cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17713638
““If we jail Trump, get rid of Maga, end the electoral college, ban voter ID, censor free speech, we’ll save democracy,” says one meme in a QAnon channel on Telegram that depicts Biden in a Nazi uniform with a Hitler mustache”
Apparently they at least understand their opponent’s view .
Maybe you let them go to war. Then at least you can get rid of them for another few hundred years.
Your daily reminder accelerationism posts are likely 70% Russian propiganda
The other 30% are criminally stupid Americans who either want fascism or are too dumb to see how their actions promote the end goals that they pretend to fight against.
I’ve seen more than a few with post histories that legitimately make them look like they oppose fascism, but GeNoCiDe JoE makes them help the other team light a fire in the engine of the fascism train.
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Do you realize that alternative political opinions are immaterial to electoral discussions about who can win on a first past the post electoral system? Maybe those alternative opinions should understand that 3rd party voting historically favor the right, which is currently running an antidemocratic fascist who wants to rev up the friers on the current genocide and spark new ones close to home?
I’m all for alternative political options and work on those locally myself. But if you’re only voting red party every 4 years, you’re directly contributing to the slow erosion of our democratic process.
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too dumb to see how their actions promote the end goals that they pretend to fight against.
GeNoCiDe JoE
The irony here is palpable.
If you’re holding your nose in November like I am, I have no problem with you. But if that’s your single issue, know that the alternative is much worse. For the sake of harm reduction, it’s better to vote blue and stem the bleeding with someone who might bend to pressure vs the alternate option of ‘finish the job’ who wont.
If that’s your single issue and you vote third party, that’s the behavior I’m calling out, because like it or not, our system has only 2 parties that remotely have a chance in November. They’re lining up behind a convicted felon who wants to bomb Palestine harder and all the shit that’s in project 2025 while we argue and promote accelerationist behaviors to punish or try to make the party ‘learn it’s lesson’ when history shows they only ever move right in response to losing the left.
I fucking hate that I have to vote Biden again, but I understand electoral politics and know that accelerationist stances only harm the most vulnerable among us. Harm reduction sometimes involves doing things you find objectionable because the only other option is magnitudes worse. Biden sucks in a lot of ways, but he can somewhat be reasoned with and doesn’t want to take away my family members’ basic human rights.
It’s a shit choice, but life is full of shit choices. And more often than not, not playing the game defaults you to the worse option.
Hey look it’s the comrade we’re talking about
It’s quite funny how the rhetoric has devolved to the point where comments like yours are almost indistinguishable from MAGA supporters who talk about people being “paid by Soros” all because I don’t support funding and arming people in their pursuit of genocide.
Salem Media Group and InfoWars are not Russian.
Radio host and prominent Donald Trump ally Alex Jones was told by an RT host that Russian President Vladimir Putin asked him to “say hi to Alex.” Jones has claimed that he was told years ago that ”Putin’s a big listener" and was previously informed that the “Russian government listens to" his show and the Kremlin partially “modeled” RT off of his Infowars network.
Fucking close enough for me.
Wait info wars is not Russian? I’m dubious
It isn’t. Russia may be using or imitating them, but InfoWars is just the result of a guy trying to cash in on Limbaugh by imitating him.
Don’t cut Alex short, he also cashed in on imitating Bill Cooper (who absolutely hated him).
Hey give some credit to America’s other enemies: China, North Korea, and Iran
I put this on another post from another account, but I found it, and I’m going to paste it here:
Do it! DO IT!! Shut up talking about it, and let’s get the civil war started!! Because I suspect it will be over before supper time.
In reality all they’re going to do is talk about it, because they’re small weak little people. Look at the big bad Proud Boys. When faced with the consequences of jail, they cried like little girls and begged the judges to take pity on them. Only one defiantly yelled “TRUMP WON” on his way out is the courtroom, but that was even after he cried and groveled.
Yep. Actual coup plotters don’t stand on street corners with signs yelling about it.
They’d shit their rascals the second bullets started flying.
Might be a good time to arm up(unless you’re mentally ill in a way that will make you hurt yourself or make you hurt others before any actual conflict has begun). Just in case of course.
Edit/Addendum: If you have kids, please get a gun case and please educate them about proper gun safety and how to properly check if there’s any ammunition in chamber, etc. In fact, might as well take a gun safety course yourself.
How will arming up help anything? Honest question.
Parity is important. Why did the Soviets need nukes? Why did France?
The right sees the left as defenseless, because they see the left as the anti-gun crowd.
I will give up my 2nd amendment rights at the same time as my neighbor up the street with the “stop the steal” flags.
What would you do with the guns? What will they do with the guns?
What is the envisioned game plan here?
I like to put little holes in paper at 100 yards.
In the fall I hunt squirrel and deer.
That’s the sum of my game plan?
No war is a good war.
Point the first: no. War is awful no matter how short or long it is, just no.
Point the second: folks said the first American civil war was going to be short, too.
In summary, no.
I really cannot understand why people keep comparing current events to the American civil war. This will be nothing like that.
It would look like a hybrid of the Irish troubles and the Rwandan genocide on a massive scale.
Do you think it’s going to be easy to exterminate all the hillbilly terrorist cells that are supported by their local communities and sheriff’s departments?
Do you think it’s going to be easy to exterminate all the hillbilly terrorist cells that are supported by their local communities and sheriff’s departments?
