I voted for democrats because I didn’t want Trump. The US is a two party system, and that’s not changing anytime soon. If there was a real third option, I’d vote for it.
You can demand either party to cave to your demands if they want your vote. The one who needs the votes more will eventually need to take your position if they know you will not vote for them otherwise.
What a tool.
Yeah, cause those Republicans sure are protecting the innocent children…
Whataboutism
No. It’s balancing the equation in a choice, not a redirection.
Do you want to try that again, but coherent this time?
It’s not our fault your reading comprehension is shit
Ah yes, the time honoured shitlib technique of talking complete nonsense then accusing everyone else of having bad reading comprehension. It’s like I’m really on 2012 Reddit
There is only 2 choices. And not voting is a vote for one of them.
So? What does that have to do with excusing genocide, other then being whataboutism?
And not voting is a vote for one of them.
Lol, ok. Which one?
The difference is there’s one you can do, right now, unilaterally, with absolute ease.
The other is much, much harder and an ongoing project fighting entrenched interests that can ALSO be worked on simultaneously.
It’s like saying you didn’t take out your garbage for 6 months because you haven’t finished your thesis paper.
Actually you can, right now, unilaterally, an with absolute ease, not excuse the Democrats supporting genocide.
Done. Not excused.
Now can they get off X?
Well I’m certainly not on X
If you want to avoid supporting genocide you’ll have to leave the US. We’ve been pro genocide since 1492.
We’ve been pro genocide since 1492.
eeeh, that’s kinda, a hands off way to describe it.
We’ve been genocide pros since 1492.
Garbage interpretation of the election
Yeah. Centrists didn’t excuse genocide. They celebrated it.
Wow they’re all here!
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If the single issue is a genocide the ultimate war crimes thrn yes it is worth
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. And gun rights are the cornerstone of our constitution
yeah, nothing comes before the 2nd amendment.
wait, uhhhh… what comes before 2nd?
YEAH WHY IS IT YOU GUNFUCKERS ARE SO OBSESSED WITH YOUR BANGBANG FETISH AND CAN’T GIVE TWO FLYING FUCKS AT A ROLLING DONUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
DON’T TELL ME YOU’RE SOME KINDA CONSTITUTIONAL DEVOTEE WHEN THAT SHIT NEVER EVER CROSSES YOUR FUCKIN MINDS.
MUCH LESS THE LIFE, LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS BITS IN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, WHICH ALSO PRECEDED YOUR PRECIOUS PRECIOUS GUN FETISH.
what a strange thing to get aroused by. you probably use clp for sex lube.
Are you an idiot?
I picked 3 examples, not because I believe anything about any of them, but because they are common examples of single issues. A fact that is patently clear if you, you know, read the text.
Gun rights are not the cornerstone of our constitution you barnacle.
And that 2a that you’re obviously sickly devoted to is doing such a great job today. yeah no tyranny going around here. hrmmmm.
stop being a single issue fetishist and start loving the entire constitution.
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Shut up lol. You can’t even read.
yes, I’m enjoying lemmy through telepathy you dolt. I can’t imagine many dumber takes than ‘hurr you can’t even read’ on a text driven platform.
You really are a special kind of stupid, aren’t you?
The hell are you talking about? Don’t deflect like zionists cowards
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You are the moron you Americans was voting for the same terrible two parties for centuries it was bound to happen for the worse of the worse would win. Politicians are laughing at you guys
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So you are another dumb language police? I makes typos, what’s wrong with that?
I wish I could boil the world down to a single black and white issue to justify huffing my own farts
Jesus Christ. Liberals really don’t believe in anything.
the collapse of what little democracy is left.
Any “democracy” that makes doing a holocaust a bipartisan consensus should collapse.
Harm minimization matters. But then again tankies aren’t serious about helping anyone. So real question, what actionable alternative do you suggest?
Not treating genocide like a “single issue” that people only care about to “justify huffing my own farts”. And push for politicians that do likewise.
And your daily reminder that “tankies” means “anyone to the left of the Democrats”
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What the fuck are you talking about?
What part are you confused about?
???
