• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      USian centrists and being unable to conceive that voters won’t vote for the genocide they masturbate to.

      Imagine a more perfect tautology.

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      proving the meme right immediately. good job. go vote for your billionaire backed neoliberal fascist of choice that got us here in the first place.

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        The meme is right. It’s just not the message you think it is.

        It’s “if you don’t buy me a healthy salad and get me greasy pizza again, I will eat a bowl of shit instead”. “You have two years to buy me the salad”.

        You do you… if you think Vance is better than Newsom or some other boring corporate Democrat that won’t pass you litmus test, you and your couch are free to choose so.

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          You’re that unwilling to imagine that a non-genocidal candidate exists. And completely unwilling to support one ever.

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            11 hours ago

            Oh, I think Bernie would have been the best president in generations. Americans disagreed with me, and I accept that and don’t blame the Loch Ness monster for it.

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              10 hours ago

              If every genocide loving centrist who lies about being a Sanders supporter had actually voted for him in 2016, we never would have had trump.

        • onoira [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          it’s more like a ‘democrat’ saying ‘if you don’t spend the next 6 months shoving shit in people’s faces, we’ll force everyone to eat raw sewage for the next 4 years.’ then when they get into office, some things stay exactly the same, and others get substantially worse. to everyone except the business tyrant and the white median they offer nothing new, and they’re both the same shit to anyone from the Global South. they’re the controlled opposition of the two faces of capital.

          SStatesians should do better, and that starts by organising communities and platforms which force real (material) changes at the local level, and which can combine to resist the bourgeois state trying to reassert itself, which requires a capacity for (counter)violence.

          the only incentive for either party to adopt a particular program is the threat of losing (a chance at) power, but that clearly hasn’t fucking stopped them as far as the loss of votes is concerned.