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    Whoever coined the phrase “it’s not my job to educate you” is top of my rogues gallery. If you want democracy to succeed, it is literally your job to educate everyone you can about the things you are passionate about and the changes you wish to see. I get where it came from, I understand the feeling, but it’s the worst possible phrase in the context of trying to make a political change.

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        It really didn’t. Maybe 10 people said it because they were being harassed by concern trolls, while the rest of us continued to engage in conversation with people who seemed like they might genuinely be confused.

        Like literally just do a web search for your question and you will be on better footing when you ask it.

        Like I felt offended the first time I heard “my culture is not a costume” but I actually did some reading / thinking before I started bothering people with questions like what??? or even banditos?? or what about mummies?

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      I feel like a lot of progressive vocabulary words get used outside the contexts where they apply.

      “It’s not my job to educate you” is a fair and valid thing to say when someone demands you defend the validity of your identity while you’re just trying to live your life. It’s unreasonable to expect every trans person to explain the history and complexity of gender to every chud who gives them shit.

      It is, however, the opposite of activism and super unhelpful for an activist to say while ostensibly trying to build a movement.

      Similarly, “mansplaining” is not a blanket term for any man explaining anything, listening to a friend vent is not “emotional labor”, and participating in cultures other than the one you grew up in is not “cultural appropriation”. All real terms that point at real problems, all sometimes used outside the contexts in which they are helpful.

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        Gaslighting is another often misused term. It’s not just a blanket term for lying, it is a specific type of lie.

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          And the thing to remember most is that the side we need to defeat doesn’t care about any of these terms.

          If you instead choose to level these “academic” arguments at allies because they’re more likely to address your concerns and engage like a human being, you are making a mistake. A human mistake, but a huge mistake nonetheless.

          It’s so easy when you’re charged up emotionally and scared and also prepared to exercise your knowledge and express your feelings, you might not know what to do with all that energy other than try to rip apart someone adjacent to you because it’s easier than feeling like you’re beating your head against a wall arguing with the actual mindless blocks of concrete who make up the conservative right.

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            Sure, I personally don’t use “academic” terms against other people. It does make the words lose meaning, which is why I use context and followup questions to really understand if the distinction is important.

            I think it’s ok to bemoan the semantic drift of useful terms, away from the people trying to simply communicate with me. (No point in chastising.)

            I’m not sure where you are getting where I am “ripping apart someone adjacent to me.”

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              In this instance, like most comments here, my comments are directed generally to readers, exactly like yours was. You’re obviously not attacking anyone and I didn’t suggest you were, which is why I started my comment with “and.”

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      Yeah I mean I can understand not everyone wants to be an educator, especially of more ignorant people but when people say this I do wonder why they are even talking. I usually speak to people because I am interested in learning from them or because they’re interested in learning from me. This is the purpose of human communication. If you aren’t interested then the obvious solution is to stay silent.

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        When out distributing political flyers people will often come up to me pretending to want a conversation and learn something about my/our points, but just talk over me all the time. Their purpose is not to listen, or to learn, or to question, but just to feel like they matter.

        Had a guy recently tell me about how he is a mechanic and that he did his own study where he found out that combustion engines do not, in fact, let out any CO2. He started it all with “give me 3 reasons to vote for you” to put me on the spot, then immediately was like “ok, I have 3 not to do it.”

        There is no conversation with people like that, I’ve tried it often. Now I just wish them a nice day and go away as it’s not my job to waste time trying go educate them talking against an idiot wall.

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      I first started seeing this on reddit (who knows where it actually came from though) which I believe schools its users to want to say SOMETHING, ANYTHING for attention and engagement. I agreed with or rather understood its meaning at one point but this phrase along with has “let me Google that for you” has fostered an abysmal internet culture. I think a much more servicable and sympathetic version of what this phrase was once trying to say, when said in good faith, should be “its not my responsibility to engage with this post right now”, which isn’t spoken aloud but is applicable to everyone online, and which I find myself thinking more and more when a comment makes me groan. The problem is how driven we all are to say SOMETHING, ANYTHING for attention amd engagement. I think it was a valuable realization at the time that felt so good to fire off uncritically on Twitter that people really hurt themselves, others, and the internet’s culture when they did.

