• @stolid_agnostic
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    You put down half a thought. So what are you going to do, vote for an actual fascist or not vote so that an actual fascist wins?

    • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      425 months ago

      I was going to vote for Biden but now I won’t because you acted with such brutal incivility. This is the most important election of our lives; democracy itself is on the ballot and you are turning people away from the polls before they’ve even opened. You are handing Trump the keys to the White House; you are ushering in the dark tide of fascism. Enjoy the next election, you have made it our last.

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          What’s the matter, peckerwood; don’t like you guys’s favorite thought-terminators getting flippantly flung back in your face? Gee, who’d have fucking thought?

          Understand, if the choice is between genocidal crypto-fascism and genocidal fascism-obvious, I have no issue with watching your country die instead. Better we go out than the whole rest of the world under our boot. I would rather die, and I would rather we as a collective fell, than ever support another fascist for any fucking reason.

          • @Omega_Haxors
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            Lemmy needs to allow you to highlight posts made from an account because everything you say is a certified banger.

          • @stolid_agnostic
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            I don’t tend to let people insult me then attempt to influence me. Learn a little about the art of persuasion and try again. Also, get a grip. This isn’t Facebook or Reddit. Try not to act like those people.

            • Maaj [he/him]
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              275 months ago

              Was it the term “peckerwood” that you found insulting? Would being referred to as “crackkker” hurt your feewings as much?

              • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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                235 months ago

                As a proud Biden supporter, I know two things: 1. 2024 is the most important election of our lives and we must do anything and everything to maximize the voter turnout for Biden, even If it means reaching out to our political enemies and making unsavory compromises; and 2. If you don’t immediately agree to vote for Biden then you’re just a fucking [slur, slur, slur] and I’m going to go out of my way to antagonize and alienate you and anyone else who may be reading these threads – that’s called the art of persuasion!

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                  2024 is the most important election of our lives and we must do anything and everything to maximize the voter turnout for Biden, even If it means reaching out to our political enemies and making unsavory compromises;

                  Just like 2020, 2016, 2012, 2008, and 2004 before it

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              Like narc-jacketing isn’t a tried and true tactic of redditors. Like this “vote blue no matter who” horseshit you peddle wasn’t hand-crafted by OccupyDemocrats eight years ago. If you don’t sit your hypocritical ass down and get out of my inbox with your settler peckerwoodery… See, you liberal invertebrates miss this little point every single fucking time. You come to people who have NO INTEREST in backing your genocidal-assed party, or even your genocidal-assed nation, really; and then Demand our support. It’s you who owes the ‘persuasion’ in the first place.

              And you are failing. Fascism comes to y’alls cute little gated neighborhoods because of you and Everyone who acts like you. I hope I live long enough to watch the settler house of cards collapse on itself. I wonder if you’re even aware enough to realize how hard of a non-starter supporting your party became with the GENOCIDE that Joe decided to full-throatedly back. Like… Do you realize what I see supporting your party as equivalent to anymore with that? Do you even want to know?

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              195 months ago

              This isn’t Facebook or Reddit

              Your instance is full of ledditors, where do you get off saying this?

              • SUPAVILLAIN
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                Unearned and unjustified superiority, just like the rest of the settler trash in their party afaic

          • @stolid_agnostic
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            25 months ago

            By voting for Biden I’m a tool of Trump and Putin. Riiiiight.

            • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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              255 months ago

              I was going to vote for Biden but now I won’t because you acted with such brutal incivility. This is the most important election of our lives; democracy itself is on the ballot and you are turning people away from the polls before they’ve even opened. You are handing Trump the keys to the White House; you are ushering in the dark tide of fascism. Enjoy the next election, you have made it our last.

              • @stolid_agnostic
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                15 months ago

                Copy pasta. Got it, you’re a troll and are now blocked.

                • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  225 months ago

                  I was going to vote for Biden but now I won’t because you acted with such brutal incivility. This is the most important election of our lives; democracy itself is on the ballot and you are turning people away from the polls before they’ve even opened. You are handing Trump the keys to the White House; you are ushering in the dark tide of fascism. Enjoy the next election, you have made it our last.

        • Kuori [she/her]
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          215 months ago

          they’re making fun of civility libs who pulled that shit on leftists.

    • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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      285 months ago

      Keep “Voting Blue No Matter Who” and watch as every promise they ran on vanish without a fight because YOU have taken away any incentive to.

      • @stolid_agnostic
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        Here’s the thing. There’s a big brigade thing going on right now where I’m apparently the worst human who’s ever lived for asking a question. But, one thing that nobody seems to be able to do is tell me what the alternative is to voting Biden. Nobody can answer that question–it’s just “you’re stupid because Biden” and that’s the end of it. So, I’m really asking–what is the proposed alternative action?

