AnarchoNinaWrites
*shrugs*
Without putting too fine a point on it - doing colonialism, building police states and criminalizing political opposition to the establishment order while that very same establishment works to allow capitalists to continue enforcing a fossil fuel economy that is ABSOLUTELY going to kill billions, is pretty fascist and it doesn't matter how little you want to hear that.
If it makes you feel better, I didn't say they were nazis - but hell yes every capitalist party in 2024 is fascist.
AnarchoNinaWrites
(this is of course why I am now done voting for capitalist parties. At some point, if genocide is a dealbreaker for me, and every single one of them are prepared to use force and political repression to ensure we get dozens of genocides, all so a handful of rich nazis can keep stacking bills and enjoying the power that comes with them, it doesn't really matter how that gets wrapped. I'm just giving you a couple years advanced warning that I've now realized it all ends in genocide and I decline)
AnarchoNinaWrites
(I am of course not telling YOU how to vote; I would never do that, I have never done that. I'm not the boss of you. But yeah, as of this shitshow I'm very much done pretending it's not all about genociding billions for the purposes of maintaining capitalism and making rich nazis wealthier. If you want me to agree that there's a difference between overt nazis and genteel fascists, I will. But that difference washes out in the larger body count we're talking about here.)
AnarchoNinaWrites
This? Is fascism:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby
And I have yet to see the Pig Empire political party prepared to meaningfully oppose it.
AnarchoNinaWrites
And there will of course be people who, forgetting that I'm a trans woman and an anarchist, who insist that my tune will change when "they come for me" as if that hasn't been an overhanging reality the entire time I've been writing about fascism
But also? The planet is on fire, billions of people will die, and we're already preparing our society to be the kind of place where that is justified, tolerated, and protected BY FORCE regardless of which capitalists you vote for. So... they already are
Biggles
@AnarchoNinaWrites
Right wing party: "fuck all puppies! We Kick and drown them all! Vote for us!"
'Centrist' party: "We like puppies, but they have to be kicked and drowned, because we can't change things, even though we're in power. We'll feel bad about it though"
AnarchoNinaWrites
If nothing else, what the past four years have actually changed for me, is that they've stripped away my ability to pretend.
I knew what was coming, indeed what was already being put into place. And now I've just realized that going through the motions isn't doing anything for me, the world I love, or the billions on the chopping block.
I decline. I will not be pretending anymore. I've said "it's revolution or obliteration" for 10 years - now I mean it, and I intend to live it.
AnarchoNinaWrites
I feel like I'm giving you all fair warning. I could not possibly tell you any sooner than "a week after the 2024 US election."
I will still analyze politics because well, even if I don't care about politics, it cares about me and all that.
But I am absolutely not pretending the world isn't run by fascsts and people owned by fascists, who are to a man/woman actively planning to wipe out billions to protect a capitalist order on borrowed time, anymore.
I've lost the touch for it.
GhostOnTheHalfShell
Most importantly, a public is asking puppies to be drowned so it’s very important that we tack towards the puppy murdering faction because that’s what the public is asking for
AnarchoNinaWrites
I'll be honest with you, these past few years every time you folks tell me about the meaningful difference between genteel fascism as represented by liberal capitalists, and overt fascism as represented by the nazi right, a tiny voice in the back of my head keeps saying "aren't you just saying "but THESE fascists want to kill ME too" - given that we're going to keep doing mass murders and ecocide either way.
I can't ignore that voice anymore. I tried. But it won the argument in my head.
AnarchoNinaWrites
I have come to understand that the choice this election, and indeed, in MOST Pig Empire elections over the past five years, hasn't been fascism over not fascism, or violence over not violence. It's been about whether or not that violence gets exported and confined, mostly, and only for the present moment, to people far away who don't look like me. In essence, I'm being asked to choose between EXPORTING the violence, or having it applied to folks like me.
Doesn't feel like a moral choice exists
AnarchoNinaWrites
And again, if your position is "that makes you just like the nazis" - please know, I kinda feel the same way about you. And thus I dunno that we have much to discuss anymore.
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Asta [AMP]
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse The people that blame people concerned about the fucking genocide really hit me. "I don't think your entire family dying is worth risking a theoretical threat to MY safety", and then throwing a fucking tantrum about it. _When they didn't let anyone even talk about it_
Like, you literally told people you don't care if those people die and made goddamn sure it wouldn't be talked about, so what fucking right do you have to be salty that they didn't prioritize you when you wouldn't even consider letting them ask for others to be prioritized?
