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    The fact that there are so many dislikes proves how propagandized the average American is. “How dare you call both sides the same” Well, they ojectively are pretty much the same with few exceptions.

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      Especially for non-Usian people, doubly especially for those on the working end of US “diplomacy” - bombs, coups and sanctions come regardless of which US administration, there is literally no difference whatsoever.

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      I’m no fan of the democrats, but they don’t want to systematically exterminate people like me.

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        but they don’t want to systematically exterminate people like me.

        Lol, typical american liberal “systemic extermination is fine so long as it’s not being done to MEEEE”

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          I wish the nice lady who brought slave markets to Libya hadn’t been shunned by MISOGYNISTS, I could be sipping mimosas right now smh

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      You must be very privileged or very ignorant to see things this way.
      The Democratic Party is somewhat conservative and stand firmly behind capitalism. But they aren’t fascists. Not at all.

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        Uhhhhh yes they are lmao. They just have an insignificantly smaller out group. They consider the rest of the world fair game for death camps, torture, starvation, and everything else Republicans do, and they even agree with most of their most fascist shit (like the children in cages and the Patriot Act, which were not only not stopped but expanded with Dems at the helm).

        They just think gay people and people of color are a sizeable demographic, but not sizeable enough to stop the violence against them, just kind of pretend they’re the only allies.

        They keep doing that because idiots keep buying it. I don’t think Mussolini would have been much better if he copped black slang for his propaganda material and was ok with gay people in the military.

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        Both of them want to kill you and your friends. One is just stupid/racist enough that they’re willing to do away with your labor power ASAP while the other would rather let their billionaire masters squeeze every penny out of you in debt peonage for the rest of your life (hopefully less than 65 years).

        However, I’m far less interested in what they want to do to other gringos than the fact that they’ve been workshopping even worse than this brutality on the rest of us for centuries and y’all were okay with it. You’d continue to be okay with it if there wasn’t a dang Cheeto in the white house or whatever the fuck.

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          Let me rephrase: one of them is willing to let me and my friends die because they’re more interested in making money than providing for our needs, and one of them wants to shoot us in the fucking heads for being queer. But yeah the ones who hate us for being queer aren’t actually worse than the ones who simply don’t care about us

          They also want to shoot you in the head for not being white. But yeah, no worse than the ones who simply don’t care about your wellbeing. In fact, the latter deserves even more of your ire, for some reason

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            One willing to do the bad thing while the other not willing to do anything about it (and resistant towards any change) is just voting between the Uvalde school shooter and the uvalde cops that prevented parents from going in and saving their children.

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          We’re talking concentration camp vs no concentration camp here. Child rapist vs no child rapist. International cooperation vs tariff chaos.

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            Biden couldn’t stop touching and kissing clearly uncomfortable, random kids in front of hundreds of cameras. He’s been accused of rape. Stop pretending we all live in your Marvel movie concept of the world.

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            yes of course history will remember Biden as a historic, effective, deeply moral president who did the right thing when times were rough, and left behind a lasting legacy of peace and progress.

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            Who are you crediting with ‘no concentration camp’ here? The party that performatively cried outside of one and then ignored it when they were in power?

            Are you SERIOUSLY pretending the democrats aren’t complicit in ‘child rapist’??

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        Seriously, this is the kind of bullshit that swings so far left it circles back to right.

        The goal of this administration is to remove existing government institutions and replace them with far right traditionalist based institutions that the creator of the Heritage Foundation (Paul Weyrich) began writing about ~1999.

        I think that we have to look at a whole series of possibilities for bypassing the institutions that are controlled by the enemy. If we expend our energies on fighting on the “turf” they already control, we will probably not accomplish what we hope, and we may spend ourselves to the point of exhaustion. The promising thing about a strategy of separation is that it has more to do with who we are, and what we become, than it does with what the other side is doing and what we are going to do about it.

        The people that created the term “cultural marxism,” want you to believe this stupid both sides are essentially the same shit so you’re less resistant to them dismantling the parts of government that people had to fight very hard for. Voters rights, civil rights, and civil liberties have always been under attack by this same group of people. Now you’ve got this dumbass propaganda telling people that since those rights have always been under attack, you might as well just assume it won’t matter if they cease to exist.

        “I don’t want everybody to vote… As a matter of fact, our leverage in the election quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” -Paul Weyrich

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            Apologies for the facts and documented history you don’t want to hear 🤷‍♀️

            I know Project 2025 hasn’t been brought up nonstop over the last year or anything, but if you can somehow imagine a publicly available document laying all this shit out point by point, it might help you understand where I’m coming from.

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      “Everyone who is an adult who realizes there is no unicorn party is completely propagandized. I am le very smart.”

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      One side supports a criminal Nazi apologist who tried to overthrow our Democracy and hasn’t given up yet. The other side brings a knife to the gun fight.

      They’re not even remotely the same. 40 years ago that may have been closer to true.

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        One side supports a criminal Nazi apologist who tried to overthrow our Democracy and hasn’t given up yet

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          Rather, I’m arguing against “enlightened centrism”. Both sides are not the same at all, there is one party clearly better than the other. Not defending the US in general. But if everyone voted Democrat our problems would be greatly improved.

          If there were two parties, one to double the slaves, and another to keep the number of slaves the same, I would vote for the second party. If everyone voted for the second party, they’d eventually be able to pitch reducing the number of slaves. But they can’t because half the country is Nazis. It’s a dirty game but it’s one worth playing, even if we use protests and other tools as well.

