It's a situation that I have been expecting for a while, but I wasn't fully ready to accept it. Specifically it's one of my LGBTQ friends who honestly believes in the democrats will protect them and their partner. I have tried to make the point that both parties are eroding any sort of civility towards all marginalized groups, but fear seems to drive them more than logical observations. They make the excuse that change doesn't happen over night and that the left continues to grow and will have meaningful affects down the road. I fundamentally just don't agree with that idea and vocalize it regularly. More and more it is ending up in a circular argument where I am painted as unrealistic and my rhetoric (leftist rhetoric) is doing more harm than good because it promotes distrust in the only system we have to work with. I try to tell them it's kind of the whole point. We gotta start somewhere if we want to see a better, more representative system, but they are so hung up on the immediate future while simultaneously saying that my idealistic feelings are shortsighted and I cant expect change in the immediate future... The double-talk is wild, I know.
I am trying my hardest to stop from engaging at this point because on the most basic level we agree on a lot of stuff, but they are just way to wrapped up in the fear mongering of the democratic party. They know that the two party system is broken, they know that something drastic needs to change, but they also think that they are powerless to do anything except choose the lesser evil. It pains me because I am watching them do the same shit past generations have done, where they give up on their ideals for the sake of preserving the current status quo that they benefit from. I am legitimately watching them imply "fuck you, got mine" under the guise of civic duty and I hate it. I want nothing more than to be able to finally say "I told you so" without being a smug asshole about it and ruining our friendship.
Thanks for reading my rant. It's probably a bit disjointed, but the frustration is boiling over and I needed to vent to the only group of people that seems to understand the hopelessness of being a disenfranchised leftist.
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Kamala is happily enabling a genocide and wants the American armed forces to be "the most lethal" in the world.
I heard this before 2012. And before 2016. And before 2020. I no longer buy the argument.
We here at hexbear can't downvote. You probably will get/have gotten some downvotes, but they haven't been from hexbear.
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I'm sick of arguing with people about electoral politics, so let me just ignore most of your response and address only the end, because maybe I can make a positive difference to your worldview there.
The issue with the phrase "man up" is not only that it implies your interlocutor is a certain gender. That's a bit of an issue, sure, because assuming men are the default humans is pretty misogynist. However, the real misogyny of the phrase is much more insidious than just assuming everyone is a man. What the phrase "man up" does is inextricably tie strength of character to manhood and masculinity. And that's misogynist tripe. Womanhood and femininity have as much strength inherent in them as manhood and masculinity. Men are not morally stronger than women, so exhorting someone to moral strength by telling them to be more like a man is full on misogyny. Yes, it's the type that's so normalized in our culture that you can be forgiven for not seeing it, especially if you yourself are a man (which you may or may not be, I don't know). But please, excise the phrase "man up" from your vocabulary.
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Hey, I'm sorry, but I need to hammer this in, because brainworms burrow deep and I'd like to make sure you understand yours. The issue isn't simply that you implied something you didn't mean to imply, that's true so far as it goes, but the more important part is what you implied. That's the problem. If you take away from this experience "I need to write more carefully on the internet so people don't read anything into what I've written" that's an ok lesson, but it isn't the one I'm hopeful you'll learn. My hope is that you'll come away with something more like "wow, I seem to have some internal feeling that men are morally stronger than women, I wonder where that came from and how I can go about unlearning this feeling."
I want you to deprogram the underlying misogyny, not just learn to disguise it better, you know? Still, thanks for admitting fault, that's hard to do on the internet.
I prefer the reality where liberals like you grow a spine and understand that genocide is a red line that you can never excuse without selling your soul. The people who Biden is killing are real people with experiences, emotion, families, internal lives, dreams, and soul. They aren't NPCs or numbers on a screen to be weighed against in some demented cost benefit analysis. To ignore their plight is to ignore your humanity. The hypothetical continuation of the genocide does not excuse your support for the current actually existing genocide.
