• piefood@feddit.online
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    21 days ago

    But the Democrats are:

    • Bomb kids fucked up
    • Torture innocent people fucked up
    • Build out the infrastructure for fascism fucked up
    • Genocide supporting fucked up
    • Refusing to fight against MAGA fucked up
    • Taking money from the poor and working class, and giving it to the rich fucked up
    • Bragging about how many people they deported fucked up
    • Not giving people fair immigration trials fucked up

    Some of us think that those things are kind of a big deal. Are Democrats better than Trump? Sure. Is a Neo-lib better than Trump? Sure, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to vote for a party that openly fights against the things I believe in, like:

    • Healthcare for all
    • Equal treatment for everyone under the law
    • The rich paying their fair share of taxes
    • The US to stop bombing innocent people
    • Stopping the war machine
    • Stop backing a genocide
    • Free Education
    • Affordible housing
    • Fixing the immigration system
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      21 days ago

      Sure, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to vote for a party that openly fights against the things I believe in

      Thanks, the lives of marginalized folk thank you from inside Alligator Auschwitz. I’m so glad you just couldn’t bring yourself to vote against the literal Nazis.

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        21 days ago

        If the Democrat Party continues the way it has, they will look exactly like the current Republican party in the next decade. Republicans will be full puritanical. Supporters of the DNC will still be supporting the lesser evil. The only solution is for intelligent voters to take the stick of fear out of their asses and go full support for better candidates in primaries or other parties. The people who continue to run our two party system will not give up their power.

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          21 days ago

          If the Democrat Party continues the way it has, they will look exactly like the current Republican party in the next decade.

          This is exactly the same blinkered view that was peddled in 2000, and in 2010, by useful idiots for the Republican Party. Do you not know how far the Dems have fucking come in the past 30 years, both socially and economically?

          Maybe listening to people who think worsening the genocide in Gaza is Left Praxis™ because it hurts Shitlibs like AOC and Bernie aren’t a good resource for American politics?

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            21 days ago

            The only thing I can think of that improved socially is federal recognition of same sex marriage, but that was actually set in motion by state level judicial rulings. I can’t think of any economic improvements.

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              21 days ago

              You mean like supporting unions and forgiving student debt? Or do you not count that because republicans sabotaged it?

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                21 days ago

                I think you mean fighting unions, and failing to deliver on the less-than-bare-minimum that he set out to forgive on student debt. It wasn’t sabatoged, it was because he was too busy boming innocent people, backing a genocide, and writing checks to his rich friends to get things done for the voters.

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        21 days ago

        But the next Democratic president isn’t going to close that place. Likely they will expand it. That’s what happened with the last Democratic president.

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          21 days ago

          Oh, were you planning on electing Republicans again and backing NIMBY politicians and then being surprised when they act like Republicans and NIMBYs, like when Obama made repeated efforts to close Gitmo?

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        21 days ago

        I’m sure the kids that the US bombed are super grateful that you were so eager to chose genocide over winning an election. I’m so glad you just couldn’t bring yourself to vote against literal child-killers

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          You don’t vote for everything at once. You vote on what’s on the ballot. Palestine wasn’t on the ballot. Concentration camps, fascism, economic meltdown, removal of the social safety, women’s rights, and the rule of law were.

          You decided that you were okay with all that bullshit because of something else unrelated. And look - Israel is acting worse than ever now because Trump doesn’t even pretend to be against genocide.

          You chose this, and you should lose sleep over it.

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            Concentration camps, fascism, economic meltdown, removal of the social safety, women’s rights, and the rule of law were.

            Those were all on the ballot if Kamala had won.

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          I’m sure the kids that the US bombed are super grateful that you were so eager to chose genocide over winning an election. I’m so glad you just couldn’t bring yourself to vote against literal child-killers

          Don’t worry, I’m sure you know what’s best for Palestinians far more than… [checks notes] Palestinians

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            Yeah that seems anything but decisive.

            Really it reads similar to the disaffected anti-establishment arguments that some folks in the US put forward to defend their support of Trump - with the difference that Palestinians 1) do not vote in US elections and 2) have really good fucking reasons to cling to hope in any kind of change at all.

            Not that Trump ever offered that in any way that would help people, but I cannot blame them for grasping at straws. Most seem aware of the fact that US imperialism is inevitable either way.

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              Ah yes, Truly Enlightened Voters like you realize that Trump having performed Zionist bootlicking above and beyond what even the Republicans, the more Zionist of the two pro-Zionist parties in our society, were willing to do in his last term and promising an even greater expansion of support to the murderous apartheid state, is actually No Difference At All with the Dem candidate backing away from unconditional Zionism.

              God, I’m so glad these Both Sides Bad takes are so prevelent here, it would be really awful if it was all cope to avoid the fact that you helped literal Nazis win who have been helping the Nazis in Israel to a far greater degree than the other Zionists.