This is a great explanation. Thinking of the question @[email protected] asked the other day of How could we convince Reddit subs to move over to Lemmy?, this is the sort of post that is good to share and draw people in to Lemmy.

Great accelerationist pick, appreciated by both nazis and tankies

Thanks. The good news is that if I’m right, we both win.

Organizing in person for change and being loud about it. Part of that is helping people direct their anger in the right place by pointing out the problem. It’s a lot easier to effect change when you’ve got a critical mass of people that are pissed off and want the same change.

Yeah, definitely. I don’t have any proof, but very much believe that Occupy Wall Street was viewed as an actual threat and identity politics was weaponized against it, as you say.

To be clear, I don’t mean “identity politics is dead” as in “racism is over” or anything like that. I mean it more in the sense of “Stop letting those in power divide us” and “there is no war but class war”.

Keep your eyes on the prize, indeed.

In a FPTP voting system, one party dicking around and fucking up is equivalent to giving you the other option. It’s not fun or cool, but it’s true.

Too lazy to make the meme, but you’re literally personifying the Principal Skinner meme. “Am I out of touch? No, it is the voters who are wrong.”

Hate the game all you want, the DNC still failed at convincing people that Trump was worse than their corporatist bullshit, because people are desperate for change

The answer is simple. It is not easy. The DNC needs to be replaced ground up with people that push for real change. The hard part is pushing out people in positions of power that don’t want to give it up because they benefit from the status quo.

Individual people worked hard for that. DNC leadership worked very hard to move to the right and reject progressive/leftist ideals. They proudly touted their endorsements from the Cheneys FFS.

The people voted for change, which Harris wasn’t offering.

Is the DNC so bad that millions of individuals sat on their hands and allowed a wannabe despot get control of the country

Yes. Did you watch the election?

The RNC is Winning™. Why would they change?

What is your alternative? More failure that ends up with fascists in power? Are you pro-Trump?

Remember to direct your anger in the right place:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee#Current_leadership

Their failures gave us Trump and empowered nasty people like this. The entire structure needs replacing ground-up with people that aren’t gobbling corporate cock.

We need less money in politics, not political showmanship about it

I’ll start, with an opinion that’s definitely uncontroversial /s

Identity politics is dead. People are ready for real change, not corporatism in a leftist skinsuit. It would be so easy to draw people back. Stop talking shit about cishet white men or whatever, talk about how you’re going to help the working class, and then do that.

Stop doing dumb token shit like forcing the master -> main github renaming. The only thing that accomplished was white libs patting themselves on the back while doing jack shit to accomplish real change.

If you don’t like that and think the DNC just lost because of racism/sexism/whatever, that’s fine. Prepare yourself for more fascism as a result of that attitude, though.

Reminds me of superdickery.com, which looks to be gone now. Fortunately, the wayback machine has a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060116031910/http://www.superdickery.com/dick/1.html

Lots of examples of Superman just being a dick to people for no seemingly good reason

They weren’t going to vote for Harris anyways. If she magically brought peace to the middle east tomorrow, they’d find some other reason to not vote for her.

Makes sense, thanks!

Is that a different format than the link I edited in? I don’t use mbin, so not sure if it handles things differently

Yeah sorry, edited to add 🤦