• @balssh@lemm.ee
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    63 months ago

    Yeah, the “leftifts” that didn’t show up for those “reasons” are as bad as the magatards and bear the same responsibility. As a leftist myself (not in US though) I curse the absurdism of leftist politicians and electors and their puritanical behavior that can’t seem to do real politics.

    • @laserm@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      It’s quite paradoxical; right, an ideology about them-vs-us being such united and left, an ideology (at least theoretically) about camaradery being such divided

        • @lemmingthelemmers@lemmy.world
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          03 months ago

          The democrats are the ultimate enablers and coconspirators of fascism. The republicans just carry the baton past the finish line. Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0.

          Look at what the democrats are doing right now. It’s the same thing they did for four years when they could have made a difference.

          As usual, they are doing nothing meaningful. They are comfortable while the constitution implodes.

    • @Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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      You want them to keep voting for the lesser evil until eternity with both evils moving further to the right every election, got it?
      Nothing absurd there.

      • Harm reduction is better than nothing. Yes, I fucking do, then I want them to vote for better people on a local level as they have the option to do. First reduce risk of further harm. Then treat the wound.

        It’s crazy that you would rather have a dictatorship than a centralist .

        • @balssh@lemm.ee
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          43 months ago

          Yeah, like you vote the mediocre and not fascist candidate and you can still protest. But if you vote (or don’t participate) the fascist one then you’ll not be able to protest and suddenly the genocide might be coming home.

      • @Taleya@aussie.zone
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        13 months ago

        Both parties keep moving to the right becuase voters keep rewarding right by wing behaviour. You get the politicians you vote for

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        MLK worked with a Southern Democrat who previously voted to keep lynching legal in Texas. After MLK’s assassination, he shepherded the Civil Rights act through Congress and signed it into law as President. That same President went on to give the order to begin bombing Vietnam.

      • @balssh@lemm.ee
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        73 months ago

        You see, you can still protest and make peaceful change with the mediocre and not fascist candidate. Good luck surviving with the fascist one. That’s what I’m arguing that the left is horrendous at pragmatism.