Certainly not if the federal government supports them…
People love looking at the first civil war in conversations like this, but the next civil war is going to be nothing like it. For a likely comparison, you’d have to look at the Spanish Civil War and The Troubles in Ireland.
Americans have no fucking clue what they’re asking for.
It drives me insane that every “you just have to vote!!” liberal thinks that a civil war is two armies meeting on a battlefield. That’s not how it works at all! There are no armies. It’s literally guerilla attacks meant to make the state ungovernable, and the enemy is very possibly your neighbor who saw your anti-trump post on NextDoor.
I agree that a Civil War 2 would be vastly different, all I’m saying is that it would be anything but short.
Gotcha. Very valid point.
Or for a more recent events, Syria. I enjoy following modern history and geopolitics, but fuck me that is a mess of proxy forces, non-state actors, and local warlords.
If it pops off, somebody on the world stage is going to co-opt and prolong any US civil war/sectarianism to keep the US broken or distracted with a prolonged insurgency and COIN. Russia is already working to highlight any existing and/or astroturf internal division, and we’re seeing right now how effective proxies can be at causing an enemy to hurt itself in its confusion.
Iran knew that Oct7 would demand a firm response from Israeli civic and political society, and Netanyahu/the government fell for the trap. See also, 9/11.
folks said the first American civil war was going to be short, too.
And we’re still going through it! 😭
The tree of liberty, she thirsts. But not for what they think.
I keep think that Trump’s the immediate threat but wait until some coagulated cum trickle like Stephen Miller is the candidate.
“coagulated cum trickle” oh my, what beautiful prose 💘
Do you think we can associate that phrase with Google searches for Stephen Miller like they did with Santorum a while ago?
One way to find out! That would be so legit
We are under threat, by the domestic terrorists known more commonly as the Republican party. Maybe they could attack themselves and save America and democracy.
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Hey. Shut the fuck up, bigot.
Welcome to Reddit 2.0
Immigration? Come on in, we’ll worry about it later!
So many takes but the legislative branch built together an immigration plan, one that involved quite a lot of money to the border to help enforce it and crack down. Both Dems and GOP worked together on that one. Then Trump said to bail on it, that immigration was a winning ticket for Presidency and congress Republicans sank the bill.
So… legit the thing you’re bitching about is a political tool by the Republicans.
American values? Can’t have that!
Like the separation of church and state?
Immigration? Come on in, we’ll worry about it later!
That’s how 99% of the country got here. It’s what made (and still makes) this country great. Incorporating people from around the world is an American value.
Trump is running again? Let’s do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING to stop him from campaigning!!
What about the American value of respecting law and order by not supporting a convicted felon for president?
Crime is getting worse? Let’s ease up on punishment! Crime isn’t getting worse.
Crime is actually going down.
Biological men want to compete with women in sports? Okay!
Accepting those with different beliefs and respecting the way they choose to live their life is another American value.
Immigrants are the reason dumbfucks like you can stuff your face with chicken nuggies for cheap.
I can tell the rest of what you’ve said is dogshit without reading it.
Removed, complete misinformation. Take your Fox talking points elsewhere.
Yikes.
Quite a bit of misinformation there but I’ll just have you explain American values for us.
Does it include paying off a pornstar that you had sex with wile your WIFE was pregnant? How about jewish space lasers? Handies in theater? What are your thoughts on insurrections? Tax breaks for the rich? I could literally go on for days with shit that’s gone down since 2016.
The US died under Reagan as anything but a capitalist exploitation farm.
Right-wing peasant ignoramuses are darkly hilariously concerned about preserving the structure of their owner’s money printer and their own subsistence.
Fascism is when voting different
They’re about to get Molon Labe’d
Under threat of what? The wrong people being in charge? The wrong people are ALWAYS in charge. The labels and speeches mean nothing. The fact of the matter is that power seekers end up with power because decent people won’t stoop to that. Literally a random number generator would pick better politicians.
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How about the logical extreme of that? Anarchy!
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This is 100% overblown. It’s also the same article circulating. This type of crap is to sell newspaper subscriptions.
And fear. They are bullies who want to be feared.
This is the perfectest demonstration of how Kahneman1 mind, imprint->reaction mind, ideology/prejudice mind, works to displace considered-reasoning Kahneman2 mind.
There’s no point in appealing to considered-reason within any ideology, left or right, religious or ideological or political…
The imprint->reaction has already defined everything.
The only antidote to such is to have invested, through the previous decades, heavily in competent unbiased education, to make considered-reason/Kahneman2 mind the automatic default for more of the population.
Too bad it’s too late…
“proletariat dictatorship” / “populist dictatorship”
both displace considered-reason.
Yes it’s war: it’s war against considered-reason because ideology’s addiction to its own supremacy is all-consuming.
It’s too bad…
“the call is coming from inside the house”
Silly, no one is mobilizing. Another scare tactic to make people vote Democrat.
Heh, no, we vote Democrat because Republicans are indeed crazy, sycophantic, brainwashed people who helped take rights away from 150 million women. Whatever this article says is immaterial.
“We have no intention of invading Ukraine.”
Gotta love Lemmy… my post gets removed because it’s “misinformation” and then, I’m called names, harassed and threatened… and the mods just laugh… Reddit 2.0 in full effect, as rumored…
