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Russian bots aren't all that bad

Yes, in two senses:

1. I don't lose sleep at night knowing that these bots exist (or those of any other government). They shouldn't exist for the simple reason that public institutions shouldn't be in the business of deceiving people, but unfortunately, deceiving the public is a bunch of what the State actually fucking does "for" "us". I especially don't think the Russian government cares to run bots/trolls on our little corner of the internet when bigger targets exist.
2. Vacuously, I don't disagree with literally everything that the Russian bots say because they can be found saying just about anything.

I cannot stress enough that I do NOT approve of state-sponsored botting or trolling of public spaces in general. However, when you see Pro-Russian or Pro-whatever opinions on the Internet, you are probably reading the words of a "useful idiot" or non-State troll.

This reality is a lot scarier than if the opinions were all just from some Russian troll farm, because now we have to interrogate the reality that these people have different and complex reasons for why they ended up with those opinions. It means that the task of persuasion is a lot more complicated than just shielding people from bots and trolls.

There is like zero chance you or anyone else is going to apply any pressure or even this energy to Biden and Kamala to get them to change course, is there?

outlaw trans people

What, materially, other than nice sounding words, has Biden and federal-level Democrats in general done to counteract what is happening to trans people in red states right now? What indication is there that Democrats care to do anything for trans people on a federal level? On the state level, sure, there's been some action to make blue states sanctuary states and such, but federally?

abortion, birth control,

Again, what have Biden and the federal level Democrats done about this? Did they codify Roe while they had the chance? Did they pack the courts so Roe couldn't be overturned? Did they build abortion clinics on Federal land? Or did they just, yet again, say nice words?

end unions

Biden literally broke a strike lmao. Personally, by his own hands. One of the few proactive things he has done in his whole presidency is to actively break a strike.

end democracy

We already don't live in a democracy. Youre choice is between outright facism and pretty damn close to fascism, and in most places in the country you dont even get to contribute to that choice.

and otherwise just be totally as bad as Republicans

On forgein policy and economics? Yeah pretty much. On social issues? Democrats will say nice words but, again at least federally, not materially do anything.

Roe v. Wade certainly would have still been overturned if the election in 2016 had gone the other way, too, right?

2016 is in the past and you learned the wrong lesson from it. 2016 taught us that running a shitty milquetoast war criminal neoliberal candidate that noone other than wine moms likes against fascism (and pied pipering him as the nominee because you think you can beat him in the process btw!!!) doesn't work. And again, both Obama and Biden could have codified Roe and didn't. And Biden could have packed the courts to prevent the overturn.

All in all, electorialism won't save us. And the violent solutions you wanted to avoid in your first post are actually our only way out of this mess. But they need to be organized.

do nothing bullshit

advocating for voting

Like 80 percent of Americans don't even live in a competitive state, stop wasting your time cheerleading for a sham democracy

YOU don't do nothing! You'd unconditionally vote for the party committing genocide RIGHT NOW, their new candidate is not even a pivot, she's the current VP of the administration supporting genocide!
You just float along the shit river... whatever the Democrats do, you're there supporting them.
This is exactly why everything is getting more right wing.