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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You do have to wonder if Republican voters are aware of what demographic controls Israel.

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[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The GOP is all worked up about "antisemitism" but MTG sprays this garbage all over the place. The hypocrisy is painful.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (30 children)

In a vacuum like this using the best and worst (dumbest?) example from each party.

But both parties as a whole serve the interest of capital. Their methods might be different. Their indirect/direct use of violence might be different. But they serve the same people with the same interest. AOC and Bernie are even saying that now. They've been criticizing the democratic party at all of their events.

Can the liberals stop pretending we can vote our way out of facism and please fucking join us on the left. Fucking please.

Fascism is here. Due process is gone. First amendment is gone. If you're waiting to vote again you're no different than someone in Russia thinking they can vote Putin out of power.

Grab a pitchfork (metaphorically speaking) and get organized.

Join PSL or DSA or anyone in your area resisting ICE. Now. Do it now.

Edit: For every downvote please comment with a different organization resisting ICE and organizing locally. Because if it's just criticism of the groups that ARE resisting it's not helping. Give people an alternative. I would LOVE people just listing groups that are resisting ICE in your area or nationally. Because that's all I want.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Edit: For every downvote please comment with a different organization resisting ICE and organizing locally. Because if it’s just criticism of the groups that ARE resisting it’s not helping. Give people an alternative. I would LOVE people just listing groups that are resisting ICE in your area or nationally. Because that’s all I want.

They can't and won't. Thought terminating cliche to deflect from the idea that electoralism isn't good enough. We can't vote our way out of this, but the rich want us to think that way. Brainwashed masses think Trump will let himself out of office beyond a casket.

Weird how every time someone suggests doing something outside of filling bubbles on paper every 2/4 years, it's an evil act. But mass murder, prison-industrial complex, the normalized mass poverty of everyone is justified and accepted.

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[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I'm so fucking tired of this argument.

It's the same fucking bullshit loop every goddamned time. Somebody will say that the two parties are "the same" clearly meaning "the same in [this] particular sense, and then the pedantic assholes will all come swooping in and start nattering on about how that's completely wrong because they're not absolutely 100% identical.

Here's a fucking news flash for all you binaristic pinheads - there are more than two possibilities. We aren't just limited to "they're 100% the same" and "they're not the same at all." It's not only possible but certain fact that they ARE the same in many, many ways, and the fact that they're not the same in ALL ways doesn't change that.

Anyone who can't envision more than two diametrically opposed possibilities is a fucking moron, and I'm sick and tired of this argument being driven by fucking morons.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Example:

"Republicans are corrupt weasels."

"Democrats are the same."

I see only three options there. Either:

  1. You understand and admit that they mean "the same" in the sense of "also corrupt weasels."
  2. You're a liar
  3. You're a moron.
[–] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

If they are "the same in this particular sense" then use that language instead. In no other context do people use the phrase "these are the same" meaning "these have something in common." I wouldn't defend the phrase "Galas and Fijis are the same" because of their similarities any more or less than if I were to compare apples and oranges. I'd say they're both apples or they're both fruit or any number of specific descriptors that they actually share.

It seems to me that if people are using this language as you suggest then they should communicate more clearly, or, more likely, this isn't what they mean.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think it's also selfishness. These dumbasses are still comfortable in life and so refuse to take off their blinders.

Nowhere in history have things gotten better by simply waiting.

But because things aren't bad for them it's not a problem.

The ole "First They Came" in action.

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[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

The parties are not the same, but they're both brands owned by conservatives.

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