You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan” even if the plan is horrifying. If, tomorrow, I tell the press that a gang-banger will get shot or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics because “it’s all part of the plan”. But murder one little old CEO and everyone loses their minds!
1970
We’re in danger of producing an educated prolitariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education)
Denial of education will leave many perceiving violence as the only practical means of change.
Our mass media can incite fear of chickens, pigs, and cattle. Then their existence itself can be defined as a terrorist act. We’ll redefine vegan to mean only those that eat terrorists to save the other animals. Actual vegans can call themselves “vegetablers”. Nothing changes and everyone feels good because if they don’t feel good then they’re not human.
OK. I’ll assign more benefit of the doubt.
To be moral and ethical in their voting choice, to serve systemic design intent, to serve the practicalities of implementation, an individual need not care about others’ votes.
So, it’s incorrect to set as a prerequisite a belief in success of a 5% goal to vote for it. Presenting as you did exemplifies the propaganda-fed ego of the neoliberal. The meaning in voting is not to make you feel good about yourself for choosing the bandwagon that wins. All should vote for whom best represents them with reckless disregard for the short-term outcome.
The eventual counterargument to what I’m saying is rooted in utilitarianism: Democracy produces at best mediocre outcomes. The systemic design answer was the electoral college.
lumpen
stop trolling, hexbear radical
Let’s be honest here: None of us are going rogue. We aren’t going to grab a gun and start killing the worst of the worst, the people who have destroyed our lives and or the lives of millions, the people who have benefitted from the creation of a soulless society, the people who ruined our lives. We are cowards. We can’t do it, I certainly know I can’t. It’s best not to kid ourselves here.
You want confirmation that everyone else is as weak to make yourself feel better. It’s typical neoliberal nonsense.
I’m reminded of children in grade school who “I know what that means, I’m just not going to explain it to you.”
Yes. In this endeavor you’re beginning to understand the means I’ve chosen for the majority.
With well-reasoned and nuanced principles supported by vast experience.
That’s by far the best question I’ve been asked in this thread. However, satisfying your curiosity would require me to break a well-reasoned commitment I’ve already made to others.
I need not accommodate everyone.
Learn your fallacies.
The audience I wish to reach doesn’t need their hand held as a child.
You failed to be adequate in either reading comprehension or presentation.
I’m sorry you feel that way. Try something different next time.
need to vote third party on an occasion when third party will actually get that 5% threshold
non sequitur
You weren’t really very open to ideas. And, you were the best of the bunch in this thread.
bad citizen. Bad!
Do you simply have no answer, or are you withholding them so you can feel smug?
false dichotomy
I asked a question. I received a fallacy sandwich in return. There’s no point in investing further.
Simply naming fallacies isn’t teaching.
unsupported
The point of learning fallacies isn’t so that you can just name them and feel like you’ve made a point.
strawman
Capitalists.