• zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    But you know in this story, the frog was actually taking the scorpion to safety, not waging wars and funding a genocide. Maybe next time if there is no bureaucracy in the party, and you see Mamdani against Trump , you’ll see actual support from the left.

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      1 day ago

      lol “Just one more purity test bro, then I promise I won’t support the fascist”

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          13 hours ago

          lol made up purity tests you use to justify supporting facism aren’t standards.

          It doesn’t really matter what excuse you use for suppressing leftist voter turn out, you’re still doing work for the facists which makes you a fascist.

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            12 hours ago

            The only thing centrists don’t conveniently see as “suppressing voter turnout” is enthusiastic agreement with the worst actions of centrists.

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            12 hours ago

            You’re supporting fascist, and I hate that most center people don’t see it. Either die slowly or quickly. I’m willing to at least attempt to change things, you should too.

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        What’s really baffling is that even the fascist is doing a better job in the context of wars. And if I’m not wrong, those lefties targeted in the meme are just choosing not to participate in the vote, not to support some one. Forcing someone to choose least of two evils might just not be liberty.

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          23 hours ago

          lol

          It’s refreshing to hear “leftists” just come right out and say they suport the fascist. Thanks for that.

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            13 hours ago

            choosing not to participate in the vote, not to support some one.

            “leftists” just come right out and say they suport the fascist.

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              13 hours ago

              If you don’t understand how first past the post voting works you can just say so. You don’t need to waste a bunch of electricity and storage space with a vapid meme.

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      21 hours ago

      I was literally going to reply to this pointing out that “protest voters” fit better as the scorpion than MAGA people. The MAGA people didn’t know that Trump was an objective disaster. They just thought he would make a disaster for their enemies and leave them alone. The “I’m too left for Kamala” people did know, and they still decided Trump wasn’t worth resisting, because they wanted to make their point. Or, as the scorpion said, it’s in their nature, and they just felt really strongly that that’s what they wanted to do.

      And hey, now we’re sinking! Thanks. Great.

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        The “I’m too left for Kamala” people did know, and they still decided Trump wasn’t worth resisting…

        Citation needed. I saw them actually resisting, unlike the liberals who paved the way for Trump’s facism. But they claimed it was OK this time, but cause it was the “good guys” doing it.

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          No we haven’t. FDR put in place universal healthcare, universal retirement, jobs for people that want to work so that they’re not subject to whims of the economy as to whether they can feed themselves. Postwar Britain guaranteed housing at reasonable rates to its people. The EPA, the CDC, clean water in your house, all this stuff happens because somebody makes it happen.

          Democracy works, if you make it work. All that FDR stuff happened because people had spent decades fighting for their labor rights in the streets, harder than the wealthy were fighting to keep them down. That’s it. That’s how it functions. If instead of that, the labor movement had been filled with strategically incapable losers who said “MAN THE WHIGS DON’T FUCKING REPRESENT ME” and then fucked off to do something else, we’d still be working weekends and getting our arms pulled off in the factories.

          This is why people think the whole “protest voter” thing is a psyop: Because it makes so little sense as a strategy for producing positive change. As a way of making sure things get ten times worse and the worst people in the world get to profit, though, it’s a fucking fantastic strategy.