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Red MAGA, Blue MAGA, what begins with MAGA? 🤔 Queer folks, don't let libs bully you this election year! Remember that Biden and the other Democrats have permitted and enabled the laws and hate crimes against us.
@PuppyFromLosAndes when I say "bully" I mean that I am hounded online pretty regularly by cis people who say really horrific things to me because they think that will get me to vote for Biden. Here are some things I have been told by cis liberals...
if Trump wins, you're gonna end up in a concentration camp, and I am just gonna point and laugh
when the fascists take control, it's gonna be your fault
when the fascists kill you and all your friends, you will only have yourself to blame
you're a fucking idiot if you can't choose between the lesser of two evils
even though you transitioned, you're still voting with your vagina
I am pretty much impossible to influence in this way, but I don't really have a word for it other than bullying, because it's childish and petty.
You mentioned Hitler, so let's take a look at how he came to power, and then at the history of fascism in general.
The German Social Democrats enabled his rise. They took action against anti-fascists who had actual solutions to stop the Nazis, accusing these anti-fascists of being foreign agents and/or other inflammatory things, and many of them voted for Hitler themselves. The GSDs are very much analogous to our own modern Democrats; we can see this clearly in the way, Nancy Pelosi accuses young protesters of being agents for China or Russia; and in the way Biden has not lifted a finger to stop Covid or anti-trans genocide. Voting for slightly less fascistic people did nothing to stop Hitler and the Nazi Party; on the contrary, under the conditions of Weimar Germany many of them (the GSDs) enabled or even supported Hitler in order to uphold the status quo. that is what Biden, and Nancy Pelosi are doing right now, desperately scrambling to uphold the status quo, and even if Biden gets reelected, he will continue permitting fascism to grow and spread in order to protect capitalism and imperialism. Biden has thrown just as many minority groups under the bus, but people fall for his sleepy smile because he isn't as "mask off" as Trump.
Never in any nation has voting stopped fascism. If anything, electoral fetishism and overreliance on the existing systems also enables fascism. there is no such thing as a vote against fascism. Fascism is already here, and it will stay here no matter who gets reelected. If voting blue was going to do jack shit to save us, there would not have been prejudicial raids against gay bars in Seattle, Washington last weekend. This should teach us clearly that "blue" states and "blue" people will not protect us. I'm never going to tell you who to vote for and I'm never going to tell you not to vote... because voting doesn't matter. All I care about is whether or not people are engaging in direct, organized, effective anti-fascism.
@PuppyFromLosAndes@CaptainLeif161 no...the problem is not just on Twitter, I've heard all that nonsense every single election cycle, and you are part of the problem. And you don't fucking tell me what's "suicide." I'm happy to explain why you're being a douchebag but I'm not doing to debate it with you.
@LukefromDC@CaptainLeif161@PuppyFromLosAndes re: the trains...well said Luke. And never forget that the capitalist war machine wages war no matter who's in office. imperialism is a bipartisan cause.
@LukefromDC@CaptainLeif161 lol I'm having a lot of fun toying with different effects and filters and whatnot. Now that I am really digging in to all the stuff you can do with it, I'm realizing it's the kind of thing I used to wish I had access to as a kid. You know...back when we bought CDs to play games on a Windows 98 🤣🥲
@LukefromDC right you are, my friend. Texas could very well be the first step in the Balkanization of America. Or the federal government could send in the troops... either way it cannot be good for the queer people there
Another ceasefire protest happening outside the White House, where a group of Jewish “elders” have chained themselves to the White House fence calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Police have cleared the area in front of the White House.