Neither are those mostly conservative white men running our respective governments, looking to leverage what you propose to their own benefit i.e. censoring their critics on the left, labeling them domestic terrorists, rather than the fascist groups we were discussing.
Also you’ll note I said public pressure - commercial brands can be a lot more responsive to bad press than political parties.
Just because that’s the most helpful course now in our completely broken democracy doesn’t mean that’s how it should be.
And ultimately that was my point. It’s temporarily helpful, but we will not win with this weapon. We can do minor amounts of damage with it, but conservatives can use it to devastating effect. Deliberately keeping it open as an option is only going to bite us hard later.
Neither are those mostly conservative white men running our respective governments, looking to leverage what you propose to their own benefit i.e. censoring their critics on the left, labeling them domestic terrorists, rather than the fascist groups we were discussing.
Also you’ll note I said public pressure - commercial brands can be a lot more responsive to bad press than political parties.
Just because that’s the most helpful course now in our completely broken democracy doesn’t mean that’s how it should be.
And ultimately that was my point. It’s temporarily helpful, but we will not win with this weapon. We can do minor amounts of damage with it, but conservatives can use it to devastating effect. Deliberately keeping it open as an option is only going to bite us hard later.
So we once again just need to overthrow capitalism, huh.