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      You need to educate the right people at the right times, more than anything. I swear both this original message and most of the replies to it, like this one, speak of wild levels of inexperience in how to socialize and make people unite with you.

      If you can choose between spending your energy addressing the stupid, ill-informed ideas posted by liberal Americans on Facebook or Reddit and withstanding a little public trolling, or spending your energy “educating” a vocal, prominent leftist who makes content about something they’re doing wrong or some word they’re misusing or some marginalized group they might be offending, can you guess what’s going to help the cause more?

      (The really sad part here is that some people are reading this trying to weigh both options.)

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        It’s not exactly the sentiment I have a problem with. There are definitely people who aren’t worth engaging with and there’s a time to walk away, as someone else in this thread pointed out they do. Responding in a kind of snarky, condescending tone rather than just walking away does not help you.

        Think about an online thread where this happens: Someone is making an argument, and a troll appears. They engage for a bit, but realize they aren’t going to make any progress. Walking away let’s the thread die, and people who stumble upon it in the future will likely recognize the troll for what they are and consider the argument. Responding with condescension instead makes the person appear to only be arguing for self-aggrandizement rather than to actually help or improve anything, and it can poison the argument they made before. It plays right into the troll’s hands.

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      Yea I haven’t even read the message, the second I saw the text wobble I came to the comments to see who else has already called it out.

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          Quoting the person who is being critiqued isn’t effective rhetoric… The whole point is that he isn’t convincing because he’s unable to not be a hypocrite for half a second. Pointing to his hypocrisy uncritically again doesn’t do anything to excuse the issue. If you actually want to convince anyone to follow the advice above, you need to do more than exist vaguely nearby. So do better, because this was a pathetic attempt and should never be repeated.

          How’s that? Build you up enough?

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            The whole point is that he isn’t convincing because he’s unable to not be a hypocrite for half a second. Pointing to his hypocrisy uncritically again doesn’t do anything to excuse the issue.

            Nothing you said is even vaguely related to what has been said in this thread. Where do you think you are right now?

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              I’m sorry you can’t read, but it definitely has been said to you, multiple times. I’m just not babying you about it.

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                Let me check the comment chain again:

                -comment whining about AI

                -comment whining about AI

                -your deranged rant that is unrelated to anything that has been said before

                Nope. Don’t know where you think you are or who you think you’re talking to but you seem to be lost.

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                  Lol. Do you call everything you can’t read deranged? Because the hungry hungry caterpillar also makes sense to the literate among us.

                  I’m talking to cilethesane about how they’re uncritically quoting nonsense without adding anything to the discussion as though it furthers any point and I’m in this thread. You know where you are too, but you definitely are lost my dude

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        “Division is a weapon used by elites”

        uses currently divisive technology popularly known to be made by elites

        I hope this unnecessary choice doesn’t cheapen my message or bother people I’m trying to meet where they are.

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          uses currently divisive technology

          This is fucking “genocide Joe” all over again, just much more stupid because literally no one has been harmed by the creation and posting of this image.

          Has OP stolen a job from some other artist by posting their meme? Maybe they should have commissioned it?

          I get it, trying the force AI into everything as an excuse to not hire people is dumb as fuck, but this post is not doing that. People using it to make shit posts and memes is fine.

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            Why do you ignore the steps required to get here? The model doesn’t exist in a vacuum, nor did it automagically will itself into existence.

            By the creation and posting, no one has been harmed, but the model’s development sits atop the stolen works of artists worldwide. Now these companies are trying to obviate artists. Harm was a prerequisite for this image’s creation.

