• Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    or having the possibility of making better choices in the future

    How’s that working out for you if you look at the past few elections? Did you manage to push Biden left? Have they prosecuted the American war criminals? How far is Genocide Joe from your ideal? Is Copmala gonna be better, improving material circumstances?
    Can’t you see that neoliberalism had literally the opposite effect - pushed everything even more right and extreme?

    Americans have this weird view of Russians and Putinists and liberals think that the Chinese are a brainwashed hivemind— but you look crazy from the outside when you argue for voting Mussolini against Hitler.
    Democrats supported genocide and their brinkmanship with Russia got us closer to Nuclear Armageddon, fuck y’all

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      Oh yeah, how’s being a douchebag on the Internet working out for you as a replacement for democracy. It’s easy to criticize the flaws. It’s a lot harder to come up with something better. I never said it was working well, for the record. I said I’d like to keep the possiblity of it working open for the future, because let’s be real, if you have the resources to remake America, you have the resources to win an election. The fundamental problem with leftists is that we’re mostly smug assholes who refuse to work with anyone we disagree with, and until that changes we will remain completely irrelevant.

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        11 months ago

        The fundamental problem with leftists is that we’re mostly smug assholes who refuse to work with anyone we disagree with,

        I’m not American - I’m saying you are worse than what liberals say Russian and Chinese are

        anyone we disagree with,

        • Economically they are neoliberals - leftists are opposed to neoliberalism
        • Their foreign policy is brinkmanship, genocide and bombing allied infrastructure

        This is 0/2- how are they not enemies rather than “someone I disagree with”?

        until that changes we will remain completely irrelevant.

        You will remain irrelevant because you’d vote D whatever they do. It seems like you represent the Dems as a project whatever they do, rather than they represent the voter base, earning votes.
        Which is ass backwards.

          • Kieselguhr [none/use name]
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            611 months ago

            Who said anything about supporting them

            Yes, I vote for them unconditionally, and I also argue publicly to vote for them unconditionally

            Who said anything about supporting them

              • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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                511 months ago

                Whether you like it or not they don’t see your vote as an endorsement of the marginal differences, they see it as an endrosement of everything they’re doing, including that genocide thats going on.