Tom Wallach

Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:11 UTC

Hand them a used car dealership and they’d storm the capital

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

They are just assholes who want to fight. Put them in a different context and they’d be at trump rallies hooting

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

So we need to encourage! The rich assholes left the people a key that lets us seize power and we need to organize to counteract the ways they try to stop us. The whole “voting doesn’t matter” thing is a fucking trap

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:07 UTC

But accelerationists who think burning it all down will get us a utopia instead of a lot of dead minoritized and poor people and potentially decades of much worse fascism are loons.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 17:00 UTC

I for one will not enjoy the camps.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

Well, if I didn’t live in fucking Hakeem Jeffries district and had a real progressive to vote for I could. But I’ll enthusiastically vote Chi Osse and for a better mayor and governor.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:58 UTC

I can help minimize the harm they do by voting in primaries and generals for local and federal officials who don’t suck.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

This admin has done a ton of good things yet I remain absolutely sickened by them due to Israel policy. I’d have enthusiastically voted for a better person in the primary if we’d had a real one. But reality forces me to act as one option is obviously worse

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 16:56 UTC

I think we have to recognize how shitty and unrewarding voting often is while still noting it remains the best tool we have.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:22 UTC

Sorry yeah it’s like how cars devalue when you drive them off the lot.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

Oh yeah, honestly that probably means we will need more you are priced as a “gently used” sacrifice

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

It sucks so damn much that we have such feckless leaders the answer is “vote harder” but if we do it right we can also get rid of the trash electeds as well as prevent badness.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

They can tilt the system against people in so many ways but it does remain true that voting gives us a pathway to overcome their capture of the system

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

As we know this will somehow accelerate the process of a socialist utopia, so we celebrate your sacrifice

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:15 UTC

This is in fact ideal! Dogma and inability to interpret new concepts is a conservative feature.

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

Hardcore progressives should vote in every primary, every local election. It’s the most powerful your vote gets

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

And like voting for president is (usually) the least important thing, it’s like city council, state senate, congress. This year means a bit more since the republicans made president king but

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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

It absolutely sucks that it remains voting followed by individual actions but the impact of actual good governance is just insane

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