• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      These are your people libs

      These feckless dicks who no longer even trot out something like ‘immigrants built America’, and instead nakedly, instantly agree to compromise with the party backing a guy who literally quotes Hitler

      And they’re ‘compromising’ so that they can send more guns to Ukrainian skinheads (and European black markets by proxy since they don’t get tracked at all) and to Israel so they can ethnically cleanse Palestinians fight Hamas

      They used to have a facade, they don’t even bother any longer

      Fuckin make that Schumer quote a site tagline

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    Republicans: they’re poisoning our white blood

    Democrats: they’re poisoning our American blood

    Totally different things but tankies will act as if they’re the same

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      chefs-kiss nailed it. Libs legitimately believe this.

      Theres not a border crisis and never has been (except for the US doing crimes against people at the border of course, but i mean what the media calls “the border crisis”). And the fact it doesn’t exist can never be acknowledged, because libs and fascists bith believe in it regardless

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      Listen, if one party is 100% Hitler and one is 99% Hitler, you’re obliged to vote for 99% Hitler I don’t make the rules

      At least that’s what some lib told me while they were busy helping clean their grandad’s Nazi uniform

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    How do Democrats still not understand that giving concessions to the “merits” of fascist rhetoric (like they’re doing with trans people as well) will never make people think you’re more “reasonable”, and will always further normalize hatred? Or do they understand it and that’s exactly why they’re doing it? They’ve done it so many times that it has to be a conscious decision at this point, right?

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      I think they’re ultimately indifferent to the hatred, and just want the easiest way to maintain the status quo and their position within it.

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      How do Democrats still not understand that giving concessions to the “merits” of fascist rhetoric (like they’re doing with trans people as well) will never make people think you’re more “reasonable”, and will always further normalize hatred?

      Because they agree with the fascists. The only thing they don’t agree with is the rhetoric. They hate the aesthetics of the right, but they want the same things. Libs just feel guilty about it. Libs affectations and rhetoric is only about assuaging their guilt.

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      That’s about where I’m at.

      Democrats have very thoroughly exhausted their benefit of the doubt. Maybe I just think too highly of them somehow but I don’t believe they’re really completely incapable of developing an electoral strategy with decades of real time feedback on what doesn’t work.

      At a certain point if somebody keeps jumping on the same rake in the same place everyday you start to realize they should be able to avoid that by now.

      They’d rather lose appealing to moderates than let progressives into the same building as the levers of power.

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    This is offtopic, but the way that people whitewash the Weimar Republic by talking about Hitler like he was a wizard who cast a spell on Germany doesn’t just have the effect of obscuring the political-economic conditions of fascism and its connection to long-standing European society, but further feeds into a fetishistic reverence for Hitler that encourages modern readers to hang off his every word to try to understand how the magic works, effectively working to spread his speeches even further than they would otherwise spread and lending a gravity to everything he says because, as far as many liberal histories were concerned, what he said was literally magic. It seems like a choice of characterization deliberately made so that the sins of the past can happen all the more easily for having already happened once, rather than protecting society from it using our past experience with it.

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      the way that people whitewash the Weimar Republic by talking about Hitler like he was a wizard who cast a spell on Germany

      Literally the plot of that flopped Harry Potter movie lol. This way of thinking obviously predates that, I think a lot of the bad WW2 pop-history is to blame.

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      cast a spell on Germany… literally magic

      In early 2017 I realized liberals and liberalism itself wasn’t ever going to deal with the anger and frustration that gave rise to Trump. I knew in my bones that they were never going to consider why people like an out-of-work autoworker in a dying Rust Belt town would vote for Trump. The dems were just going to give speech after speech on themes like “This isn’t who we are!” I have to admit I expected they would at least make passionate pleas and strident, forceful comments.

      I wasn’t clever enough to realize they’d be Schumer’s level of bloodless and feckless before every election that this is the most important election of our lifetime. It’s been almost seven years and there’s been zero introspection by the dem machine. They’re waiting and waiting and waiting for the public to snap out of their Trump spell and vote for democracy.

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    Everyday I wake up and realize that we are going to go full fascist in America. Not with Trump but in 20-30 years we will be full-throated black-booted fascist and dipshit dems will mostly support it.

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    Okay they’re not poisoning the blood, but they’re souring the lymph at the very least. In some cases even intoxicating the piss