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One party deserves criticism for being insufficient. One party deserves nothing but scorn and opposition.
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this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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Unless I wanted to dox my location, that'd be unwise. I can, however, recommend your local scawwy Dem clubs for resources, as well as your local ACLU chapter for how to get involved in ways that are meaningful, even if no one throws a molotov cocktail (or pretends that they will, eventually, someday). And maybe you'll meet up with folks you can make serious plans with in the process.
Or you can LARP and do nothing of substance to people who actually need your help in this trying time - legal, economic, and medical resources.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Your only conception of 'solidarity' is 'everyone agrees with me and no one dissents; otherwise, I'll support fascists', and 'Everything I say is objectively correct; I have no obligation to acknowledge anyone else's viewpoint'.
But hey, at least you can continue being utterly ineffective just like the past 70 years of leftists in this country. Maybe, if we ever emerge from this fascist hellscape, you can kneecap the next leftist candidate that's put forward for being insufficiently pure and murder a few million more minorities in the process. After all, they matter less than your need to feel pure, right?
Thanks. For giving some advice on how people get organized. Even if it had to come with a lot of condescending jabs at other people that organize. My entire point is trying to get people to go outside and do something.
No one's LARPing in real life man. We're doing stuff that materially helps people. Keep your criticism of sweaty Tankies on Twitter/Reddit to the online world. That's not how things work when you work with people face to face. And it's definitely not at all representative of PSL and DSA.
Good luck with your local organizing and stay safe from ICE.
This you?
When it comes to insisting that others need to 'go outside' or how only your preferred ideologies are involved in 'resisting' or in accusing others of genocide support, you lot are predictably pugnacious, but whenever any of your own rhetoric is turned around on you, you bawl and cry about how mean it is.
Hard disagree. I've met people who LARP in real life. They're not that different than they are online. That is to say, normal people who've taken a purist position with the same fanaticism that Christian evangelicals do, and with the same eager-yet-moribund eschatology.
Man, I avoid tankies in the real world. They're far fewer and it's much easier.
Unfortunately for you, most people left-of-center by US standards in the USA are going to be the dreaded libs, so if you're actually looking to build resistance to fascism, you may end up needing to work with them, or their orgs, or even exercise solidarity with their causes.
While I've not met actual members of PSL IRL, I have definitely met members of DSA, and they're a mixed bag for the reasons stated.
I gotta say Pug Jesus, damn you have some trash needlessly condescending af takes.