            You’re just ignoring the steps required to get to this “harmless” phase. It’s like saying “ffs, why do you want people to stop buying Nestlé where possible? Is wanting cookies evil now?”

            Genuinely, why does none of this matter to you?

            I’m not mad that AI exists, nor that people want to use it—so do I. But I can’t just ignore how they were made, or what the normalization of GenAI usage legitimizes.

            Please don’t make comparisons to genocide joe. This isn’t the same (I can go into this if needed, but I hope you see why), and I’m not even from the US.

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              Why do you ignore the steps required to get here?

              Did OP build and train the models? This makes as much sense as blaming OP for using the Internet to spread their message, because the “steps required” to get to the Internet include massive contributions to global warming, abusing and stealing the labour of the working class, and the genocide of indigenous populations. Why does none of this matter to you?

              “ffs, why do you want people to stop buying Nestlé where possible?”

              If OP is paying for access to the AI generation then they should not do that and provide them with profit. There are plenty of methods to get it for free so there is no reason to assume OP paid for it.

              Please don’t make comparisons to genocide joe. This isn’t the same

              Of course it isn’t. Israel’s genocide is a real issue that people actively made worse because having Palestinians die is easier than making the mental effort of thinking through the consequences of their actions (or inaction), and considering that sometimes all you can do is prevent something from getting worse.

              This is just people refusing to engage with helpful messaging intended to help organize group solidarity because of a knee-jerk reaction, instead of considering if this image actually contributed to the harm AI causes in any way.

              Both are people being intellectually lazy and pretending they are morally superior.

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    Imperfect Allies Aren’t Enemies

    • Critique to build, not tear down
    • Organize, don’t just argue
    • Movements win, not individuals
    • Perfection is the enemy of progress
    • Ego kills movements
    • Plan for the long game
    • Meet people where they are
    • Power doesn’t care about feelings
    • Division is a weapon used by elites, don’t play along
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    However, you have to be careful that your movement doesn’t get infiltrated, because that will hurt your movement. You have to be careful who you are walking with, and what their end goals are.

    Don’t protest for a better health care system with people that are antiscientific. Don’t protest for a free Palestine together with antisemitic people. Do not let them blur your message.

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    That sounds like something an enemy would say, right before they disagree with my objectively correct opinion about some minor thing and reveal their true nature.

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      the importance of that relatively minor thing also matters though, we can’t just purity test everybody for everything, even if it’s objectively correct, not all of it matters.

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      You mean Lemmy, the website that has the broad and diverse userbase who primarily lean far-left to even-further-left? Everyone is here exactly so they can fight with people who aren’t on the right and can be debated with or attacked without a frustrating, pointless argument with someone who can’t even read.

      Nobody here is going to read this as anything other than “You need to go after the REAL disguised nazis in your midst!” Everyone is here to escape having to fight orcs, so people here fight each other.

      edit: keep downvoting… or if you rather spend your energy on something educational to yourself, challenge yourself to find a single contentious thread or post here that isn’t niche groups of leftists thought-clashing with each other about who’s a better leftist. I’m not saying you’re all bad, I’m saying you’re all making a lot of mistakes which is why we get trounced constantly and we now have a fucking dictator undoing democracy. We are not victims here, we are failures. Get better. I know it sucks to hear, but if you feel called out, you’re definitely the target and I hope you feel great levels of shame and accountability.

      I have never been more disgusted with my own side as I have in the last few years, and you’re still the best bet in town, if you could just get your fucking emotions under control.

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      Its something people should have seen and accepted on or before November 5th.

      Now I kind of just want to see the anti-electoralists suffer. Even if it means I suffer.

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    Like the Muslim voters in Michigan that voted for Trump because they didn’t like Harris’ support of Israel and then immediately had ICE breathing down their necks

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      This is true, but it’s a good reminder that most people don’t act like this meme. We should remember that minorities don’t owe us their vote, and we should stand up for them

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        As a transwoman I’m suddenly used to abuse from false allies who see me as an “Guaranteed Vote”

        They’re not wrong, but only because it’s a two-party system and a true enemy is worse than a false friend.

