Apparition of Jack

Get back to me when any of these tinpots promote democracy.

And y’all made fun of me when I said bring back Christian Democracy

Have some damn faith in the system, man. The US - even under Trump - isn’t Russia. There are countless judges, activists, politicians, assistants, aides, regular people, etc all resisting this insanity. Even if you do get arrested at a protest (and that’s a huge if), there are countless things that need to go wrong before you end up with life behind bars. Yes, this requires a degree of faith and courage. But no great moment in history was won without these. I’ve said it before but ultimately our fight isn’t just a political one, but a moral and philosophical one at that. By resisting non-violently we’re showing that humanity is fundamentally better than the corrupt kleptocrats the Trump admin portrays us as. And like the others pointed out - there’s safety in numbers. Is not just you vs the riot police. It’s millions upon millions of furious, rational Americans, activated through a common sense of humanity, truth and kindness, working together to take down this regime. We’re in this together.

“Why should I care about slavery abolition? Freeing slaves is just some radical leftist agenda. Slavery is as much a part of God as emancipation. I will not become a political advocate; if you can’t accept slavery as part of truth that’s YOUR problem” - Leo Gura if he was around in 1860

- Mao Zedong 🤣🤣

Aww man, you’re calling it quits already? Don’t worry, we’re not giving up on you that easily we’ll get you to see the light yet!

Who brought Tucker Carlson into it? No one mentioned him but you. And if you’re worried about somehow being as bad as him, don’t be lmao, you’re a much better man than he is and always will be. You don’t have to be so hard on yourself all the time. You’ve legitimately helped countless people man, me included. No one could look at the broad strokes of your life and say that you’ve done anything but try to help the world. But you’re still dealing with some unresolved issues, and one that’s holding both your own and those around you’s development. And once you deal with them, oh man, that’s where the real fun begins

How can you be so sure they aren’t? I’m beginning to think you’re wrapped yourself up in some sort of warped solipsism dude. Your insights are magnificent, truly, but it really feels like you’re missing some sort of crucial, basic recognition of Other somewhere down the line.

What good is truth if there’s no one left to share it with?

The Left > the Right dude. Yes it’s not above criticism but when one side is fighting to give millions of people living wages and one side is fighting to throw seniors on the streets, then there is no moral comparison. Your commitment to “debate-at-all-costs” is actually a huge personal failing of yours dude, honestly. You’re happy to sit on your millions of dollars and private bunk houses while countless people around the country suffer under this administration. There’s a reason why the poem includes the line “and I didn’t speak out, for I was not one of them.” Sitting on the sidelines during times of great injustice is on par with being complicit in those injustices. Get off your high horse dude. The GOP are insane. They need to go down. All of this aggro devil’s advocate nonsense is taking away crucial energy from resisting Trump and his bootlickers.

Maybe stop beating up on us first? With your resources, wealth, platform, ethnicity etc you could be a powerful ally in defeating Trumpism Leo but instead you spend all your energy telling us the same tired right-wing talking points we’ve heard a million times before. I don’t get it.

And what we’re is saying is that “leftist goofy shit” is seriously overblown by the corporate media so that anyone actually fighting to increase people’s material well-being is associated with giving dogs sex change surgeries or something instead. Like Emerald said Kamala actually ignored identity issues during her campaign and instead focused on a platform of expanding health coverage, giving new home buyers government grants etc (you know, things that will actually solve society's problems), but she still lost because the media convinced voters that 400 billion gay terrorists from Somalia would invade the country if Trump didn’t win and we’d all be having circlejerks in churches instead. Trump’s vile economic platform won in large part because people were too distracted by culture war noise to see what he and his cronies (Elon, Thiel etc) were actually going to do to the material and financial makeup of the country instead. Million’s of people’s social security, Medicaid, hell even just basic fucking jobs are at risk because enough people thought there was some secret trans cabal lurking around every corner to turn the frogs gay.

I mean, let’s not also forget that the right-wing have a bunch of (much worse) culture war bullshit too. So many Republicans support lowering the legal marriage age. Basically every MAGA dipshit agrees with breaking the First Amendment and forcing nationalist Christianity on everyone. All of them would make criticising America illegal if they could. If anything they’re the ones trying to drastically police the world’s culture; they’re just too stupid and self-interested to admit this. EDIT: Like, why is it better that trans people are banned from the military than being allowed freedom of religion, freedom of conscience etc just because some of those trans people made the boomer army receptionist uncomfortable? Why do we accept deep seated racism, sexism, homophobic etc as preferable to banning kids learning about gay people in schools? MAGA is an authoritarian nationalist movement, why are we going to bat for them?

The problem is Leo is at the end of the day, corporate corruption and vested interests are a 10000x bigger problem than whatever minute problems leftist ideology will ever have. People will continue to elect sentient toads like Trump because they think a few trans athletes is a bigger problem than millions of Americans having no health insurance. Their lives will continue to get worse and worse whilst the actual, deep-seated problems in society go unresolved. Sure, there might be like, a handful of progressive activists who are out of touch, but I’d much rather a world where everyone has decent healthcare and education if it means a few young people get too on board made-up internet sexualities than a world where trans people are banned from public service whilst everyone starves, goes homeless and ails. We need to provide for people’s basic needs first. After that then we can debate gender and sexuality all we want, but not before.