• Crikeste@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    I remember when Democrats gave a fuck about 1 thing. Now they care about 0 things.

    Imagine this:

    -A democrat who supports genocide.

    -A democrat who is championing Trump’s border policy.

    That’s where we are now. That’s who democrats are now.

    But I’m a ‘tankie’ for pointing that out, I guess.

    Have fun explaining your way out of how you supported a candidate who supported genocide and deportations, liberals. ❤️

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      23 days ago

      Yep. And when Kamala wins the popular vote but loses the electoral college because swing stat voters actually don’t support GENOCIDE the Dems won’t show a degree of self awareness or accept any responsibility, they will just blame Jill Stein voters

      I say let them attack iran. It will be the final thrashing before the American empire collapses completely.

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          22 days ago

          I’m saying that we had tens of millions of people mobilized in the streets before the Iraq war and those powerful entities did not give a Kentucky fried fuck about the will of the people. I don’t see hardly anyone protesting this latest war so I hate to say it but they are going to do whatever they want. And if the decide to attack Iran it will be the gravesite of empire. Because the entire region will attack Saudi oil infra, US bases will be obliterated, Russia has already signalled solidarity with Iran, it will be a total disaster.

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              22 days ago

              Ahhhhhh, sorry, I misinterpreted your comment. It seems we agree. I’ve been trying to get this knee jerk reactionary bullshit out of me, but it’s pretty hard in this climate lmfao

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                22 days ago

                No worries at all comrade it’s difficult to convey things on the Internet , I mean we’re talking to strangers with no facial expressions so as a communication medium it’s pretty limited. But still and all, we’re on the same team. Fuck war. Fuck the empire, fuck genocide and fuck all the libs and actual fascists that are enabling it

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        22 days ago

        I don’t even know, I was just trying to give a little on all that I took. lmfao

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      22 days ago
      1. There are two choices in the United States 2024 election. No third party stands a ghost of a chance of winning. No, not even if the 30,000 people you can reach on Lemmy all vote for Timothy Greenparty.
      2. A Trump victory in 2024 would not only be just as bad if not worse for the citizens of Gaza than Harris would, but also pose an existential threat to a large number of vulnerable Americans (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions).
      3. Given the margins of victory in 2016 and 2020, Kamala might not win if leftists don’t vote for her.
      4. Snoozing fascism for four years is better than inviting it through the door now, and buys us time to build our defenses for when it comes back.

      I’d like to focus my counterargument. Which of these statements do you disagree with?

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        What are you doing to stop fascism outside of voting for the lesser fascist?

        Fascism cannot be defeated through the ballot box. It is capitalism in decay, when capitalist democracy becomes unviable and the capitalist ruling class choose capitalism over democracy.

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            22 days ago

            I’m dismissing your framing; I dont live in a swing state, dont try to convince me to vote for the lesser fascist.

            My question is, do you care about stopping fascism or do only you care about delaying it for another four years?

            Do you care enough about stopping fascism to put in work to stop it outside of election day and trying to post your way into getting people to vote? Like, seriously, are you interested in putting in actual work to prevent fascism in the US in our lifetimes? This isn’t a gotcha I’m trying to set a baseline.

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              I’d like to ask what are you doing to stop fascism? You’re actively stopping people from voting for the only person who can defeat Orange Hitler, so what are you doing to make up for that?

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                I’m doing about 20 hours of work a week as part of a socialist org, in service of building up a center of power to actually be able to challenge the lesser and greater fascist.

                I’m thinking long term, because I’m not satisfied with “just vote for the less fascist party every four years as each party keeps getting more fascist” If all the work you’re doing is within the confines of bourgeois sham-democracy you’ll never be able to defeat fascism. Fascism is capitalism in crisis. You can either find a magic cure to stop the contradictions of capitalism from heightening or you can move toward defeating it.

                The latter is the only one that has been demonstrated to actually work.