• ZMoney@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    This is such a tired narrative. You guys really want to focus on the leftists when half the country voted for an authoritarian?

    Every movement has its radical fringe. Virtue signaling either your ideological purity or your solidarity with the only viable opposition are equally feeble attempts at clinging to a notion of victory in the face of total defeat.

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      3 days ago

      This is such a tired narrative. You guys really want to focus on the leftists when half the country voted for an authoritarian?

      Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds

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        3 days ago

        see now this is doing the same room temp IQ shit as fugjesus

        Not All Leftists: are anti-DNC purity non-voters

        Not All Liberals: are the MLK “white moderate” type who will vote Republican if lefties are mean to them

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          Sure, that might be true of individuals but that phrase, or at least variants of it (ie. “The Social Democrats are The Left-Wing of Fascism”), have existed since the rise of the Nazis.

          The idea being that liberal institutions will sooner do the work of fascism by punching left, rather than making common cause to fight fascism. And this meme isn’t helping that perception by punching left.

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            Phrases existing does not mean there is truth, just that there is an aspect that feels true, look at all the people that have adopted “hard men create good times” etc as a mantra.

            I don’t think making hostile comments (saying all libs are fascists) is productive at all, and obviously individuals are not responsible for entire institutions, or even other people that share their principles but are also assholes.

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      To be fair it sounds like OP feels betrayed, and is kinda scared about ending up in a death camp (and it’s insane they have a legitimate fear about that, wtf USA?!). It’s easy to point at nazis and say it’s their fault (it is), but they weren’t your allies in the first place and didn’t betray you, they said they’d throw you in the death camp. Your allies were the ones that could have saved you… and it looks like they chose not to. I’d be raging too

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          I’m a Democrat stooge too because

          1. I’ve reviewed their voting history.

          2. I’ve reviewed their criminal conviction history compared to Republicans.

          3. I’ve been around long enough to know they occasionally get significant wins for middle/lower class Americans.

          4. I know the alternative is fascism.

          3rd parties are not viable and won’t be anytime in the foreseeable future. This isn’t a hard decision if you’re in the middle/lower classes. So yeah, I’m going to simp for the party that is WAY better for me and everyone I know instead of pretending there’s some other magical option to hold out for.

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            Someday some country will vote to bomb your loved ones

            You have to understand, the other guy was the worst.

            Anyway here’s your daughter corpse lmao

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          OP could be a bot and it doesn’t still negate the point. I can imagine there’s plenty of people affected who probably feel something along the lines

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        This is a bad metaphor. I agree harm reduction helps, but Democrats are not owed a vote and the obsession with blaming what is apparently a small minority of voters or the sole reason Democrats lost depending what is convenient, is truly damning of liberals.

        If libs put half the effort into courting leftists they do in blaming leftists perhaps they’d win. Instead a group of people who would by and left never vote for a dem anyway, didn’t vote for them.

        This is the bed they made and now they want to blame everyone else for shitting their pants.

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          but Democrats are not owed a vote

          I’m so glad you decided that Blue Circus wasn’t OWED your vote, so letting minorities be genocided is an okay consequences you’re willing to live with.

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      The bottom line is the left has a problem with members who choose their own moral superiority over the wellbeing of the nation and themselves.

      That’s a problem that needs to be talked about.