And yet I don’t find it surprising that the ee is backing genocidal maniacs, that seems pretty par for the course

Frodo was saved by the community he built along the way. That’s why we build community in the first place. Media literacy isn’t that hard if you put your mind to it!

I’d vote for Frodo, since he’s ignoring all of the ridiculous political bullshit and actually trying to do a revolutionary act by building a fellowship and working together with his friends to destroy the source of the evil rather than fighting over who is the best one to control the evil.

I swear it’s like you people haven’t even read the books!

Was Galadriel pledging strong endless support for a genocide? I don’t remember that part of the books if I’m honest.

I say it like dahtay and you can’t stop me

I dare you to say that to my cats face. They’ll kill you. Which doesn’t prove anything!

Beanis walks around the world

That’s pretty much there

Quick someone make a shocked version of

I mean have you seen a centipede? I wouldn’t want to hang out either

Killing the host is typically a pretty bad long term evolutionary strategy for something that requires a host though. Better to keep the host alive so it can proliferate you

Technically true since the daytime side will know first.

Probably because Israel won’t stop doing a fucking genocide.

The Biden admin allowing the absolute destruction of abortion laws in the US isn’t going to help improve this number either

The real lefty nemesis are all the feds who pretend to be leftists until they see any leftist doing any real leftism and then they immediately shove the boot all the way down their gullet

It isn’t though, because it becomes harder for socialists to organize socialist-adjacent libs when said libs are convinced that “Well if I just vote THIS ONE MORE TIME things will get better.” The lie the Democrats are selling is that they’re actually a real opposition to the right, but it’s a lie. They’re using that lie specifically to draw people away from the promise of real change through meaningful action, and they reason they’re doing that is to protect the interests of capital. Ask anyone who organizes how much easier the actual organizing part is when a Republican is in power; it’s way easier because folks can’t hide behind that “well maybe if we just try harder we can get the Democrats to care about us.” Nobody feels that way when Democrats have no power so they actually engage with organizers. Logistically it might be harder, legally it might be harder, it might be more dangerous…but the actual human to human conversations are much easier when libs aren’t under the influence of that “Just one more vote” lie, and that human connection is the thing that builds the kind of power necessary for the changes we need.

We gotta stop pretending like anything is easier or better under Democrats. They’re good at making us feel like they are ignoring us or giving us space, but they aren’t. They’re actively hampering real action and real organizing.

The Democrats aren’t doing anything to slow down a descent into fascism. In fact it could and should be argued they’re accelerating it by not offering any reasonable alternatives to the type of populist fascism the American right offers. To be described as slowing fascism they would have to be actually doing something to slow it rather than letting it happen but tutting quietly about it. The only thing they’re doing is spitting in the face of their constituents in favor of the asks of their capitalist donors.