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Tuna melts and how to go viral. That's all we're getting. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The Problem with the left is that they actually have different opinions. The right is just different shades of Nazis. The left is a bunch of fundimentally different approaches to make the world the world a better place. Therefore, of course the Nazis are going to win.

What we are talking about is the paradox of inclusivity. Either the 99% oppress the 1%, or the 1% oppress the 99%. From an ethical, a democratic, a Constitutional, and an ecological standpoint, oppressing the 1% would be the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The Left seems to be made of up a bunch of different coalitions that can’t agree on the priorities to enact. People are for something but they can’t agree on what.

The Right seems to be made up of a bunch of different coalitions that can’t agree on the priorities to repeal. People are against something but can’t agree on what. They also have Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You Americans get what you asked for

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And what political paradise do you belong to?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Why so you can run it down to make yourself feel better about living in a shit hole?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

The right found themselves someone who champions their values in as much the same way as the left finds a champion in the Roosevelts.

I think it's pendulum swinging to the right in general as is nature of politics. Hopefully it won't last long and someone doesn't stick a knife to stop the pendulum swinging back. There is still plenty of hope considering that many Americans are still resisting. I don't know who is who in both the Senate and the House, but I'm sure the Democrats will vote down the proposal to allow a third term to a president, and a Republican one at that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you expect from a party that has no power? Honestly Republicans should be more pissed off, they have all 3 branches of government and they're doing symbolic bullshit with 0 chance of success to appeal to Trump specifically, and it'll work because he never watched School House Rock. Not that I'm complaining.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

the constitution only matters if the people who enforce it actually decide to.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

People really fucking blame Democrats for not being in charge after those same people don't vote for them, goddamn clown country.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most the people I know that did vote for them blame them for not being in charge. Yes, it is a clown country.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

They're not exactly helping elect their chosen candidates by flaming them online.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dems gross incompetence is the exact reason they can't get enough votes to win what should have been the easiest election of all of our lifetimes

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What policy issue do you disagree with them on?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Sustaining genocide in Gaza is a big one. Kamala's campaign was literally told by a sizeable number of voters that they wont vote for her unless she opposes it. It's the primary reason Kamala lost the election. And that's before mentioning that the Democratic convention didn't even give the greater party the ability to choose a candidate. The only choices were Biden and Kamala, and neither offered any worthwhile promise to their voter base. They just hit the "were not Trump" angle expecting to automatically win because of it.

On top of that- Failing to enshrined any trans-rights or abortion protections into law is a big one. They're also just as anti-worker as Republicans. Biden is the one who shutdown the rail strike, claiming the workers were "too necessary" to allow them to strike.

Democrats don't actually care about the causes they supposedly champion. So why should voters pretend like they do?

And as a preemptive comment: obviously Trump and Republicans are fascists. But the majority of Dems in power have more in common with their coworkers than they do with their average voter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Not sure anyone has ever presented solid evidence that Kamala would have won if not for the Gaza issue. Most agree it was a contributing factor, but not a determening one. Which is scary when you think about it - the real reasons she lost appear to be more nuanced and more deeply related to general cynicism, ignorance and apathy.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Congratulations, Trump is in office and Israel is gunning down Lebanon citizens and buying 1000 lbs bombs again for the first time in years, news outlets saying Israel is prepping to annex and settle even more lands in the Gaza strip.

You failed to back the peacekeepers and now so much more blood will be on your hands as a result.

The only option is all hands on deck, push the envelope even if we don't agree with whats in it. We can have campaign finance reform and tax the rich if you would only do that one thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What peacekeeper? Biden was supplying the genocide too. It's a principled stance. We won't vote for genocide whether it's red or blue running the show. And no, the blood isn't on my hands since I didn't approve, or purposely give my tax money to Israel. Biden, and now Trump are doing that.

On top of that the Biden administration had 4 years and confirmation by the Supreme Court he could essentially do whatever he wanted as president. And he still did nothing but had over the case to a DoJ that did fuck all about it.

Also you glossed over my other points of Biden's failures.

Edit: You also realize Israel was literally bombing civilians in Lebanon when Biden was president right? Or did you alreadh forget ablut the pager bombs Israel planeted in Lebanon? And Biden still gave them a shit ton of weapons, and only effectively blocked one type of weapons shipment as a political maneuver.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I literally just told you: Israel is buying more and bigger weapons than ever. Your ignorance of that simple fact, that the genocidal Israeli government backed Trump for presidency specifically so they could be even more violent, just shows you don't care about all of the women and children who die as a result.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And I'm telling you the genocide is largely unchanged. The only difference is the names on the weapons heading into Israel and the rhetoric. But anyone paying attention knows that the rhetoric changes nothing. The only difference is that the US is mask off about supporting genocide now.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the size and the amount of those weapons. And that the new admin explicitly sides with Israel expansion.

So basically just the thousands more people who will be killed, as a direct result of people like you refusing to support the alternative, aside from that no difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

An amount that is largely the same, and the bombs that were already sent from Biden leveled the vast majority of Gaza along with its population. You've also failed to address any of the other points I've made, so this is where I stop wasting my time.

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