@ColeSandick Tbc this does not mean we won't have social mechanisms of disincentivizing anti-social behaviors, but that we should oppose those mechanisms coming from an apparatus of sheer violence removed from and imposed on society.
@pkgandakin@therealmugomar@ellonico A lot of people will suggest that electoral politics is the most important work, and they're probably right, but that's cause to raise standards, not lower them.
@JTate98@cookiebotmonstr Maybe. Trump has probably destroyed the Republic, and it's probably not likely what will replace it will be any good, but rapid changes are coming, and if we got lucky we might direct some of them
On this day in 1940, Leon Trotsky was stabbed by Ramon Mercader. He died the next day. 86 years of retreats, slander and mistakes by his foes and followers in the socialist movement cannot cover up Trotsky’s towering example as a man who sacrificed everything for human liberation
What even is the abundance liberal solution to the fact that people are by and large unhappy with their share of economic prosperity and completely unconfident in the future being promised to them? Benevolent liberal dictatorship? Mandatory smiling?
@AndrewReto44572@r0berto_new_6 Tbh I think we kind of have to pull back a bit, push community control of the police while waiting for the next unjustified police murder to give us the necessary push we need with the public to really go after these fuckers