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Even if your best option is to vote for postponing the day leftists start getting hauled off to camps, you should still vote. Activism is harder when you’re in a mega prison.
The US is a corrupt settler colony with no redeeming values and must be destroyed. Reform is impossible. Death to America.
Wait until he realizes the fascists and the Democrats are the same people, it’s a straight line.
Sales pitch: An organization that, after one dies, donates one’s spine to the USA Democrat Party.
EDIT: not necessarily a charity. This is a sales pitch, after all :P
The assumption that the Democrats aren’t fascist is why the cycle remains unbroken
They’re all corrupt. Just ask the dead Palestinians
Vote with one hand, throw a brick with the other.
Become ambidextrous. Become ungovernable.
You didn’t vote, that’s why they can’t fight back.
The only way forward is to liquidate the billionaires as a class.
Most people who read and write the comments here are frustrated because there is no known mechanism to have large scale change in the USA. Only minor victories that are easily lost to time.
Thanks for pointing that out, truly revolutionary.
Yup, no one here is burning down warehouses as far as I can tell
Opposite sides of a coin look different, but it is always the same coin. If you want change, you need to vote for people and not their party.
Yeah Biden and Trump look pretty goddamn different.
There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to massive wealth inequality.
There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to fascism.
Apparently there’s no historical precedent for a violent solution to fascism either
No effort in anything is permanent. Are you trolling? Do you not brush your teeth because “they’ll just get dirty again”?
And yet somehow reform and electoralism are derided for the same fact. Labor rights were won through the ballot box in addition to the more romantic methods but you’d never believe that from reading some comments around here
The Red Army would like a word
Hold on lemme find the USSR on a map. I’ll pull one up on my pocket fascist propoganda device
Unfortunately what it really resolves to (and always has) is us, the people,
Tap for spoiler
Being forced to solve the problem
I love that Lemmy would rather blame Democrats than Republicans for what’s going on. I’m sure the Republicans love that, too.
I absolutely blame the Republicans more than Democrats, but there’s no point in arguing with fascists. There’s good honest people in this thread who are just wrong.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
So what, you think the Democrats in Congress are on Lemmy and will see your post so you can argue with them?
No. When you say Democrats, do you just mean congress people and not registered Democrats in general?
Right? It’s like when people get angry at the police for not trying to stop crime, they should be directing their anger at the criminals.
Yeah, I get it, the police not doing their jobs is bad too, I just feel like I see more people expressing anger at Democrats’ ineptitude, and reporting on “the administration” rather than seeing specific anger directed specifically about Republicans. I’ll sometimes see that directed at Republicans in comments, but I feel I see more memes and posts about how Democrats suck, how trump and his cronies suck, but not a lot about how Republicans suck.
Luke with your metaphor, it’s like there’s a slasher killing people in the street and more people are mad at police not doing anything effective than saying the killer is bad.
If we’ve got to stop the killer ourselves, then what difference does the cop make?
Is everyone lost in the sauce in these comments? The meme is about holding fascists accountable for things like authoritarian actions, not passing milquetoast policies to capitulate to their voting base when they don’t follow through on 90% of what their campaign promises were.
Talking Epstein action, state surveillance overreach, actual war crimes and unconstitutional breaches that are handwaved away or not addressed (usually strengthened or re-instituted during “progressive” times). This has been going on since the civil war, “Let’s move on and focus on the future, not hold people to standards or accountability (or the actual fucking law)”. I predict maybe 2-3 high profile cases during the next presidential term that will try to go after someone but will just be a drop in the bucket compared to what people are getting away with.
lot of “far left” on these types on this platforms, don’t go to the political pages unless you like echo chambers, i got banned from one for pointing out immigration and youth job statistics that removing illegals was helping with the lack of jobs and was accused of bigotry by otter or m-p. They didn’t ban me but I blocked the group, the fact theyre admins for the Canada lemmy make me wanna look elsewhere. Save your time, trying to get through to some people isn’t worth it.
Well, ComradeSharkfucker, tired isn’t gonna change anything.
To quote Malcom X: “It’s the ballot, or the bullet.”
We gonna have to get mean of we want it to change. Looking at the comments, we are already there.
to be fair, lemmy is already left leaning
Doesn’t anyone get tired of this childish pontificating? It’s all just a bunch of blowhard keyboard warriors.
Malcolm X, by the way, did not advocate violence against rich people. Or even really all that much violence at all. His historical legacy has been hijacked by teenage edgelords.
He believed in self defense but also advocated staying within legal bounds.
Go read the full ballot or the bullet speach and see if you still agree with your post.
