• Crikeste@lemm.ee
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      7 hours ago

      There it is; the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

      Hey buddy! Genocide, racism, and bigotry are AMERICAN VALUES. The country WAS BUILT ON THEM. Fuck off with your “wE nEeD to sAvE aMeRiKKKa” bullshit and your “tRuMp bAd” sycophancy.

      Also, fuck you.

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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      8 hours ago

      federal ban on social transitions is going thru Congress with zero opposition from Dems. Can't tell me they're serious about transphobia.

      Don't get me started on literally everything else they do to accelerate racism.

      • evil_librul [none/use name]
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        8 hours ago

        that's kinda my point: doing nothing is better than actively promoting it, also ask yourself this one question: do you want trump to win? from my understanding of american politics the opposite of that answer should anawer you the question of wether or not to vote Harris

        • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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          4 hours ago

          do you want kamala to win? thats clear genocide support right there to me, and extremely selfish since you only care about internal policies which will be the same as trump anyway.

        • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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          7 hours ago

          if trump || harris == true && trump == false

          Behold! The pinnacle of liberal political theory! Truly, human society is made up of unchanging contexless constants interacting with each other via boolean logic.

    • Rania 🇩🇿🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
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      13 hours ago

      Harris is also racist, she was a judge or someshit and caused the arrest, and the death sentences on a lot of poc, for transphobia she's letting trans people lose rights today while she's vp

        • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]
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          12 hours ago

          you aren't necesarily a racist for arresting a black person

          Yes you are. You're racist if you enforce a deeply racist system, especially one that regularly executes black people with and without trial.

            • InappropriateEmote [comrade/them, undecided]
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              7 hours ago

              That doesn't matter you numbskull, she not only endorses but is the enforcer and overseer of the racist system that does execute black people regularly (and they do it with trials or not, it doesn't matter - it's literal state murder with racist motivations). Your position is the same as "but did HITLER pull the lever that released the zyclon b gas?"

              And yes, Harris actually did convict people, including black people.

        • Rania 🇩🇿🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
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          13 hours ago

          basic news article on Texas, she has done nothing about this she's the vp https://www.them.us/story/texas-trans-birth-certificate-gender-marker-change-ban

          https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2024-08-21-killer-kamala-harris-is-an-enemy-of-the-people/

  • CleverOleg [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    He was conscripted (read: forced to join) into the fascist, Maronite, Israel-aligned Lebanese Forces at age 15 (so around 1980) during the civil war. I have to imagine that has to affect his outlook on things especially over this last year.

  • RiotDoll [she/her, she/her]
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    2 days ago

    daou seeing the light was one of the only good things to come out of that election cycle and i'm glad he's still on the path to self actualization

  • booty [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Daou is honestly my favorite lib. He is a lib and he needs to read theory, but he really is a good guy.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      2 days ago

      From what I remember it was the abolish ICE movement getting immediately brutally crushed by Democrats that seems to have been the clearest catalyst. Up until that moment he was buddy buddy with the establishment and apparently fervently believed that they were essentially good, and their open pivot to "no, actually we like the ethnic cleansing machine stop saying it should be dissolved" cracked that and the way they turned on him for opposing them on it did the rest.

    • mkultrawide [any]
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      2 days ago

      Hillary losing broke him. He's more or less well-meaning and took a bunch of the criticism towards him seriously and attempted to learn.

      https://newrepublic.com/article/155866/happened-peter-daou

      It's kinda like how Ta-Nehisi Coates' turn on Israel-Palestine happened because of Rania Khalek yelling at him and others on a panel about reparations a decade ago.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Getting repeatedly beaten down by being a Sorkin style democrat eventually caused him to re-consider the entire American political system, iirc.

      "Why should the best case scenario be harm reduction rather than not doing harm in the first place?"

      "Why would a "democracy" that exports "democracy", often violently, not behave like a democracy with lifelong judges, electoral college and gerrymandering?"

      "Why would the establishment fight Bernie and progressives with more vigor and ferocity than Republicans, who they're openly willing to compromise with?"

      He started evaluating questions like that