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I need you to understand that a vote for Trump is what enables Trump. Voting for the party that holds 99% of his positions, will soon hold 100% of his positions when it becomes politically expedient, is not resistance.
And if it's only 0.01% of the population that understands that the correct thing to do right now is learn how to handle a gun and get organized with likeminded individuals to fight the genocidal fascists, that 0.01% of the population has the right idea. It does nothing to validate the 99.99% that have no morals and believe in nothing. That 99.99% are the ones who need to get with the program.
If you hate us so much, why do you want us to vote? Wouldn't it be better to convince us to not vote so we don't fuck you over in your holy battle at the ballot box?
Have you considered that Kamala's worthless neo liberal economic policy, racist border policy, and hawkish right wing foreign policy will ensure fascism? A vote for for Kamala is a vote for 4 years of stagnant decline and imperial embarrassment that brought about trump in the first place, ripe for a competent fascist to step in
Libs consider this bravery
Racist border policy?
By voting third party you're helping the man who built a fucking wall next to Mexico, and you are also helping him deregulate every single industry that's willing to give him money, creating an economic policy that's far worse then you could ever imagine. Your vote for a third party isn't showing any support to anyone whatsoever right now, it's just helping Trump.
No one helped Trump more than the Democrats. That is on THEM, not us. They
deliberately leveraged their media contacts to prop Trump up and increase his popularity to cult status to ensure he was the nominee to play existential chicken with the electorate. It called the Pied Piper Strategy.
They then use Trump as a shield to do their reich wing fascist ratchet effect bullshit anyways - much like you are doing using
to defend getting people on board to consenting to genocide. 
Democrats full hearted embrace of genocidal policies and the Bush/Cheney PNAC forever war doctorine and it's wealthy bribers and fanatical zealots in the military industial complex is helping Trump. It's complete dismissal / persecution of peace activists, and looking the other way while state after state criminalized LGBTQ+ rights doing NOTHING while they have the presidency and Senate.
The next will be "oh but they need full control" - look at how useless they are in California where they have a veto proof super majority, the world’s 5th largest economy, and refuse to pass a universal healthcare system (Calcare). Look at when Obama had his and said Abortion wasn't a priority - or the last 50 years that they could have codified it into law.
Obama campaigned on fixing the Bush Chney disaster and then did everything they did and worse
.
It took activists going against the DNC and the DC advocacy orgs like HRC to push lawsuits via grassroots to get gay marraige through. The DC orgs are designed to kick the can down the road as long as possible milking the issue ...."being pragmatic" while they go to cocktail parties and fancy galas with your donations. We had to force the Deboer vs Snyder issue. to the supreme court. The GoFundMe page, while inactive now, is still up for historical reasons.
The activists forcing the issue of marriage outside of the "pragmatic change is slow" has become a UofM case study (PDF) DeBoer v. Snyder: A Case Study In Litigation and Social Reform
Biden can stop the genocide by cutting off the arms flow. The Democrats should have been codifying trans rights into federal law instead of letting the Republicans and their pseudoscience fascists go ALEC cookie cutter across flyover country.
was more concerned about making Ukkkraine a burn pit dumping ground for arms and genociding Palestine than the rights of his own people.
But at least Michelle Obama gives hugs and chocolate kisses to GW Bush and Liz and Dick Cheney endoreses Kopmala. They'll probably rehabilitate Trump at some point down the line when their next Frankenstein's monster they helped prop up needs civility.
Genocide should be red line, not one you compromise with or use Trump as a shield or comfort blanket. And if the Democrats have an issue with people not holding their nose for the unpteenth time because the abusive relationship has gone too far then that is on the Democrats. Simple policy things that they are fully in control of that can change NOW. Kamala Harris has shown no remorse for genocide. She has shown every intention for continued support of genocide.
Then there's this whole firced Red Scare 3.0 evil Russia / China bullshit they stsrted in 2015 too. Probably a new Lavender Scare to accompany it is why they look the other way o LGBTQ rights under attack. They can fuck off with that. Russia and China are economc competitors they are not our mortal enemy. They want resources? Make a deal rather than spend trillions in saber rattling and arms races. Idiots going to get us all killed.