AnarchoNinaWrites
I mean yes this is about Gaza, but it's also about every other aspect of Pig Empire colonialism and imperialism too. Of course I oppose one genocide; but at the same time I know that our entire ruling class order is ACTIVELY working to ensure that there will be dozens and dozens and dozens of genocides in my lifetime because that's how we keep doing capitalism on a boiling planet as it kills billions. And they ARE prepared to, and WILL murder anyone who opposes that plan.
AnarchoNinaWrites
The only way, near as I can tell, is to end capitalism. And doing that is going to require overthrowing the police states created through BIPARTISAN cooperation between both nazis, and your precious liberal establishment.
Where in there do you see "voting for genteel fascism" or "the lesser evil?"
On some level I believe your arguments for doing so ONLY work if you purposely ignore that the planet is on fire, our leaders know its going to kill billions, and they are doing it ANYWAY.
Asta [AMP]
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse Things you can't talk about lest you risk the election for democrats:
Genocide against Palestinians
Violence against Black people
Laws against trans people
Indigenous rights?
hmmmm and yet there goes the election anyway you fuckwads.
There's this part of me that wants to make a snarky comment in public that "you know the democrats, the ones who have capitulated to capital every chance they had, are just gonna roll over and do whatever the fascists want, right? They're all invested in it. Their stocks, their war hawk profiteering, their private schools. Fund the police! Good jobs building bombs! You think these fucking people are gonna do anything more than say they'll resist then spend all their energy trying to justify why they're actively letting it happen anyway?"
there are only a few that statement doesn't apply to, and the party really seems to hate them.
Asta [AMP]
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse I DUNNO GUYS MAYBE THE NON-FASCIST PARTY THAT VIOLENTLY BROKE UP STUDENTS PROTESTING THE GENOCIDE WE'RE ACTIVELY FUNDING AND SUPPLYING ARMS TO
MAYBE THEY'RE ALSO FASCISTS YEAH
Asta [AMP]
@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse the same one that continues to militarize the police despite years of protests against how the police kill Black people over 2.50 in subway fare or a loose cigarette? I dunno! Maybe they're not that good actually! Maybe the ones who sign all these deals with capitalist fuckbags to destroy the environment, maybe they're... I dunno... maybe they're part of the fucking problem.
AnarchoNinaWrites
I dunno, I'm not asking you to agree with me, in fact I'm not asking you to do anything. Frankly, I don't care if you agree or understand; I'm all out of pretend. I typically keep my voting habits on the downlow, but truth is over the past ten years, even while writing about why it's revolution or extermination, even while exposing the fascist nature of our society and the politics that grease the tracks for the murder machine, I have voted for capitalists to "prevent harm."
It's been a farce
AnarchoNinaWrites
These people, all of them, don't care about well, people. They all support police states. They all support repressing opposition to a ruling class order engaged in genocides, plural. They are all devoted to capitalism even as it sets the planet on fire, even as it kills ppl just like me all over the world, even as the science says continuing will kill billions. Every last one of them is committed to watching the world burn and the ppl I care about die for rich monsters.
I can't pretend anymore.
AnarchoNinaWrites
You do what you have to do, what you think is best, what helps you sleep at night. Nobody has a right to ask you to do anything more than that, and lord knowns I have been you, I have lived in your mindset for decades of my life.
I just can't anymore. I can't pretend, anymore.
So don't expect me to. Because I no longer have the capacity to participate in the slaughter of billions and my own eventual murder. I just can't. I won't. You've been warned.
AnarchoNinaWrites
"They'll hold elections and exercise power without you either way." No doubt, just as people will continue to commit murders whether I also commit murders or not. I don't think your argument, which has been my argument for years so I know it intimately, holds water.
I feel like I'm being fair here; I'm warning folks in advance, and even explaining my reasoning. I don't have to do either.
But in time you're going to come to me, and ask me to participate in the same old farce. And I will say no
DEDGirl
@AnarchoNinaWrites Do they think we don’t know that. If the powers that be are going to do whatever they want anyway, then adding my vote to do it is far worse to me than me not participating in their fuckery at all. From personal experience.
AnarchoNinaWrites
@getter7seven yeah, pretty much; your terminology hits the nail on the head - it's harm deflection.
Brian Jeffears
@AnarchoNinaWrites Harm Reduction as the thinnest gilding possible for a rotten core of Harm Deflection.
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