If we have learned anything from the last decade, the centre-left now is faced with a dilemma: deep reforms to drain the abscess that oozed out the fascists or continue with neoliberal business as usual, effectively giving the far right time to regroup and try again next time.

Excellent summary.

And indeed even for a pendulum swing, it hasn’t been anywhere near as dramatic as the anti-legalization moral panic discourse would suggest.

Prohibition just gives power to the smugglers and the enforcers. Imagine if all consumer drugs and related shit was just legalized across the hemisphere. No more chartels, drug war, drug running, drug police. Just taxes, public health interventions and regulatory enforcement. Canada took the first step with cannabis and guess what, society hasn’t collapsed.

I didn’t write “common sense” to imply it doesn’t need to be explained.

I wrote it to mean that once explained, it clearly is impossible to refute because it’s common sense.

My comment was not adversarial.

Common sense.

Give em hell

Their comment however was not about simping MTG. It was questioning Democrats sucking ass.

The most vulnerable people in your country are already being hunted down and put in concentration camps. Helping the fascists keep the lights on is not resistance.

If you are not ready to do political and institutional resistance that actually raises the stakes, you will create the conditions where people will either have to choose complete capitulation to fascism or violent insurrection.

Apartheid regime is gonna apartheid.

So it’s one of those “shut down the entire government” bills that allow the minority to set the agenda, create a political crisis and make the majority have to be talking about bread and butter issues instead of waging culture and threatening literal wars?

I mean, do you even want to disrupt the trumpist machine?

And is there any particular reason why a political crisis should be averted? Any particular reason why the administration would not have to be frantically diverting is attention to these issues for the next couple of weeks until some kind of crescendo results in a resolution?

Resistance means making them have to pay a price every step of the way. Each day they don’t have to spend their effort to go on TV to do some petty politicking is a day where they have the bandwidth to spin doctor the events in Minneapolis.

I’m Greek-Canadian. In Greece, yankee go home is a classic anti-american slogan in leftist circles.

I don’t know where you found the “tons of posts encouraging violence”. I have made multiple posts encouraging non-violent resistance.

edit: here is precisely what I was commenting 6 days ago about violence: https://lemmy.ca/post/58814479/21200438

Hey Yanks, is this what resisting trumpist fascism looks like?

Call them and ask them if today’s shooting would change their mind.

It’s called the DSA. Help them take over the husk of the Democratic party.

Why the fuck give up on obstruction?

Edit, here: https://youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0

Bullshit. The Republicans are the fascists in power. Being angry at them is the default, nothing to say. The Democrats can be either resisting or enabling. People have every fucking right to be mad at the enablers who should be resisting.

Your comment is the equivalent of saying “yea the crime in my city is caused by criminals and corrupt cops, but it’s mostly the criminals, so look why are you eating up the propaganda that you should be mad at the police?”.

As non-maga American voters you guys need to be holding your enabler Democrats to account. We, the rest of the world, know the Republicans are beyond your control. Your fucking Democrats though? That’s on you.

Edit, here: https://youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0

Got to be able to tell your right wingers apart. He’s a fuck face but Doug Ford is not a fascist like Poilievre. The flu virus, deadly as it is, is not COVID.

Hey Brits, take a cue from Canada and shut your fascists down.