If they lose then that is on THEM not us. We tried a last gasp of saving the party from itself in 2016 after DECADES of playing the hold the nose lesser evil game. No more. Don't blame 3rd parties. That's the fault of Democrats becoming the party of Bush and Cheney. That's the
of becoming neocons. The whole Nader thing? The Dmeocrats also ran their VP of an unpopular with labor and the left Clinton. Baggage. Then the supreme court, 
, HW bush, 
appointed the son of a CIA director with Cheney, who is now oh so cuddles with the Democrats. So that's all moot, they became Bush and Cheney anyways - and they will become Trump lovers next.
The Democrats will never move to the left again. You must realize this.
If Trump wins - he is term limited. Most likely the Dems will recover a branch in 2026 effectively lame ducking Trump. Then in 2028 you get a non-incumbant election with the dems set up like Obama 2008 was. Even if they do they'll squander it and learn nothing.
Weird that you didn't get a snide response. Probably a coincidence
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
By supporting Dems you're helping the party that literally helped build a fucking wall next to Mexico, proposed hundreds of millions for expanding it, deregulate every single industry that's willing to give them money, oversaw the destruction of Roe v Wade, and countless billions on funding genocide and overseas war. The Democrats are trying to create a whole new border agency dedicated to ripping people out of their homes, just to prove how hard they are on immigration. Your support for Dems isn't showing any support to anyone whatsoever right now, it's just helping genocide and oppression.
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Yeah and trump is still better than electing a dog with rabies. If your baseline is "here's a worse candidate" then you can clap for anything. It's also completely debateable wether he'll be worse. You are handwaving away several things as being insignificant, that aren't.
They deported more people.
Bills that will pass anyway because the dems don't give a shit about any of it. At least with Trump people like you went out to fight against it.
Do you think this is an argument for the dems? Yes they are just as bad, glad we agree.
Trump also oversaw the agreement to finally pull out of Afghanistan. The Biden regime decided the best way to help afghanis were to freeze all foreign assets. I'm sure the people being ruled over by taleban are grateful they also get to starve and their state has no money to finance renovations.
Apart from the tariffs on cheap EVs and solar cells and the union busting and the decreased requirements for freight trains which have led to seceral catastrophies? There's definitely way more, I just can't be arsed to look them up for a person I know will come with some dumbshit
response.
The realistic option is to not normalize genocide. Voting for someone who is actively commiting a genocide will make things far worse than electing a guy who is like all the others, just a bit more obvious about it. The realistic option is to not give legitimacy to rulers who do these things. The realistic option is not to do something that has only yielded terrible results. Your line of argument has been trotted out since Nixon for gods sakes, and even then it was old!
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Colonialist mindset. Worse than hitler
"We killed and robbed them and now they are poor"
ITS YOUR FAULT IMPERIALIST
Your "aid" comes in form of bombs and lectures. Fuck off imperialists
Hold on, I gotta ask a clarifying question. What do you think REgon means when they talk about tariffs on cheap EVs and solar cells? Because your response seems to suggest you think the tariffs are an attempt by Democrats to save the environment and my understanding is pretty much directly opposite of that. Could you please explain what you're talking about? Thanks
Please explain how not choosing Kamala is choosing Trump, but not choosing Trump isn't choosing Kamala
Didn't read after you failed to engage with the first three of my arguments. Quoting them and then just repeating yourself isn't really what normal people think of when they think of discussions and the like. To illustrate your shittiness.
Oh okay then, glad we cleared that up, it's not like I illustrated how, but whatever. Have fun never learning anything.
Edit: I saw someone else comment about the tariffs so I skipped down to read that bit... You're a fucking moron. Quit talking about things you don't understand.
Those "damn libs" who want to save the planet have made electric vehiclesmore expensive and solar cells more expensive by putting tariffs on them. That's what tariffs do.
