• SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Yeah I bet we’d be in exactly the same position right now if non fascist infighting hadn’t handed republicans the house, senate, and presidency.

        I’m sure kamala would have cut funding to everything useful and given executive power to elon musk and sold our national parks to the oil companies and built a private gestapo and legalized stopping brown people for being brown and put massive tariffs on everything and given the CDC to an evil dipshit and I’m sure a blue majority senate and house would have approved all of that.

        Good thing everyone screaming about the genocide made so many people lose hope or it might still be going on.

        Wait, trump did end the palastinian conflict, right?

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          4 months ago

          Kamala could have won easily if she and the rest of the corporate dems stopped taking that AIPAC money, meaningfully opposed genocide, and did anything at all to address our absurd wealth disparity, they chose not to because the only thing they actually give a shit about is getting paid

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          4 months ago

          You cannot blame voters for a reactions they had to a political party’s actions, especially when that action was to aid a genocidal campaign.

          Although OP is being extreme by saying they are the same, so are you when you try to explain away the fucking shit show last election.

          They could have told Israel to pound sand, instead they screwed us over. Stop scapegoating bro, the Democrats gave him the win when they started throwing punches at their own base.

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          4 months ago

          Can you answer two questions for me.

          What is the purpose of having a democracy?

          Is it ever morally correct to affirmatively vote for a genocide?

          • SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            4 months ago
            1. We haven’t been a democracy since we allowed companies to buy politicians. We’ve had two sides to choose from, kind of, which are: ‘hardly does anything’ and ‘actively makes everything worse for everyone immediately’.

            2. Genocide wasn’t on the ballot. Anyone who thought trump would stop it was wrong, as anyone who thought about it for a second had been telling them.

            So now that those are out of the way, how does that idealistic high horse help every person whose life is now actively worse now?

            • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusOP
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              4 months ago

              We haven’t been a democracy since we allowed companies to buy politicians.

              so why are you trying to get people to engage in a sham, then? are you working with the fascists to try and dampen direct action?

              • SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                4 months ago

                Direct action does not mean “don’t also vote to make it harder for the fascists.” Only two options were valid for the majority of election positions. We could have bought more time to fill local positions with third parties and progressives, but instead we’re building concentration camps and cutting any progress we’ve made in the last 20 years.