Let's talk about this a bit.

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

Let's talk about this a bit. California, one of the supposed strongholds of Blue America, rejected a proposition that would have ended forced prison labor. California depends on coercing people to fight fires and people know that.

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

I wrote a long poem about this (among other things) a couple of years ago. I've thought about it for a while:

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (@[email protected])

Have you ever thought "I wish someone would write a poem about the tactic that climate change activists currently use of throwing food at art?" Or that someone would write a long poem about oil wealth, a bit of Mike Davis, museums, Los Angeles, Walter Benjamin on reproduction, and fire ecology? If so you are in luck. #poetry I announce "The Case For Letting The Getty Center Burn: Increased Legibility"

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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

You can't blame this outcome on bad "red states", or really on the GOP. There wasn't even much organized opposition as far as I could tell. Just ordinary Democrats voting to use prisoners to fight fires.

There are no good parties in American politics. This election was not a triumph of evil over good. It was a triumph of evil over a slightly different form of evil.

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

My saying things like this is what the people who just lost used to delight in calling "purity politics." During this election, I was surprised that people didn't really even claim that we weren't supporting genocide. They said that we were, and that people had to vote for genocide supporters anyway.

They demanded that people support genocide, and then they lost.

Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

There is no reason to listen to genocide supporters who can't even win as a devil's bargain for supporting genocide. There is no reason to go on pretending that any group in power wants anything better for us than any other group. They have discredited themselves.

Become an anarchist.

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Minor Correction: I did argue for Harris from an anti-genocide perspective, as did Bernie Sanders and numerous Jewish and Palestinian groups on the issue.

It's too late to dig into the weeds on it now, but let's not start saying that there was no one making an argument for her as the anti-genocide candidate.