Your ability to ignore arguments presented to you and lack of initiative to learn what terms mean is astounding.

By all means, go after the non voters. I'm sure that will defeat fascism. Do you even know fascism means?

I'm all for overthrowing the political status quo entirely. Problem is organizing it, getting enough people on board.

Dems were supposed to be what saved us from fascism. They didn't. They campaigned on doing that and then failed. They deserve criticism for that. Fascists do not care what we think. They will continue their projects with or without our approval. Anti-fascism needs to adequately counter their methods. But properly countering fascism is impossible if you're a neoliberal conservative. And so thusly we are here. Waiting patiently for the powers that be to give a tyrannical fascist all the power he wants. They go back to their upper class lives, while the rest of us prepare for a new world order.

Youre still not getting it. Yelling at voters will get you literally nothing. If your goal is a future where Republicans don't control America then you need people to vote Democrat. Yelling at them isn't going to achieve that. Unless you're going to go full doomer on me and say that you don't care what happens anymore, in which case why are you even participating in this conversation?

Blame entirely rests on the democratic party. That is the reality of the broken American political system. No one else is responsible for their political campaign failing to gain votes. They were given warning after warning after warning, they didn't listen. This is the outcome created by those politics.

Cool. We can't control them, though, unless you've come up with a method of forcing people to vote. The democratic party campaign was supposed to get popular support. People were supposed to want to vote for them. That's the whole point of political campaigning. The democratic campaign was wildly unpopular on every single point other than "isn't Trump". They cozied up to fascist talking points time and again, border military and ethnic cleansing. She barely even campaigned on any progressive points. It was a joke of a campaign.

The democratic party has lost touch with reality. They will welcome fascists in with open arms. Those images won't ever be forgotten.

Atlantic Canada. Cheap cost of living compared to the rest of the country, beautiful environment, lots of nice small communities.

That's so smart and insightful of you! You're so right the democratic party should do everything exactly the same all over again. It'll totally win them the election this time!

You're right that leaving is your best bet. That isn't a reality for millions of queer people, however. Leaving isn't always feasible, or many of the queer people still in deep red states would already be gone.

It's time for us to make moves to prepare ourselves to contend with this administration and political agenda. Networks need to be made, connections between suppliers of DIY hormones and communities at risk of losing Healthcare need to be established.

As much as we need to help people get out, we also need to confront the fact that not everyone can, and this is the reality we live in now. I'm just saying, "Get out while you still can" isn't enough. We need to ready ourselves for a much more long-term fight against this system. Everyone who can should be getting involved.

I appreciate the enthusiasm for social upheaval, but I wouldn't call a civil war a good time.

I read that sweet potato line as implying that the commenter themselves had voted for him, my bad.

I do agree that every human being has a duty to not vote for Hitler. I mean, that was supposed to be the point of the post world War 2 Western education system. Didn't work out for a lot of reasons.

But I also believe that many people don't understand what "voting for Hitler" even means or that Trump poses a threat to them. They don't understand politics. They don't understand the way the capitalist economic system functions. They think of it as some ethereal force that gets worse when you control it and gets better when you don't. They think rich people are brilliant geniuses who have divine knowledge of the economy that allowed them to become so rich. They don't get it. The political strategy of progressives has to account for that. The democratic party isn't a party of progressives. It's a party with a minority of progressives in it, but beyond them, it is the party of the status quo. The status quo has gotten worse, that much people do understand. And they chose the guy who said he was going to change it. He said he'll fix it and they believed him.

Did the commenter say they voted for Trump?

The people who voted for Trump over Kamala are not the leftists on lemmy. I've actually only seen one or two people say that they're going to vote for Trump for some leftist reason. The majority of people said they would vote for her anyway, and a minority of people said they were abstaining.

You sound really foolish mischaracterizing your opponents. The democratic party failed. Kamala Harris failed. There was no sabotage. She campaigned a conservative platform of military, border control, unwavering support for Israel and said she was going to maintain the status quo. When asked what she would do differently from Biden her gut response was "nothing". It was a spectacular failure and highlights every single way that the democratic party has entirely lost touch with reality.

Cost of living has tripled in the last 4 years. Now try telling white working class straight people who weren't living paycheck to paycheck 4 years ago that you're going to do everything the same as the guy that came before you. The same guy who broke up the rail workers strikes. No, us trying to explain fascism or project 2025 to them did literally nothing. They don't understand it and don't care. They know that their financial situation got worse and that the democratic candidate said they wouldn't change anything. That's all they understood. They don't know what's fact or what's fiction, and they think Trump is a brilliant businessman. It doesn't matter that he's not if they all think he is.

The DNC failed. Stop trying to defend them for God's sake. How are they ever going to actually pose a challenge to far right populism or fascism if you relentlessly defend them from all criticism?

You are welcome to your opinon, and I agree that support for Trump is itself an act of violence against trans people. I have not seen anyone on the left besides accelerationists, of whom there are very few, arguing in favor of voting for Trump. I have seen many people on the left criticizing the democratic party. Critcizing the DNC is not one and the same with supporting Trump.

You aren't being excluded here, you are welcome to voice your opinion, but you are not welcome to turn this post into a platform to call for users to view some other communities on lemmy in a particular way. There are lots of communities you can request brigading from, this just isn't one of them.

Couple things. For one, don't tell queer people how to feel about political changes that result in negative consequences for us. Secondly, this post is literally about accepting the reality of the world that we now exist with in and focusing on how to support the trans community as the state becomes actively hostile towards us. Not about how to carry out revenge against "left communities who enabled trump." By which I take it, you're referring to anyone who criticized the DNC. We are not political pawns in a game between the right and the left. We are people deserving of human rights and safety. It is neither centrists nor the political right who offer us those things.

This is neither the time nor the place to promote a view of antagonism towards leftism. I was going to time you out for a week, but will abstain from doing so for now.