Oh wow now they’re Trump supporters and Communists? LMAO
This is getting ridiculous.
You’re absolutely right, it IS ridiculous how many supposedly left-leaning people are willing and even eager to see a Trump presidency to ‘get on over on the shitlibs’.
The convention could always select a different democrat. Or it could have if the democrats hadn’t purposely put it after the ballot deadline in many states so Biden would already be on the ballot, before the convention that supposedly nominates him.
It’s just not the either/or situation you’re looking for. It’s entirely possible to be so disgusted by the state of American politics that you just don’t vote. Or you vote third party. Your memes are having a negative impact at this point. Nobody who was on the fence is going to say, “Oh gosh I don’t want to be commie, I better vote Joe!”
The convention could always select a different democrat.
Ah, yes, the good old shift from “NOT DEMOCRATIC ENOUGH” to “Fuck the voters, the DNC should nominate someone else!”
Your memes are having a negative impact at this point.
Then you should have no problem with them, since you’re convinced that neither side is worth supporting.
There is a side that could be worth supporting. But you’re making very hard to do so. Biden could win the election today by cutting off military aid to Israel. Instead he has goons out here threatening everyone. So far I’m not sure what I get for supporting him. You guys talk about plan 2025, but this kind of bullshit used to just be Republican stuff. So from where I’m sitting it looks like the DNC is giving up on Democracy too. It’s certainly giving up on listening to it’s voters.
Biden could win the election today by cutting off military aid to Israel.
God, I love how detached from the reality of the American electorate this constantly repeated point is.
Instead he has goons out here threatening everyone. So far I’m not sure what I get for supporting him.
Threatening… everyone… by telling them exactly what the opposition is promising to do?
God. What a horrible threat.
You guys talk about plan 2025, but this kind of bullshit used to just be Republican stuff.
Fucking what.
So from where I’m sitting it looks like the DNC is giving up on Democracy too.
… because it… isn’t having a meeting in a smoke-filled room to remove the current candidate without any input from the electorate?
Or because it’s running against a fascist who has pledged to be a day-one dictator?
That’s a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is meant to support and provide context for the others. So taking it all out of context isn’t helpful in decoding it’s meaning.
“It’s out of context, I didn’t say the things I said”
They ate not team blue so they are team bad. The rules of
footballare simpleTeam blue is team bad. It’s just that team red is even worse.
But if we always follow this logic, we may as well allow them both to enshittify eternally, because reps will be just a bit more evil, and dems won’t have the incentive to improve, either.
The question is: at which point should Dems be taught a lesson and how? Is current voting a good avenue for that?
The best time to plant a tree was yesterday. The next best time is today. As you point out, this doesn’t get better if we keep doing the same thing. So now is the time.
They want Donald to win so that China gains ground. They claim to love leftist economies but are simping for countries that produce plenty of billionaires.
Billionaires are just symptomatic of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics!
The trade war with China might be a way to assert US dominance and squash the competition, but in the grand scheme of things, protectionist policies are very bad for the global economy and global progress.
And leftists typically are internationalists, putting global efforts above national ones.
So it’s not just love for China, even if Lemmygrad and Hexbear folks are really unhealthily obsessed with the country.
It’s not about the trade war, they specifically want the US to be destabilized with the corruption and unqualified nepotism/crony appointments.
Oh, the massive hypocrisy of Biden refusing to swallow his Zionist principles and stop their Genocide, whilst at the same time sending his tribe’s peons around to try and convince millions of people to swallow their Humanist principles and vote for a guy who supports Genocide.
Biden could pretty much guarantee a win tomorrow by announcing that it has been determined that Israel is indeed committing war crimes, followed by cutting support for them as per the Law when the recipient of help is committing such crimes, ideally followed by sanctions.
Yet he doesn’t and instead there’s a clear propaganda op with repeated variations of the claim that “Not being for Biden is being for Trump” (which, curiously, is just the authoritarianist argument “those who are not with us are agains us”).
Why does the supposedly elected representative of all Americans firmly refuse to follow Americans as they turned against the Zionist Genocide and instead acts like all dictators by doing what he himself wants disregarding the will of those he is supposed to represent?
The argument of this and other similar posts which have innundated Lemmy would be a lot stronger if Biden wasn’t an example of doing the exact opposite of what these posts demand from others.
At this point you guys should just take all the time it takes to argue “tankies” for HOURS at end and make these low tier memes and just form your own political party.
DNC and DNC shills expecting free votes because they’re democratically funding a genocide instead of fascistly funding a genocide
You morons in November when Trump inevitably wins due to horrendous voter turnout in November from former Democrat voters and not because the 5 communists in the USA made the difference
It’s like a copy paste of Trump v Clinton and clearly no one learned their lesson from literally 8 years ago.
oh yeah the notoriously huge and election-swinging group in the us, the communists.