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        Or they could have voted for Harris and not had to deal with mass deportations and then tried to stop the genocidal acts. Instead they voted to continue the genocidal acts AND get deported. If the problem persists either way, why vote to fuck yourself twice?

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      Right? Like, if someone’s promising Free Grog and Good Times, they’re probably LeChuck in disguise.

      Yes, I made an Escape From Monkey Island reference.

      First time I played that game, I felt stupid for not realizing the guy named “Charles L. Charles” with the same voice actor as LeChuck, was in fact, LeChuck.

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        Maaaan now i got spoilered for a game that came out many many many years ago! Thaaanks!!! Angry emoji, angry emoji

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          Especially since the joke behind the Charles L Charles character is how easy it’s supposed to be to see the twist coming, and my autistic ass just took the character at face value.

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            Tbh i might have been the same, my fellow 'tism friend.

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      It’s an unfortunate but necessary genocide

      Edit: I don’t support it!! But at this point it’s pretty clear it’s necessary, no? As liberals we need to be honest with ourselves at least.

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        i guess you need to spell out for me exactly how wiping out an entire culture of innocent human beings in cold blood is “necessary”

        idk if you’re just trolling for attention but saying shit like that and calling it “unfortunate”… dude wtf

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        This comment was reported. It does not violate our rules. Downvotes are appropriate here, convincing arguments even more so. Carry on.

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        I’ll bite. What do we as liberals get out of this genocide? Are you gonna say our stock in Lockheed will go up? Because not all of us liberals have stock in Lockheed.

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          Well the democrats were very clearly pro genocide so idk why you would think it’s not part of the liberal platform??? Don’t the democrats represent us?

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              I’m trying to figure out whether it’s an LLM or not. I’m always interested to see how far they’ve advanced.

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                I tried this trick on Substack once a the account was deleted soon after. I’ll test it out here

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              Idgi, if that’s the case then why is one of the top comments an unprompted criticism of antigenocide protesters? That’s not divisive?

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            For this among a dozen other excellent reason, including and especially being generally incompetent at achieving their stated goals, Democrats do not represent me.

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    This!!

    I see people shaming others for using Proton etc. It’s not perfect sure, but it’s a step in the right direction away from google.

    Any step in the right direction should be praised.

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      Leftist broadly have gotten used to attacking their own side because they’re not the angry, mindless orcs that the right nurtures, and thus it’s simply easier to police your own side and win arguments against other people with minds than try to butt heads against orcs who don’t care and have no interest in thoughtful conversation.

      It feels like action, it feels like some kind of accomplishment that you got some progressive content creator railroaded off the internet because they had a dumb take on israel once or used the R slur at some point.

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        It feels like action, it feels like some kind of accomplishment that you got some progressive content creator railroaded off the internet because they had a dumb take on israel once or used the R slur at some point.

        that’s great, but does it actually accomplish anything? That’s what really matters, it doesn’t matter if you run some weirdo out of town because he moderately disagrees with you, if he just goes to the next town over, where more people are waiting for him…

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          Huh!? I dont pay attention to US news and i am already out of the loop!? Comon maaaan!

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    Also, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

    Never forget that even though we knew that Stalin was a vicious mass murderer of his own people, we allied with him to defeat Hitler, and it is highly unlikely that we could have done it without out them, or at least it would have taken us far longer, and cost many more lives.

    We turned on each other the moment the war was over, but at least we could agree to put aside our differences for the time being.

    It is likely that when it comes time to finally put down the rabid dog named MAGA once and for all, it is going to require allying with the Traditional GOP. I despise them with everything I have, and will want accountability when this is over, but if they are willing to assist us in purging MAGA from society, we are going to have to hold our noses and accept their help.

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      It is likely that when it comes time to finally put down the rabid dog named MAGA once and for all, it is going to require allying with the Traditional GOP.

