• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Are you familiar with “being lead along the garden path”? It means to take a path of least resistance which is ultimately bad for you. Sometimes you need to look at where you’re going rather than only what’s immediately in front of you.

    Trump is tapping into the worst parts of christofascism, and it’s going to take a lot of work to undo that, and I’m sorry but the Democrats are not credible when it comes to that. Rather than confront these people directly we get the Democrats trying to weasel their way through some third way that involves doing everything they want on the border and a lot more genocide than most normal people are comfortable with.

    Materially I’m worse off now than I was under Trump, and there’s a lot more dead people. Trying to ignore those two things and have powerless people make some binary mental choice (it’s not like the popular vote picks the president) or be “bad” is childish. There are people with real power who are refusing to use it to protect our rights! Why are you so bent out of shape that people with no power have a negative opinion online?

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      8 months ago

      You missed the part where I asked whether you endorse Trump or Biden. Neither isn’t an option. You aren’t getting a USA without a president.

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        I am not voting for either, it’s not an endorsement of either one. that’s just how it is.

        I’d rather it be Biden, but I’m not voting for him.

        Maybe you can answer why you care so much about policing wrongthink from otherwise powerless people on a heavily pro-democrat website. Your guy’s in power and he’s doing terrible things with it.

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          Kind of bad you want something but won’t move to accomplish a goal that is beneficial not only for you, but also for people with the same minority status as you.

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            8 months ago

            Kind of bad of you to be trying to guilt people into voting for the genocide guy on the basis of their marginalized status, that or it’s like you’re making a threat.

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              8 months ago

              Fuck off. You’re not being persecuted by Lemmy comments. Actual persecution would involve what Donald Trump wants to do to multiple minorities.

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                You’re just intentionally misinterpreting what I’m saying. You are trying to browbeat me into voting for a genocide, with the threat of what the ‘bad cop’ will do. I’ve been trying to communicate why I (and many others) have an issue with Biden, and you’re incapable of registering that.

                Makes me sick tbh

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                  Your comment history is public. You’re pushing your agenda on other people too.

                  You already told me Joe Biden would be the best president. If you don’t vote accordingly, then you’re a hypocrite, and you can no longer pretend to be the pure leftist you are trying to be.

                  And if we all get sent to the gas chambers, your purity isn’t going to do anything for you.

                  You can save your offense for the genuinely evil people, rather than a fellow leftist trying to make the world better for everyone, including people like you who are content with consuming apathy… Exactly how the fascists want you to be.

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                    8 months ago

                    Voting is not stopping anyone from the gas chambers, the fact that we can’t even get the ‘lesser evil’ to stop contributing to this genocide should make that clear.

                    I’m not convinced you’re a “leftist”