Thank you for showing your ass and furthering my belief in that I was right not to waste my time reading the rest of your drivel. Do us all a favor and see for how long you can hold your breath at the bottom of a lake.
Also Canadian healthcare is free, you should look into it.
I'm not voting 3rd party I'm voting for Hillary, she's a Democrat
A vote for Kamala in 2024 is a vote for the competent fascist to rise in 2028
People have been making your argument for decades. Every single fucking election it's widely claimed we're on the "tipping point", people everywhere said it last time with Trump, and what did he do when he got into power? Largely just continued the status quo of making everything gradually worse.
If anyone thinks voting remotely matters and they want change, they should vote third party. But as always, I don't think voting will change anything no matter what.
Take half the fucking effort you put into this "Vote for genociders or get fascism" shit and put it into organising or direct action.
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Trump did bad things. So have the Dems. And sincerely describing someone who actively supports genocide as "not perfect" just shows what a disingenuous lib you are. Your version of "harm reduction" has, for decades, done nothing but emphasize and prolong the harm.
I don't live in the US either. I just care about people's wellbeing in general. You should recognise that literally wherever on the planet you live, that organising and doing direct action would be more productive than telling people anywhere that voting matters. What a fucking waste of political energy.
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There it is. "I don't care about anyone else, I like how my life is and want the status quo". Do direct action and organise to help OTHERS, if your country is a super paradise then do direct action to pressure your government into condemning genocide. Sadly I think you won't ever resort to actually doing something to help.
It's not worth engaging, really. You clearly know all this and actually just don't give a fuck.
Based on the TLD of their instance, it’s even funnier for them to say that.
Disclaimer: I'm not from Germany, but do recognise the irony.
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I do care for people, hence why I'm writing here, in the hope of convincing even one person to vote the right person, since physically going there isnt feasible.
what if they already did? the US is such a huge economical power that no-one but themselves can push it towards a better future, and all the third party voters are doing is assuring that the genocide is gonna continue under Trump's regime (since that's basically what it is apparently, thank SCOTUS)
If you actually cared you'd spend the freetime you have to volunteer for a cause, the dems need people so go do something for them, since you care so much lmao. This isn't for anyone, you're doing this for you, because your brain gives you sweet sweet serotonine when you argue with strangers online
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And here you are, yet again being accidentally misogynist! REgon very well might not be a man, but you sure have assumed they are!
My worry that you haven't learned anything after being called out on your misogyny seems well-founded. Well, at least I tried, I guess.
Thank you <3
Your parents failed in raising you.
Also you don't hold the caps key you fucking idiot and I'm not the one doing a holier than thou act trying to behave as if this is anything other than a pointless online argument.
You are by far the dumbest person who has wondered in here thinking their farts smelled like roses. Please take just two additional seconds to think before you respond, it would do you some good. Toughness is something you decide to infer, instead of what most people read from capital letters, which is yelling or manic energy. The fact you find that to signify "tough" probably had something to do with you having the mentality of a toddler. Fuck your mother and your father.
You can phone bank from home, you can help with emails from home, you can work extra hours and donate the money, you can volunteer for a good cause in your own country. You really are a pathetic cretin. The world would be a better place if you weren't in it
I know who you consider as people and who dont you consider as people
The country is currently, according to you, on the tipping edge of something cataclysmic and you're happy with that? Lmao
As opposed to the lady who will do imminent and immediate harm, but where dorks like you go outside and fight against it?
In your case the realistic option would be to acknowledge that your candidate has a better chance of winning the election if she stops supporting a genocide, and instead of arguing with leftists online you put your energy towards pushing your candidate to make those concessions. What do you choose?
That's what they said the last time and the time before that and that and that and that and that and that. There's alwys something that makes it so we just have to accept this rotten dog of a candidate. If the rule you followed has brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
Furthermore whenever the dems do win, what is said of the left? "Oh turns out we didn't need them at all!" What happens when they lose? Then it is the fault of the left. We were on the tipping point last time as well and the dems have had 4 years to do something about it, you failed. Why should we vote for someone who will do nothing to take us back from the alleged brink we're at?
