#firebombing a walmart

[lizbethborden]

Something I'm wondering about: I follow blogs that I disagree with politically because I think it's valuable and important to see what I want to argue against. These blogs often espouse anti-voting views and will reblog lots of stuff about how evil it is to vote in the U.S. election for Harris over Trump because she's just as bad as him and won't stop the genocide in Gaza and so forth. I am seeing said blogs now talking about how it's irresponsible, even evil, for people to treat Trump's racist lies during the debate as absurd or to turn them into jokes, because they are having real-world effects on actual, for example, Haitian immigrants, because his use of his platform to spread those lies has encouraged and enflamed racist sentiment and action. I agree that although sensible people might guffaw at what he's said, there's no ignoring the fact that his words have real-world effects. What I am curious about is: if you believe--and I agree on this point--that Trump, even with no governmental powers, purposely and deliberately spreads vile, racist, anti-immigrant and anti-LGBT conspiracy theories, and that his action in doing so encourages violence against minority communities, what exactly is the correct choice for a concerned citizen to take in the coming election? If there is an action that said concerned citizen can take to prevent Trump from regaining governmental power, and with it the authority and privilege to not only spread but act upon violent hatred of minorities, and that action is voting for Harris, is that not the responsible thing to do? How is inaction--the withholding of the vote--going to prevent a dangerous actor from his actions?

[mkoookm]

[thesquishyfish]

I can’t find a tumblr post with this tweet but I need to bring it back before the election tomorrow because some of the comments and posts I’m seeing are driving me insane

[b0tster]

"ppl talk about firebombing a walmart then dont firebomb a walmart 😏😏"

walmart: gets firebombed

"um guys um excuse me this is baaaad this is morally wroooong violence is bad but only when people do it um wow this is so wrong yall need to stop encouraging thks wow um excise me im so disgus

[reptilia2003]

i really think some of you are just lazy…like omg what do you mean I have to do the dishes again I just did them yesterday?!?

[kragehund-est]

sorry i'm against "bad thing"-ism but im not going to antagonistically scream that to everyone in the workplace. you can call me a coward and claim you'd follow through in my position, but youre 19 and youre living off your mom. who also doesn't scream in the workplace.

unemployed people love calling you a coward for agreeing with them but not risking your career about it

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I wanna be real clear: i absolutely believe people can learn and unlearn and grow and change and become better humans.

But I will fucking remember who said shit like "Hamas has good reason to exist" and "Israelais are Nazis" and "It's not antisemitism, it's just antizionism" and "it was just a soccer riot" and even worse shit, and if there is not a public apology as loud as the proven antisemitism, you are not fucking welcome in my house.

[ilynpilled]

lol at the fact that the second one was tweeted before fucking basil themselves came out to say that shit

[mephist0phallus]

I’m going to club with a two by four the next snide asshole who goes “only a lib would cry about the election results because they think voting is the only thing that matters.” Be so for real. The refugee organizations I’ve been working with for months boarded their doors up in anticipation of election violence, and now the inertia for our projects is cooling off because we’re going to lose our funding and the organization is restructuring toward “just keep people alive.” The election makes a material difference in my clients starving.

[annabelle--cane]

jeremy heere is an "I don't really like thinking about politics but I try to be nice to people" teen and christine canigula and michael mell are two opinionated baby leftists who are going to Happen to him

[gxlden-angels]

Do not let the Protestant Work Ethic Beast in your head win!

You are not alone! You are not the sole difference between death and life! You are a person who will at some point need to take a break!

That is why there is community! That is why there is organizing! Do not despair because you, alone, are not currently boots on the ground fixing things! Do something, but do not let that something be collapsing!

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

"There's not going to be a perfect Presidential candidate that will lead us to socdem paradise you stupid slut" not as in "there's no hope" but as in we wouldn't have had the Emancipation Proclamation without people like Frederick Douglass and John Brown, we wouldn't have gotten union protection without events like the Battle of Blair Mountain, we wouldn't have had the civil rights wins of the mid-20th century without countless grassroots organizations leading boycotts and marches and mass civil disobedience and breakfast programs and showing up with guns to intimidate cops, and yes, voting is in no way mutually exclusive with any of that, but the constant demonization I've been seeing from nominal leftists of any action other than shutting up and voting blue is nothing but a hope-destroying denial of history

[sendmyresignation]

i think there's really something to be said about how there has never been a record i've encountered where people wanted justification or excuse to refuse to acknowledge the intention and seriousness of the project itself like danger days by both defenders and haters. i find it so incredibly bizarre and strange and partially fascinating.

[suicidal-socialist]

One thing I really don't get about Cyberpunk 2077 is how are we supposed to kinda hate Johnny? Like, you have a digital ghost of a charismatic asshole, played by Keeanu Reaves, who complains about fucking everything about this deeply distopian society, who was pressed so hard by the ballclutches of being pissed off *and* powerless that he sought any and all form of rebellion becuase fuck this shit, even if it doesn't do much, made his music this way on principle and exploded the biggest fucking monument to this hellscape as his final fuck-you...

AND I'M SUPPOSED *NOT* TO WANT HIM TO OVERTAKE MY BODY AND SOUL, AND V JUST CALLS HIM A TERRORIST IN THEIR HEAD, WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF THE IMMENSE ADMIRATION BEING A 50-YEARS DEAD TERRORIST IN THE HEAD OF THE COOLEST MERC IN TOWN WARRANTS?!?!?!?

[rosesradio]

if anyone asks me who the pjo characters would vote for i'm calmly leveling a pistol between their eyes

[anistarrose]

Anyways. Voting isn't some Faustian pact that The Establishment wants to trick you into making so it can bind your soul to the candidates you supported. Nor will it henceforth magically bar you from protesting, boycotting, and otherwise engaging in more radical avenues for change. Voting is just a kinda basic, not too specialized, but still useful tool in an activist's toolbox.

And when your entire house is falling apart, well, you can't come at it with only a screwdriver and have any hope of fixing it — but it would still be pretty ridiculous to throw your only screwdriver out the window, and try to fix your house without it, right?

(In other words: for US folks especially, look up your primary candidates now. There's probably more leftist and otherwise pro-ceasefire candidates running for offices of all levels than you realize, to say nothing of the importance of defending pro-ceasefire incumbents.)