the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.
this basically serves the same purpose as QAnon shit on the right. it projects itself as an aggressive form of political engagement, but it’s really just a retreat into fantasy and nihilism
The difference is that Q Anon has numbers in the street and the Stalin people are just really good at drawing political class attention to themselves online. I cannot stress how much you can ignore them. You go to a big DSA meeting and there are maybe 2 of those dudes there. They represent nothing.
It would actually be better if there were a lot more than two of those dudes there. I don't know how you can say "Q Anon has the numbers to make big changes and fuck up the entire country but it's a good thing these lefty wackjobs don't have the ability to effectively counter them" seriously.
Q Anon doesn't have the numbers to do revolutionary violence either, mostly they just talk a big game but aren't actually willing to actualize), the thing that QAnon is good for is providing a large crowd of weirdos to hide Oathkeepers in ( and the Oathkeepers are very willing to actualize violence)
Very little of right wing stochastic violence has been Q-Anon driven ( which is not 0, I can think of roughly 5 small scale events ), explicit white supremacist stuff is way more common especially for mass scale attacks.
Nevermind, you know, the whole January 6th thing.
I think if more leftists were willing to do that, especially considering for many of us the fear of government supported murder of us is not simply a delusional fantasy. But instead all the liberals of the same tax bracket just get smug.
Jan 6 isn't really support of your argument because in a situation where they could have and were highly motivated to do violence they didn't actually do much violence and that's because they want someone else to get the Blood on their Hands, where they differ is that they will try to manifest it.
That is probably true now, QAnon beliefs are part of the Republican mainstream now and act as a pipeline to harder stuff same way that say InfoWars used to channel people to militias and neonazis.
It was true before "Q Anon" itself was even a thing. The Republican party has always been a fascist organization with delusional beliefs. So much of the party's financial base is made up of dominionists and premillennial dispensationalists.
A lot of Q-Anon folks are old Boomers like my 70-year-old MIL and my 78-year-old mother.
Those people aren't doing anything but bitching and posting right-wing memes on Facebook.
