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Salamence@mander.xyz to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months ago

"we can change the Democratic Party from the inside"

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"we can change the Democratic Party from the inside"

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Salamence@mander.xyz to Lefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 4 months ago
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  • johncandy1812@lemmy.ca
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    US democracy is dead. None of the elected democrats are calling it for what it is because if they say the system is broken they will lose their authority instantly.

    They are pretending things are still functional so they can hang onto their power as long as possible.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Well, I have no power, so I’ll call it.

      February 26th, time of death…5:37pm.

      …oh? Is that not what you meant? Eh, I stand by it.

      • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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        Tots and pears.

        • CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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          Thots and beers.

      • johncandy1812@lemmy.ca
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        I’ll make a donation in its memory.

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    oh yes, by all means, own us libs by voting more nazi. Surely that will change our minds.

  • kreskin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    A lot of people figure they would rather be the torturer than the people chained to the wall. And thats as far as their thinking on the matter goes.

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  • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world
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    This kind of doomer speak is like a psyop to demoralize people from voting. Republicans didn’t get fascist overnight

    • All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml
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      No, they got fascist by doing evil shit unopposed.

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Hanging from the wall in chains isn’t opposition.

    • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Its not “doomer” to point out you can’t “reform” a system meant to benefit elites and you need to build a different system entirely.

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        It quite literally is. They’ve convinced you they are too powerful. You’ve already lost.

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        Maybe one that benefits China and Russia more, amirite?

    • baines@lemmy.cafe
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      Republicans didn’t get fascist overnight

      you’re right, it was 85 years long

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      Wait, do folks earnestly believe you can vote fascism away‽
      What ahistorical fantasy do you believe‽

      • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world
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        What do you want to do? Riot? Storm the capital?

        You dont want to vote fine. Pick up a gun and start taking care of ice cops like a marvel character. Good luck

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          What Spain, Italy, And now South Korea, Nepal, Thailand, Myanmar did: They’ve had enough, and let nobody else die for their loved ones: something that it seems Americans believe is fiction now. Operation Paperclip really brainwashed you, huh.
          Max Eisenhardt on fascism

          • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world
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            Pick up your gun and go stop shit posting on this platform I’m not stopping you

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      Um sorry to tell you this but the OG Nazis were inspired by bipartisan American policy. If anything y’all should thank your lucky stars FDR did something before you went full Heil Hitler; this was long overdue.

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        This is such a weird twisted way to blame America for Nazis. They looked at how America maintained a system of racism and discrimination in its legal system.

        The isn’t fascism, that stuff started in Italy.

        It’s really hard to take leftists as anything but extremists when you all use the same historical revisionism that every extremist group uses to create their in group.

        Replacing one dogmatic system with a different dogmatic system is a hard sell.

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          Operation Paperclip.

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          They looked at how America maintained a system of racism and discrimination in its legal system.

          It was… uh… a lot more than that. America didn’t go fascist because their ruling class compromised during the Great Depression, but they did have all the pieces of fascism.

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    The problem is the MAGAts did it to the Republican party, so now we think we can do it to Democrats.

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    Removed by mod

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      At least they get trains with their authoritarianism

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        Removed by mod

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    You know, getting better sharpening stones ensures a less painful death. It’s a victory in itself, when you think about it smug-explain

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    Repeat after me SIX MORE YEARS! SIX MORE YEARS!

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