Jack Riddle

monster energy

I will not fall for the Psyop!

Right, of course, we should never try anything new. All things should stay as they are always, never put faith in a better future. I guess I am a monarchist now or whatever.

I know I am not being totally fair here. I know “go vote” is the advice liberals often give and that electoralism gets used as a way to divert from direct action. Voting will not change the system. It will not get us out of the clusterfuck we are in. It is not a substitute for action. I understand your perspective in this. Voting for someone who will not do anything about the fascist policies that are being introduced and who supports an active genocide feels bad, it feels like buying into a broken system and giving it legitimacy by your participation. But it frustrates me. Because people who discourage voting are playing into fascists hands. Because anarchists, marxists, syndicalists, communalists and the like cannot effect change by voting. But fascists can. Fascists already have enough power to sway the system in their favour, to use the government for their ends. Voting is not change, it is harm reduction. It is trying to cede as little ground as possible to fascists for as much time as possible, buying time to effect real change before we are all disappeared and shipped off to some concentration camp somewhere. Taking real political action gets exponentially harder everytime the fascists get more power. And in the last election, they have gotten a lot more power.

Of course there are naive anarchists, but there exist workable and well-defined systems of anarchism that have seen some forms of success, and there are theories on anarchism beyond “shit will regulate itself”. I would reccomend picking up some of the work of Murray Bookchin on municipal libertarianism an communalism to see such a theory.

Right, yeah, I am a liberal, Of course. I am a cis, heterosexual liberal who does nothing but tweet and whose only effective political action is voting once every two years. I believe that we should never do anything but vote, which is exactly the sentiment I expressed in my comment. I said “we should vote and only vote and do nothing else because the market will solve itself and the system would function perfectly if only we were to participate”. These are my words, and they are what I believe. Yes. Very much so. Very much so.

My actions are inspired by the tactics of smart active anarchists because I am a liberal and not an anarchist and I assumed you were inactive because you did not vote rather than assuming you missed one of the venues of activism that is exceedingly easy to reach. Because I am a liberal.

I said nothing about being nice. I said you should take action. All people should take all possible actions they reasonably can to prevent this kind of shit. That includes voting. Being complacent is not an option.

Enjoy your real trans genocide then, I guess.

Sure the entire political system is being dismantled and nobody has to vote next time around, but at least you didn’t vote for a genocide that is only getting worse because you didn’t.

We musn’t speak it’s name, lest we be errata’d

Lockheed my beloved <3

This is one of the first where I struggled to read it correctly. I think the colours are making the effect worse here.

I don’t think it would be anymore. Modern compilers are really really good at what they do, and often manually optimizing(writing assembly yourself) makes programs slower. So unless you are very good at assembly, I would just trust the compiler.