Thank you for providing nuance to why you support the extermination of a race.
“It’s complicated”
I’ll repeat my reply from yesterday since the nuanced Weasel here perfectly embodies what I said about those X complainers.
All his reasons are egocentric and about his own cancer country.
One step away from unironically blaming the use of X for anti-genocide posts as the reason for the price of eggs.They don’t care about genocide or anything that’s outside their navelstaring country. Yesterday the libs complained about an anti-genocide post here bcs they used X. The blue MAGA battle against red MAGA is way more important to them. All they want is to go back to their bubble of ‘democracy’ where they keep the fascism for their foreign policy.
Fuck that whole country
If I have to choose between one race and two races or more being exterminated I’m “nuanced” enough not to pick two and be a supercilious fuckwit about it, if that’s what you mean.
So you’d pick one instead of zero.
In what way is picking zero an option?
Nobody is against genocide enough in leadership, that’s a fact. Not voting for either party is the same as voting for the worst of the choices available. Nobody likes to do damage control, but that’s what it is until better choices are on the table. Supporting the techno fascist empire to get a blue check in their ecosystem, generally not voting or acting against tyranny however you can, and just bitching into the void is a miscarriage of your goals.
“Picking zero” is doing nothing and patting yourself on the back for it.
By not voting for genocide and instead a third party.
The only made up option was pretending there are now two genocides. Which was fake.
You might as well write on your own name as do the third party vote in an election year.
There are 3 other years to go stump for third parties and see if they can take a viable shot. When they clearly can’t, evidenced by the fact no third party even got enough support to enter into the debates, there’s nothing to do but be pragmatic.
You’ve got to do the best you can with what you’ve got at every stage because the moral high ground doesn’t control any seats in any government, write any laws, or generally solve your problems. Maybe you sleep better at night (I hope you do), but that is the only perk you get as far as I can tell.
We would probably both complain about other people being single issue on topics like abortion, guns, and religion. This is not so different.
When they clearly can’t, evidenced by the fact no third party even got enough support to enter into the debates,
And the fact that the ironically-named Democrats rig their primaries.
No you can let the Democrats lose and show them that they won’t win while supporting genocide. That will force them to pivot.
We would probably both complain about other people being single issue on topics like abortion, guns, and religion. This is not so different.
It’s, it is different, you genocide apologist freak.
So you also lack reading comprehension, cool cool
Thank you for demonstrating why you support Hitler
The brunching, good-for-nothing liberals are going to be furious when they read this meme.
Of course genocide was okay when the Dems supported it.
/s
Of course genocide was okay when the Dems supported it.
Past tense? They still support it. They just have to pretend they don’t like it because trump is president.
You’re right. I meant to infer when they were the ones in charge, but you’re right.
I don’t think I’ve seen any Democrat pretend they don’t like what the US is doing with Israel and Gaza. Beside the usual gang anyway. There have been some votes changing sides a little more I think, but I can’t recall any one of them actually talking about it AND voting against it. Some have talked about how it’s bad and yet have kept voting for it. Especially no one speaking up against AIPAC.
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Why is there a Nazi here?
You know the difference between a democratic and gop leader? The gop wants to do crimes domestically and in Gaza. While the democrat just wants to do crimes abroad
People keep saying that, and then it turns out both sides don’t want the Epstein List made public because they both know they’re in it.
Democrats were deporting immigrants woth ICE and beating up students as well.
Also I don’t differentiate between whether the leader supports the American Ubermenschen.
It sounded better in my mind last night. And I should have just said genocide.
weird how “progressives” only care about one issue - shit talking Trump’s opposition.
They also like to regurgitate Putin’s propaganda about Ukraine. Which by the way is a genocide they are perfectly fine with.
That issue is an effin genocide the ultumate war crime. There is nothing worse than it
You forgot to put opposition in air quotes.
Unless you consider sternly-worded, performative letters opposition.
The other football team isn’t the opposition. Look, they use the same ball and the same field.
Dumb. Shit
How so?
The Dems voted to arm the genocide every time, knowing it’s a genocide. On a macro level, they were basically handing guns and ammo to a school shooter.
