Bruh Is there any politician elected in the last 20 years that you like?

And what the fuck is even your idea of improving this godforsaken country? Armed revolution? Or peaceful nonviolent revolution because nobody is subhuman and deserves to die, and armed revolution would make you a genocidal maniac

Seriously? One of the most leftist politicians of our time just won the mayorship of new York city and the instant response is to infight? Does this guy also hate Bernie?

How is this downhill?

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Lesser evil politics without pushing for better candidates and also doing community building gets you fascism. Just voting for the lesser evil and calling it a day is technically better than voting for the fascist, but not a whole lot as it lets the status quo slip.

Also, what the fuck else are you supposed to do? Be accelerationist and vote for the fascism? Just refuse to participate and and let whatever happens happen? Both of those sound like ways to also get fascism.

I mean some of them legit do (cough Fetterman), and a lot just don’t particularly care about stopping it, but that’s beside the point, I know the kind of people you’re actually talking about. There is still value in electing the lesser evil, and pushing to get better and more progressive Dems in office (that are usually better at pushing back against fascism anyways)

I mean there was some guy at a military event (a YouTuber or smthn I think?) that literally did the helldivers recruiting intro but replaced it with marines

(Forgive the shorts link, it’s just what was shared with me about it) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MZ8dhiNHbTk

Watched the first half of the video, then got bored and annoyed enough to comment

Okay so I guess I kinda get where he’s coming from, in that people in American politics care about the state of america, and less about other countries (Afghanistan/Iraq in this case), but he is kinda taking it to the extreme and exaggerating the actual opinions people have on the value of the lives of people in other countries.

The thing I really don’t get at all in the video is him calling better welfare and healthcare for Americans ‘treats’, and that Americans will ‘do anything for their treats’. Like, is wanting to help our own people bad now? Is getting universal healthcare, a better social safety net, things that are standard in the rest of the developed world and Europe, just optional treats? Maybe we should also care about the Americans America has fucked over too, if we care so much about the value of every life.

I think he also just overstates how much platner and vets in general are mass murders and revel in the blood, and for a decent amount of the video all he was doing was pointing at platner being in the military and calling him a mass murdering psychopath in various ways. That’s a harder/longer argument I don’t have time for rn tho

Putting Hasan on that thumbnail as an “American supremacist progressive” is kinda wild tbh

Depends on the person, a lot of people justify it to themselves that they won’t necessarily have to kill anyone. Recruiters also obviously don’t always tell people the truth of what they will actually be doing and just want you to sign on.

There also legitimately is a lot more to the military than being a front-line trigger puller, there is a massive supply, maintenance, etc. system that employs people with practically zero chance of them ever having to kill someone.

Tbh I have personally considered joining in such a role (particularly aircraft maintenance) but decided to pursue a civilian career.

The thing is, oil is an incredible resource with properties unlike any other, so we should stop fucking burning it

If all we we use oil for is solvents and lubrication and such, it would probably be perfectly fine, and we would have enough for centuries.

Both, tbh

I mean, I wouldn’t put it past them to try it. Might not be legal or tradition, but since when has that stopped them

Who’s the guy top right?

I’d say cautiously optimistic, hadnt seen the tattoo stuff before but doesn’t look too bad, on surface reading of articles I could believe he legit didn’t realize it looked like a Nazi thing, especially having taken it though army screening.

Honestly if anything some of the reddit posts that were found make me like him more and believe he might be an actual progressive

Did their morals really collapse or were they always shit tho?

I’m really excited to see this guy grow in the online political video essay space, his aesthetics of fascism series was fantastic. Definitely going to watch this in the morning.

I did a quick explanation of my findings, which did include reading some of that article, though I found it independently.

NGL that article in particular is a bit of a sprawling mess and not easy to comprehend quickly.

https://lemmy.world/comment/19837355

After arguing with some.people about things and finally going and reading a bunch of shit, I’m pretty sure it’s in reference to the people that were at a rave like ~4 miles from Gaza and a military base that was a target for the oct 7 attack, and because of the proximity there was lots of confusion about who was military or civilian. Also one thing I read said the rave location was announced like 1 day before, so Hamas also did not know it was happening. Anyways a bunch of people died and were taken hostage from it

So basically BE is alluding to "Coachella” (the rave) next to “Auschwitz”(Gaza) and blaming the capture/death on the people who went there

Okay but do you seriously think, in this political climate where everyone is cucked by Israel, that he could have gotten anywhere near the attention and support to win his election by not saying Oct 7 was bad? He was the most progressive/socialist candidate on the field, and honestly it’s stupid that he has to repeatedly talk about Israel in the first place, when he had zero power to change anything about our relations with Israel/the genocide.

And even then, the most I’ve ever seen him ‘denounce imperialism’ is to say Oct 7 was bad, which if you think that crosses the line you are out of touch with our political reality. Hell, I think in one of the debates he refused to even do the whole ‘i condemn hamas’ bit, and was pretty much fully critical of Israel