How does organizing start? It’s not by people politely discussing things and making a cordial agreement to go against their own freaking government… People need to be fired up enough to want to act in such dangerous ways in the first place.
I’d bet people saying to, “grab your guns” aren’t flippantly saying, “yea, go march out in to the streets by yourself and start popping off at things you don’t like!” They’re making a general plea for people to get ready for such actual, real world organizing and effort.
This kind of flippant dismissal does less than nothing to help people organize.
Sadly I know plenty of tankies who do literally meant that, and get disappointed when people don’t.
Heck the Socialist Party of the USA Chapter I was in was lead by a guy who called Bernie Sanders a phony because he, get this, did not advocate for violence against the police… He was completely serious to and basically told everyone we were fake leftists if we voted for him in the primaries.
Guy was an absolute clown, he kicked me out when I refused to support a transphobic green party candidate who advocated for curing autism with crystals. See cause “Crystals” are “Chinese Medicine”, and “China’s literally incapable of doing anything wrong.”
Maybe not about the transphobic crystals but yes on this part. Bernie is in a safer and stronger position to call for serious action than any of us non-US-Senators commenting on lemmy
I’d bet people saying to, “grab your guns” aren’t flippantly saying, “yea, go march out in to the streets by yourself and start popping off at things you don’t like!”
You must be pretty new to the internet if you’re taking what they say literally. They want you to be upset enough to do it, not to literally do it this second.
At least the non-trolls, which again… Welcome to the internet.
How does organizing start? It’s not by people politely discussing things and making a cordial agreement to go against their own freaking government… People need to be fired up enough to want to act in such dangerous ways in the first place.
I’d bet people saying to, “grab your guns” aren’t flippantly saying, “yea, go march out in to the streets by yourself and start popping off at things you don’t like!” They’re making a general plea for people to get ready for such actual, real world organizing and effort.
This kind of flippant dismissal does less than nothing to help people organize.
No, there are some users on here that try to agitate people into suicide by cop. Not many, but a couple. It’s pretty wild.
Yes, they’re called trolls.
Sadly I know plenty of tankies who do literally meant that, and get disappointed when people don’t.
Heck the Socialist Party of the USA Chapter I was in was lead by a guy who called Bernie Sanders a phony because he, get this, did not advocate for violence against the police… He was completely serious to and basically told everyone we were fake leftists if we voted for him in the primaries.
Guy was an absolute clown, he kicked me out when I refused to support a transphobic green party candidate who advocated for curing autism with crystals. See cause “Crystals” are “Chinese Medicine”, and “China’s literally incapable of doing anything wrong.”
Because that makes sense
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Maybe not about the transphobic crystals but yes on this part. Bernie is in a safer and stronger position to call for serious action than any of us non-US-Senators commenting on lemmy
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Tankies are not known for their intelligence or wisdom, so that tracks.
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You must be pretty new to Lemmy.
You must be pretty new to the internet if you’re taking what they say literally. They want you to be upset enough to do it, not to literally do it this second.
At least the non-trolls, which again… Welcome to the internet.
I’ve been online since before duckroll. I know trolling when I see it, and I know malformed idealism when I see it. I’m referring to the latter.
Then it’s pretty sad you cannot tell the difference between trolls, people expressing how upset they are, and serious discussion.
Just further proving my case, dumbass.
A point is certainly being proved.
Get ready! To be ready! To get ready! Cause we’re almost about to organize!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beUbOw4HFyw
That’s exactly what they’re saying lol