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I mean it’s the same question we’ve been asking all our lives about the animals, fetuses and now AI. When does it stop being a flowchart and start being a consciousness.

I’m all for holding Democrats accountable, genuinely, but it has to start from an honest assessment of where power actually is. Right now, they don’t have it. You can’t hold someone accountable for stopping something they don’t control.

What’s frustrating is watching people correctly identify that the system is rigged against leftist movements, and then somehow translate that into: “The system is irredeemable, so anyone engaging with it is complicit, and I’m morally superior for standing outside it.”

It functions as carte blanche to feel righteous without requiring the hard work of actually preventing the worst actors from burning things down.

Yes, protest. Riot if that’s your lane. Grassroots organize. Build dual power. Do all of it.

But in the meantime? We have to work with the system where we can, while trying to tear it down where we can’t. They’re not mutually exclusive. One preserves the space to do the other.

Genuinely asking, what does “every possible public action” look like on Monday morning that wouldn’t get him, and the platform he’s built, completely sidelined?

My apologies it wasn’t intended to be condescending.

I should probably clarify that I understand that a lot of things predate Trump, and at the US political apparatus work to defeat through leftist movements.

My only issue is that these things need to be complimentary.

You started out by saying that America wasn’t a democracy, while technically true, is pedantic at best and dismissed the nuance of the original comment.

Then when I point out your lack of nuance and boiled down their argument so you could understand it, you explained it as “pointing out misinformation” and perhaps innocent, it seems like dismissal when taken with the original comment I don’t see how a reasonable individual wouldn’t know they were using it informally to refer to their Congressional system.

That’s awesome that you want people to be involved in activism but activism does not and should not proclude voting for progressive candidates and perpetuating that it’s a lost cause will not win any battles.

Again, talking past someone. It’s not close, engaging in war without Congress, using the purse without Congress are drastic and alarming departures from the norm.

You’re using sweeping generalizations to vindicate doing nothing.

This is not useful. You again dodged their meaning and avoided engaging. No where is completely free and the road between democracy and fascism is a spectrum. They obviously articulated that this administration is stripping away freedoms.