In 2016, the blue team won by 3 million votes and still lost the election. The system is broken. I’ll still vote blue, but I don’t think it will matter, especially since I’m not in a swing state.
Matters for your more local elections. Those swing states still send a lot of republicans to Congress every election. And control of Congress is pretty damn important.
More important than who’s president.
Turning 35 this September. Only 1 Republican has won the popular vote since I was born.
Well yeah, that’s why they love the EC (and idea of land >>> people)
They don’t care.
Sure they will tell people that democracy will end if Trump is reelected but actually trying to fix the voting system is too hard.
Not that there has been any movement to do something about it. Just vote Democrat™.
The electoral college, first past the post and gerrymandering basically make the American electoral system a joke
It’s entirely the Democratic Party’s fault if Trump wins another term. But their online cheerleaders are so keen to blame Communists who are such a miniscule percentage of the voting population. Are you going to start Muslim-bashing as well if they don’t turn out in huge numbers to vote for Joenicide?
The sole “Trump will be worse” pitch and constant hostility is absolutely pathetic, and not an election winning strategy. Even your own party leadership knows it. The disconnect between the actual party and it’s online supporters is huge.
Chips act, green energy, union empowerment, student debt, marijuana reform, etc etc etc. Anyone that says Biden isn’t doing anything is wilfully ignorant.
do you even read the comments you reply to
What they actually do = their pitch.
I’m waiting for the full student debt relief and pardons for everyone currently jailed for marijuana. It’s better than nothing, but not enough to change the slow decay. Third party or bust.
There’s a thing called jurisdiction. They can’t give debt relief for everyone, just the ones with federal loans. They can’t pardon everyone for marijuana, just those with federal offences. Most marijuana offences are state charges. So guess what? If you want state charges to be pardoned, you better vote in state elections!
Yeah you’re bust all right voting for third party. Even if your third party wins (lol) you’re going to find that little thing called jurisdiction.
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It’s entirely the Democratic Party’s fault if Trump wins another term.
lol
Is it the Democratic Party’s job to spoon-feed everyone the reasons why trump is bad, and despite the lack of press, explain the good things they have done? Because it’s people like you who just spout the negatives and never point out the positives to balance against the potential fallout. You know, the line that goes like “The Dems have absolutely done [bad shit] but we have this [good shit over here] and obviously the republicans and trump want to undo all the [good shit] and are going to do their damndest to impose a fascist dictatorship.
The sole “Trump will be worse” pitch and constant hostility is absolutely pathetic…
Bullshit. It’s a valid reason. Again, I refer to my comment that there is some implication that people need to be spoon-fed. People need to take some damn responsibility and learn the differences themselves, that’s why we have the premise (as deeply flawed as it seems these days) that the people are supposed to be in charge of who gets elected. So if all you hear is “Trump bad” that’s your own damn fault for not taking a few minutes to figure out why, not the democratic party’s fault.
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The hivemind in this comment is strong. When you lose in Rock Paper Scissors, do you “blame” the other person?
Whether or not you blame Trump’s supporters (who want the credit for a victory) or Communists (who want something new), you don’t gain anything.
I mean, you could blame a wasp for stinging you, but what’s it going to do? It’s a wasp.
Reductive. Neoliberalism protects and foments fascism as we ratchet a little further to the right each election cycle.
Even if we assume for the sake of the argument that your ridiculous assertion is true, “Let’s do fascism faster” is exactly the kind of bootlicking take I would expect from a tankie.
Never said I was a tankie bruh. A party that bases itself on a slightly more gentle fascism isn’t the cart we should be attaching ourselves to.
It will never ever be the right election for y’all liberal centrists who shit post on left folks. It is always the next one. Point is, if we want to be rid of this fucking fascist shit, we have to build solidarity with the left.
Never said I was a tankie bruh.
Didn’t realize that I wasn’t allowed to point out tankie behavior like “Faster fascism Good, Actually” unless the poster self-identified, thank you for the information.
Thank you for your inability to listen to reason.
“Reason” here being “Make fascism happen faster”
Forgive me for not finding that a terribly compelling argument.
Idealism is fun, but it’s so very extremely privileged.
Idealism is great when you use it to fight for a better world.
Idealism is privileged when you use it to deny any reduction in harm as not being ‘good enough’ to permit.
What is ideal about 40 years of two-party neoliberal movement to the right bringing us to the brink of fascism?
What is privileged about not having healthcare security, job security, in endless war, the environment going to pot, rent exploding, deregulation, ballooning prison numbers, speculative housing markets? Honestly it feels like the privileged who cannot imagine anything different than the bipartisan system that pits us (those on the left and liberals) against each other.
Idealism is fun, but it’s so very extremely privileged.
What is ideal about 40 years of two party neoliberal movement to the right bringing us to the brink of fascism?
Jesus. At least work on your reading comprehension before responding.
Not interested in the whole yelling at each other thing, so genuinely asking here. What exactly does not voting democrat get the left in the US? Is the OP’s assumption that you want to accelerate fascism actually correct?
So far I haven’t seen any reason other than either accelerationism or “because it makes me feel bad” and I refuse to believe that’s all that’s behind it.
