• FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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    The Democrats are unfathomably evil, but America will be a much worse place if they lose the midterms … although I’m still fishing for ideas on what the Democrats would actually do. They’ve kind of tacitly approved everything that Trump is already doing and it’s hard to imagine how far he’d need to go to push the Democrats to act.

    The Democrats aren’t going to act on economic issues unless it’s pro-business, but on social issues I’d hope they have some kind of red line. They won’t go after ICE or help trans people, but maybe they would slow Trump’s rollback of abortion rights and same sex marriage.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      That’s right gotta have a veneer of legitimacy that you chuds can hide behind and do your mental gymnastics to justify imperialism. Trump just doesn’t give you lot anything to work with.

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      Why, so they can condescendingly pretend to be acting out of a sense of stoic necessity when they continue to do all the same things as the Republicans?

      Fuck the democrats, Free Palestine

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        Because I’m trans and don’t consent to my rights being used as a bargaining chip do you can stomp your feet and stick it to the dems.

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          Ah yes, people who oppose genocide are just stomping their feet and throwing a tantrum over nothing.

          Democrats presented you with a prisoner’s dilemma and instead of standing for humanity. you unhesitatingly threw every Palestinian to the wolves, man woman and child, like a Good German. You supported genocide. You voted for genocide. You are a genocide supporter. You are a fascist, whether you choose to accept it or not.

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            I didn’t support genocide. There was no option to save Palestine. Trump didn’t do it.

            There was an option to save transpeople in America. That was Kamala. You didn’t take it. You sacrificed me in order to satiate your ego.

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              I didn’t support genocide

              You literally voted for it and now you’re trying to pretend there’s nothing you could have done. You Vichy collaborators make me fucking sick.

              There was no option to save Palestine

              Not by continuing to support the same people destroying it. That should’ve been your indication that it was time to stand up and stop enabling these fucks! They only felt safe telling you to suck it up and support genocide in the first place because acquiescent toadies like you indulged them on every other rightward lurch, never imposing any consequences!

              There was an option to save transpeople in America. That was Kamala.

              Kamala, the cop who put trans women in men’s prisons and promised nothing? That’s your salvation? The party that has shown it believes in nothing and will sacrifice absolutely anyone? You must be as blind as you are spineless not to see that collaborating with them will bring you no protection whatsoever. Come next election, they’ll cut trans people loose and justify it by saying it was to “protect” whatever group is next on their chopping block. Your gormless ass has laid the groundwork for your own annihilation as soon as they find it politically convenient.

              You didn’t take it. You sacrificed me in order to satiate your ego

              First they came for the Palestinians, and you cried “Sure, they can die! Do whatever you want to them, just don’t hurt me!” Your pathetic display of selfishness in the moment when it mattered most has marked you in the eyes of history and humanity as yet another nazi.

              “They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”

              -A.R. Moxon

              Nice antifascist party you got there, I’m sure they’ll never turn around and eat your face. Enjoy the fruits of your cowardice, kapo. I hope all the dead Palestinian kids were worth it to you.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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      The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox.

      I really wish americans had a longer memory span than 1 election cycle.

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    The original version of this meme was problematic but my god this version of it is spot on accurate. And it still would be accurate for countless other things that could be put in the Biden/Trump speech bubble. Despite what Democrats pretend, and how they like to (ineffectively) play the role of opposition to Trump, they are fine with 90% of what he does, he just does it without any deference to the liberal theatrics of “law,” with too much bombast instead of fake personal difficulty making “hard choices,” and because he’s not on team Blue. Granted, there are a few significant things I think it’s safe to say would not have happened under a Democrat president, but vanishingly few of those are things they wouldn’t have wanted to do.

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      23 hours ago

      Russian propaganda doesn’t even know Lemmy exists and couldn’t give two shits about it