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The level of debate over Gaza in the US
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What do you propose we do instead?
Imagine acting like doing nazi shit is so natural and unavoidable that you believe that you can stump the opposition to nazism simply by challenging them to think of a way not to be fucking nazis.
Look you can obviously just vote the nazis out as Germans famously did in 1930s.
Do what people in Bolivia did when they organized MAS movement. It's not like numerous examples of standing up to tyranny don't exist around the world or anything. Americans are acting just like Germans did when nazis took power. I guess makes sense given that nazis were heavily inspired by the US.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43284846
Sure, I'll bite.
What part of doing that is mutually exclusive with voting for Harris against project 2025? I'm not going to pretend electoral politics should be the be-all end-all of political participation. Yes, you should organize locally and look for opportunities to support socialist policies and leaders, but given that none of those are on the ballot, you should still use what little power electoral politics give you to try and push the system away from right-wing lunatics who have been very explicit about their plans to make everything socialists complain about significantly worse and to corrupt the democratic systems to try and make it even harder for socialists to take power in the future.
Organizing on the ground isn't mutually exclusive with voting. However, voting for a party that is actively engaged in a genocide does expose people as being morally bankrupt.