• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    shouldn’t making sure the liberal stays be a prerequisite to the other praxis?

    Certainly not a prerequisite, no. The work that needs doing is no different in either case, and is met with hostility (of different scales, sure) under either presidency. Both will protect the institutions we seek to dismantle with force; one will simply be more open about it than the other.

    For a leftist, neither candidate changes that reality. It will simply be more comfortable under one than the other.

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      7 months ago

      For a leftist, neither candidate changes that reality. It will simply be more comfortable under one than the other.

      I mean, I’m perfectly aware Biden isn’t going to institute an American Meidner plan or start nationalizing key infrastructure and industries tomorrow and would probably vehemently oppose anyone trying to do so.

      But if all I have to do is show up one day this year, and try and get my friends to do the same, just to not be possibly persecuted for any LGBT or socialist affiliations, that feels like not that big of a hassle for the gain of atleast keeping the status quo.

      Every other volunteering and organizing day of the year is still going to be towards something not directly related to electoral politics.