I’m really having a hard time, and I genuinely think it’s important to try to understand the points of view and beliefs of those we disagree with, rather than immediately turning to infighting.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I can’t tell if you’re mocking me, I don’t know how much clearer I can be that I just want to know why, if I can’t understand why people think it’s a good idea then I can’t be sure that my views/opinions are actually worth anything.
If you just don’t want to talk to me then, that’s okay too.
People like this exist to argue. They have no ideology and no beliefs.
I was not mocking you.
Then answer the questions…
I think they were saying they agree with the idea that people should understand the political beliefs of those they disagree with.
Is this a bot? This reply doesn’t make any sense.
What are you agreeing with? They asked you for more information.
I was agreeing with not shitting on the left and the need for an attempt to understand them. Not a lot of good faith attempts at understanding happening here, just a lot of bullying.
Political parties exist in the free market just like corporations. If they can’t earn votes a new party will form. It’s happened before and it will happen again. That’s why they message with fear. It’s effective at turning off any critical thinking.
Political parties exist in the free market just like corporations.
Tell me more about the political free market under Project 2025.
In fact, tell me more about how quickly firms rise and fall in the free market. It’s instantaneous, right?
Sometimes it is. Sometimes you have to push it off the cliff.
Sometimes it is.
lmao
Shifts the policies of the Democratic party so that they appeal to leftists. Not going to get into an ongoing debate, but just so you can’t say you haven’t seen any other reasons (which sounds fake to me but okay).
Yeah, it is dogpiling and bullying in here. The reasons are here in the comments and elsewhere.
Bullying is when people say something I don’t like, and the more I don’t like it, the more bullying it is.
This is bullying lol, very disingenuous to the actual situation. Come on.
I appreciate it. I’m not here to debate you and I have no reason to lie about not having seen anything else, though I’m honestly a bit hurt that you think that, but I guess you’ve been nothing but attacked so far so perhaps it’s understandable.
Thanks for understanding. 🏳️⚧️💖
Wow, so enlightened.
It’s okay, when we’re dragged off to the camps for being Democrats, minorities, and ‘useless eaters’, the tankies will assure us that Biden would have done the same, in 6-10 decades.
Conflating anyone on the left with being tankies is exactly the problem.
If you don’t like being called a tankie, then don’t push tankie talking points, champ.
Go and read some, the left is a spectrum. Fuck tankies.
Oh, okay, so accelerationism and anti-democratic sentiment is just normal leftism nowadays? We’re all MLs and MLMs? Cool cool cool.
So is this accelerationism or does it not count when democrats do it?:
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries
biden pushing billions of dollars towards israel against the wishes of people who vote for him is pro-democratic?:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx
How about their rigged primaries keeping progressives out? Is that pro-democratic?:
I suppose it’s pro-democratic party, but the party’s name is ironic.
Oh, of course. Remember, it’s evil to vote for democrats so the best thing to do is not vote at all! /s. Tankie logic.
Don’t worry, online brigading is definitely good praxis though, unlike so-called ‘harm reduction’ which only extends the period in which minorities can fight for a better future. Don’t they know that that’s useless, and what they REALLY should be doing is dying to inspire the privileged to finally Rise Up™ on their (belated) behalf?
He just calls anyone to the left of him a tankie. He has no clue what it actually means.
Sorry that I think fascists painted red calling for genocide in America are bad.
Oh? Where’s the genocide? Point it out. You guys started this talking point a month ago and nobody has given even an attempt at rationalizing this talking point. You just sound like the guy on the street with a cardboard sign ranting at god. And even better there’s a real one going on right now that Biden is supporting. This wouldn’t be you trying your hand at some Good Old Projection would it?
Oh? Where’s the genocide? Point it out.
Oh, let me get this straight, you’re denying that Trump is genocidal now?
Please, I want this on record.
Show me then. I’m not going to make spurious accusations.
The reason why the rachet turns further to the right each election cycle is because non-conservatives in the US have an abysmal voter turnout.
Neoliberalism is the product of leftists deciding not to vote because there’s no “good” option, and leftists will perpetuate this cycle by refusing to acknowledge incremental progress as a good thing.
If only there was a way to increase voter turnout, like giving voters what they want… nah, that’d make too much sense. The democrats are too smart to give people what they want.
Democrats do that. They appeal to centrists because those are the people who turn out to vote.
Leftists don’t get representation, the ratchet turns right. Funny how that works
Or maybe the centrists turn out because they’re the ones that democrats appeal to. Obama ran on a progressive campaign and won big in 2008, so it’s clear that it works. The problem is that he then immediately turned around and instituted centrist policy as usual.
Same thing with Biden. Ran on $10,000 of student debt relief for everyone, improving the climate, and not being Trump. People figured they could push him left, that was the argument. Now he’s been a lot better than I thought he would be admittedly. But still, the student debt relief has been extremely targeted, he made foreign electric cars more expensive, and he’s materially supporting a genocide while yelling at the protests against it. If they can’t push him left in 4 years, then the theory was proven wrong, candidates can’t be pushed left, and it’s right for leftists not to vote for them. Democrats don’t feel they have to move left because leftists have no other choice about who to vote for, so I get the calculus on their parts, but it’s becoming dangerous.
