It’s harder to advocate for destroying things one possesses.

If we want to end Capitalism, not being invested in it is probably more helpful than not.

That said, I have met a fair few people that would fall under the label of “Leftist” that have had small businesses. Although not the hyper-radical left.

My arm hair is like a fish.

Dark on top, pale underneath, and while not as dense as my leg hair it is still very apparent.

I will admit to not noticing it as often in others, but I also don’t have a visual memory.

Is arm hair not really a thing for her?

But Purges are a right wing phenomena to attack society, they’d never be able to off a millionaire.
A day or two before Musky gets on his private jet and flies off to a third country, or a private island or somewhere while right wing hate groups kill off minorities, leftists, and political critics.

I don’t think their lives are either, DragonFucker.

But Harris wasn’t going to make them safer or even stop things getting worse. Ask them if they felt safer in 2023 or in 2018.

Your anger is better focused at Trump and Co in particular, and the US government in general than regular random people on the street.

As for me, I wish I had a plan. I’d just assumed Harris was going to win, but here we are.

I think we might differ on how bad we think the status quo of neoliberal US is, DragonFucker.

It may be harder, certainly more violent.

But maybe a wider range of society will be more motivated to take direct action.

Edit: and yes, my theory does explain Nazi Germany. A weak, capitalist state where Socialists and Communists were gaining ground electorally led to far right non-winners given power because that was more palatable than ceeding more ground to the Left. And after that it left global capitalism in a stronger state than ever.

It was a choice between neo-fascist now or neo-fascist later, DragonFucker.

Can you not at least see how people might want to try to find other paths forwards and actually make changes?

I was all for telling folks to vote prior to the election, but I can hugely empathise and understand why they didn’t.

Kids in cages, anti-Trans laws, bombs to Israel and Saudi Arabia have only gone up from Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden. The system is the same, it just gets to mask off a bit when Trump is at the helm.