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If you want to defeat fascism we need solidarity across the working class.
Bullying right wingers who are suffering flies in the face of that. It only sows further division.
Yes, they were wrong, they voted for fascisn, I get the hate, but we need to find compassion for these people to get them back onboard.
Bullying them just causes them to lash out, get more entrenched, and discourage people from admitting they've been duped.
If you really so desperately need to feel superior to them that you can't hold back your righteous anger to actually make the world a better place, you're a part of the problem too.
Because they don't accept that they were wrong. They don't regret their decision because they now realise that it was wrong of them to try and push this on other people. They regret their decision because they realise that they have to suffer the consequences as well.
If a candidate came along that said that they would only punish "the wrong people" this lot would jump at them. They are not people who have learnt their lesson.
Is it really your comrades' fault? How supportive should you really be of people who support persecuting others for no real benefit, hurting the nation out of pure xenophobia? Not to mention backing coups in other countries and potentially turning Trump into an American Napoleon.
How many times will you "turn the other cheek" as they say? The first time was excusable, but those pieces of shit knew damn well what they were voting for the second time. They voted against brown people, black people, lgbt+ and those poorer than them. Now it has hurt them, but I absolutely guarentee, these piece of shit will still vote against the working class, the black community, the brown community and lgbt+.
They want those people to suffer because they see them as less than themselves. They divided the country by wanting people to suffer, not the other way around. They can die in a ditch like they wanted everyone else to for all I care.
It's not about turning the other cheek out of some high-minded idea of righteousness, this is about actually beating them.
We need to let MAGA-lite escape MAGA with some saved face if we want to defeat MAGA.
They are all of them deceived by the true enemy, the ruling class.
I share your anger but we need to realize that party politics is designed to divide the working class against itself. We need to stop doing their work for them.
I'm not a saddistic guy wanting to beat that MAGA voter... but I believe that probably Hillary "basket of deplorables" is right. They voted for ideologic reasons. Including guys wanting "the absolute explosion of system" are a problem.
But don't be emotional, be rational. Probably take a pleasure attacking this MAGA voter but it won't solve the problems.
Most republican voters just vote for who their parents voted for. Yes, there are some who are extremely radical and who will probably never abandon their ideology, but most of them do not fit that description.
It benefits the ruling class to divide the working class. That's why Hillary wants you to believe they are a "basket of deplorables". But the truth is they are just people, like us. If you were born in the same place and lived the same life as these people, most likely you would have voted Trump too.
Saying that they are incapable of realizing the error of their ways is essentially dehumanizing them, and that is what fascists do to their enemies.
In any point, you must stablish limits. Trump should be jailed. It's a fact. They voted for destroying the opposition (the democracy, the institutions).
Black Panther here:
Solidarity is a two way street.
These Nazis haven't done the essential repentance required to solidify againt the genocide they made.
They are the bullying class.
They know what they are doing is predating on all of us.
The only way a predator learns compassion is through humiliation and punishment.
It's not about moral superiority, but relearning they are nothing without the extortion they enacted on all of us.
Once they learn they are nothing, they have 2 choices: suicide or repent.
A dead predator is better than an active one sabotaging our struggle against the elite.
Now, notice @patrihits asked for selfish donations, instead of fighting his rulers. He didn't say “I am going to join antifa and end the despot!” He wants his cake and eat it too.
Until he takes the steps of repentance, he’ll continue grifting donations and gambling.
Fucking spot-on.
Firstly, what do you mean by claiming to be a black panther?
Secondly, I'm sorry, but what you've written is just not true. You can only learn compassion through example.
Do you think someone who has known only humiliation and punishment is going to spontaneously develop compassion?
Honestly though, I admit I didn't realize he was just asking for money, rather than just looking for sympathy.
There's every chance you're completely right and that he would never abandon fascism. But everything we know about deprogramming nazis shows that it takes compassion. Yelling at them feels good for us and maybe it galvanizes anti-fascist sentiment, but the far better way to do that is to speak out with one voice: "Yeah, it sucks what you're going through, I have sympathy for your situation, but the people you blame are not responsible for it, it's the rich, wealthy, powerful, imperialist ruling class."
The right wing are brainwashed into thinking a fascist violent crackdown will improve their day-to-day living conditions. We know that it won't. So when people realize "hey I'm a fascist, how come my conditions are so shit?" do you really think "LMAO GET FUCKED NAZI U DESERVE THIS LEOPARD EATING UR FACE" helps more than "you're right, you have been tricked and manipulated to believe in something contrary to your actual values"?
It means I am an anarchist. I am extremely familiar how intersection and solidarity works.
Not nazis. They learn through the language of violence, as they do not read. They think compassion is fake news, and one should stomp on enemies less they rise up.
I don't think you are aware how compassion is disciplined. If they only know those two communication skills, do you think you can teach them mercy and compassion when they never were taught? You have to start from the ground up. That is relearning they shouldn't have the means to exploit others.
The link I gave is the latest video patrihits confirms he will vote for a Führer a third time. He is unwilling to learn.
This message only works if 1) they are receptive 2) if they truly comprehend brown people, white women, and weak men are not their enemies. Most fascists do want to be “the rich, wealthy, powerful, imperialist ruling class.” And THAT IS the problem. They want to be at the top. Because they are not on the top, they beg for donations, not to free us from oppression, but to continue oppressing us. Once they learn oppression is what’s wrong, and they should not use that evil tool, then you can deconstruct the other biases they are not aware of required in compassionate work.
They were taught compassion is a means to an end. Not how we raise each other up, laterally.
We told them this, last election.
Look where it got it us.
Now they want us to donate for their mistakes, instead of owning up to it and say “Ok, I was wrong twice. What do I do?”
Patrihits, declared “I won't learn at all, and will vote for my oppressor again.” It never came to him “maybe I am in the wrong.”
Yeah, I'm an anarchist too, and I have a pretty decent understanding of the Black Panther Party, though I thought they were dissolved in the 80s. Were you active in the Black Panthers back in the day? Has it become active again? I'm genuinely very curious about what you meant and I'd appreciate more information.
What's the connection between this org and the black panthers? and when you said that you're a black panther, what part do you play in this organization?
edit: lol, I just realized on their website it says they're "veteran led"... linking this org to the black panthers in any way is a fucking insult to the black panthers
There's nothing left to salvage.
Edit: in this guy's defense, he did post this in December: https://xcancel.com/smalls2672/status/2005433402485616792
But I would still never trust this guy with running a lemonade stand after what he did.
He couldn't manage a lemonade stand in the middle of a desert.
or focus on building a real and viable opposition to the democrats?
you can suck this guys dick all you want, but it wont make chuck schumer and the rest of the corporate democrats with a strangle hold on the party any less cancerous.
Absolutely we need to build resistance communities beyond electoral politics. This involves building solidarity across the working class. That includes people who have voted republican. They are not your true enemies. Your true enemies are the ruling class, i.e. billionaires and corporations.
Most republican voters are not die-hard nazis, many of them are mislead, manipulated and gaslighted their entire lives, including by their parents. You could have been one too, but by the coincidence of your birth.
I'm not saying people should go out of their way to offer sympathy and compassion, I'm just saying that kicking someone while they're down achieves nothing at all. That's their kind of tactics - bullying, harassment, etc.
By the way, you might want to remove the casual homophobia from your vocabulary, that's also pretty counterproductive towards building solidarity.
This sympathy was absent every last time the left gets blamed for the way this shithead voted.
Are you going to use the right wing and centrists acting like shitheads as an excuse to behave that way yourself?