Essentially, there have been two reactions over on grad today:

  1. I didn’t vote, neither of the candidates were going to stop the war in the Gaza Strip, therefore, there could be no good outcome for the US, therefore I can’t be held accountable
  2. I voted for a third party, which Republicans will have to acknowledge and respect
  • goat@sh.itjust.works
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    I’m foreign so I’m keeping out of the inevitable political arguments. Just be mindful of the rules and report those who break em

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    “I don’t really believe in voting”

    I know.

    You believe in “left leaning” authoritarian military dictatorships that pay lip service to communism or whatever alternative political ideology you espouse, where the only left leaning thing about them is telling the people that their practical enslavement through disciplinary labor measures is necessary and good for them all.

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    The women, immigrants, trans and minorities of the US thanks you Hexbear! You’ve shown those damn liberals how to make the world a better place! Jeffrey Epstein’s closest friend will be saving Palestine any day now, just watch him.

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      “stupid idiot victim of the system. why don’t you commit politically motivated violence like a cool person”

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        «I actually punched a sexist at a concert once, I’m doing infinitely more for the cause than your bullshit ‘voting’.»

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    Don’t give a single fucking shit about anything but performative ideology.

    I have very little time for the sort of oik that treats reality like something they view from an emperor’s box.

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    They prop up whatever the Russian troll factories prop up. You can tell by what’s unsaid, how much less of a problem they have with Trump.

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    Don’t blame at all trumps voters, nooo, you need guilty somewhere else 🙄🙄.

    Don’t put a vote system, if you can’t choose your favorite candidate 🙄🙄…

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    “There wasn’t a no genocide option, so I decided the more genocide option was fine.”

    The lives of minorities aren’t worth a handful of minutes to tankie fucks.

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    This was my ex. A single issue voter about a war another country is waging. Fuck Israel but got damn letting Ukraine die because of your fuckin morals is ridiculous.

    Lefties suck, they don’t have their way and don’t vote. This is why no progress happens.

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      They’re simply not very smart, and they’re impatient like children.

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      Pretending that Shitface winning the election is good for Palestine is also just mind boggingly moronic. Zero sympathies, they brought this onto themselves.

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      I wouldn’t call people like that a leftist. Left is progress, Right is conservatism. Their choices led to less progress so they’re not lefties.

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    The tide is sure as fuck going to be shifted. They got that part right.

    If you want a preview about how any of these dummies that are actually in the US are going to behave, look for the reaction of the civilian Germans after World War 2. For the most part, it was, “This is awful and unfair, I can’t believe they would be so mean to us, when we didn’t even do anything.”

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      I struggle to understand how they’re so delusional about their number of potential fighters.

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      Please do not compare Nazi Germany to the US. The Holocaust was and is very real to a lot of people and you are disrespecting those who were murdered.

      You can hate the US all you want. Just don’t casually about talk Nazi Germany like it was some random historical event. Millions of people died.

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        There are people who went through the holocaust who compared Trump in 2016 to Hitler. They, if anyone, understand the gravity of the comparison, and made it a little bit carefully. But they said that the way he speaks, the way everyone who is his enemy is an animal who must be destroyed, is very similar.

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        I’d like to spin your argument into the other direction.

        During the 3rd Reich and the years leading up to it, Hitler used the financial crisis, poverty and unemplyment to emtionalize people in order to make them vote for the NSDAP. His party/regime used a psudoscientific and non-factual ideology to dehumanize a part of the population. In this case most prominently jews but other ethnicities, gays, lesbians, disabled, too.

        Let’s compare this to Trump and see how accurate the comparison is. There is a financial crisis right now, not as bad as the great depression, but a lot of people in America struggle to meet month’s end from what I understand. Trump uses this, talking about tarrifs and boosting the american economy. He also doesn’t rely on facts or logic in his program. He claims bizarre things like “windmills will give you cancer through the sound they emit” to push against renewable energy and the protection of climate and nature. He also dehumanizes parts of the american population. In his first term he banned Muslims from entering the US. using the already very latent distrust/ hate against the muslim population. He called for a wall on the mexican border, claiming mexican immigrants are through and through criminals, alledgedly endangering US citizens, when in actuality southern states are highly dependent on these immigrants to take low wage jobs in agriculture. Also, as laughable as it is: “They eat the cats” is part of that, too. He also has follows an anti-lgbtq+ ideology.

        Hitler of coursed lived in a different time and people back then faced slightly different problems, but the patterns are similar. The goals are similar. They both follow an ideology that values people differently, based on percieved usefullness to a nationalist image of society.

        Not comparing right-extremist leaders to the third Reich, not holding them up against that is, disrespectful to those who suffered. Trump has not comitted a genocide, but the ideology he popularized opens the gates far and wide for abuse of any kind. So I believe that we should compare him to Hitler to make it very clear where his actions could very realistically lead.

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      That reaction was tune down, due to the country being occupied. It pretty much took the Nazis having to shut up for a few decades, by threat of prison to end up with a somewhat pro democracy population.

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    Look, I also thought the whole “don’t vote” schtick was kinda annoying, but personally, I place most of the blame on:

    a) those who actually pursued this outcome (fascists)

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    b) the DNC for their limp-dicked campaign strategy of being the Republicans-but-less-so while appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist

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      appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist

      I feel this so much in my fucking bones. They’ve been doing that since Hillary’s campaign. I think I’ve given up hope that they’ll learn, considering they’ve had this long already.