      Kamala tried that, it lead to Leftists not voting for Kamala Harris because they no longer saw a difference between her and Trump, and Rightists didn’t vote for Kamala Harris because even the “Never-Trumper” faction of the party gets in line behind whoever the GOP tells them to. Because Republicans have something Democrats will never have, unquestionable brand loyalty.

      MAGA will be not be defeated by cooperating with Conservatives who fear that they “Must defeat Trump to save the party”, this is because Conservatives do not have an ideology, they have a tribe, and their tribe must always win or their Gods will hold them accountable.

      If Conservatives turn against MAGA, it will be because they’ve been directly targeted by MAGA and are looking for a way out, and by the time that happens it’ll already be too late. “No one left to speak for me” as the poem goes.

      That said, the Right Wing portion of the Supreme Court is turning against Trump for this exact reason, they realize that if they don’t he will just get rid of the Supreme Court and rule directly.

      If “The TRUE Republicans” wanted to work with us to destroy Trumpism, I’d gladly accept their help, but they will NEVER work against the tribe.

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      Personally, I think Free America and the Allies would be teaming up with the Mexican Cartels. If anyone can terrorize the Trump Regime, it would be them. IMO, it wouldn’t be surprising if Mexico and the Allies promise to give away Texas to the Cartels as a spoil of war.

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    looks around the thread

    I don’t know why you felt the need to make a message like this, OP. We’re all fully united and never quibble over inconsequential shit.

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    Dear 50501 folks,

    Every so often I check my messages at Facebook and noted there’s a big 50501 group there… any chance you could get that group to start educating their Facebook members that supporting Facebook means supporting the coup and fascism?

    Just a thought, Wwe

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      I get what you’re saying, but if we sequester ourselves to niche spaces, how can we spread information? Isn’t it important to reach Facebook users?

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      Using Facebook to attract disgruntled hostiles who are potentially ripe for recruitment, or those who are politically agnostic and getting angry at what is happening to them, and poisoning one of their primary propganda mouthpieces, are all important missions.

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          How about don’t ask the opposition to host it and instantly doxx every person who touches that link? Just a thought. No fucking clue what is actually on the other side of that blue text and I’m not going to check

          You’re literally just making a list for them

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            Slow down. We are on the same side.

            My thought here is that corporate owned social media needs to be destroyed and the best way to do that is to make it irrelevant — the way folks already in the Fediverse find it.

            The way to make it irrelevant is to make it a ghost town.

            Dreaming big, I wrote something for… Facebook idiots that might… just might… be persuaded to try something new. It’s just a doc. I can paste in the text? I guess I’m not tracking what you are concerned about?

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            I’m so new to the Fediverse myself, I don’t know about the closest thing there is to google docs? Educate me. I’ll pop the doc on that and then delete this link.

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    Sadly, I keep trying to explain this to tankies, but they insisted NOT voting for Kamala because she wasn’t going to use the Dragon Balls to bring back every Palestinian killed by Israel was a power move…

    Anyway, that’s how Donald Trump got re-elected

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      Amazing that you think this post is promoting punching leftwards in support of electionism

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      You’re right. We liberals saw that Kamala and Biden did only the bare minimum genocide necessary. It’s better than the extreme amounts of genocide trump is doing. Tankies often miss this point.

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        sighs

        The point isn’t that there’s a magical “Correct Amount” of genocide that is acceptable.

        The point is that there is no magical solution that saves Palestine, there was however an option that made an already horrible scenario even worse, and that’s the option we took in large part thanks to people who thought not voting would be good for anyone’s health.

        Kamala may not have cared about the lives she was helping snuff out under Biden’s watchful eye, but at least she wasn’t outright planning to build a fucking resort atop the mass graves. (Trump Gaza ring any bells to you?)

        By the way, I’m a transwoman, I’m seeing ciswomen get awarded for “Standing up” against my kind, as my existence is being publically reframed as an affront to women’s rights in what I can only imagine is the greatest dream TERF-kind ever had.