It also depends on how much supporting a current genocide is a red line for someone. That seems to be the biggest difference I see in these posts. Some people can’t bring themselves to vote for someone who does that no matter what. Others seem to be more malleable and forgiving about it. I know which one I am, but honestly, no judgment on either. I waffle between them myself. I don’t feel nearly as much pressure as others,though, because I don’t live in a swing state, so my vote doesn’t matter.
Obama ran on a progressive campaign and won big in 2008, so it’s clear that it works
God. It’s fascinating how little self-proclaimed leftists remember 2008.
Which part am I wrong about? Obama ran on affordable healthcare, abortion rights, being anti-bailout for too-big-to-fail entities, and being anti-war. He won a supermajority. Then he scaled back his healthcare plan, said abortion rights “aren’t a top priority”, continued bush’s bailouts and added more, and invaded/bombed more countries during his term.
Obama passed the best affordable healthcare plan he could.
On abortion rights, he was no more left than Hillary. On the bailouts, he was openly in support of the Bush bailout plan even before the election. On war, Obama was openly in favor of the continuation of the war in Afghanistan and harder military policy against several countries, some of which even McCain wasn’t onboard on.
But hey, whatever helps fuel your delusional “If only candidates were more left, then they would DEFINITELY win in a landslide!” outlook.
Good god. You win elections from the center. A center vote that switches from R to D is worth double because the R loses one vote and D gains one. You literally win from the center.
If you want the center to move, then make the Dems win overwhelmingly and consistently in President, house of reps, and senators.
So do you think republicans are catering to centrists with their full dive into fascism or do you think only democrats need to appeal to “centrists” for some reason?
Trump won by appealing to the manufacturing jobs sector, and because of the protest Hillary vote. As much as I want to believe people were/are informed about his fascism, they really aren’t.
And now, because Trump won one election, the whole Overton window moved right. You know, because he won an election. You want to move the Overton window? Vote.
Biden won an election more recently than him. Weird how the Overton window moves when Republicans win an election but not when Democrats do. Wonder if there’s a reason for that.
Hell, Bernie (and Warren) moved the widow more by running in a primary than they did by winning.
The reason is because Dems have to actually do things like pass legislation. Which more often than not requires all 3 of house, senate, and president. All the GOP has to do is block things and yell immigrants. Progress takes, you know, actual work. Stagnation or regression takes next to nothing.
like giving voters what they want
Funny enough, giving voters what they want is inevitably decried by Very Serious Online Leftists
Neoliberalism exists for many reasons. But blaming leftists is strange. We would be a lot better off if voting was not so hard for black and brown people, for instance. We can at least agree on that.
Yeah, I’m on board with making voting easier for everyone. Voter turnout is ultimately the only way short of violent revolution to fix shit in this country.
Voting is difficult enough for people who don’t vote conservative, which is why when leftists refuse to vote out of principle because their perfect candidates aren’t a choice, they’re figuratively stepping on the rake.
Totally agree about voting and its need for ease. But I can tell you more leftists vote than don’t, I can promise you that. Systemically that’s not the biggest problem. And I certainly plan to vote and I won’t be helping Trump with it.
I hope you’re right, but I’ll say that I’ve definitely seen more people in this election cycle say there’s no point in picking between two fascists than any other cycle I’ve been a part of. Especially here on lemmy
Yeah totally. Social media is bashing and circlejerking, even in the open source spaces. Not the best lens into reality.
No one will vote for our shitty candidates.
Should we run better ones?
No blame the people for us not having a good candidate
Great, so you’re going to overhaul the system and get us better candidates?
No?
Use normal words. You are trying intimidate people with confidence and you just end up not making any sort of point. If we vote the right people in and the right people do their job it isn’t fascist. We aren’t in a fascist regime. You are the only one being “reductive”.
Those are normal words, I apologize for not being the right kind of articulate for you. we have been moving right for 40 plus years. Both parties have been complicit. We fight endless wars under both parties. We have lost access to inexpensive higher education under both parties. We have lost the battle to the healthcare industry under both parties. We have seen the rise of the military police state under both parties. We have become spied on in every facet of life under both parties. Our public infrastructure is falling apart and being deregulated under both parties. We have seen the militarization of our borders under both parties.
These are real material problems that we continue to ignore with the focus on these two parties. We’ve seen a modicum of progress in certain areas, but there has been a lot of loss of freedom and liberty.
I disagree. Neoliberalism and foments are not common at all. You can even look it up statistically if you would like. We are not a fascist regime just because you don’t like every decision. That isn’t how fascism works. You still have many freedoms others do not. Is it expensive? Absolutely. Is it fair? No. But there are plenty of Democrats fighting the dumbasses for those rights to become easier. So chill on your “we are in a fascist regime” jargon just because you can’t get every single little thing you want.
I said we are moving towards fascism. I never said “we are in a fascist regime”.
I don’t know if we can discuss how using more words attuned with the audience would help? I think I already said that and you didn’t take kindly to it.
