we have two options to follow. we can do everything we can to make things better, or we can do nothing and everyone dies. personally i do not consider the latter viable. the former requires instilling hope that better things are possible. and here’s the thing: if we all band together against authoritarianism we will reach some people who are currently not awake to the possibilities. to reiterate, it will not be easy and it will not be short term, but if you ask me of the two possible outcomes, the one where everyone dies or the one where everyone gets to be free, i prefer the one where everyone gets to be free. so i’m gonna do everything in my power to bring that one to pass, even if it’s hard, unpleasant, or at times like right now seemingly impossible, but keep in mind every group faced with destruction passed down the messages they felt were most important, and always the message of the value of hope makes it through. hope is ultimately a weapon of resistance, one i refuse to give up

you’re projecting mate. I’ve been saying we live in a global system of torture for 13 years and protesting genocide since 2008. across the globe there are stories of societies who figured this shit out before white supremecy arrived on their shores and wrecked everything. i’m sorry, but no. this resource scarcity and inequality are constructed by the holders of power. it’s planned and on purpose to keep us from ever seeing that the rich keep us poor so we’ll stay angry at each other and let them stay in power. i fundamentally disagree with you about what all of human history tells us, and what the natural order is. i honestly ask you this, if the natural order is struggle between groups of people, why does it require so much energy and effort on the part of the part of the people in power to keep it going?

i can cosign this view. it’s just the fallout against his “enemies” will also not be strategic. the whole thing will be a grand tragedy

when i say “we” i don’t mean america. i mean the poor, the lower classes, i mean people who know the truth. people who understand hierarchies aren’t necessary to society, that poverty is enforced, and that all people can be, and deserve to be free. sorry for any disclarity. this is not just about the united states. this is about a global system of terror that’s about to get a lot scarier after a summer of intensifying authoritarianism

and also libraries and book mobiles. and help fund reading therapists however you can. give the children the things that helped you come up. that’s all society has ever been. a 10k year long effort to give the kids a better future than the one we were given. it’s just every 80 years we fuck it all up and give them a worse future. but if our ancestors voices can reach us, our voices can still be around as long as the truth needs to be told

the lesson here is “gotdamn is propaganda effective, even to get people to do the absolute dumbest shit”

so start putting out messaging about how… not to be a shitty person where people who aren’t guaranteed to agree with you will see and hear it

we’re going to fix this. i don’t know how yet. and it won’t be easy. and it won’t be short term. but we’re going to fix this, so read to a kid. make them remember reading time as the best part of their day. make them love the things AI can’t twist: physical artifacts

oh for sure. america just voted that the hell in eastern Ukraine seems great and we want some of that in Mississippi too, please. it’s deeply… sad? funny? upsetting? hysterically perturbing? definitely something

i don’t think it’s that deep with trump. these are people he likes, respects, and agrees with. they’re who he views as aligned with his political aims

he talks about peace, but it’s obvious from the context he means the kind of peace hitler meant: the kind where everyone is dead at the end of the grand all consuming war

maaan… how the fuck are people this uninformed about who donald trump is and what he’s about? did all these people think supporting him would curry them favor, and make their people safer than if a less insane candidate took office? like, i geuinely don’t understand how you hear what this motherfucker says and not realize his whole entire deal i hating people who aren’t cishet white men. like i can get my friend who the first ever election she voted in in our country was 2016 when she grew up with different formats of propaganda, but he was president for four years, and this go around he’s been more mask off, and the people saying he’s dangerous have been more direct in their messaging.

like… how are people this illiterate beyond just reading comprehension? like, why don’t you got anything comprehension, what is this?

well i guess the grand joke of the right’s “war on men” is that all the worst men won.

also there’s a difference between an imperfect coalition and a compromised coalition. you may not be religious, but the organizations closest to you might be religious. it’s far better to talk with open minded elca lutherans than close minded patriot front goons about what to do next. understand that there are many kinds of fascist and many kinds of anti-fascist. even the deepest red counties have people who who voted for harris because they have seen firsthand the dangers of christofascism. project 2025 is deeply unpopular and a disturbing number of people still don’t realize that voting for trump and against project 2025 was not and is not an available ballot option.

here’s the thing: this will never be over. not until the entire world over is free. every rise of authoritarianism has given us stories of heroes who resisted. you can hear their echos all throughout religious stories, songs, and secular media. they all tell us the same things: as long as we make art to pass down to the children, no authoritarian can ever rule forever, not even the ur-farscist, the political strongman who crops up every 80 years to lie to us about how he will free us.

right now, start telling the word truths about itself in places the right wing doesn’t know how to reach. writing by hand in a journal, creating poetry, singing songs, writing in the streets with chalk. these are all things you can do while you’re still looking for someone to organize with that help pass on the truth of the world to future people.

also, look for marginalized people in your community. they have been living with this terror all along. they know:

1. what to do
2. what you can do that will help
3. the kinds of things people new to this do that they think is help that actually isn’t

in other words: they are veterans of this 10k year long war. they have inherited stories you have never heard, and they still have hope even as things get worse for them.

i believe in you, and i believe in the power of everlasting peace, one where there’s room for everyone at the table and everyone gets a plate before anyone gets seconds

thanks. you too. i see the failures as being mostly relating to misunderestimating the power of the right wing propaganda machine, even as the world over has gotten more authoritarian

didn’t mean to spread any misinformation. i still see in what you’ve sent me that latin men lag behind latin women by a significant margin voting about evenly between trump and harris

she’s a politician who spouts conspiracy misinformation. the next president wants her to head the cia and fbi

i wish i could see that as a good thing, or a bright side, but i just don’t. even if someone chose to be tortured, they’re still getting tortured, and the only motivation for that crowd has ever been blaming us for their suffering. they will endure great torture as long as they get to wish a worse life on someone else. they will suffer, yes, but they will blame us. the mass media is already paving the road for this line of thinking, saying Kamala ran too far to the left, which to me sounds like a dog whistle for too much minority support, given how far right she ran

100%. all of them could realistically be any of the horses at the right moment in time

i brought up ukraine because all the active genocides, the ones in Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, the Congo, and the Gobi desert are interconnected. our world’s billionaires want us to blame minorities for our problems instead of them. i want to make it abundantly clear i think harris and biden suck, but it’s definitively not the same things under trump. the top ten billionaires are all already richer and our new regime will do nothing to hear us and slow these genocides. they will accelerate genocide and reduce our ability to find truth by inundating us with bullshit narratives about how it’s the left (the actual left, people like me) who are bad, actually.

this is definitively a worsening, and acting like it’s not means you’re more likely to get caught standing still when you need to be resisting. i am under the impression you think you’re helping, which is a good start, but you need to start looking at the bigger picture. get on board with that the modern world is fully interconnected, and that everything is about to get way more authoritarian than you’ve grown accustomed to, when it was already very authoritarian

i went with gabbard as conquest since she’s a Russian asset