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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Whoa, either they're incredibly unaware of the recent news in Gaza or this is quite mask off about their side and goals. "the moral stain of reelecting genocide"? Give me a fucking break, the conflict was self-resolving right before Trump's inauguration. Now he's fanning the flames.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He has yet to stop the genocide for that to hold a colander' worth of water.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, look, it's [90% of the people I argued with on Lemmy before election day]!

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago

dems stay winning once again.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

Russian stooge says what?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What about the moral stain of ethnic cleansing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, didn't you hear the news, Gaza is saved!

Oh wait...

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd take that as a confession to being complicit whenever we get to the US equivalent of the Nuremberg trials.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Well, Nuremberg was the heart of Nazi rule, so I guess the US version will be at Mar-a-Lago.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If a protest could work under trump why wouldn't it work under Harris?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Assuming he is sincere, then I'd assume that he would say that it's not "their" protests at that point but the participation of others.

Under Harris, they stay isolated without energized allies as most people are relieved with the status quo. They hope that Trump pushes things so far to perhaps even cancel elections and trigger a violent uprising that opens the door for them to ultimately win and that is their opportunity to finally replace the status quo. A very dangerous game where a more likely outcome is a far right authoritarian state with lots of suffering and lives at stake, but that's a risk they are glad for everyone to take.

You see this in their rhetoric, that it's not their fault for failing to support a viable alternative to Trump, it's everyone else's fault for failing to agree with them, and maybe now everyone will learn their lesson and agree with them.

I've had conversations with them and they hold that democracy is the wrong way. Essentially they think the citizenry are too stupid and/or lazy to decide how things should be governed. This is pretty much the horseshoe effect, both the far right and far left want to replace the democratic system with something else. If someone doesn't 100% agree with them, they must be wrong and their perspective must be ignored, and democracy means actually trying to work with such people. So they prefer to take their chances with prodding a violent conflict since they've figured they can never win peacefully. If they can't have the presidency, then who cares. No patience for capturing local and legislative offices.

The far right was more effective strategically, playing the game until they could unleash. They played the game with the republican party according to the rules, and then won.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Because trump won't take over Gaza and turn it into a casino strip.......hang on a minute.......

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

you’d think that would be the obvious mindset people who “care about human dignity” would have, right?

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

i think their argument would be that conditions will materially worsen for a significant propirtion of the population, escalating the chances of the working class to become conscious of their chains.

idk tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Which is stupid. The Republicans crashed the world economy in 2008, destroying 40% of working people's wealth, and were only out of power for 2 years.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Accelerationists gotta accelerate

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

It’s hard to tell from just this one tweet, but this guy seems like he is actively trying to out-stupid trump.

[–] [email protected] 167 points 1 week ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I've been pondering about this for an hour. Err. Idk. Yes. No. Maybe. Kinda yes I suppose?

Oh well, back to racoons and owls.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Okay, that’s is succinctly profound.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Don't let a perfect plan get in the way of a good plan.

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