Essentially, there have been two reactions over on grad today:
- I didn’t vote, neither of the candidates were going to stop the war in the Gaza Strip, therefore, there could be no good outcome for the US, therefore I can’t be held accountable
- I voted for a third party, which Republicans will have to acknowledge and respect
I’m foreign so I’m keeping out of the inevitable political arguments. Just be mindful of the rules and report those who break em
“I don’t really believe in voting”
I know.
You believe in “left leaning” authoritarian military dictatorships that pay lip service to communism or whatever alternative political ideology you espouse, where the only left leaning thing about them is telling the people that their practical enslavement through disciplinary labor measures is necessary and good for them all.
They prop up whatever the Russian troll factories prop up. You can tell by what’s unsaid, how much less of a problem they have with Trump.
Don’t blame at all trumps voters, nooo, you need guilty somewhere else 🙄🙄.
Don’t put a vote system, if you can’t choose your favorite candidate 🙄🙄…
The primary contradiction (settler colonialism)
They think they are for some higher value but in the end they’re just like this:
“stupid idiot victim of the system. why don’t you commit politically motivated violence like a cool person”
«I actually punched a sexist at a concert once, I’m doing infinitely more for the cause than your bullshit ‘voting’.»
“There wasn’t a no genocide option, so I decided the more genocide option was fine.”
The lives of minorities aren’t worth a handful of minutes to tankie fucks.
“I’m white and don’t care, so what’s the difference between one genocide and three?”
Millions of lives.
But drag, how can we pretend to be superior to other leftists, if we aren’t enabling greater amounts of genocide? /s
If we forget the polarisation, could we kiss both slurping on the same 30ct instant ramen noodle? 👉 👈 (srs)
Look, I also thought the whole “don’t vote” schtick was kinda annoying, but personally, I place most of the blame on:
a) those who actually pursued this outcome (fascists)
and
b) the DNC for their limp-dicked campaign strategy of being the Republicans-but-less-so while appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist
appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist
I feel this so much in my fucking bones. They’ve been doing that since Hillary’s campaign. I think I’ve given up hope that they’ll learn, considering they’ve had this long already.
We did it, Patrick! We saved Gaza!
It’s not just grad and hexbear. Beehaw is doing it too.
Positive vibes only space, my ass.
Update: I never wanna hear anybody talk about how cool drag is ever again
Update: I never wanna hear anybody talk about how cool drag is ever again
I mean…drag is correct. The American fascist party has captured all three branches in entirety and announced that they will be ending democracy and committing genocide. So, I don’t see where you’re having a problem with drag’s statement, unless you’re trying to avoid self-reflection and taking responsibility for your own actions.
I like not killing people. Especially not civilians. Not killing civilians is cool.
We agree entirely there.
But, people are currently dying and will likely still be in larger numbers due to “allies” who care more about there own egos and performative leftism than other people. We’ve got a fascist party that has achieved, as of January, full control of the federal government and has stated that they’re going to do some genocide. The reasonable thing is to believe them.
Blocked that annoying drag attention seeker long ago. But damn that’s incredibly violent comment and especially in beehaw
Drag is literally breaking serious laws lol, inb4 we get another arrest video comparable to ChrisChan’s conclusion.
“Don’t you remember how hyperbolic we were about McCain and Romney?”
No, I remember exactly what I said about Romney. That I feared his administration would bring in decreased workers’ rights, a damaged economy, and damage positive US influence on the world stage.
God, I hate these fuckwits trying to play ‘Trump is just another Republican’ games. In 2016, maybe it was forgivable in a stupid kind of way. Not now.
I don’t really think other Lemmy instances actually benefit from being federated with Beehaw - communities that ignore off-site downvotes are able to spread propaganda with far less effort than it takes the admins of other instances to delete it.
Their non-political communities are definitely alright.
Imagine using JucheStalin unironically as your username…
In what way can you purge slavs more/faster than NK purges non-Juche Koreans?
Turbo-kim
This was my ex. A single issue voter about a war another country is waging. Fuck Israel but got damn letting Ukraine die because of your fuckin morals is ridiculous.
Lefties suck, they don’t have their way and don’t vote. This is why no progress happens.
They’re simply not very smart, and they’re impatient like children.
Pretending that Shitface winning the election is good for Palestine is also just mind boggingly moronic. Zero sympathies, they brought this onto themselves.
Agreed
I wouldn’t call people like that a leftist. Left is progress, Right is conservatism. Their choices led to less progress so they’re not lefties.
The tide is sure as fuck going to be shifted. They got that part right.
If you want a preview about how any of these dummies that are actually in the US are going to behave, look for the reaction of the civilian Germans after World War 2. For the most part, it was, “This is awful and unfair, I can’t believe they would be so mean to us, when we didn’t even do anything.”
I struggle to understand how they’re so delusional about their number of potential fighters.
That reaction was tune down, due to the country being occupied. It pretty much took the Nazis having to shut up for a few decades, by threat of prison to end up with a somewhat pro democracy population.
Please do not compare Nazi Germany to the US. The Holocaust was and is very real to a lot of people and you are disrespecting those who were murdered.
You can hate the US all you want. Just don’t casually about talk Nazi Germany like it was some random historical event. Millions of people died.
There are people who went through the holocaust who compared Trump in 2016 to Hitler. They, if anyone, understand the gravity of the comparison, and made it a little bit carefully. But they said that the way he speaks, the way everyone who is his enemy is an animal who must be destroyed, is very similar.
They helped genocide Palestinians!
Tankies have blood on their hands.
At least trump will curb stomp all the domestic tankies 🤷
Likely they will be spared as long as they’re doing a terrific job at hurting the left in every way possible. Fidesz actually paid off the debts of a Tankie party, now they’re one of the satellites of that far-right party.
That’s hilarious, and matches my idea of what communist parties can tend to be like.