Foment as much as it could be a synonym for instigate or moving towards as you put it, could also be taken as inspires or motivates an already mobilized force. Maybe it was a poor choice for what you were trying to convey.
The meme oversimplifies what is happening. Our politics has been drifting further to the right with each election and the people in power are fine with that, regardless of whatever party they’re a part of.
there you go
A meme? REDUCTIVE?
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
DNC and DNC shills expecting free votes because they’re democratically funding a genocide instead of fascistly funding a genocide
You morons in November when Trump inevitably wins due to horrendous voter turnout in November from former Democrat voters and not because the 5 communists in the USA made the difference
It’s like a copy paste of Trump v Clinton and clearly no one learned their lesson from literally 8 years ago.
Fielding bad candidates because you can’t be bothered to do the bare minimum has been a thing forever. As a friendly reminder, the thing that scared the DNC and RNC the most in my lifetime wasn’t Trump, 9/11, or anything like that. It was Ross Perot.
They’d both burn everything rather than let anyone else play the game.
And then they ask “wHy dO tHe dEms mOvE tO tHe CenTrE wHeN tHeY lOsE i dOn’T uNdErsTanD”.
Intentional misinterpretation.
Democrats spend more time attacking the left than they EVER have Republicans, because their platforms are 95% the same. You don’t get to insult half your base, tell them their priorities are bullshit baby dreams, move further right from your already mid right position, then blame those people for your loss.
By telling leftists to eat shit, you’re saying you don’t need leftists to win. If leftists are the single cause behind every dem loss then its probably time to change your platform to cater to leftists (or just admit that you’re fascists that’ll take the red fascism instead of the blue fascism before you shift left even a little bit.)
Keep cheerleading for fascism, buddy. :)
Your entire argument and political stance IS ALREADY FASCIST, buddy. :)
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They’ve been backing a genocide and demonizing the university protests. That’s very real, physical things that are on the right the Democrats are doing.
SURELY the DNC will listen if they don’t vote, don’t run, and don’t donate, but post a genocide Joe meme from their phone also made available by genocide while wearing clothes manufactured by a genocidal state on land acquired from an ethnic cleansing. That’s the morally upstanding thing to do.
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I helped run the phone lines for Biden in 2020. And what did I get? I got shit on. I got to watch my country participate in a fucking genocide. You don’t get to support that and then claim it’s some radical minority that’s the problem. The majority of non republicans want him to at least condition aid if not stop it all together at this point. All he has to do is follow the already written laws he’s been ignoring.
Well they didn’t listen when we did vote so fuck em. And no, participating in Capitalism is not an endorsement of capitalism. Never was, never will be, because participation is enforced.
I think that’s been a proven case for European parliamentary democracies giving way to right wing and fascist parties. But that’s more the reverse: the liberal and center-left move center and then lose.
But US politics doesn’t have much leftist policy to shed, or many leftist politicians to exoricate, so it is more that even when Democrats win, policy stays right of center. Which is where the frustrated remark “both parties are the same” comes from, which everyone also shits on.
Since you know, the centre right continually stretches further right like a rubber band.
Dems can’t move as far left as you want them to when there’s a very real chance of losing. Want it to move left? Give Dems overwhelming and consistent wins and they can listen to the more left part of their party and move left.
Dems can’t move as far left as you want them to when there’s a very real chance of losing.
At least, not when there’s a very real chance of losing to the right.
It’d be different if the Republican Party was out there hawking Marx instead of Mises.
If this were a parliamentary system, sure. But our constitutional framework does not produce overwhelming, consistent victory. Like, ever, in its history.
May I remind you after the Bush administration, Obama won both the primaries and the overall election by campaigning from the left, not the center. And he won by a very wide margin.
Hmmmmm how ever could you influence who would win an election? Hmmmmmmm, Let’s see. Oh yeah, by voting.
May I remind you that Obama was not running against an incumbent? (Not to mention that he mostly ran on hope. And after the war mongering Bush it really didn’t take much.) When running against an incumbent, you have to go to the centre. That was how Clinton and Biden won. And we’re back to how do you move things left? Simple: By voting. By giving consistent and overwhelming victories.
Biden isn’t running against an incumbent, he is the incumbent. You want him to run from the center against an incumbent, OK. But then what? Run from the center again? That doesn’t make sense.
Again, “consistent, overwhelming” victory is a fantasy. Control of the executive and legislative branch exchanges hands every few terms. That’s just how this rule-set and this electorate play out.
JFC Now you’re just playing dumb. Biden ran against the incumbent, do I have to specify I’m talking 2020? When Biden faced off against the incumbent in 2020 he had to run centre. JFC. And guess fucking what, that carries on. Especially when it’s a rematch of the same guys, with the same policies, the same MO. Why do I bother when you play dumb. (Not that he’s even announced what he’s running on yet for 2024, but we can take a good guess).
Yeah you’re back to excusing yourself for not voting. Jeez you know how you could change that changing hands stuff? By voting. Seriously why am I bothering when all you do is make excuses for not voting. If you want to continue you’re gong to have to do better.
Presidentially: yeah.
Congressionally and locally: not nearly as much. There’s a pretty solid track record especially since the Citizens United and SpeechNow decisions of the Democratic Party either mobilizing against progressives and for conservatives in primaries where there isn’t even a GOP threat.
