• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    considering my position is that defeating Trump is what actually matters

    I mean, you know that’s not true. We all know that’s not true, you’ve even said so yourself, and your even doing so in this response.

    You don’t want to grow the base of voters for against Trump. You just want to punch on leftists because they are sticking to their morals while you can-not.

    In doing so, you are costing Biden any shot he has. You could be trying to build a bridge, instead, you’ve focused on burning them down. You’ve said as much yourself. Your approach to rhetoric is directly supporting Trump, and are clearly aware of that.

    Which further highlights my question. Go watch the clip. Its only 3 minutes. What do you think of what AOC has to say on electoral-ism, and how do you expect your intentional divisiveness/ fragmentation approach to rhetoric to play into that? Like, if Biden can’t get elected without leftists, and you are working to separate leftists from the Democrats, what exactly is your plan to get Biden elected?

    Heres Charlemagne the God explaining this on The View, from earlier today.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgI3jq3UFY8

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      6 months ago

      You don’t want to grow the base of voters for against Trump. You just want to punch on leftists because they are sticking to their morals while you can-not.

      Oh? Here I thought my morals were “Fascism is bad, and should be prevented”. Uh, thanks for informing me that my morals were actually “If I disagree with the administration’s foreign policy, I must usher in fascism as fast as possible”

      Heres Charlemagne the God explaining this on The View, from earlier today.

      Jesus. You’re serious, aren’t you.

    • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      You just want to punch on leftists because they are sticking to their morals while you can-not.

      From what I’ve seen, the leftist brigade on lemmy has nothing to valuable to teach anybody about “sticking to their morals”. Their moral code seems to include such inspiring leftist principles as “Ukraine was asking for it”, “It’s always NATOs fault”, “Everything Russian/China/North Korea does is ok with me!”, “Ebrahim Raisi was a hero because he stood up against western imperialism”, and other wholesome takes we could all learn from. They really know how to stick to their leftist ideals, right?

      Is this the left we are supposed to be building a bridge to? The authoritarian, tankie-ridden left, that has been so brainwashed by the notion that everything is the fault of “western imperialism/colonialism” that they will happily throw their support behind any murderous regime, even those with horrific records on human rights, women’s rights, lgbtq+ rights, so long as they are fighting against those “fascist” liberal democracies?

      Anarchism I can get on board with, because I admire the anti-authoritarian philosophy behind it. But most of the leftists on Lemmy are unfortunately of the “Stalin wasn’t as bad as he was made out to be” type. There is no bridge we could build that could support the weight of all those tankies.

      And to be clear, I’m no big fan of the US, and I don’t live there. But I don’t have a hate-boner for western liberal democracies in general, and definitely not if the alternative is living under just another authoritarian regime that happens to be notionally “leftist”.