• WamGams@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    There are probably a lot of people you love who require healthcare who are depending on that can being kicked further down the road until you have an alternative.

    I personally think we can support Palestine without throwing our trans and gay populations, our immigrants, and our leftists to the wolves.

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      6 months ago

      That’s the thing. We aren’t getting an alternative. We’re getting fascism. Whether we slowly slide into it with the Democrats or speed run it with the Republicans we will have to deal with the issue.

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          6 months ago

          No. This isn’t what we have, this is what the wealthy elite have. We’re not making do, we’re drowning. We’ve been drowning. But everyone ignored the warnings so here we are.

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            6 months ago

            humans have been making do with much less than what you have for hundreds of thousands of years. making do also does not necessarily exclude political action

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              6 months ago

              That’s right up there with, “better clean that plate, there’s starving kids in China!”

              It’s that very history you mention that tells me it’s time to stop supporting weak Democrats. Either we get someone strong enough to pull us back from the abyss or we’re already fucked. This story has played out time and again from the Roman Empire to Post Colonial Africa. The compromise guy is put in charge and the authoritarian runs him over.