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So any criticism of Democrats is a psyop?
Isn’t that what the Republicans have been saying since 2016? Fake news?
Wow, America is fucked. Both parties think using your head is proof you’re not real.
This is not true, voting is the problem. You think it will solve problems, but it won’t!! Both sides work for the same team. Find a way out with unions
Don’t tell me El-Sayed, no.1 candidate for the Michigan mayor, won’t be chosen despite the public reception over him…
F*ck this country.
The only side that’s bad is the one that forgets to pluralise “sides”.
That’s like saying the US is good for materially enabling Israels genocide in Palestine because the US is killing people more indirectly than Israel.
Critique has nothing to do with voting.
This is the worst “both sides” straw man argument I’ve seen in a while.
It’s not a straw man. It’s pointing out the false premise of the meme.
You can vote for a bad thing because it’s better than a worse thing. Indeed I’ve done it my whole life. 🤷
I hopped on here expecting a bunch of pro dem discourse and I’m so glad to see these comments.
Both sides: Fund genocide Don’t hold epsteinites accountable Increase centralized power Are corrupt as fuck
Any discourse pretending that a vote for either party will make any difference in the grand scheme of things is holding back actual change.
Keep putting down both parties. Fuck these politicians. They’re finally getting scared that people are wising up to their pretend rivalry.
Orban lost because everyone went out and voted for the other party. If you watch interviews of voters, a lot of them said they don’t agree on everything with who they are voting for, but it must be done to progress away from the Orban era.
Democracy is a slow process, and sometimes, voting for the lesser of two evils is the only choice you have. It opens the door for better candidates in the next elections to come.
Or, you know… you can do an armed revolution. But lately, they don’t bring the change everyone hopes for.Voting is literally just one way both “parties” can stay in violent control
That’s why we vote during primaries
And why ranked choice voting is necessary
Ranked choice voting is way overdue
Stfu
Huh let me see, choosing between genocide or genocide. Tough choice. Boy howdy.
Both sides are bad, but one side is considerably less bad and is not openly racist and fascist.
Which side thinks that food, medicine, and shelter are a human right and not just access to them is a right? I’ll always vote for that side.
Broke: Both sides are bad.
Woke: Governments are bad.
Bespoke: Nations are bad.
Just like when Hitler won, democratically
Getting slapped and getting stabbed are both bad. But not equally bad.
Voter: That guy’s got a knife and he’s coming for me! What do I do?
D: Vote for me and I’ll keep you safe!
Voter: OK! Here I go… let’s… voooooooote!
D: I win the election, thanks to everyone who donated to my campaign. This is a win for all of us, not just me.
Voter: Ok, now take that guy’s knife away.
D: <slaps voter> How dare you criticize me after my very tenuous and delicate victory!
Voter: But he still has the knife and he’s still coming for me.
D: Donate $25 to my campaign for re-election and we’ll stop the knife wielding maniacs!
Voter: But you won already. Are you going to stop the knife wielding maniacs?
D: We can’t unless you vote D in the next election.
Voter: But I voted D in this one, and you won, and he still has a knife
R: Haha! I have won the next election. Here I come with my knife that no one took from me!
D: How would we have lost?! It must be the voters’ fault! Donate $25 to my campaign and we’ll send out weird postcards saying that we’ll know if you voted or not
Voter: Well, getting slapped is not as bad as getting stabbed!
To give some more specific examples:
Liberal voters: We pay more for healthcare than anyone else! Can you use our money for Medicare for All?
Politicians:
Voters: Why have we been blockading Cuba since fucking 1962? Make it stop!!
Politicians:
Voters: Scientist are warning about climate change!! We need to take drastic measures!
Politicians:
Voters: ICE is killing people and racially profiling! It’s a danger to us all and must be abolished!!
Politicians:
Voters: Stop killing brown people with our tax dollars! Pull support away from Israel!!
Politicians:
Leftists: I can no longer support the Democratic Party
Liberal voters:
Withholding your vote only puts gasoline on the fire. Voting for something is not support, it is selecting from available paths and they are not of equal harm. The most important elections to vote in are primaries where you get to choose who you’ll be choosing.
Please note that voting should always be done in conjunction with civil protest and mutual support networks.
Withholding your vote only puts gasoline on the fire.
Can you say this to a Palestinian-American or Latin American with a straight face? The Democratic Party is still complicit in genocide abroad and refuses to accept abolition of Trump’s personal white supremacy army. Several Democrats are implicated in the Epstein Files and their colleagues are covering for them. If you don’t think these are the appropriate lines in the sand to draw, then the line doesn’t exist. The “lesser evil” rhetoric will justify anything.
…civil protest and mutual support networks
I refuse to criticize anyone who is engaged in activism, and/or voting third party, rather than voting for the Democratic Party. We should all be joining leftists organizations, anti-capitalist reading groups, mutual aid groups, workers unions, tenants unions, self-defense groups, community gardens, and real grassroots communities built on trust. Such communities will form the foundation for future protests, boycotts, workers strikes, renters strikes, and, if necessary, civil disobedience. That is the only way the American people can regain control at this point.
Fucking banger!
My point stands. D taking your vote and your donation while not doing anything is still less bad than R actively stubbing you with his knife.
LOL. And the good cop giving you a coffee with a gentle tone of voice is better than the bad cop screaming at you. The D is literally watching the guy with the knife and going “whatever” and you think they’re on your side?
as an immigrant, can you guys please not vote for me to get stabbed?
Sorry, the best we can do is vote for people who will stab you or people who won’t stop the people who will stab you. As it turns out, voting isn’t how we avoid getting stabbed. Who knew!?
R can only stab when if elected. While D holds office, R may get to keep his knife but actually stabbing is a felony. Once R is in office, it is perfectly legal for him to stab and he can thus do much more stubbing. He also gets to direct federal funding toward stabbing.
Voting is what keeps R away out of office. Voting prevents stabbing.
These are some very complicated concepts, so let me draw you a diagram:
Have you ever seen an R go to jail while Ds are in office? Again. The Ds share in the bipartisan consensus to give military surplus to the police, they are fine with cop cities, they are fine with bombing brown people into oblivion, they are fine with couping other governments. They are always an accomplice to the stabbings. Keeping Rs out of office, which you mathematicallly cannot reasonably rely on, will do nothing to stop the stabbings.
The research across decades has shown no reduction of police violence under Democrats and no increase under Republicans. The research has shown corporate profits are higher under Ds than under Rs. Stop believing your bullshit flowchart. It doesn’t match reality.
that’s unfortunate, but in this case, if it were up to me (I know it isn’t), I’d pick the ones who won’t stop the stabbing over the ones who will do the stabbing.
I don’t wanna be selfish though. It’s your choice, not mine. It only impacts me.
