're yelling in a cancer ward that the treatments aren't cures. No shit.

Lol I swear to god some of you are just accelerationists. You have four options when voting rolls around. Vote red, vote blue, vote green, do nothing.

Voting red accelerates the damage, policies that don't align with your core personal beliefs are implemented and things get worse, fast. Laws that granted more freedom, repealed. Laws that stifle retaliation, rubber stamped. Regression in its purest form.

Voting blue slows things down, opens the gate for progressives to enter the space, even going as far as to win despite aid from the DNC. Mamdani for example. Can lead to fundamental system changes.

Voting green (or "morality voting") usually ends in a lack of funding for the candidate, causing too few people to know who they are. Normies will not vote for a name they don't recognize or a party they don't identify as.

Not voting (or "Protesting the system") leads to candidates that don't represent the interests of the country being elected and makes it easier for those with money to make it harder to actually change the system.

The reason nothing gets fucking done is because you get it in your head to be cute. You want to purity test the left rather than shutting the fuck up and just voting blue. Republicans cannibalized themselves for like a month over speaker of the house, then got their shit together and just pass anything red. In 6 months they have caused more political damage to this country than any left candidate has ever hoped to try. And stupid purists like you are a massive reason why he got elected. Twice.

Yeah so maybe we go after the worst ones before burning both bridges and getting nothing done. You're acting like a centrist voting third party out of morality. Guess who won? The worst guys. Maybe fucking focus on a winning strategy to take out Hitler before we move on to mini Hitler.