        This wouldn’t be happening under Kamala.

        There are already states planning to illegalize “Gender Identity Fraud” in attempt to CRIMINALIZE MY VERY EXISTENCE

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          The point is that there is no magical solution that saves Palestine, there was however an option that made an already horrible scenario even worse,

          First of all, the democrats were in charge when most of the genociding was happening. They let it get this bad in the first place, don’t play it off like it was just some pre existing scenario that was handed to us.

          Secondly, by the sounds of it, you accepted that what was happening to the gazans. In order for the democrats to have a chance to win, it was necessary. So tell me why you have a problem with my wording?

          Edit: and now if we’re looking for someone to blame… We obviously didn’t do anything wrong so it’s clearly the anti genocide voters. I don’t know why you have such a problem with me, I’m just agreeing with y’all!!

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            Secondly, by the sounds of it, you accepted that what was happening to the gazans. In order for the democrats to have a chance to win, it was necessary. So tell me why you have a problem with my wording?

            Edit: and now if we’re looking for someone to blame… We obviously didn’t do anything wrong so it’s clearly the anti genocide voters. I don’t know why you have such a problem with me, I’m just agreeing with y’all!!

            Because your wording is not only in bad faith, but you’re twisting what we’re saying to suit your own agenda

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          The point isn’t that there’s a magical “Correct Amount” of genocide that is acceptable.

          But there is an amount you were able to accept, an acceptable amount, if you will.

          there was however an option that made an already horrible scenario even worse

          No. The genocide was just as bad under Democrats, you were just a genocide denier when it was your team doing it. In that sense, it’s better that Trump won, because at least liberals acknowledge what’s happening when he does it, rather than downplaying and denying it.

          And that’s a real killer for the “lesser evil argument”: that the people making it seem to lose the ability to appraise their evil correctly.

          but at least she wasn’t outright planning to build a fucking resort atop the mass graves. (Trump Gaza ring any bells to you?)

          Jesus Christ. You people really do only care about appearances and don’t give a shit about human life. She also planned on exterminateing the Palestinians and building on the mass graves, but because it would just be fascist settlements and not something garish like a resort, that’s fine?

          Again, the lesser evil argument falls flat when everyone espousing it loses their ability to identify what evil is.

          By the way, I’m a transwoman, I’m seeing ciswomen get awarded for “Standing up” against my kind, as my existence is being publically reframed as an affront to women’s rights in what I can only imagine is the greatest dream TERF-kind ever had. This wouldn’t be happening under Kamala.

          And there is: it’s all fine so long as you personally aren’t on the receiving end of the genocide.

          When the Democratic party decides that Trans people are a necessary sacrifice and joins the Republicans in calling for their repression, are you still going to be demanding everyone votes for them?

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        Yep, it’s sad, but the Jews Palestinians have to be eliminated for the good of the Reich Republic.

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          I don’t know what you want from me, if the genocide was unnecessary then why did the dems allow it to happen? Like clearly it is necessary for our democracy?

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    AI cancer

    Also Neoliberals are controlled opposition who have been shrugging their shoulders for 50 years, they are complicit or impotent.

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      The more i read “neoliberal” in political movement discussions, the more i get the feeling its the new “slap this label on anything you dont fully agree with to disqualify them imedietly”-label

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        Did you just “everyone I don’t like is a nazi” me?

        Words have meaning dummy

        Neoliberals differ from leftists because Neoliberalism depends on maintaining the status quo and appealing to Capital, which is not helpful when we need to redistribute wealth.

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          I didnt. Nore was it my intend.

          I mearly stated that i am observing people throwing this word around, slapping it on anyone they disagree with.

          More ofc in online “discussions” than in irl.

          I know they differ. I get called neo liberal for saying a violent uprising isnt the way to archive socialism and the soviet union as well as china, Laos and vietnam were/are evil countrys that did evil things and perverted what socialism is about