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FenrirIII to Political [email protected] • 1 year ago

Please, for the love of God, VOTE!

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Please, for the love of God, VOTE!

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FenrirIII to Political [email protected] • 1 year ago
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    *Edit: go ahead and downvote Malcom X, you cowards.

    Twenty-two million black victims of Americanism are waking up and they are gaining a new political consciousness, becoming politically mature. And as they become… Develop this political maturity, they’re able to see the recent trends in these political elections. They see that the whites are so evenly divided that every time they vote, the race is so close they have to go back and count the votes all over again. Which means that any block, any minority that has a block of votes that stick together is in a strategic position. Either way you go, that’s who gets it. You’re in a position to determine who’ll go to the White House and who’ll stay in the doghouse.

    You’re the one who has that power. You can keep Johnson in Washington D.C., or you can send him back to his Texas cotton patch. You’re the one who sent Kennedy to Washington. You’re the one who put the present Democratic administration in Washington, D.C. The whites were evenly divided. It was the fact that you threw 80 percent of your votes behind the Democrats that put the Democrats in the White House.

    When you see this, you can see that the Negro vote is the key factor. And despite the fact that you are in a position to be the determining factor, what do you get out of it? The Democrats have been in Washington, D.C. only because of the Negro vote. They’ve been down there four years. And they’re… All other legislation they wanted to bring up they’ve brought it up, and gotten it out of the way, and now they bring up you. And now they bring up you! You put them first and they put you last. Because you’re a chump! A political chump.

    In Washington, D.C., in the House of Representatives there are 257 who are Democrats. Only 177 are Republican. In the Senate there are 67 Democrats. Only 33 are Republicans. The party that you backed controls two-thirds of the House of Representatives and the Senate and still they can’t keep their promise to you. Because you’re a chump.

    Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two-thirds of the government, and that party can’t keep the promise that it made to you during election-time, and you’re dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you’re not only a chump but you’re a traitor to your race.

    These Northern Democrats are in cahoots with the southern Democrats. They’re playing a giant con game, a political con game. You know how it goes. One of them comes to you and make believe he’s for you. And he’s in cahoots with the other one that’s not for you. Why? Because neither one of them is for you. But they got to make you go with one of them or the other.

    This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody. America today finds herself in a unique situation. Historically, revolutions are bloody, oh yes they are. They have never had a bloodless revolution. Or a non-violent revolution. That don’t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy. And you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

    A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She’s the only country in history, in the position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian Revolution was bloody, Chinese Revolution was bloody, French Revolution was bloody, Cuban Revolution was bloody. And there was nothing more bloody than the American Revolution. But today, this country can become involved in a revolution that won’t take bloodshed. All she’s got to do is give the black man in this country everything that’s due him, everything.

    I hope that the white man can see this. Because if you don’t see it you’re finished. If you don’t see it you’re going to become involved in some action in which you don’t have a chance. We don’t care anything about your atomic bomb; it’s useless, because other countries have atomic bombs. When two or three different countries have atomic bombs, nobody can use them. So it means that the white man today is without a weapon. If you want some action you’ve got to come on down to Earth, and there’s more black people on Earth than there are white people.

    So it’s the ballot or the bullet. Today, our people can see that we’re faced with a government conspiracy. This government has failed us. The senators who are filibustering concerning your and my rights, that’s the government. Don’t say it’s southern senators, this is the government. This is a government filibuster. It’s not a segregationist filibuster, it’s a government filibuster. Any kind of activity that takes place on the floor of the Congress or the Senate, that’s the government. Any kind of dilly-dallying, that’s the government. Any kind of pussy-footing, that’s the government. Any kind of act that’s designed to delay or deprive you and me, right now, of getting full rights, that’s the government that’s responsible. And anytime you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people in 1964, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead you have to take that government to the world court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

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      [Twenty-two million black victims of Americanism are waking up and they are gaining a new political consciousness, becoming politically mature. And as they become… Develop this political maturity, they’re able to see the recent trends in these political elections. They see that the whites are so evenly divided that every time they vote, the race is so close they have to go back and count the votes all over again. Which means that any block, any minority that has a block of votes that stick together is in a strategic position.

      So we agree, then. We (in this case far leftists) are a critical voting block, and as mozz pointed out above, it is imperative that we make use of that fact to keep the fascist out of office.

      • archomrade [he/him]
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        I realize it was a lot to read, but if you keep going it gets much better:

        Any time you throw your weight behind a political party that controls two-thirds of the government, and that party can’t keep the promise that it made to you during election-time, and you’re dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify yourself with that party, you’re not only a chump but you’re a traitor to your race.

        These Northern Democrats are in cahoots with the southern Democrats. They’re playing a giant con game, a political con game. You know how it goes. One of them comes to you and make believe he’s for you. And he’s in cahoots with the other one that’s not for you. Why? Because neither one of them is for you. But they got to make you go with one of them or the other.

        This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

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          The ballot or the bullet. Liberty or death. Love it.