          • @stolid_agnostic
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            05 months ago

            Sadly, the moment people try, it’s no longer communism. The entire populace would need to see the world differently than they do now.

              • @stolid_agnostic
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                15 months ago

                I’ll rephrase: each time it has been attempted it wasn’t really a communist revolution, but rather a group responsible for regime change using the term as they appoint a new elite.

                • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  105 months ago

                  That’s not true, and it shows that you obviously haven’t investigated those revolutions or the theory behind them.

                  The entire populace would need to see the world differently than they do now.

                  Yes. This issue is dealt with through communist theory. A revolution is a process. It doesn’t end at a “change of regime.”

                  Its true that class and money are not immediately abolished, because they can’t be immediately abolished. The abolition of class and momey is a theoretical endpoint of a long period of transition because

                  The entire populace would need to see the world differently than they do now.

                  More or less as you put it.

                  You are saying that because the process isn’t automatic, and people now do not already see the world that way, that the process should never begin

                  You should investigate the actual revolutions you’re talking about, and read some of the basic theories behind them. If you are still against them, then at lesst you will actually know what you’re talking about, and your critiques would be worth hearing

                  • @stolid_agnostic
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                    You are saying that because the process isn’t automatic, and people now do not already see the world that way, that the process should never begin

                    No, I’m saying that it hasn’t happened yet because humans as a whole aren’t ready for it. Maybe in 150-200 years we’ll be in a different place. Remember that when people said “Please wear a mask, my grandmother has cancer” about 50% of the populace yelled “FUCK YOUR GRANDMOTHER MY LIBERTIES ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT MATTER.” With people like that, you can’t really have communism.

                • Vingst [he/him]
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                  75 months ago

                  If you just want power you dont have to pretend to be socialist. See Pinochet, among many examples. Pretending to be socialist would just be unnecessary extra work and having the most powerful countries as enemies instead of friends.

                • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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                  25 months ago

                  even liberal and conservative historians agree that the damn commies were actual communists: behind closed doors they didn’t talk about machiavellian power grabs - they used the same historical materialist framework they would use in public. (for example Kotkin is adamant about this in his Stalin bio. Communists believed in communism. Shocker.)

        • voight [he/him, any]
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          165 months ago

          You’re not being brigaded, I literally browse All Comments & All Posts (I have blocked a lot of communities). I don’t have any games on my phone I like to post in random comments sections/replies all over the internet and read a lot.

          Choosing to vote for, campaign for, run candidates within, or form a political coalition with a party, those are all things you have to weigh differently. Walking away from a party is a valid move. Half of the country doesn’t vote for either candidate. Why try to work with people who oppose your political goals on every level and will never give you access to the donor warchest even if you win a primary?

          Why vote for someone who paints a target on minorities and anyone to the left of Adolf Hitler? This is my hottest take.

          Some people argue you should vote for Trump because he’s an isolationist or something, but that’s complete nonsense, he’s the one who murdered Gen Soleimani

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            I still don’t get what you really want to argue for, though. Is it just to not participate until better candidates come around?

            And, having in excess of 15 comments insulting my person in one thread is being brigaded.

            • voight [he/him, any]
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              145 months ago

              I’m gonna be honest, I don’t think the race for president is an important place to invest political energy, of which I have a finite amount. Local agitation & elections are more flexible honestly. Stop a city council from destroying some ecosystem further. Elect a lady who hates Jeff Bezos (idk if this made any difference but it took little energy to do my part).

              I don’t think I actually care who wins ❓ they subsequently either ride the wave of shit, or they wipe out. Regardless of what people think the kinder Zionist Sen. Sanders would have accomplished in the general election (when the dems would have assuredly pulled funding), being in the Oval Office itself would be a completely different story. Nixon wasn’t enough of a ghoul for Washington half of the time, mein gott.

              • @stolid_agnostic
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                Thanks, that take makes sense. Now I wonder if that is the base from which many are operating?

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          To expand on my seething hot take here the use of LGBTQ+ people & symbols as imperialist mascots by the United States, Europeans, and Israel is an international disaster. Similar to the way Zionists abuse conscientious Jews with their rhetoric

          • @stolid_agnostic
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            This is why I don’t participate in Pride. It’s all corporate bullshit.

    • @The_Sasswagon@beehaw.org
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      Dunno, it’s a year away, why call my shot now when I don’t have all the information yet? But if I voted today and it was Biden v Trump and no competitive 3rd party, it would be an easy blank on the presidential section.

      But that’s a hypothetical, we’ll see if Biden aligns more with me in voting day, I can only assume he will double down on trying to seduce disenfranchised Republicans so I’m not hopeful.