They even took down Katie Porter because she didn’t kiss the ring of Dianne Feinstein.
But yeah, the acute threat the GOP poses gives them harm reduction status.
President and Congress. Probably locally too but federally is what I’m focusing on.
And this isn’t strictly harm reduction. Like I said, want it to move left? That will happen with overwhelming and consistent wins.
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The DNC funded Schiff hard and even funded the GOP candidate for attack ads against her. I mean you’re objectively correct: she lost. But she was fighting two parties by the time the primary happened.
She announced her intent to run too early back when effort was still being made to “Weekend At Bernies” Feinstein, which waa her undoing.
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Well yes, that is one thing that helps lead to that other thing.
OP does not know what a tankie is.
An authoritarian self-proclaimed ‘leftist’ who loudly decries anything that’s not 100% in-line with their desires as ‘shitlib’ policy that must be opposed even at the cost of ushering in actual fascism. This actual fascism is also often described by tankies as ‘not that bad’ or ‘the exact same’ as the ‘shitlib’ policies they oppose. Dissenters are inevitably reactionaries who must be (often literally) crushed, as they don’t reflect the TRUE will of the people (ie whatever the opinion of the tankie is).
As opposed to the liberals who decry anything to their left as tanky?
Thanks for not disagreeing with the description, it’s nice to know that others can see it too.
Oh look over there, a mile to your left! It’s the point you missed.
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Wow… no notes
PJ just likes to start shit so they can argue with people.
Spent all day on this thread insulting people and trying to be a smartass. As if that is going to change anyone’s mind. What an absolute tool.
Oh wow now they’re Trump supporters and Communists? LMAO
This is getting ridiculous.
You’re absolutely right, it IS ridiculous how many supposedly left-leaning people are willing and even eager to see a Trump presidency to ‘get one over on the shitlibs’.
The convention could always select a different democrat. Or it could have if the democrats hadn’t purposely put it after the ballot deadline in many states so Biden would already be on the ballot, before the convention that supposedly nominates him.
It’s just not the either/or situation you’re looking for. It’s entirely possible to be so disgusted by the state of American politics that you just don’t vote. Or you vote third party. Your memes are having a negative impact at this point. Nobody who was on the fence is going to say, “Oh gosh I don’t want to be commie, I better vote Joe!”
The convention could always select a different democrat.
Ah, yes, the good old shift from “NOT DEMOCRATIC ENOUGH” to “Fuck the voters, the DNC should nominate someone else!”
Your memes are having a negative impact at this point.
Then you should have no problem with them, since you’re convinced that neither side is worth supporting.
There is a side that could be worth supporting. But you’re making very hard to do so. Biden could win the election today by cutting off military aid to Israel. Instead he has goons out here threatening everyone. So far I’m not sure what I get for supporting him. You guys talk about plan 2025, but this kind of bullshit used to just be Republican stuff. So from where I’m sitting it looks like the DNC is giving up on Democracy too. It’s certainly giving up on listening to it’s voters.
Biden could win the election today by cutting off military aid to Israel.
God, I love how detached from the reality of the American electorate this constantly repeated point is.
Instead he has goons out here threatening everyone. So far I’m not sure what I get for supporting him.
Threatening… everyone… by telling them exactly what the opposition is promising to do?
God. What a horrible threat.
You guys talk about plan 2025, but this kind of bullshit used to just be Republican stuff.
Fucking what.
So from where I’m sitting it looks like the DNC is giving up on Democracy too.
… because it… isn’t having a meeting in a smoke-filled room to remove the current candidate without any input from the electorate?
Or because it’s running against a fascist who has pledged to be a day-one dictator?
That’s a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is meant to support and provide context for the others. So taking it all out of context isn’t helpful in decoding it’s meaning.
“It’s out of context, I didn’t say the things I said”
They are not team blue so they are team bad. The rules of
footballpolitics are simpleThey want Donald to win so that China gains ground. They claim to love leftist economies but are simping for countries that produce plenty of billionaires.
Billionaires are just symptomatic of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics!
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I wonder what their idea of the outcome is.
Tankie: “I convinced 20 Democratic Party voters to stay at home (and did the same for 0 Republican Party voters). Wait until Democratic politicians see that more voters favored the far right party. Then they’re going to move left and fall on their knees and beg me to forgive them.”
(Cue scene: swastika-adorned tanks rolling past the window)
“Stupid liberals, unwilling to fight the fascists like us true leftists.” (Watches tanks and twiddles thumbs.) (Fetches keyboard.) “Let’s tell everyone online that it’s their own fault and they deserve this.” (Sudden sound of harsh knocking on front door.)
At best, their actions will “only” cause another grid-locked presidency where progressives can’t get their reforms to pass (which will then be used as the reason to abandon the likely last line of non-violent defense against fascists).
