As much as I can without harming those who depend on me.
Cowbee
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Christo-fascists openly revealing that they are genuinely terrible people held together with duct tape and faith in a genocidal God will never cease to be both hilarious and terrifying.
Yes, which is why you have to combine that with grassroots movements. Just voting third party or for Trump gets fascists elected, and voting is therefore just loss prevention. To move to the left and improve things, Unionization, protesting, and organizing from the bottom-up is necessary.
Neither was I. An activist Socialist can't do much except in local and state levels, at a national level it takes a mass worker party for electoralism to have any real bite.
That's why I call national elections loss prevention, because you can either vote to maintain the status quo, or let marginalized groups be attacked and vilified as fascists gain power.
Even there, though, even as a president, you can't meaningfully move much without the support of the party. The difference for fascists is that the Republican party legitimately has a ton of actual fascists, so fascist presidents are extremely dangerous. If a Socialist led the DNC, it would be spoiled and wouldn't have much of a chance to move left.
How do you do that with voting?
If conservatives knew the concept of solidarity, they'd be leftists.
Depends on the country, honestly. In America, I'm more inclined to believe Syndicalism would work, reform won't meaningfully happen from within.
In general, I'm anti-tendency and believe that the material conditions of each space need to be analyzed independently.
The DNC's strongest warrior. Rails against Republicans for being the fascists they clearly are, but will absolutely cut you if you dare suggest moving to the left.
Full agreement, way ahead of you. Instead of having a robust, publicly funded infrastructure-based necessity (internet service), it gets chopped up and sold piece-by-piece with price-gouging and local monopolies like warlords.
Technically, Lemmy itself is a "radical left" platform. That was its purpose in creation.
Competition doesn't lead to innovation in improving people's lives, but company profits. See: enshittification.