Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives have condemned a raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as “deeply disturbing” and accused the Trump administration of a “rogue abuse of power” just weeks ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Let’s see if they do anything besides strong words and maybe some paddles.
I mean, I want to have those policies and services too, but you’re saying if it’s a non-socialist Democrat versus a Republican, you want the Republican to win?
I’m guessing if that happens you’ll get your wish for no DNC by 2028, because we’ll be a state-enforced one-party system by then.
We’re saying if its fascist or fascist-lite, we’ll select neither in order to pressure fascist-lite to do better. And if the Dems still dont wanna then they can lose. Its the only way to prerssure them. We cant play chicken we have to give them real consequences.
So you’ll accelerate the fascism to punish the significantly empirically less fascist group? Sound fuckin logic there brainiac. So you want fascism. You’re a fascist accelerationist.
Sorry, but that doesn’t really make sense. Here are your options:
You don’t vote at all, or vote third party: If you totally sit out the vote, you are having no effect, or are voting for the status quo by omission.
You vote republican: You are voting for the worst outcome.
You vote democrat: You are voting harm reduction.
Now to be clear:
“Harm reduction” is not just about you. It’s about LGBTQ people, it’s about people who are on ACA who will die due to continued cuts, it’s about immigrants who are going to be abused. Even if you think the democrats are “fascism-lite” (which I think is severely reductionist), you are severely downplaying, to the point that it mirrors GOP lack of empathy, the harms others are experiencing due to your refusal to vote for harm reduction.
In the primary, please, please vote for the most progressive person you can find, and let corporate democrats eat all the dicks. But in the general, please don’t just think of yourself and your emotional response of “screw them all!” Because “them all” includes your allies.
P.S.: Also, what is the point of downvoting good faith discussion? It really is not nice.
They’re not debating in good faith. They’re accelerationists and both sidesers, they work for MAGA.
You’re right, and I see the hope for pressuring to work but doubtful. If Harris won there wouldn’t be all this damage to the world. Wouldn’t have all the suffering in concentration camps paid by taxes, and they would be contributing to the communities they were. Things were better two years ago and all the regression is directly related to bad maga choices. All the blame on Biden for global issues was dumb, but too many don’t care or know better so it will continue unfortunately.
These ideal purists don’t believe in harm reduction. The actual outcome isn’t important, they only care that their hands are clean.
I’m glad people are finally starting to understand how Tankies work. I’d be real skeptical of any lemmy_today accounts you see, they’re still federated with the Tankie hive that is Hexbear. They’re just Russian and Chinese trolls, the lot of them. It’ll be nice once everyone decent finally makes the move over to piefed and we can start delisting all of the lemmy instances.
Well its not up to you, finitebanjo. The dems dont have the votes to lose their progressive voting block and still win elections-- even against trump-- so they can choose to do their effing jobs or they can lose. We’re well aware you’ll vote for them either way, thats factored into the math already.
And you can call people names all day finitebanjo, no one could possibly care any less what centrist armchair generals like yourself think. All you lot do is lose and cave constantly. You centrists are a complete clownshow.
Kreskin your post and comment history are visible. Anybody can just click on your name and see that your whole account exists just to denigrate democrats. You’re a bad faith accelerationist. That’s not me calling you a name, that’s all your posts and comments outing you for what you are.
I’m well aware that I keep my comment list open. People who are honest about their positions and have no shenanigans to hide tend to leave their comments open.
Whats a “bad faith accelerationist” exectly? One who is not commited to true accelerationism? Or are you trying to say any accelerationist are bad faith?
I wont lift a finger to help dems until they stop it with the war crimes and embrace what used to be the core or the Democratic party platform. And the republicans are a completely lost cause and not worth addressing at all. So I yell at dems to do the right thing, and I promise them that until they do I sit on the couch. I dont ever vote for republicans. If thats bad faith to you, then I think your “faith” is worthless slave-like drivel.