Reductive. Neoliberalism protects and foments fascism as we ratchet a little further to the right each election cycle.
A meme? REDUCTIVE?
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
The reason why the rachet turns further to the right each election cycle is because non-conservatives in the US have an abysmal voter turnout.
Neoliberalism is the product of leftists deciding not to vote because there’s no “good” option, and leftists will perpetuate this cycle by refusing to acknowledge incremental progress as a good thing.
No one will vote for our shitty candidates.
Should we run better ones?
No blame the people for us not having a good candidate
Great, so you’re going to overhaul the system and get us better candidates?
No?
Neoliberalism exists for many reasons. But blaming leftists is strange. We would be a lot better off if voting was not so hard for black and brown people, for instance. We can at least agree on that.
Yeah, I’m on board with making voting easier for everyone. Voter turnout is ultimately the only way short of violent revolution to fix shit in this country.
Voting is difficult enough for people who don’t vote conservative, which is why when leftists refuse to vote out of principle because their perfect candidates aren’t a choice, they’re figuratively stepping on the rake.
Totally agree about voting and its need for ease. But I can tell you more leftists vote than don’t, I can promise you that. Systemically that’s not the biggest problem. And I certainly plan to vote and I won’t be helping Trump with it.
I hope you’re right, but I’ll say that I’ve definitely seen more people in this election cycle say there’s no point in picking between two fascists than any other cycle I’ve been a part of. Especially here on lemmy
Yeah totally. Social media is bashing and circlejerking, even in the open source spaces. Not the best lens into reality.
If only there was a way to increase voter turnout, like giving voters what they want… nah, that’d make too much sense. The democrats are too smart to give people what they want.
Good god. You win elections from the center. A center vote that switches from R to D is worth double because the R loses one vote and D gains one. You literally win from the center.
If you want the center to move, then make the Dems win overwhelmingly and consistently in President, house of reps, and senators.
So do you think republicans are catering to centrists with their full dive into fascism or do you think only democrats need to appeal to “centrists” for some reason?
Trump won by appealing to the manufacturing jobs sector, and because of the protest Hillary vote. As much as I want to believe people were/are informed about his fascism, they really aren’t.
And now, because Trump won one election, the whole Overton window moved right. You know, because he won an election. You want to move the Overton window? Vote.
Biden won an election more recently than him. Weird how the Overton window moves when Republicans win an election but not when Democrats do. Wonder if there’s a reason for that.
Hell, Bernie (and Warren) moved the widow more by running in a primary than they did by winning.
The reason is because Dems have to actually do things like pass legislation. Which more often than not requires all 3 of house, senate, and president. All the GOP has to do is block things and yell immigrants. Progress takes, you know, actual work. Stagnation or regression takes next to nothing.
like giving voters what they want
Funny enough, giving voters what they want is inevitably decried by Very Serious Online Leftists
Democrats do that. They appeal to centrists because those are the people who turn out to vote.
Leftists don’t get representation, the ratchet turns right. Funny how that works
Or maybe the centrists turn out because they’re the ones that democrats appeal to. Obama ran on a progressive campaign and won big in 2008, so it’s clear that it works. The problem is that he then immediately turned around and instituted centrist policy as usual.
Obama ran on a progressive campaign and won big in 2008, so it’s clear that it works
God. It’s fascinating how little self-proclaimed leftists remember 2008.
Which part am I wrong about? Obama ran on affordable healthcare, abortion rights, being anti-bailout for too-big-to-fail entities, and being anti-war. He won a supermajority. Then he scaled back his healthcare plan, said abortion rights “aren’t a top priority”, continued bush’s bailouts and added more, and invaded/bombed more countries during his term.
Obama passed the best affordable healthcare plan he could.
On abortion rights, he was no more left than Hillary. On the bailouts, he was openly in support of the Bush bailout plan even before the election. On war, Obama was openly in favor of the continuation of the war in Afghanistan and harder military policy against several countries, some of which even McCain wasn’t onboard on.
But hey, whatever helps fuel your delusional “If only candidates were more left, then they would DEFINITELY win in a landslide!” outlook.
Same thing with Biden. Ran on $10,000 of student debt relief for everyone, improving the climate, and not being Trump. People figured they could push him left, that was the argument. Now he’s been a lot better than I thought he would be admittedly. But still, the student debt relief has been extremely targeted, he made foreign electric cars more expensive, and he’s materially supporting a genocide while yelling at the protests against it. If they can’t push him left in 4 years, then the theory was proven wrong, candidates can’t be pushed left, and it’s right for leftists not to vote for them. Democrats don’t feel they have to move left because leftists have no other choice about who to vote for, so I get the calculus on their parts, but it’s becoming dangerous.
