You’re talking to people that want to continue rationalizing their tacit, frequently racist support for genocide, and their easiest out has always been to say, “but Trump is worse”. They have never done the introspection required to look at their own personal role as a political being beyond what they’re told to do by the Democratic Party and their donors: slacktivist vote shaming, always presuming the high ground for themselves (even while tolerating genocide!), and doing as little as possible on the ground outside of minor exercises in false catharsis like a cop-escorted, permitted march or an ignored letter writing campaign.
When challenged on this by people on the left that do read and do self-reflect, these are the folks that responded in bad faith, even when the context is genocide, because they have made politics into an extension of their egos rather than a project to which to subordinate yourself and devote real work to.
Whining about .ml is their way of pretending to be vindicated every time Trump does something bad, as they cannot actually argue against what the people in .ml say, they must rely on inventions and emotional implications.
In short, many on .ml vocally opposed supporting genociding Democrats. None that I’m aware of expected Trump to be better. At best, a roll of the dice.
Edit:
Sorry, folks. I failed to consider that this is the home instance of the people being target by this comment.
Just to be clear, I’m not a big .ml fan, I’m just an anarchist who’s never seen this particular gripe of mine worded so nicely.
What?
The thing that “is not happening” is people on Lemmy who support genocide or deny that it’s happening in Gaza. That is vanishingly rare on Lemmy, although there are a scattered handful of Zionist accounts around.
Those outliers aside, everyone on Lemmy is against the genocide in Palestine. What happens is that people say “Yes but Trump is going to do turbo-genocide” and other people say “AHA! I KNEW you were in favor of
BidenHarris committing genocide!” which isn’t at all what the first person said. I would defy you to find anyone from the past week who ever tried to say that what’s happening in Gaza is anything other than complete erasure of the Palestinians with full American support, without needing to insert “tacitly” or “sounds like you are trying to say” or some other type of alchemy by which “not wanting Trump to kill even faster” becomes “being okay with Biden assisting with the killing so far.”