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  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mltoFediverse memes@feddit.ukThe wokes are ruining my Lemmy!
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    We heard the same logic with “Assad shouldn’t have attacked his people” or “Gaddafi shouldn’t have attacked his people” or “Saddam shouldn’t have attacked Kuwait”.

    Even if it’s true in a vacuum, it’s only being used to justify imperialism.

    The only lever we have is the one that sends more bombs to Ukraine, each of which is a bad day for someone, statistically mostly civilians. The US’s objective isn’t to help the people of Ukraine, it’s to create the biggest blood bath possible and acquire cheap resources and labor from Ukraine. This happens every single time.

    Russia also being bad doesn’t change this.


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    Last time they run they were running much more conservative campaign

    Biden barely scraped by the skin of his ass, and my experience phone-banking in 2020, half the voters I talked to thought Biden was for free healthcare, cannabis, defunding the police, freeing the ICE camps, and free college because he was the democratic candidate.

    Meanwhile Kamala said the only thing that would be different from Biden’s administration is that she would appoint a republican to the cabinet and ran on building Trump’s wall. The dem messaging went right of 2020 on trans people, crime, foreign policy, economic policy.

    The average voter is very low information when it comes to politics, but they know healthcare is too expensive, they know college is too expensive, they know locking migrants in cages is bad.

    Left policy is popular because it materially improves people’s immediate conditions. It doesn’t matter whether someone has conservative ideas or not when their livelihood depends on a specific policy. When you weaken it or add a bunch of means-testing and complicated rules, your supporters will care less, and your opposition will continue to oppose you.



  • I think it’s interesting that people who get referred to as “terrorist sympathizers” claim to be on the left, but they often support the regime of the Taliban.

    I think it’s interesting that people who get referred to as “terrorist sympathizers” claim to be on the left, but they often support the regime of Saddam Hussein.

    I think it’s interesting that people who get referred to as “terrorist sympathizers” claim to be on the left, but they often support the regime of Momar Gaddafi.

    I think it’s interesting that people who get referred to as “tankies” claim to be on the left, but they often support the regime of Bashir Al Assad.

    Liberals oppose every war except the current one.


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    I live in SC, my vote had no effect on the outcome of the election. The only possible thing I could do to affect the outcome of the election was telling dems to stop doing things that decreased turnout, such as facilitating genocide and pretending to be powerless, and do things that would increase turnout such as legalizing cannabis, putting Trump in prison, facilitating women’s healthcare.

    Instead the democrats called us antisemites and BlueMAGA dipshits like you assured everyone that the democrats could win by maintaining the course.

    That didn’t happen. You should have been next to us screaming at the democrats to stop driving us over the cliff, but instead you criticize people who were literally powerless to affect the outcome of the election for not being silent as the democrats drove the bus off the cliff.


  • you overestimate the number of people that think like you

    It doesn’t matter how people think, left policy is overwhelmingly popular and republican policy is only popular with republicans!

    How the hell are you arguing that the democrats did the right thing, when they lost. They chose policies that they knew would decrease turnout with their base to appeal to “moderate republicans”, and once again, the “moderate republicans” voted for republicans.

    you know jack shit about what to do to win the elections, and can only yell on social media.

    We’ve tried every thing in our power to influence the democrats. When we protest, they send police to silence us.






  • The only people who let Trump win the election are the democrats. We spent years telling them what they need to do to win, instead they chose to end covid protections, divert covid funds to the police, build Trump’s wall, facilitate genocide, and other extremely unpopular policy.

    They knew these policies were unpopular among everyone who might vote democrat, they chose to do it anyway.



  • I feel like 3 kinda comes with the territory of politics. The sort of people who mod political forums have more rigid ideas of what ideas should prevail in the discourse than someone modding a board for embedded electronics, not that that’s an inherently bad thing.

    It just feels worse because a greater portion of Lemmy is politics; here I’ve caught bans for being insufficiently pro-Kamala months after the election or not going along with a china bad circlejerk, but at reddit people catch bans for “John Brown did nothing wrong” or just posting footage from Palestine.





  • You’re not opposing western imperialism while supporting their war.

    This obviously doesn’t apply to people living in Russia, who should oppose their government’s actions.

    Do you genuinely believe that we are acting in the interests of the Ukrainian people, unlike literally every single military action we’ve taken since WWII? When we were bombing Syria and arming ISIS and Al Nusra to “liberate” Syria (and stealing their oil and crops), did you think that was for the good of the Syrians? When we bombed Libya to oust that evil dictator Ghaddafi, did you think that was good for the Libyans? When we bombed Yemen to oust the Houthi’s, did you think that was in the interests of the Yemeni people? Do you think the Iraqi people are better off today than they would have been if we didn’t invade them twice and cause over a million premature deaths, mostly of children simply due to sanctions? I haven’t even gotten to the 90s yet. Hell this isn’t even exhaustive for the 2000s.