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I was referring to the person in the voting booth with the bomb, but it extrapolates well to that situation too: if your choice is genocide or genocide and fascism the only sane choice for anyone with a conscience and a shred of compassion is to walk away from both. Never let anyone tell you you only have two choices in a situation, it's a failure of imagination on their part at best and blatant manipulation at worst. Choosing the lesser evil is still choosing evil. I chose something else.
Again, walking away from both is refusing to stand in the way of fascism. My feelings are not as important as my responsibility.
People keep trying to blame this on those of us who didn't vote blue no matter who and it's the worst kind of victim-blaming bullshit. I have one vote, I didn't give it to the fascists or their appeasers and collaborators. If that's not good enough for you then you are cordially invited to fuck all the way off.
If you want to lay the blame at someone's feet maybe start with the guy who said he wouldn't run again and then did anyway, then cocked it up by clearly not being fit and waiting so long to step down. Or the party that has been moving to the right on every economic issue since at least the 80s, has no positive vision for the future, and has now become more concerned about being seen giving only the most token of resistance with those stupid fucking signs that accomplish nothing rather than actually trying to, for example, take a few pages out of McConnell's obstructionist handbook.
If you voted blue you didn't stand in the way of fascism, you enabled it, so don't put that shit on me.
McConnell used the filibuster to prevent legislation from passing in Congress. That doesn’t work on any of Trumps 100+ executive orders.
I’m not “putting anything on you.” I’m saying if you didn’t vote against fascism, then you enabled it. Simple as.
Yeah he used lots of other shit too, like flatly refusing to even hold confirmation hearings for supreme court justices, etc. There are many tools in that toolbox. I'd be content to see Democrats use even one or two, cause those little fucking signs ain't cutting it.
And I'm saying any vote that isn't in support of fascism is a vote against it, and I've already said I didn't vote for the fascists, so it kinda seems like you are.
None of those tools apply to an executive order. The literal only tool in the box for Congress is to force a 15-day vote. They did, and Republicans redefined the entire congressional calendar as a single day to avoid holding the vote.
That’s why they’ve been partnering with the ACLU to bring these cases to the courts.
Because the only attempted fascism has been in executive orders, right? Oh wait, last I heard Mitch McConnell was a member of congress and congress doesn't issue executive orders, do they? I bet there's a clue in there as to what I was actually talking about.
Bringing cases to court is absolutely a good and necessary thing and I have no complaints about their efforts in that department. My complaints have been about their complicity with and appeasement of the fascist program, and the fact that they have the gall to bitch about their constituents expecting them to do their job.
And, as they said, that's stupid and wrong to do, as it's not on them, dipshit