[โ€“] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

the plan isn't a secret recipe i'm hiding from you. it's happening right now, whether you notice it or not.

mutual aid networks. rent strikes. union organizing. boycott campaigns. community defense. abolitionist projects that starve the carceral state. international solidarity that makes imperialist violence costly.

you want a ten-point plan handed to a president? that's not how this works. leftists don't wait for permission from power -- we build counter-power. we make the old world unmanageable and the new world unavoidable, piece by piece.

the question isn't "how?" as if it's some untested theory. the question is whether you'll get off the sidelines and help.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    you're offering a false choice: work with sociopaths or kill them; that's surrender.

    don't beg killers to be nicer -- make their cruelty politically impossible.

    you say "we have to live with each other." fine. but living together doesn't mean accepting drone strikes on kids because 4% of people are sociopaths. that's not pragmatism. that's cowardice with a philosophy degree.

    the goal isn't to pick the lesser evil. it's to build a world where bombing children isn't a debate -- it's unthinkable. that's not moral purity. that's the whole damn point.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    it's not about what you or i want; it's about having basic human decency and standing up against red lines like genocide; ethnic cleansing; and especially bombing innocent people from orbit or separating children from their parents to trying them individually in obama's case.

    pretending that these are little more than wish list item minimizes these nazi level atrocities and reflects your character as a human being.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 9 months ago

    Who stands to benefit from suppression of the Earth being flat, and how do they benefit?

    extend that to truly controversial and equally true topics of today; like north korea; and most will come to understand that they too have bought into conspiracy theories themselves.

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