It also depends on how much supporting a current genocide is a red line for someone. That seems to be the biggest difference I see in these posts. Some people can’t bring themselves to vote for someone who does that no matter what. Others seem to be more malleable and forgiving about it. I know which one I am, but honestly, no judgment on either. I waffle between them myself. I don’t feel nearly as much pressure as others,though, because I don’t live in a swing state, so my vote doesn’t matter.
Even if we assume for the sake of the argument that your ridiculous assertion is true, “Let’s do fascism faster” is exactly the kind of bootlicking take I would expect from a tankie.
Never said I was a tankie bruh. A party that bases itself on a slightly more gentle fascism isn’t the cart we should be attaching ourselves to.
It will never ever be the right election for y’all liberal centrists who shit post on left folks. It is always the next one.
Idealism is fun, but it’s so very extremely privileged.
What is ideal about 40 years of two-party neoliberal movement to the right bringing us to the brink of fascism?
What is privileged about not having healthcare security, job security, in endless war, the environment going to pot, rent exploding, deregulation, ballooning prison numbers, speculative housing markets? Honestly it feels like the privileged who cannot imagine anything different than the bipartisan system that pits us against each other.
Idealism is fun, but it’s so very extremely privileged.
What is ideal about 40 years of two party neoliberal movement to the right bringing us to the brink of fascism?
Jesus. At least work on your reading comprehension before responding.
Idealism is great when you use it to fight for a better world.
Idealism is privileged when you use it to deny any reduction in harm as not being ‘good enough’ to permit.
Not interested in the whole yelling at each other thing, so genuinely asking here. What exactly does not voting democrat get the left in the US? Is the OP’s assumption that you want to accelerate fascism actually correct?
So far I haven’t seen any reason other than either accelerationism or “because it makes me feel bad” and I refuse to believe that’s all that’s behind it.
I’m really having a hard time, and I genuinely think it’s important to try to understand why those in the left disagree over things, rather than immediately turning to infighting.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I can’t tell if you’re mocking me, I don’t know how much clearer I can be that I just want to know why, if I can’t understand why people think it’s a good idea then I can’t be sure that my views/opinions are actually worth anything.
If you just don’t want to talk to me then, that’s okay too.
I think they were saying they agree with the idea that people should understand the political beliefs of those they disagree with.
People like this exist to argue. They have no ideology and no beliefs.
I was not mocking you.
Then answer the questions…
Is this a bot? This reply doesn’t make any sense.
I was agreeing with not shitting on the left and the need for an attempt to understand them. Not a lot of good faith attempts at understanding happening here, just a lot of bullying.
Political parties exist in the free market just like corporations. If they can’t earn votes a new party will form. It’s happened before and it will happen again. That’s why they message with fear. It’s effective at turning off any critical thinking.
Political parties exist in the free market just like corporations.
Tell me more about the political free market under Project 2025.
In fact, tell me more about how quickly firms rise and fall in the free market. It’s instantaneous, right?
Sometimes it is. Sometimes you have to push it off the cliff.
Sometimes it is.
lmao
Shifts the policies of the Democratic party so that they appeal to leftists. Not going to get into an ongoing debate, but just so you can’t say you haven’t seen any other reasons (which sounds fake to me but okay).
I appreciate it. I’m not here to debate you and I have no reason to lie about not having seen anything else, though I’m honestly a bit hurt that you think that, but I guess you’ve been nothing but attacked so far so perhaps it’s understandable.
Thanks for understanding. 🏳️⚧️💖
Could you give exactly one example of that ever happening?
Hey, remember when we all protest voted in 2016 and drove the Dem party SO far left?
Barely anyone protest voted lol. She got more votes from Bernie voters than Trump got from Gary Johnson voters. She lost because she didn’t appeal to specific voters in specific states, and the US has a shit democracy that she didn’t correctly strategize for.
Hey, remember when the Dems ran an unlikable centrist candidate as the lesser of two evils because anyone else wasn’t “electable” enough in the DNC’s view of centrist voters, and that translated into an electoral win via pinched noses in 2016? I’m really glad we got a dynastic compromise candidate that saved Democracy. That strategy worked out so well for Hillary, I can see why they’d go for it again.
Yeah, it is dogpiling and bullying in here. The reasons are here in the comments and elsewhere.
Bullying is when people say something I don’t like, and the more I don’t like it, the more bullying it is.
This is bullying lol, very disingenuous to the actual situation. Come on.
Wow, so enlightened.
It’s okay, when we’re dragged off to the camps for being Democrats, minorities, and ‘useless eaters’, the tankies will assure us that Biden would have done the same, in 6-10 decades.
Conflating anyone on the left with being tankies is exactly the problem.
If you don’t like being called a tankie, then don’t push tankie talking points, champ.
