Why?

Of all the tools for oppression and murder, advanced weaponry is pretty low on the list for what actually gets used. If you work for a company that does any kind of business with any repressive regime (ie most companies above a certain size), the simple fact that you’re working for a cog in enabling the economy of the repressive regime to pay its cops, its soldiers, its secret police and informants and massive bureaucracy, is as much as a contribution as “I was .1% of designing a multirole jet that’s 10% better than the previous multirole jet”

Hell, anyone making steel of the correct grade to go into small arms probably kills more innocent people, by that standard, than your average person working for Western defense contractors.

I think that choosing to let an open, clearly identified fascist win because one of the most progressive platforms in the past 40 years isn’t progressive enough is either a sign of being purely performative in your leftism, wherein what matters is a pseudoreligious devotion to marking up virtue points for the afterlife (rather than actually forestalling harm or establishing conditions for change in the real world), or a sign of being an utter moron.

Those who chose not to vote Harris can pick which they identify as, I won’t dispute whichever of the two labels they choose.

Cared so much about saving Palestinians that they [checks notes] voted for extending the genocide to the West Bank and starting a few genocides at home too.

Good job.

Vote in the fucking primaries then, holy shit.

They won’t.

As much as I love Rome, I also love not being infested with intestinal parasites and slavery being abolished.

The performative kind who insisted that they couldn’t vote for Harris even in the spirit of harm reduction in the face of an obvious, outright, blatant fascist with a very clear shot at winning.

Ah, the classic “Dems would have won if they ran to the left” + “Left-wingers couldn’t have ushered in the fascist; we’re too small to make a difference!”

Lord.

Then get to solving them!

Generally one doesn’t look to those in the ideological opposition for solutions.

What problems are there in: “Everyone should be armed! Money is theft!”?

Innumerable.

Jesus H. Christ.

“Last gasps” is a strong word, but symptomatic of a weakening of misogyny in general society, yes. Time will tell if this weakening is another step towards crushing that particular bigotry, or if it’ll experience a second wind in these sickened circumstances.

Uh, then ‘no’.

I’m saying misogyny is, culturally, hundreds of generations deep.

Pity American firms in China

y tho

I hope he never has an unstressed day for the rest of his life. And I hope it’s a short life. Fascist fuck.

I can’t think of any realistic situation in which the fate of the rulers does not rely on the complicity of the masses short of full AI army shenanigans.

Joining the war on drugs, on the side of drugs