• P_P@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Once you are under dictatorship, you can’t vote to hold anyone accountable. Vote for Trump and you won’t have a say in what happens to Gaza. Or anything else.

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      16 days ago

      yea, but you get to brag to all the other inmates in the political prison yard that you stood up for your principles by not voting!

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        16 days ago

        They’ll be in the same political prisons as their primary enemies, the classic liberal Dems.

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          15 days ago

          Am I allowed physical violence to the purported leftist idiots who land us there? I’ll piss on their cracked skulls while reminding them we have the same values but I’m practical and trying to survive to fight for them.

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            15 days ago

            Oh hey everybody, it’s the toughest guy on the internet! What’s it like being so damn tough?

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              12 days ago

              Yeah. I’d be enraged at someone for putting my family in an internment camp. How odd of me.

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                12 days ago

                Impotent male rage on the internet is both the funniest and cringiest thing to me. Nothing happens quite as drastically opposite as it’s intended effect as this shit man. I’m here for it.

          • NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml
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            14 days ago

            You’d fight us but not Republicans because we destroy the notion that you’re the good guys. You both want to preserve the status quo, with libs preferring marginally less grotesque methods of enforcement, and superficially opposing the fucked up methods Republicans prefer to employ. Good cop vs. bad cop routine, and you hate us because we’re pointing out that the good cop wants us imprisoned too.

            Let’s be real, in actual prison, you’d be making aliances with the skinheads and guards 15 minutes in, then call on them to do your dirty work instead of doing any fighting yourself.

            Same dynamic you’re employing right now actually: “Fall in line or I’ll sic the Republicans on you!” while fantasizing about the left getting sent to the camps for daring to oppose your brand of status quo preservation…just like Republicans, but less honest about your intentions.

            Dipshits of both lib and fash varieties fail to recognize themselves as allies in defence of capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, yet somehow you always instinctively know who is more important to fight, the left.

            The SPD voted for the concentration camps the KPD died in. Same dynamic will play out here.

            You defended Biden for not closing the migrant camps, understanding that you would never spend a second inside one. We opposed them the entire time, not caring that they’d eventually be used for us.

            Smart fascists understand how useful your brand of performative opposition is to legitimizing the system that keeps the treats flowing, so even if they throw did your ass in prison to appease their base (they won’t), you’ll be let go. You’re too useful an idiot for keeping the real opposition (communists) from taking power.

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              12 days ago

              I deleted a long personal rant. Tldr I’ve spent decades fighting the right. I am the left. I never fought “the left” until you useful idiots showed up in numbers. Only outcomes in reality matter. There is an objectively better reality for the 99%, out of our two options. Yelling and screaming, and opting into this victim role in an internet stranger’s hypothetical about a group responsible for the end of society…dude wtf? Why does that have to be you? Just don’t do that to us and you’ll have nothing to be defensive about Same victimhood porn as the right.

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      16 days ago

      Exactly.

      “In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” - Trump

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      14 days ago

      If Harris wants my vote she should at least try the bare minimum to get it. Her campaign wouldn’t let Palestinians endorse her at the DNC. Her entire message to our community is; we make no promises at all but Trump is worse. That’s no comfort to those in my community who had relatives die in bombings by US-supplied weapons. “Trump didn’t kill my relatives. Biden did.”

      Why is Harris so bad at this outreach? All she has to do is make some bland comments and it would win more people over, and she can’t even do that because she thinks being a hardliner against our community will win over a few Republican votes. Clinton tried that in 2016 and it failed.

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          16 days ago

          Darn you are correct. We should not hold politicians accountable after all. Please downvote the person above me who suggested it.

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            15 days ago

            We can always hold “we’ll organize and push her left after the election” people accountable. If they’re honest, then more people will organize, big win. If they’re not, then they’ll be so ashamed that they make new accounts.