• Illuminostro@lemmy.world
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      And it will be the end of popular elections, period. Congratulations, assholes, you got your dictatorship to own the cucks.

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      That’ll happen when you give Democrats the presidency and a majority in Congress and all they do with it is issue blank checks for war instead of addressing the needs of the poor and working class.

      It’s a replay of 2016, when Hillary (and Obama before her) ignored the Rust Belt and it lost her the presidency.

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        and a majority in Congress

        Democrats do not have a super majority, which is a problem thanks to the fillabuster. So the only branch of government the democrats have is the executive, which is not enough to fix things.

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    Lol. This is the party they want to replace ‘genocide joe’ with. Well done, kids!

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      I’m gonna vote for Biden if I have to rise from the dead and crawl through broken glass to do so, and I hope everyone reading this thread does.

      I’m not willing to pretend he’s not facilitating an ongoing genocide though.

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        This. You deal with the choice in front of you, and not the ones you wish you had. Life is bigger than our little worlds.

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            Not really. I’m in Northern Ireland and my vote does fuck all to affect who’s elected UK Prime Minister. The current governing party runs candidates here but they’ve never won a seat and their closest competitors don’t run any candidates at all here. Never mind I live in a stronghold seat so it won’t change anyway.

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        Who makes you pretend that? You guys all want a medal for preaching to the choir?

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        Oh get out of here with your facts. The kids are having a circlejerk. They weren’t born at the time. They can’t be expected to know these things.

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        What is that law? Closest I think I can get is HR 4986 sec 227 which mentions Israel, but I can’t read further. Who put it in place?

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          From the linked politico article,

          Legally, the U.S. can’t cut Israel off completely. Since 2008, the U.S. has had to weigh all arms sales to Israel and other countries in the region against the requirement that Israel maintains a “qualitative military edge” against all enemies, both state and non-state actors.

          In 2008, George W. Bush was in his second term as president.

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      Tankies don’t show up to forums about headlines they can’t cram into their preordained propaganda forms.

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      Yeah, those stupid kids should just realize that one constant in America is that we kill or enable the killing of children. They should just accept that children will be killed in their name and get over themselves like us grown ups.

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      No, it isn’t.

      We want to replace Genocide Joe with the Greens.

      Unfortunately most American voters lack a conscience, so it’s not going to happen.

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        Unfortunately most American voters lack a conscience, so it’s not going to happen.

        If you actually want to attract people to your cause, you may want to consider changing your tone. It could also be beneficial to mention some positive things about the candidate that you recommend instead of just bashing the current regime.

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          I’m shouting into the void and I know it. Nothing I do or say will change anything.

          I can look at the last 40 years and be astonished at how little American voters care about their own welfare, and rest assured that the election in November will likely be 49% to 49%, because for some reason they all are just exceptionally well-programmed to vote for the candidates that the wealthy want them to vote for. All of them are poorer now, both economically and socially, than they were even just ten years ago. They can see with their own two eyes that they get poorer no matter which party we elect, and it doesn’t stop them from voting solely on team color anyway.

          Hell, the Democrats had Marianne Williamson, an anti-war, pro-living wage, pro-universal health care candidate who can actually form a coherent thought in their primary. They decided overwhelmingly that they wanted the old, addled warmonger to be their president, even though he’s done nothing meaningful to try and fix their poverty, opting to spend his time keeping his scumbag son out of prison and the war money flowing to other countries.

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        Lmao, comment more.

        You’re definitely not making yourself look like you need live-in nursing care to wipe your ass.

        You’re also making really REALLY good, logical fair points and you’re totally not moving the goalposts.

        Take your bad faith ba to .ml or hexbear, you troglodyte.

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    FYI: Most of those braindead “am I not allowed to criticize Biden???” comments and posts on social media are a concerted effort by right-wingers from /pol and other such sewers, trying to get people to not vote against Trump. Don’t fall for it. These aren’t “lefties” or “tankies”. Just downvote, report, and ignore.

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      Maybe they’re involved, but a much bigger player pushing that line of reasoning is the Kremlin. They want to get Trump elected again so he cuts aid to Ukraine.

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            You think he’ll give up power after four years? He’s already actively undermining the US’ democracy.

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              I was talking the last 4 years of Top Secret info created during the Biden administration. Because you know that Biden, unlike Trump, isn’t giving away our Top Secret info to Putin. But, Trump will package it all up neatly with a bow, and hand it over to Putin the first chance he gets.

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      Lemmy is fucking FULL of them. Every other post is some Israel / Genocide Joe bullshit.

      If you didn’t know any better you’d think Joe is literally flying a bomber over Gaza right now.

      It’s getting tiresome even down voting this crap.

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      Why are they wasting effort on like 200 leftist techies? They could get a lot more bang for their buck on Facebook.

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      Democrats not doing all the faschie shit they claim to be saving us from challenge level impossible.

      Don’t like Joe? You’re a bot. Have a laundry list of gripes about Joe? Nope you’re a single issue voter whining about a single racial cleansing like a baby.

      Blue MAGA out here working overtime blaming the left for any and every Democratic loss, claim to hate Republicans but will hand an election to them every 4 years before they concede even an inch to the left instead of sprinting right to “court voters” that were NEVER going to vote with them.

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    How can they say they love Israel but also say Jews run everything and be generally negative towards Jews here?

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      “Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy.”

      Edited to add:

      It’s a common tactic with fascist regimes. Nazis used to do it with Jewish propaganda by simultaneously claiming that Jews were weak vermin that needed to be exterminated and that they are this supervillain that controls all the money.

      You currently see it a lot with the people chanting “Genocide Joe” and claiming he is some mastermind warhawk with at the same time claiming that he is some feeble, senile old man. He’s Schrödinger’s politician!

