Review Written by UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Suspect about Ted Kaczynski's "Industrial Society and it's future"(lemmy.blahaj.zone)

I don’t. But it means that these people may not be so far from the same ideal as us. Which matters in convincing people for a revolution, and elections later on (if they still will be free and fair after Trump).

In fact, polling showed, a substantial number of people in 2016 and 2020 went from Bernie voting in primaries to voting Trump. The people want someone who isn’t scared to criticise neoliberal elitism.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world

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16 days ago

Yes, the famously free and fair elections under dictatorships.

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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP

3 points

16 days ago

Well Trump was president in 2016 and we had a free election in 2020. But even if 2028 is not free, the current situation is that the vast majority of the country is boiling in anti-elite sentiment, this could lead to a revolution.

I’m sorry if I’m not conforming with you pessimistic or what you might call “realist” views. But I’m not going to give up. I’m not going to let facism win. We can only achieve a better future if we start imagining it and believing in it. If Facism wins I get murdered. I’m doing everything to not let that happen.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.world

3 points

16 days ago

Trump didn’t have all three branches of government on his side. He also didn’t literally say he was going to be a dictator. It’s not pessimism, it is realism.

Do you think he was just joking when he said he was going to be a dictator?

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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP

2 points

15 days ago

It’s not pessism to admit Trump is a wannabe dictator.

It’s pessimism to sit there complaining about it without imagining paths and working towards a better alternative.

I’m not one of these “anti-electoralism” people. I vote, and I think voting maters. But a lot more matters than just voting.

You can’t just say “oh well we did our best” after you lose the electionand let facism happen. You gotta fight, you gotta advocate, you gotta defend those who need it.

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