“I would fight fascism to my last breath” “I would be part of the resistance movement if a fascist government took power”
proceeds to do none of the un-sexy things needed to prevent fascism from taking hold in the first place
If anyone actually wants to stop the genocide in Gaza please vote out your republican congressman, almost every Republican congressman supported the resolution to restart weapons shipments and almost every democrat voted against it.
lol we already have fascism. They’re crushing antiwar protests, the media is in lockstep, labor demonstrations have been broken and they’re pissing away the cost of healthcare, free college and any number of other benefits on supplying a genocide.
I’m never gonna vote for Biden again and if you don’t want to either, consider voting for the party for socialism and liberation.
You don’t have to support the genocide.
Why is the the voters obligation to vote for shitty candidates rather than in the candidates to earn the vote? Biden is looking at a close race and the majority of voters want a cease fire.
Why is the the voters obligation to vote for shitty candidates rather than in the candidates to earn the vote?
It’s our obligation as voters, as people entrusted with political power, to do what we can to steer our polity towards the least destructive and immoral path that we can.
“JOE BIBEN HASN’T EARNED MY VOTE” doesn’t mean jack fucking shit. The point of a citizen’s duty is not to suck off the right people - it’s to protect one’s fellow citizens, and ideally, members of other polities as well.
Voting isn’t a fucking judgement of who’s moral enough to go to democracy fucking heaven - voting is a judgement of who is least objectionable in steering the future of the polity - including considering the likelihood of success.
Sorry that using political power responsibly is such a foreign concept to you.
Biden is looking at a close race and the majority of voters want a cease fire.
The majority of voters want a cease-fire. You want to tell me what the majority of voters want the US to do to achieve a ceasefire?
Most US voters are not in favor of more stringent terms than what Biden has already proposed.
This idea that the US electorate is as left as the Fediverse is just… fucking bizarre.
You dont get those changes by just blindly voting against the Republicans. You have to actually pressure your candidates into supporting what you want. Companies and lobbiests are able to do this with giant sacks of cash. Normal people do it by protesting and making demands of their officials to force a response. Showing nothing but contempt for anti-war protests is always a bad look for a president running for reelection.
Biden has all the leverage on Israel to make them stop the killing. He can threaten to pull military aid, send in US forces to distribute humanitarian aid, or put sanctions on Israel. All of those would stop the killing, making people angry at the US response willing to vote for Biden, paving a path for his re-election. Why are you so against him forcing Israel to stop the genocide if it is his only path to victory?
Because it’s not his only path to victory, and it’s not even certain that it IS a path to victory. A majority of DEMOCRATS, much less the general public, still approve of the current level of support to Israel or support INCREASED support to Israel.
Do I want Biden to pull out of Israel? Yes. Do I understand why the strategic political reasons why it’s not being done, other than Biden being an old dinosaur? Also yes. Do I think that welcoming Trump into the White House will improve the matter? Fuck no.
Those voters who approve of funding Israel’s genocide should really suck it up and vote for Biden even if he slashes funding. After all they aren’t crazy “tankies” who would dare withhold their vote because they don’t approve of what he’s doing.
Those voters who approve of funding Israel’s genocide should really suck it up and vote for Biden even if he slashes funding.
Absolutely they should. And absolutely I bitch out anyone who thinks that Biden ‘not being pro-Israel enough’ is a reason not to vote for him as a fascist enabler, at minimum.
After all they aren’t crazy “tankies” who would dare withhold their vote because they don’t approve of what he’s doing.
No, they tend to be fascists and theocrats instead who will gleefully withhold their vote, just as tankies do.
This is what democracy looks like. Fighting to keep a coalition of unlike people together because the alternative is getting something that’s worse on every fucking level.
I take it you’d have a problem with people calling the Democratic party fascist but you seem to think such a significant part of their base is fascist that they have to implement fascist policy to appease them. What is that if not fascism? If the DNC actually has morals they’d amputate that part of their base and appeal to new voters because they look less ghoulish. If the Democrats lose it isn’t going to be because a few online leftist withheld their vote, it’s going to be because they failed to get any fresh voter turnout. A third of Americans don’t vote, and a larger portion of that third is young and PoC, more likely to be strongly against the genocide.
I take it you’d have a problem with people calling the Democratic party fascist but you seem to think such a significant part of their base is fascist that they have to implement fascist policy to appease them.
A significant part of the American electorate supports fascist policies, specifically, with regards to Israel. We can debate the causes all day long, but the fact remains.
What is that if not fascism?
Democracy. As it is necessarily compromise with the will of the majority.
If the DNC actually has morals they’d amputate that part of their base and appeal to new voters because they look less ghoulish.
If the DNC had morals, they’d lose, huh? Yeah, Trump rounding up people into concentration camps AND funding Israeli genocide looks much better. /s
A third of Americans don’t vote, and a larger portion of that third is young and PoC, more likely to be strongly against the genocide.
So, your plan is that, if the Dems take one of the least important issues to voters (yes, including young voters), radically change it to alienate their most reliable demographics to appeal to their least reliable demographics, that is the real path to victory?
Thise fascists and theocrats were mever going to vote for Biden anyway, so why do you want him to court their vote instead of progressives?
Thise fascists and theocrats were mever going to vote for Biden anyway
They literally are voting for him. They voted for him last time. A significant subset of the Democratic party is strongly pro-Israel.
so why do you want him to court their vote instead of progressives?