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        Ah I remember the days of “Obama, The Weak-Willed Tyrant” an incompetent man with a genius level intellect according to Fox News…

        Edit: For context, I’m talking about 2008-2015ish when the Right claimed Obama was too soft to stand up to America’s enemies and was this “weak child of a man”, and that he was also this evil corrupt tyrant who gave no one an inch, claiming him to be a moron and yet also a diabolical mastermind plotting the Muslim Takeover of America

        The amount of Racism was fucking unreal. Especially down here in the South, I rolled my eyes at a lot of “Vote for the Mormon, not the Muslim!” in 2012

        Obama’s not even Arabic! Why the fuck did everyone think he was a muslim? And even if he was, who fucking cares?

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          Do you remember during the 2008 campaign when there was criticism over Obama’s pastor being too outspoken in his church? In back to back segments fox would reflect on Obama’s dangerous version of Christianity while also saying he was a Muslim…

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          I feel like that may be true also, but I was referring to the groups pushing the agenda/propaganda, not the ones being affected by it. The ones propagandizing doublethink are the big issue IMO.

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      Not sure on their current thinking but the root of that line of thinking predates Israel: European nationalist antisemites would say “Jews don’t have a homeland that’s why they’re wrecking havoc everywhere else, they’re jealous”.

      Overall, in general, zionist antisemitism is a thing.

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    Why WHY would Joe Biden sign off on providing Nikki Haley with PERMANENT MARKERS!

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        The only recourse is something that is obviously such a terrible idea that I shouldn’t even have to explain the details to you, you should know what to do based on how egregiously, obnoxiously bad the concept of a solution is.

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      She’s a typical modern Republican politician. She loves money, and will support literally anyone who cuts taxes, and works to remove regulations that hinder profit. That’s it. That’s all they care about. All the culture war stuff is to keep the poors blaming each other than coming after her masters.

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          If I’m Dmitri, you’re Hermann.

          I’m not the one sitting here making excuses for apartheid and genocide, Hermann.

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            No, you’re the one supporting the side whose potential VP candidate wrote “Finish them” on a piece of artillery to be used in the genocide that you pretend to be against, because she rightly believes their base will eat it up and doing so will help her get elected.

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            You just outed yourself, only Russians would know how to spell “Dmitri” right

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            Nope sorry only explanation is that you’re Russian. Or if you somehow prove you’re not Russian, then you’re a useful idiot. Even the people who have voted third party for years, you’ve actually always been Russian.

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        If you actually cared about Palestine to survive, your best bet is to vote Biden.

        All the alternatives will make the situation literally worse.

        But you don’t care about Palestine do you? You just want Trump to win. Since your overlord Pootin commanded you to.

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          If you actually cared about Palestine, you’d be on the streets demanding immediate action instead of begging people to check a box months from now when half a million Palestinians have starved to death.

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          So. Let me get this straight. My BEST bet would be to vote for the same guy whose administration continues to provide billions of dollars in weapons to conduct airstrikes on refugee camps, and sometimes makes “We’re outraged! Who would have thought Israel would continue killing civilians!” comnents. You’re really as delusional as the other side. Greetings from a Pootin troll.

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            Yes that’s exactly right, because the alternative manages to somehow be even worse. All hail the two party system.

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            Glad you got it!

            That administration isn’t writing “finish them” on the bombs.

            Or what did you think would happen if Biden lost? Some green party that hasn’t gotten more than 5% of votes somehow winning?

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              If she didn’t have any bombs to write on in the first place, people might not have such an issue with biden.

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        Another lie.

        You drop older stock bombs first so you don’t have to decommission them. Everyone knows that. Israel already has all the bombs it needs to turn all of Gaza and the West Bank into a sheet of glass a dozen times over. Wtf are you talking about Biden sent them the weapons? American policy as to Israel has everything to do with its posture as to Iran and fuck all to do with Israel’s posture as to Gaza, except that the West will not let Gaza or the West Bank fall into the hands of Iranian backed terrorists, i.e. Hamas.

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      That isn’t, in my opinion, something to criticize her for.

      If we are going to respect people’s names and pronouns, that needs to apply to Republicans too, even if you suspect they changed their name for political reasons.

      Caitlyn Jenner is an absolute piece of shit who killed someone, but I’m not going to call her Bruce because of it.

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        Sauce for the goose, my friend. Going high while our opponents go low is why this nation is in the state it is right now. If they chose to wrestle in the muck rather than abide by civilized rules, then I’m more than content to get dirty and fight them there if that serves me best. I see no reason to cede them any advantage out of an outmoded sense of fair play.

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          As I said to someone else, then shouldn’t you call Caitlyn Jenner ‘Bruce’ for the same reason?

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            Is Caitlyn Jenner refusing to respect other people’s pronouns/names or used the issue as a political weapon? As far as I know, her only position is that people should relax about cases of accidentally misgendering people.

            Nikki Haley, on the other hand, has made numerous public statements attacking the use of people’s chosen pronouns. So yes, I feel fine attacking her on the issue because she has chosen it as a weapon against others.

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        I agree that we shouldn’t misgender people or intentionally call them by the wrong name, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with pointing out the hypocrisy of their political stance.

        Republicans are actively persecuting people are transgender and foreigners (or people who sound like foreigners), so to point out how they are being hypocritical is not all that out of line imo.

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          Pointing out the hypocrisy and intentionally calling her by the name she doesn’t wish to go by are two different things. Sure, point out why she might have change her name. But respect people’s name choices.

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      Moderate by GOP standards. Moderately less of a nazi or something like that

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        She’s not even that. She went full Nazi when she called for the culling of the American people. Gas chambers and concentration camps.