The country was on the precipice of destruction last election and the one before that and so on. The dems have had decades to pull us back from the alleged brink. They have now had 4 years in power, yet here we are once again. You failed. The dems are looking to lose to Donald Trump, yet somehow we failed? The dems lost a massive lead to Donald Trump, you failed. If you are a realist, then accept reality.
Why should people vote for a party that constantly cries wolf, yet never does anything about the wolf apart from copying the wolfs' policies, working with the wolf, calling for bipartisanship with the wolf party, bragging about how much more wolf-like they are than the wolf party and so on?
There's plenty of people voting third party or voting uncommited or abstaining from voting. Seems to me it has worked out completely well. I can imagine it's hard to understand when you are only ever thinking about the current election and never what happened in the past or what the future brings, but most things aren't done in a few years. I'm honestly impressed with how these movements are developing, considering the amount of ratfucking they've been subjected to.
You really do not understand politics, do you?
Did you think you had something here? "Nobody is perfect" is the dems ole-faithful. You can't go pobodys nerfect about genocide.
Communists are liberals' enemies why would we help you?
Eat shit
Suuuure
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Jesus fucking christ you are dumber than a doorknob. Go back to reddit where they pretend to give a shit about civility. An ad hominem isn't "when someone insults you" you massive dumbass, you fool, you bufoon. Go back to school. An ad homimen is when you tie the character of a person (in your case that would be "poor") to the quality of their argument (in your case your arguments are also poor, though this has nothing to do with you as a person,) as a way to discredit them instead of refuting them. "You are an idiot and therefore your argument is idiotic" <- That's an ad hominem!
In case you're wondering this also isn't an ad hominem, though it's a fallacy of some kind. Insulting you is just an insult, you hollow log of a person. Learn what fallacies are and eat shit and die
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Porridge farmer lead brain village idiot
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I can’t believe you just came in here and roleplayed the exact lib mentality that the thread has been about…
Libs really don’t have any self awareness.
For what it’s worth, Hexbear doesn’t have downvotes, so peddle your Reddit tripes somewhere else please. Also, you do care otherwise you wouldn’t mention it.
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Why would I, a red fascist hate this?
because Trump is leading it, and last time I checked, industry deregulation and even more privatization of the public sector wasn't something the communist values stood for
You've had 4 years to prepare for this. Sounds like you failed
Please read a book I'm begging you. Start with settlers
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Stupid idiot ass baby warrior didn't even post something I could read so stupid was it the mods removed it, birthed from an asshole because you are shit.
You have yet to engage with my arguments or the arguments of many others as contrasted with me who has done so and then taken the liberty to insult you. Crying "oh they're poor" when all you've done is fuck all is lazy. If you want this kickass comeback you learned in the schoolyard yesterday to work, then you need to actually make it have validity. Do us all a favor and take a long walk off a short pier
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This country is already a fascist state; that you can't extrapolate that when most of your non-grocery goods that don't get imported are made by prison slave labor, that you can't extrapolate when the police lynch over a thousand non-whites a year, that you can't extrapolate that from segregation still reified through redlining 'undesirable consumers' into ghettos all over the country, tells me that you either are a settler, or will gleefully run defense for them from your likely vassal-assed other country.
Which what you mean to say, is that the settler half of Amerika will finally have to live under the same conditions my people do. Maybe you'll grow a sense of empathy from it. Long shooting, I know; but a subject-of-empire can hope.
Sorry we just don't like politicians who enable genocide
The morals in questions are understanding that our duty to fall in line and vote for the blue fascist is superseded by hundreds of thousands of innocents being incinerated by the fires stoked in American and German weapon factories. Morals are more important than tactically and short sightedly acting in unabashed self interest you spineless ghoul.
Is being an apologist for a candidate that supports an active genocide
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"The mods are removing comments that go against their morals!"
Your attack ad of a comment was trash anyway they did you a favor