I don’t. I told you, I tell the fascists and theocrats and those leaning that way I absolutely condemn.
Then they deserve what they get!
If the majority would rather side with supporting genocidal actions, rather than peace, than America deserves to burn
Then they deserve what they get!
If the majority would rather side with supporting genocidal actions, rather than peace, than America deserves to burn
Thanks for going mask off.
Yeah mask off.
To all the people supporting genocidal actions, we do no give a fuck what you think.
When you decide that you are not ok with sending more bombs to continue killing children then we can talk.
Until then I hope you all experience exactly what you want other people to.
Yeah mask off.
To all the people supporting genocidal actions, we do no give a fuck what you think.
When you decide that you are not ok with sending more bombs to continue killing children then we can talk.
Until then I hope you all experience exactly what you want other people to.
So when members of Hamas, the current representative government of Gaza, talk about the genocide of the Jews, you say…?
Me, personally, I say that wishing democide on a population is fucking horrendous regardless of what that population supports, but I understand you tankies adore bloodshed more than I do.
Tell me you’re white and know you’re not gonna be the one who actually burns without telling me you’re white and know you’re not gonna be the one who actually burns.
You’re saying that you are ok with Israel slaughtering Palestinians so long as you can continue your standard of living. “Never Again” doesn’t have a secret clause saying we shouldn’t stop genocide if it means people may be harmed in the process.
You don’t want Trump to take over the US and institute his fascist policies? You should be leaning on the Democrats to actually try and stop him, rather than going after those who are trying to actually stop fascism as it pops up.
“We think any amount of genocide is unacceptable, that’s why we think it is imperative to threaten the democrats with the possibility of letting more genocide happen here too if they don’t stop supporting genocide, and shut up it’s not supporting genocide when we do it because we’re right!”
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Sorry you think genocide ia an acceptable policy for the leader of the free world to support
Sorry that you think doubling down on genocide and starting a few new ones is an acceptable policy for voters in the free world to support.
Where have i said that I support doubling down? People thinkthat their vote doesn’t matter as is. And asking someone who is already apathetic to voting to vote for someone who supports genocide isn’t going to make them want to vote any more. It’s a rigged game so they won’t play. You should be mad at Biden for not trying to engage with those voters and instead locking them up and using police violence against them.
Where have i said that I support doubling down?
There are two choices in this coming election, effectively. Trump or Biden.
If one loses, the other wins.
You want to guess what contributing to Biden’s loss will cause?
Go ahead. Take a few swings.
And asking someone who is already apathetic to voting to vote for someone who supports genocide isn’t going to make them want to vote any more
Someone who is already apathetic to voting is already not a very good target for voting outreach. You’re not really making “Have the least reliable voting bloc since we started tracking such things be the lynchpin of the strategy to defeat fascism” sound any more reasonable than it was previously.
It’s a rigged game so they won’t play.
If they think it’s a rigged game, what benefit will appealing to their desired policies have?
You should be mad at Biden for not trying to engage with those voters and instead locking them up and using police violence against them.
Oh God, not this line again. It doesn’t matter that Biden at no point has advocated the use of police violence against peaceful protesters, he’s definitely the one behind local police continuing the policy of being absolute shitheads, as they have for the past [checks notes] century and a half of US policing.
Thanks, Biden.
No. There is no moral responsibility to vote for someone who hasn’t earned that vote. That’s a construct meant to remove the politician’s responsibility to their constituents. An Astroturf by the donor class to protect their influence. Stop doing their work for them. They don’t care about you beyond how much money you can make them.
No. There is no moral responsibility to vote for someone who hasn’t earned that vote.
Oh, cool, there’s no moral responsibility to protect your fellow citizens. Fuck those minorities, herd 'em into camps; Biden didn’t earn MY vote, right?
You lot are indistinguishable from fascists in practical effects.
Hi, I’m part of a minority that Donald trump and his sycophants would love nothing more than to herd into camps or eliminate entirely.
Your argument sucks. Calling everyone fascists who doesn’t want to vote for your guy isn’t going to convince anyone to vote for your guy. Are you trying to convince people Democrats are bad?
Hi, I’m part of a minority that Donald trump and his sycophants would love nothing more than to herd into camps or eliminate entirely.
Playing asspat games with Very Serious People who want to see Donald Trump elected to ‘get back at’ the evil shitlibs isn’t going to convince anyone to vote against fascism. If you’re fine with letting people spew pro-fascist rhetoric, I mean, I guess I’ll see you in the camps; but personally, I’d like to avoid that fucking fate.
Oh my goodness, you truly think every person who doesn’t vote for Biden is actively rooting for Trump, don’t you? Okay, have a nice day.
“I wasn’t rooting for Trump, I was just sitting by doing absolutely nothing, not even the bare minimum, because genocide doesn’t matter to me!” doesn’t really have a better ring to it than “I was rooting for Trump”.
Where’s his moral responsibility? Why am I the only one with a moral responsibility? Where’s the moral responsibility of his base? Where’s your moral responsibility? Is it okay with genocide as long as it’s over there? It’s okay over there but here crimes a magnitude lower suddenly become a moral imperative?
