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1. Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 18:38:30 JST Jay Baker

   Okay, this has to end. Please stop shaming people for not joining you in voting for genocidal careerist professional politicians hell-bent on the capitalist status quo and associated climate collapse just because they are Not Trump, and certainly stop trying to guilt-trip marginalised people into accepting their own harm because it may just be less harm than the alternative. This line is privileged, arrogant, ignorant, and cruel.

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 18:39:50 JST Jay Baker

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     Let us not forget that a major reason we even have the rise of the far right around the world is precisely because of these "centrists" and "liberals" who slammed shut the doors on the Bernies and the Corbyns for their own careers and vested interests, leaving a confused, angry, and downright disenchanted population demanding a shake-up of a system taking us into disaster. The door slammed shut on socialists allowed fascists to the fore.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 18:41:35 JST Jay Baker

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     One of the most unsavoury things in this discourse is when powerful people get away with blaming the proles for not choosing their harm merely in order to stop greater harm - rather than promising no harm at all and giving people reasons to actually vote *for* something. Voting *against* something is so negative and doomed, doing more harm in the long term. Biden got in on an anti-Trump vote, and this time rather than Trump winning, Harris lost. Ask why, rather than blaming your comrades and browbeating them into voting to demean and devalue themselves.