I really hope she wins. Kat is a real one.
Kat, they voted to pay for the fascists. We are past criminalizing fascists. You are either on the ground helping us physically demolish ICE deathcamps and freeing victims, or you’re the fascist press.
Real leadership is on the ground helping your neighbors. Not platforming your career in a speech.
I’m sure you have fought, and suffered, a lot, yourself. But if you consider anyone who does any less than you your enemy, you will find yourself alone very quickly.
Dem congressional candidate assaulted by ICE agent
Kat is one of the few people with a political spotlight that is doing something. Sure, she’s a liberal trying to fix a broken system from within; but you can’t say she is one to only give speeches and not participate in active resistance.
Try to remember, anyone who takes an active role in resistance and who isn’t preventing other forms of resistance is an ally.
trying to fix a broken system from within
Ah, thanks for reminding why she is still at theatrics of protest that started 22 years ago.
political spotlight
I’d say political theatrics.
active role in resistance and who isn’t preventing other forms of resistance
Care to elaborate here? I would never prevent a liberal from making a fool of themselves, like Kat is exemplifying, but how do you actually resist 90% completion of fascism?
If you don’t understand the difference between resistance and obedience, then no. You aren’t able to recognize an ally and I won’t continue the conversation as I don’t think it will be productive.
For anyone else reading this, please look up the Wikipedia page for Lateral violence/horizontal hostility
If you don’t understand the difference between resistance and obedience
Please recall that 🇺🇲 is an illiterate empire, so you have to precise what differences you mean here. Because both liberals and fascist have wildly different meanings to these nouns, not used in philosophy.
I am a black anarchist, so I know all 8 definitions. Which why I requested precisions.
recognize an ally
To what? Maintaining the empire that deathcamped me? The one still praxing my genocide? How is Kat an ally to a system meant to oppress everyone but the rulers?
productive
Faster precision: what are you trying to produce?
Love your profile pic. “I’d rather live my life as a farm yard pig than be a fascist” -Porco Rosso
If the Democratic Party had half a brain they too would be calling for the immediate prosecution and abolition of ICE for violating the constitution. Instead we get seven house dems voting to approve their budget and we’ll get some limp dick gesture from Senate dems before they cave like always.
We need more people like Kat primarying complacent party-machine dems in every state and at every opportunity. Take back the party from the DNC and shape it into an actually progressive party until we can get ranked choice and drop the current two party paradigm entirely.
If the Democratic Party had half a brain
Reverse Hanlon’s razor. Don’t attribute to stupidity what can only be explained by malice. They (kind of) know what they’re doing.
Don’t attribute to stupidity what can only be explained by malice
Greetings, fellow cynic. I use this one quite a bit myself.
Finally. Its not enough, not nearly enough, but it’s a start.
The hairdresser who cut her bangs and pointed them directly into her eyelids needs a discussion.
I see the reddit habit of insulting a person’s appearance when you disagree with them but can’t meaningfully address what they’re saying has made it to lemmy.
Via the least surprising messenger.
Ain’t you one of the people who pretends that all the opposition to harris was because of her laugh? Because you’re doing the same shit here.
Democrats worry about how they look to other way too much. They need to look at republican evil as evil and stop letting spineless trash get elected.