          I choose the ballot over the bullet, liberty over death.

          We got a foreign agent running for pres. Times are quite a bit different than before. Far leftists run for government everywhere. They dont abstain. The Spanish anarchists literally have it as their second tenet to make life under the current regime, while it lasts, more tenable.

          Youve offered no concrete ways forward, however, so Ill say for the millionth time the same: pursue direct action in any means by which u are able, establish systems of mutual aid (preferably very local), vote bc its the least u can do and your wellbeing does depend on it, and make friends and spread these ideas anywhere and everywhere. The future is ours, but we shouldnt sit here arguing against ppl encouraging any single one of those avenues. Theyre all necessary. Everyone does a little, some do a lot. “From each according to his ability,” and what not.

          • archomrade [he/him]
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            Youve offered no concrete ways forward, however, so Ill say for the millionth time the same: pursue direct action in any means by which u are able, establish systems of mutual aid (preferably very local), vote bc its the least u can do and your wellbeing does depend on it, and make friends and spread these ideas anywhere and everywhere.

            What’s fun about Malcom is that it’s as much a personal directive to his listeners as it is an ultimatum to policy makers and centrists: “either you give us the liberty we demand, or we’ll take the only action you’ve left us”.

            He certainly did encourage his listeners to vote, but not for ‘the lesser evil’. He wanted them to wield their vote to force change. He was a revolutionary who believed that liberty would never be given unless forced, and if the peaceful option was not provided to them, then it justified any and all actions against an oppressor.

            IT’S FREEDOM FOR EVERYBODY OR IT’S FREEDOM FOR NOBODY.

            That certainly doesn’t sound like voting for the lesser evil, if you ask me.

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              Again, theres a russian agent running. U get no change voting for anything other than the continuation of democracy in the country. You either get democracy, or u get the boot up ur ass. I choose the semblance of democracy we own. Why disparage others from this end?

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                Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

                here’s a quote from a russian agent for you.

              • archomrade [he/him]
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                Again, theres a russian agent running

                What a lazy way of dismissing something that you disagree with or otherwise don’t understand.

                U get no change voting for anything other than the continuation of democracy in the country. You either get democracy, or u get the boot up ur ass. I choose the semblance of democracy we own. Why disparage others from this end?

                This is like accusing a union that’s conducting a strike of intending for the company to go bankrupt.

                You’re simply more afraid of loosing to Trump than you are indignant that your chosen politician is actively aiding a genocide. All Biden has to do to put both our concerns at ease is to cut off support to Israel’s genocide.

                You don’t have to withhold your vote, but you also don’t have to actively stand in the way of those of use pushing for change, either.

                Have a fucking backbone.

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                  removed by mod

                  • archomrade [he/him]
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                    Who’s the troll in here?

                    You asked for a concrete way forward, and I’ve provided you one. Any civil rights leader in US history will tell you the same thing: no amount of liberty has ever been permitted without first being demanded, no freedom won without the risking life and limb. Find me a single instance of a civil rights leader saying we should settle for the lesser of evils and i’ll fuck off.

                    It would be one thing if you were simply not pushing for a cessation of Israeli military support, it’s another to fucking chastise those of us loudly making that demand. From where I stand, it’s you who is the troll.

                    “Nobody is free until everybody’s free” - Fannie Lou Hamer

                    “Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.” - Malcom X

                    “No, no, we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream” - MLK

                    “You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations” - MLK

                    “This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” - Frederick Douglass

                    If you think me to be an extremist or a troll for siding with the civil rights leaders of history, then I’ll at least be content with the company.

              • Sybil
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                theres a russian agent running.

                what proof do you have for that?

                • @[email protected]
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                  Yes common troll tactics, deny everything, demand proof of even the most basic of facts. The man simped for putin every chance he got, we were warned by the Dutch (u know, actual allies) that cozy bear was hacking to aid and abet him, youve got the trump tower calls in 16. Its too exhausting to list it all, but thats what u count on, no? If anyone relied on plausable deniability half as much as numb nuts they would long be in jail for conspiracy against the US.

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                    youve got the trump tower calls in 16

                    The Mueller investigation culminated with the Mueller report, which concluded that the Trump campaign welcomed Russian interference and expected to benefit from it. Though there was insufficient evidence of a criminal conspiracy, members of the campaign were indicted, including national security advisor Michael Flynn and the chair of the Trump presidential campaign, Paul Manafort.

                  • Sybil
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                    The man simped for putin every chance he got

                    that’s not what i recall.

                  • Sybil
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                    thats what u count on, no?

                    what’s that supposed to mean?

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                    we were warned by the Dutch (u know, actual allies) that cozy bear was hacking to aid and abet him,

                    that doesn’t mean trump was involved

    • @[email protected]
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      In response to your edit: I’m just downvoting the massive wall of blue text and moving on. It’s an eyesore and I’m not going to bother staring at it. I think this would be more effective with a link or links at the end, following plain text.

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