• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Only one of two people will win. You’re asking this person if they considered voting against the less awful choice.

    I’m sure we’re both pissed off about how protesters are treated right now. Only one of two parties is saying we need National Guard, deport the protesters, that presidents can execute whomever as an Official Act, that the military should be used against the opposition over speech.

    Yeah, so go with your “nach Trump kommen Wir” plan, it will be equally hard to achieve socialism either way, NBD. Not sure why it isn’t, “equally hard either way so let’s pick the ones at least pretending women and LGBT people should have human rights,” but you do you.

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      14 days ago

      I am asking people to listen to directly and indirectly impacted people, rather than thinking they are more “enlightened” than them for voting for the genocidal establishment. Additionally, both parties have been cracking down on pro-Palestinian protestors, Walz even sent in the National Guard after BLM protestors, that’s not a real point.

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          14 days ago

          Thats how this is supposed to work. A collective of different perspectives all place votes for their and their families/communities best interest.

          Democrats are really struggling to accept that half the country isnt better off under their administrations.

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            14 days ago

            Are Dems improving things, or improving them fast enough? No. But I think the reality of today is that the only ones not better off under a Dem administration are wealthy people and bigots who want society to be a white supremacist hierarchy. I’m not saying people are well off, I am saying the alternative is worse, and by a lot.

            If it were not possible to win an election as a MAGA the political parties would have to move further left. Instead we have Dems looking back on elections and deciding to move further right in attempt to pick up voters who actually cast a ballot.

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              14 days ago

              If it were not possible to win an election as a MAGA the political parties would have to move further left.

              This will never happen, because the source of MAGA is Capitalist decay, as I explained in another comment already.

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                14 days ago

                You did write that. But you cannot tell the difference between New York arresting protestors who deliberately enter a fenced off area as civil disobedience and the federal government doing black vans and urging violence. So I don’t know if I trust your perspective or opinions on much of anything.

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            14 days ago

            99% of the population is worse off under their competition, so there’s still not really much of a choice.

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          14 days ago

          The Uncommitted movement didn’t say to vote for Harris. And yes, Walz sending in the National Guard against BLM protestors is a bad thing.

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            14 days ago

            You can read the article if you like. Or continue to participate in a distorted reality.

            I disagree that arsonists were actually with the protesters. You have a really delusional perspective that allows you to pretend sending in the guard at all is the same as black vans. Or this. Or this.

            Alright, link me to some of the worst of the Dem federal response to protests about Gaza. I’m ready to be wrong.

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                14 days ago

                Arrests are the same as black vans and the president urging for brutalization of protestors, I see.

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                  14 days ago

                  Of course they aren’t 100% the same, why lose face when you can let your opponent do it for you? There’s good reason the Democrats let Republicans do whatever they want unpunished, they both serve their corporate donors above all else.

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                    14 days ago

                    I see. Both sides bad, and colluding. Ratchet effect. But instead of pushing the gear so we rest against a tooth, allow the ratchet to do another click. Ignore Uncommitted, since we don’t like what they’re saying any longer. Listen to individuals when we like what they’re saying. What we like is to have a ratchet click. Then socialist revolution with Repubs at the helm.