You are part of a society that still allows you to politically organise around your beliefs, so get involved in your local politics and help bring your vision of a better future to more people - change doesn't happen by itself.

Join a union. Get out there and make it happen.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Please do not project onto me when addressing my questions/comments. Just because I get frustrated with "vote blue no matter who" rhetoric online doesn't mean I cease existing offline; I do have a life irl where I have been occasionally known to engage in my community and political projects.

“how many times are as supposed to vote to prevent the fascists from gaining power?”

despite the quotation marks, that is not a question I asked. Please do not put words in my mouth

This “they’ll win anyway” is some miserly nihilistic take - we’ve won against the Nazis before we’ll win again.

I am not a nihilist, and, based on context, I don't think you meant that word anyway. Perhaps "defeatist"?

Paraphrasing me as saying "they'll win anyway" in regards to fascists (nazis or otherwise) strips what I said of important context: my point was that if the rhetoric stagnates in the choice of "neoliberalism or fascism" the fascists will eventually get a win for two reasons:

the status quo, neoliberalism, isn't working out for the majority of people, and historically whenever that happens, societies undergo major upheaval. If the public only ever knew two options prior to that revolution, they—as a mob, not a collection of rational individuals—will take the second
It frames the fight in such a way where the fascists "only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always."

[–] whereisk@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I didn't project beyond what conclusions your comment lead me to.

Please do not put words in my mouth

See, if I were to quote you directly I would have done it like this.

Instead I used quotes without the indent, to paraphrase you in a way that I thought both accurately condensed and focused what you wrote in a way that highlighted what it came across to me as a ridiculous question.

Given the threaded discussion structure where anyone can go back and see exactly what a person has written, the idea that I am somehow able to misrepresent you is a rather odd take.

Perhaps "defeatist"?

No.

Sounded more like existential nihilism to me.

Paraphrasing me as saying "they'll win anyway" in regards to fascists (nazis or otherwise) strips what I said of important context.

You literally wrote

until fascism wins anyway

But I did strip the context of neoliberalism because I answered it a sentence later by urging you to get involved to make the world you want.

There's nothing "lucky" about voting, anymore there's lucky in cleaning. You either clean or you'll live in filth. You either defend your rights or you have them eroded and taken away.

The Republicans were not always fascists and the Democrats were not always so neoliberal which means things can change if enough people get involved to change them.

Unions, local elections, political activism etc all matter.

You don't expect perfection, you get involved and you vote in the public transport analogy.