The scope of what needs to be done is daunting and we'll only be able to do it together. Don't give up before you even get started.

But acting like it's all you can do? That's completely undermining the power of our collective action to solve problems and influence our material conditions. It surrenders our power to institutions outside of our control. It's fundamentally undemocratic and authoritarian.

Having interacted with liberals.

And the deeper, longer form media is necessary to address anything beyond an introduction. Otherwise, all you get is slogans repeated as if by reflex with no real understanding of a concept, and probably a reactive defensiveness about it.

It's often a way to mask unwillingness to engage with the deeper and more complex parts of the subjects.

They're unwilling or unable to consider the fact that poverty and deprivation is supremely oppressive.

We can debate and refine our concepts of how to build society differently and strive for truly horizontal social structures, but it's dishonest to accuse an imperfect but successful revolution of creating worse conditions when it objectively improved material and social conditions.

They have no clue what they're talking about, just a desire to sound moral without developing understanding. It's all vibes.

Developing an analysis of these power structures is how one moves past milquetoast reformism and towards actual liberatory ideology and practice.

Let's not mince words: if you think someone resisting in a manner that doesn't meet the standards of your precious settler-colonial sensibilities justifies state or quasi-state violence, you are a fascist.

Essentially reactionary politics combined with narratives of "good v bad" protesters and the demonization and scapegoating of the latter, illustrates how readily the ideology embraces the repressive authoritarianism their parades claim to oppose.