#progressive in quotation marks because in reality you cannot be truly progressive without intersectional class analysis but whatever

[anarchistfrogposting]

There’s this odd cognitive dissonance in progressive liberal thought where they’re all too willing to agree that the death of any powerful bad actors in history was necessary and good, but as soon as it comes to powerful bad actors in the present they’re all handwringing and sympathy. Because somehow (and nobody can say quite how) fascism will inevitably be defeated by praying to the neoliberal phantoms and calling it a day. Because more deaths in poverty every year -unassuaged by their paternalistic philanthropy- are perfectly fine, but as soon as it comes to the guys that want to turn the death knob into hyperdrive you just have to kind of hope they don’t win rather than, idk, actually doing something serious about them.