Zodiark [he/him]

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The American dream is also to escape America.

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I think a lot of post-Bernie socialists started out at the same thought and aspiration: “*I just wanted some help starting my life. I don’t want to worry about increasing costs of living, rent, food, clothes, food, healthcare, education and job training. I want my opinion and voice to matter to my company, my community, my society.”

Some people went further with it, deciding in their mind: *And I’m willing to fight for it through political activism, protesting, mutual aid".

Then others also think in a lateral but not perpendicular way: *But I don’t want to fight for it, risk prison, or give up my comforts. I’ll stick to canvassing for Berniecrats".

I can appreciate being averse to the fetishization and valorization of political violence as form of entertainment or coping mechanism, but eventually society’s dysfunction becomes untenable and unmalleable that a catharsis must come to pass: revolution or fascism.

Not all revolutions are violent. They don’t have to be repeats of the revolutions of a century ago. Revolutions manifest when the administrators of the state - not necessarily it’s enforcers - just lose faith in the state and start defecting. These types of non-violent revolutions can happen.

If thinking about the process of revolution is unpleasant, then imagine a society after a revolution.

Who would you be and what would you do when you are free?

: NOOOO!!! WHY HAVENT YOU PRESSED THE COMMUNISM BUTTON XI?! NOOO!!!

I kind of learned to just let that go and just ignore debatebros/reddit arguments. Not only is it not worth it, but it isn’t useful as a tool to reinforce and articulate my own beliefs. I suppose if you do engage in that sort of argumentation, and you want to convince an audience while at it, you should do so to build your persuasive essay skills. Ultimately, this behavior just becomes an exhausting endeavor when you’ve reached a certain skill ceiling in writing.

(There are some subjects where I’d just revert into a debatebro, like on the question of ATAB, but otherwise it’s just trite to get sucked into those arguments)