• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    For most? It reads more like a justification to act like an authoritarian and jail political opponents.

    When the political opponents are, themselves, violent domestic terrorists and anti-democratic authoritarians, you’d be a fool to wait until they’re installed in the highest levels of government before taking action.

    You’re just assuming this will happen.

    I am being told “Go out and vote against Trump or this will happen”. This was the primary Ridin’ With Biden argument and the reason we were supposed to swallow a little like genocide in Gaza for the greater good. There were a bunch of memes and everything. People insisting that a Trump Presidency would amount to a domestic holocaust. People insisting that failure to vote for the Democrat or even a vote for a third party candidate was a tacit endorsement of this pending holocaust.

    But can we stop and laugh for a second about you pointing to assumption of mass incarceration as a justification for outright calling for mass incarceration?

    Sure. The joke is funniest right down on the US/Mexico border where we’ve got toddlers behind razor wire, because the governors are all pandering to a political base that wants to end birthright citizenship and deport anyone browner than a cup of milk.

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      3 months ago

      When the political opponents are, themselves, violent domestic terrorists and anti-democratic authoritarians, you’d be a fool to wait until they’re installed in the highest levels of government before taking action.

      Except we’re not talking about terrorists and anti democratic authoritarians, we are talking about jailing people for the way they vote. You are, by claiming people should be jailed for the way they vote, being the anti democratic authoritarian.

      Again, we both agree that trump is a risk and we need to stop him. But jailing people for falling for his rhetoric and commiting the crime of voting makes you a risk to our democracy as well. The only difference I see between you and trump, on this point at least, is you’re explicitly espousing it. He’s just using a dog whistle.

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        3 months ago

        Except we’re not talking about terrorists and anti democratic authoritarians

        We’re talking about their donors, their canvasers, and their supporters.

        Again, we both agree that trump is a risk and we need to stop him.

        We both agree he should be stopped. I’m not sure we agree on actually stopping him. It seems like we’re just going to roll the dice on the election and hope for the best, because doing anything else would be unfair to the fascists.

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          3 months ago

          Hey, listen, who you vote for is your call and I’m not here to judge. Its just an election, I don’t see why you need to make a federal case out of it.

          It’s clear, even in your own post, that you know we are talking about voters.

          It seems like we’re just going to roll the dice on the election and hope for the best, because doing anything else would be unfair to the fascists.

          Well, certainly becoming a anti democratic authoritarian seems like a terrible idea to avoid an anti democratic authoritarian. I’m hoping the electorate wakes up and, if it doesn’t, the institutions designed to protect us against authoritarianism hold up. I certainly will never get behind jailing people for the crime of voting a way I don’t like.

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            3 months ago

            becoming a anti democratic authoritarian seems like a terrible idea to avoid an anti democratic authoritarian

            Don’t lift a finger against the lynch mob or you will be no better than the lynch mob.

            I’m hoping the electorate wakes up

            Maybe they just won’t lynch me. Maybe it’ll be fine.

            the institutions designed to protect us against authoritarianism hold up

            Those institutions will be run by the anti-democratic authoritarians you just said you didn’t like.

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              3 months ago

              Don’t lift a finger against the lynch mob or you will be no better than the lynch mob.

              I’m pretty sure I’m every post you’ve lied about my position in order to make yours. It’s gotta tell you something at this point.