You have no morals.
Why am I the only one with a moral responsibility?
You aren’t. You’re just the only one with control over your own actions.
Where’s your moral responsibility?
The same place as every other citizen’s?
Is it okay with genocide as long as it’s over there?
It’s not okay with genocide. Unlike your sense of morality, it regards “More genocide” as a BAD position to take.
It’s okay over there but here crimes a magnitude lower suddenly become a moral imperative?
lmao, what. Tell me more about how murdering minorities here in the USA is a crime “a magnitude lower” than murdering minorities in Israel. Real telling what you think about non-white Americans and GSMs.
You have no morals.
Coming from someone advocating for the deaths of both more Palestinians AND American minorities?
lmao
Yup the occasional murder by racist is 100 percent comparable to a man made famine and campaign of ethnic cleansing by military units.
So that’s what you think the next Trump term is going to be? Just the “occasional murder by racist”?
I can’t believe you crave genocide this badly.
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The point of a citizens duty is not to suck off the right people
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Idk how we got here. Imo it’s mainly because for some reason, we no longer give agency to republicans.
If voting for a third party is immoral, then 1/3 of the US is being very immoral.
Voting used to be a private choice, hence why you go into a little booth. It was your moral obligation to vote to the best of your abilities, your choice was personal.
If you’re still asking a candidate to earn your vote when the other guy is selling copies of the constitution with the 13th and 19th amendments omitted, you’re just a fascist who doesn’t want the social stigma that comes with being an open fascist.
If you’re supporting a candidate giving bombs to a genocidal, ethnostate apartheid regime, while condemning protests against that at home what are you besides a blue fascist?
Someone who remembers the other guy handed that genocidal ethnostate apartheid regime the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights?
"Any amount of genocide is bad, that’s why I’m willing to support even more genocide happening if it means those nasty wasty establishment democrats finally l E a R n T h E i R l E s S o N ! ! !"
You’re being a vote karen, you’re threatening the actually vulnerable to fall in line with what you want and to bring you the party’s manager. You’re Anne Frank’s neighbor if the reason they turned her in was because her parents weren’t anti-nazi enough to their liking.
Ya, they’re both bad. No one denies that. But if you’re voting for Mussolini because Hitler is on the ballot, you’re still a fascist.
Donald will not do better for you on your wedge issue and he did an insurrection. You want the guy who tweeted nuclear threats to Iran to take over on this conflict? Misguided.
I can’t believe France wom that election
Hmmm, today i will attack any attempts to run a better candidate against trump
The US system doesn’t work that way. You have a choice between two people. A vote for a third party is a vote not counted.
Maybe the US system doesn’t work that way because people keep screaming at everyone who doesn’t vote for their one party vs the only other. It’s really odd to claim that your vote matters and then yell at anyone who tries to do anything with their vote other than to guarantee their vote for one of two parties. If the argument is to preserve democracy, well, it already looks like we don’t have democracy.
It’s because we have a winner-takes-all electoral college system. It encourages domination not cooperation and self-perpetuates because it stifles ideological competition. It’s not merely a social phenomenon.
How are we supposed to break out of such a system? Both parties benefit from this system and will never agree to change it. About a decade ago in Canada, the liberal party claimed they’d carry out election reform if they won. They ended up winning big time, but they refused to do what they promised because it would threaten the power structure.
Your democracy is at stake and you are yelling that we should do democracy harder instead of attempting to keep the democracy destroyer out of office. Carry on though and personally insult me like you did in your last comment.
I’m not American so I don’t have a dog in this fight.
You’re not American and don’t have a dog in the fight, but you want to explain the electoral system that I participate in to me. Not sure where I insulted you or yelled (no exclamation point or all-caps/bolded words in sight), so it seems like you’ve completely misinterpreted my post. I didn’t say we should “democracy harder”, I said we don’t have a democracy and that it’s just a facade where people get really passionate about voting for one of only two viable options. Kind of hard to save something that doesn’t exist. Will things get worse under republicans? Absolutely. Will democrats do anything about that? Absolutely not. They’ll keep the office warm until the next time republicans inevitably win back power in this crooked system.
You’re so engrossed in talking over the other person that you failed to read what they said.
They said “Run a better candidate against” Trump which IS possible to do by the DNC.
Right, trump vs another candidate. Biden is awful and is the reason why the election is in any kind of jeopardy. But when trump wins in november there’ll be no self awareness to be found, that people were promoting an unviable candidate that no one likes.
Have you been voting in all of your local elections and primarys?
If not, then you haven’t done anything at all to get a better candidate against anyone.
I’ve been voting in local and state elections for the last 24 years. When will that produce a better candidate?
Not during this election.
I can’t wait until I’m like 90 and I actually get to vote for someone I like.
That soon? You’re being too optimistic.
The inherent problem at the core of it all is you’ll only have the option to vote for people that want to be in politics.
And that you only have the option (realistically) to vote for people that other voters want to be in politics. As a conversation with other voters will quickly show, is a depressing concept.
So how is the whole “blame-leftists-for-the-abysmal-failure-of-our-fake-democracy” gaslighting project going?
It seems a bit laggy.
