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  • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    or having the possibility of making better choices in the future

    How's that working out for you if you look at the past few elections? Did you manage to push Biden left? Have they prosecuted the American war criminals? How far is Genocide Joe from your ideal? Is Copmala gonna be better, improving material circumstances?
    Can't you see that neoliberalism had literally the opposite effect - pushed everything even more right and extreme?

    Americans have this weird view of Russians and Putinists and liberals think that the Chinese are a brainwashed hivemind— but you look crazy from the outside when you argue for voting Mussolini against Hitler.
    Democrats supported genocide and their brinkmanship with Russia got us closer to Nuclear Armageddon, fuck y'all

      • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        The fundamental problem with leftists is that we're mostly smug assholes who refuse to work with anyone we disagree with,

        I'm not American - I'm saying you are worse than what liberals say Russian and Chinese are

        anyone we disagree with,

        • Economically they are neoliberals - leftists are opposed to neoliberalism
        • Their foreign policy is brinkmanship, genocide and bombing allied infrastructure

        This is 0/2- how are they not enemies rather than "someone I disagree with"?

        until that changes we will remain completely irrelevant.

        You will remain irrelevant because you'd vote D whatever they do. It seems like you represent the Dems as a project whatever they do, rather than they represent the voter base, earning votes.
        Which is ass backwards.

          • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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            5 months ago

            Who said anything about supporting them

            Yes, I vote for them unconditionally, and I also argue publicly to vote for them unconditionally

            Who said anything about supporting them

              • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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                5 months ago

                Whether you like it or not they don't see your vote as an endorsement of the marginal differences, they see it as an endrosement of everything they're doing, including that genocide thats going on.

              • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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                5 months ago

                If that changes I will be glad to dump them

                If genocide doesn't change the calculus in your mind, then nothing ever will. And genocide is only like the tip of the iceberg in terms of problems with the democratic party.

                The Biden admin has single handedly fucked my budget despite me living in europe by bombing the nordstream and the shit they pulled with project Ukraine.

                They are actively trying to drag humanity into world war 3 on like 3 different fronts. That's not getting into the shit the Biden admin is probably pulling in Africa and Latin America (which I am less knowledgeable about).

                  • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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                    5 months ago

                    You are a moron.

                    But you would be 50% less insufferable if you were actually completely, utterly ashamed about voting for the Dems, and spent 100% of your commenting energy scolding mainstream liberals for giving absolute dogshit neocon candidates in their purported fight against fascism.

                    But you are not ashamed, you are shamelessly scolding leftists who don't want to vote for people committing genocide right now

                    You are absolutely out of your depth here and should just fuck back off to your radlib bubble

                    We are not going to convince you, since you are a clown, and you are clearly ineffective when you try to argue against actual leftists

      • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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        5 months ago

        It’s a lot harder to come up with something better.

        We had better options many times in history. They all got shafted by the dems or republicans.

          • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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            5 months ago

            There were plenty of mildly progressive candidates that could have done things in power were modern America not a neoliberal hellhole. Beanie, AOC, the squad, Jill stien, Claudia de la cuz. Those are the current ones. Going further back, people like gore or nader could have played the role. But all of these people either got shafted through institutional factors or got cooped and forced to water down even their milquetoast radicalism. Many of these people were neutered by the Democrats.

            On the movement level, the Democrats coopted, neutered then mutilated the corpse of the BLM social unrest in 2020, which could have been used to otherwise fuel a lot of progressive changes. Instead, the dems not only killed it, but poured salt on the wounds by increasing police budgets nationwide and even helping to build cop cities and expanding surveillance now!

            The fact that the Democrats are less rabid than the Republicans does not make them easier enemies to deal with, but more dangerous. They have more patience and play the long game.