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But I was told both sides are equally bad and that I should have stayed home or voted 3rd party /s
We were told by democrats that we have to "reach across the aisle" to fascist republicans for decades. Just this last election they kissed infamous war criminal dick cheney's ass while sending billions to the far-right government of israel while they're committing genocide. Somehow this approach would not result in fascism eventually.
The "third party" people are just as bad as Centrist, Libertarians and MAGAT's. I can never decide where on my "Idiots I Hate Who Vote" list to put them. Like, after MAGAT's how do you decide between Centrist, Libertarian and "third party" to go in second place? As soon as I think I've decided a nupty from one of the other groups pops up and reminds me why I hate them.
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Saying "third party" and "Libertarian" in the same list is redundant.
How nice for the entire world to still classify the US as a democracy so that oppressed people in the US don't get any ideas like applying for political asylum in the EU.
I wonder if beeing Trans would qualify you for Asylum in the EU, since Trans people are politicaly persecuted in the US.
They'll likely tell you to "relocate within your borders", aka: move to a Blue State, Blue City.
You could give them a minute
"raised an uproar on the X platform"
He's using the fascist's social media site to condemn what the fascist administration is doing?
Action. This warning BS from people in the mix can f the right off
He's using the platform where people are. Did you expect him to post to Mastadon or something?
He's using the platform where Nazis are, where the administrator of the site can (and regularly does) amplify the Nazis, and silence the non-Nazis, where the good people have already all left.
Mastodon would work, but not just Mastodon, also post to Bluesky, to his own blog, to Substack, to Threads, to Hacker News, to Face, to Instant Gran, To Medium-large, to wherever. Broadcast everywhere. Don't just post on the Nazi site.
raised an uproar on the X platform on Friday
Why are people still using that platform? All the head Nazi has to do is tell some underling to delete/hide your tweet, or block you forever...
This would be a clear violation of the 1st Amendment, so any "investigative threats" should not be considered in any way as "threats". They should instead be reported to the public as evidence of unamerican activity and disloyalty to America and American values.
"anymore." Honey, you haven't been a democracy for a long, long time. What we're seeing is the natural end result of decades of subversive work.
Honestly, and other people on Lemmy acting like this election is the ONLY thing that caused this moment are real ignorant, this has been building for decades. If the Party Loyalists had pushed their party to be GOOD instead of just being "not the other guy" we wouldn't be in this moment.
I am SO sick of this blame-shifting argument. Everyone who didn't show up to vote for the only "not Trump" candidate likely to win is 100% partially responsible for what we're dealing with now. Full stop. It's not the Dem's fault, it's not the system's fault, it's not anyone's fault except those who sat out or threw their vote away out of protest because they completely fail to even acknowledge the existence of a bigger picture.
Hurr durr, fascism is bad, but the other side isn't perfect so I'm not voting against fascism to teach them a lesson.
There were two items on the menu: "Status Quo (flawed but not fascism)" and "Speedrun to Fascism".
The fact that there are still people defending their decision to sit out / vote third party is mind boggling. At least if some of those would own up and say "I fucked up" I might have a shred of respect for them.
I voted for Harris. The guy you're responding to is still right. If democrats had actually represented the working class for the last 30 years instead of paying lip service to the idea then we would not be in this situation. Saying that does not excuse the actions of Republicans or conservative voters. It's simply an honest accounting of Democrats failure to present a convincing counter argument to the GOP. You would think that would be easy to do and yet here we are.
Y'all are right, there are legitimate complaints to be levvied at the Dems and the DNC and yet voting for Kamala was, and should have been for everyone, the easiest choice I have ever made at the voting booth.
How that absolute certainty got lost in the leadup to the election is one of the greatest cons in the history of politics.
Voting is not the only action that created the current environment get over yourself.
You are not better or more informed because you voted for one oligarch party over the other.
I have a line I won't cross that's genocide, where's yours? Nowhere to be found because Dem loyalists are feckless spineless cowards who do nothing but defend every action Dem politicians make.
I'm glad boot lickers like you hate people that have principles like me because you have none, and I don't want people like that for allies.
Edit: Also your party fucked up and lost and you're trying to get others to admit they fucked up but you won't? Got it.
Looks like someone is working on their Nuremburg trail defense already...
I've been voting in elections for decades for the Dems and the Dems have only gotten worse every time I voted for them, they kept ratcheting right. I took a stance this election for president because I realized it wouldn't have mattered both parties are captured by the oligarchy. If you've been voting for them for decades and haven't had the epiphany that they aren't working for you, maybe you need to go back to grade school.
Trump following through on campaign promises, politician shocked
Hmmmm
Anymore? Wtf ate you talking about