Go and read some, the left is a spectrum. Fuck tankies.
Oh, okay, so accelerationism and anti-democratic sentiment is just normal leftism nowadays? We’re all MLs and MLMs? Cool cool cool.
So is this accelerationism or does it not count when democrats do it?:
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07/democrats-spend-millions-on-republican-primaries
biden pushing billions of dollars towards israel against the wishes of people who vote for him is pro-democratic?:
https://news.gallup.com/poll/642695/majority-disapprove-israeli-action-gaza.aspx
How about their rigged primaries keeping progressives out? Is that pro-democratic?:
I suppose it’s pro-democratic party, but the party’s name is ironic.
Oh, of course. Remember, it’s evil to votes for democrats so the best thing to do is not vote at all! /s. Tankie logic.
Don’t worry, online brigading is definitely good praxis though, unlike so-called ‘harm reduction’ which only extends the period in which minorities can fight for a better future. Don’t they know that that’s useless, and what they REALLY should be doing is dying to inspire the privileged to finally Rise Up™ on their (belated) behalf?
He just calls anyone to the left of him a tankie. He has no clue what it actually means.
Sorry that I think fascists painted red calling for genocide in America are bad.
Oh? Where’s the genocide? Point it out. You guys started this talking point a month ago and nobody has given even an attempt at rationalizing this talking point. You just sound like the guy on the street with a cardboard sign ranting at god. And even better there’s a real one going on right now that Biden is supporting. This wouldn’t be you trying your hand at some Good Old Projection would it?
Oh? Where’s the genocide? Point it out.
Oh, let me get this straight, you’re denying that Trump is genocidal now?
Please, I want this on record.
Show me then. I’m not going to make spurious accusations.
Never said I was a tankie bruh.
Didn’t realize that I wasn’t allowed to point out tankie behavior like “Faster fascism Good, Actually” unless the poster self-identified, thank you for the information.
Thank you for your inability to listen to reason.
“Reason” here being “Make fascism happen faster”
Forgive me for not finding that a terribly compelling argument.
Use normal words. You are trying intimidate people with confidence and you just end up not making any sort of point. If we vote the right people in and the right people do their job it isn’t fascist. We aren’t in a fascist regime. You are the only one being “reductive”.
Those are normal words, I apologize for not being the right kind of articulate for you. we have been moving right for 40 plus years. Both parties have been complicit. We fight endless wars under both parties. We have lost access to inexpensive higher education under both parties. We have lost the battle to the healthcare industry under both parties. We have seen the rise of the military police state under both parties. We have become spied on in ever facet of life under both parties. Our public infrastructure is falling apart and being deregulated under both parties. We have seen the militarization of our borders under both parties.
These are real material problems that we continue to ignore with the focus on these twp parties. We’ve seen a modicum of progress in certain areas, but there has been a lot of loss of freedom and liberty.
I disagree. Neoliberalism and foments are not common at all. You can even look it up statistically if you would like. We are not a fascist regime just because you don’t like every decision. That isn’t how fascism works. You still have many freedoms others do not. Is it expensive? Absolutely. Is it fair? No. But there are plenty of Democrats fighting the dumbasses for those rights to become easier. So chill on your “we are in a fascist regime” jargon just because you can’t get every single little thing you want.
I said we are moving towards fascism. I never said “we are in a fascist regime”.
I don’t know if we can discuss how using more words attuned with the audience would help? I think I already said that and you didn’t take kindly to it.
Foment as much as it could be a synonym for instigate or moving towards as you put it, could also be taken as inspires or motivates an already mobilized force. Maybe it was a pour choice for what you were trying to convey.
The meme oversimplifies what is happening. Our politics has been drifting further to the right with each election and the people in power are fine with that, regardless of whatever party they’re a part of.
there you go
I can’t believe France wom that election
I’m so glad that I live outside the US. Not that we have good options but at least more than 2. I guess I would still vote for Biden but I wouldn’t call it a democracy
Fan fact: if all democrats witheld the vote the republicans couldn’t govern either. That way we could get rid of both rotten parties.
Well, I doubt even now citizens of any former Soviet Republic can vote for Biden.
“I would fight fascism to my last breath” “I would be part of the resistance movement if a fascist government took power”
proceeds to do none of the un-sexy things needed to prevent fascism from taking hold in the first place
That’s a horrible waste of a vote. Please vote third party instead of not voting 🙂
If anyone actually wants to stop the genocide in Gaza please vote out your republican congressman, almost every Republican congressman supported the resolution to restart weapons shipments and almost every democrat voted against it.
The Democrats and Republicans are all friends after hours. They meet up for dinner, have drinks, laugh, and then go back to their jobs in the morning.
fighting fascism
Seeing how the us turns into France
