OurToothbrush

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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Telling me that I’m not a Socialist because I’m not a registered member of a Socialist organization doesn’t encourage me to join any organization. It encourages me to dump you and find an actual mutual ally.

"Saying I'm only sympathetic to abolition if I'm not doing abolitionist work doesn't make me want to do abolitionist work"

Okay what will then, do you want a headpat or a handjob or what?

The dumped metaphor is great because in this metaphor you weren't dating to begin with. You were just admiring.

But seriously if someone questioning your commitment when you aren't committed makes you react with fleeing somewhere else that is on you.

Stop saying stupid exclusionary things about your left-wing allies if you want to actually have a movement capable of change.

If you're not in the movement you are not a socialist. The movement is a real, organized thing, not just vibes.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

He sometimes tells his audience to log off and join an org, we get a handful of new recruits occasionally due to the guy.

So he actually is successfully moving people from being socialist sympathizers to actual socialists (you need to be part of an org to be a socialist)

That's all I really know about him, besides some people being thirsty about him.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Being involved in a local socialist org, having community, logging out

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, if you know literally nothing about the military industrial complex and government capture and its role in creating war, and you want to buy into the propaganda that the US only attacks when it feels threatened.

When countries are threatened and dropping bombs relieves that threat instead of increases it, then they do.

Settler-brained-as-fuck idea about how conflict works

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You do understand that free speech that doesn't threaten the government is tolerated everywhere, right? Us having more free speech here is just a function of the US government feeling more secure in its power, you can still find examples of free speech being punished in the US when it has threatened its power.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In addition, have democrats explained why they haven't tried and executed him for stealing nuclear secrets yet?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do you actually believe this or are you intentionally lying about what their political goals are?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I often fail at snark perception

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

"Both sides" is when you equivocate two things which are not equal, you're looking for "whataboutism" which is not an actual fallacy, claiming "you're doing whataboutism" was a PR tactic first used by British colonizers when Irish people brought up British violence in response to anti-IRA propaganda.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Online? No. Online disorganized leftists aren't actually leftists, they're leftist sympathizers. You need to be in a leftist org to actually be a leftist.

You're not a threat unless you're actually doing stuff.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A better analogy would be handing magazines to a mass shooter whenever he ran out of ammo

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

what they then choose to do with it is on them, not us.

Why do you believe this? Don't people have a responsibility to not give weapons to people knowing they will be used for genocide?

Also, us? Are you part of the Biden admin?

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