• vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      Criticism is not ‘turning on their own.’

      If you cannot handle defending your decisions, you don’t belong on the left. Either as a representative or as a member. If you want to vote to send weapons to Israel while they commit one of the worst genocides in history, you will get backlash and demands to defend your actions from any human being that exists.

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        3 hours ago

        Yes, I agree. But once we are in the election, we need to support ‘better’. If we keep pushing people against the viable better candidate then, they will lose and we’ll get the much worse maga option.

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          3 hours ago

          No.

          Period.

          That is how fascism happens. ‘Lesser Evilism’ does not work. The current state of the US proves this. It is so easy to just not be evil. So incredibly fucking easy.

          Gavin Newsom, for example, will be worse for the average person than Donald Trump. He would be the ‘lesser evil,’ and would probably redirect ICE to only target male immigrants instead of everyone brown and would probably say gays and lesbians are okay while still targeting trans people; but his economic warfare against the working class will be worse, as he’s competent and surrounds himself with competent people.

          Allowing people like that, as an example, to exist on the left because Donald Trump exists is like shooting off your toe because you were aiming at your dick. Yeah, it’s kinda better from a deranged viewpoint that ignores everything, but it does not solve the problem.

          Or to borrow a phrase, it’s like only feeding bad children to the orphan crushing machine instead of just turning off the orphan crushing machine. No. ‘Better’ is not good enough in this case. Joseph Biden is responsible for at least 200,000 dead children. Every single Biden voter that just insisted he was the best we could do killed 200,000 children. Would more have died under Trump 2? It turns out no. But we delayed some immigrants getting deported so its fine I guess.

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            2 hours ago

            So your solution is to support maga? I agree a revolution would be better, but it seems Americans can barely even do demonstrations on the occasional weekend. The U.S. has a choice between bad and much much worse. Do you really want to choose ‘much much worse’? What else is your plan?

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              1 hour ago

              No the solution is RUN PEOPLE THAT DO NOT SUPPORT GENOCIDE.

              Jesus Christ you are supposedly in a democracy. Making your voice heard is not "HURRRDURRR LEMME PICK BETWEEN A AND B,’ it is criticizing, threatening to not support, and working against those that do not represent you regardless of the color of their tie.

              “Oh but what choice do we have” Every fucking choice. Fucking storm the DNC HQ. Protest outside your local DNC office. Fire bomb Fetterman’s house. For fuck’s sake stop settling for lesser evil and demand at least mediocre good.

              In every single state what matters for the presidential race is the name you input for president. Put a name down that isn’t evil. Congrats. If 1/4th of voters do this, that person wins the presidency.