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            If there were two parties, one to double the slaves, and another to keep the number of slaves the same, I would vote for the second party.

            Then you’re a fucking slavery-defending piece of shit who John Brown would have rightfully shot. You don’t have to support slavery at all, you know. You could even say “Slavery is wrong, full stop.” And then go on to do whatever is in your power to tear down any group that advocates for that grotesque abuse and denial of even the most basic human decency. But instead you insist on carrying bucket after bucket after bucket of water for the fucking slavers who are blatantly grifting you with their detestable bullshit of “at least I’m not that bad” as they point at another fucking slaver.

            You people are so brainwashed into this absurd binary thinking it is genuinely shocking to me the atrocious shit that squirts out of your mouths that you think is fucking reasonable!

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            Rather, I’m arguing against “enlightened centrism”.

            Yeah, and to do that you’ve had to engage in outright genocide denial.

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            Rather, I’m arguing against “enlightened centrism”

            Your instance has been very supportive of ‘enlightened centrism’ when it comes to colonialism vs anti-colonialism. Let’s hope that you are, in fact, opposed to that.

            However, the opposition to both of the parties is not a case of ‘enlightened centrism’. They are literally both right-wing genocidal factions of rulers of NATO.

            Both sides are not the same at all

            In the case of USian ruling factions, the difference is just PR. And, maybe, competence in conducting genocides, invasions, and other colonialist activities.

            there is one party clearly better than the other

            Considering that the current administration has seemingly been making decisions that have been harmful to NATO’s ability to invade the rest of the world in the long term, it seems that the party that currently holds more power is the better one.

            But if everyone voted Democrat our problems would be greatly improved

            How?

            If there were two parties, one to double the slaves, and another to keep the number of slaves the same, I would vote for the second party

            Both of the parties are for doubling the slaves and for conducting genocides. The currently dominant one seems to be less competent when it comes to achieving those goals.

            But they can’t because half the country is Nazis

            Much more than that - almost all USians were in favour of invading Iraq, and I find it likely that not much has changed.
            Either way, both of those parties are at least almost completely nazi.

            It’s a dirty game but it’s one worth playing

            Why? Electoralist efforts have evidently not achieved much throughout their existence. It’s time to accept reality.

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              I don’t know what my instance believes, nor do I care.

              I wouldn’t argue against opposing both parties, or the US in general. I’m American and I choose to vote for the party that seems substantially better. Voting correctly is important, but not enough.

              Voting Republican caused Ukraine to lose its funding. I don’t side with any genocide that NATO commits but don’t forget it also protects billions of people. The game is dirty and imperfect but we should still play it to survive.

              Democrat policies reduce wealth inequality, which Republican ones increase it.

              All Nazis are Republicans. Few to none are Democrats.

              Basically none of your arguments are rooted in truth, even slightly. I doubt you will be convinced of what I’m saying.

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                Voting correctly is important

                Has voting ever produced any sort of serious effect in the US?

                Voting Republican caused Ukraine to lose its funding

                Meaning that the state of Ukraine will have less of a reason and less of an ability to avoid peace negotiations to stop the bloodshed. This is good.

                but don’t forget it also protects billions of people

                It literally does the opposite. It’s a colonial empire that is conducting a genocide right now and that has been invading everywhere in the world to keep billions of people in a colonial yoke. It only defends colonial metropoles and settler-colonies from justice.
                Furthermore, at most, it ‘protects’ about a billion of people, and not ‘billions’.

                All Nazis are Republicans. Few to none are Democrats

                They are almost all nazis. Even if one cares about electoralism, almost all Dems who could voted against reduction of military support for Pissrael.
                It’s not really arguable that at least almost all Dems are in favour of genocides and invasions - like the ones into Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan.

                Basically none of your arguments are rooted in truth, even slightly

                Except for all of them.
                Notably, you couldn’t even provide examples of non-nazi Dems, and lied about NATO protecting billions of people and keep lying about voting being important despite having nothing to show for it.

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                I don’t side with any genocide that NATO commits BUT

                Absolutely soulless people.

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        The DNC isn’t fighting for workers. They are bringing a gun to the gunfight, they just aren’t interested in using it against the GOP, as ultimately both serve capital. The US has never been a democracy for the people.

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          oh god i agree with cowbee wholeheartedly in a thread of discourse…

          oh god oh fuck oh shit i can feel it happening… is it warm in here?

          Я чувствую, как марксизм-ленинизм просачивается в мой мозг!!! make it stop.

          Теперь я чувствую себя белым и пушистым… как коммунистический медведь.

          —-

          anyway joking aside appreciate lemmy collectively telling neolibs to shut the fuck up bc while plenty of things .ml says piss me off, they don’t piss me off nearly as much as seeing americans who haven’t ripped the bandaid off yet.

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          Democrats seek to regulate said capital. The Overton window is too far right to have much effect.

          Serving capital does not mean we’re not a Democracy. Attempting a coup of the government and disinformation does, however.

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            They only seek to regulate capital as much as their megacorp and billionaire donors wish. The “Overton Window” has nothing to do with it.

            Further, if both parties serve capital, then we have democracy for capital, not for the people.

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              Not much argument there, but the Overton window has everything to do with it. How do you think other Democrat socialist countries got where they were? At some point they were all pretty much in our boat. I haven’t lost hope yet.

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                There are no “democratic socialist” countries. Democratic Socialism is a descriptor for reformist socialism, the closest we got was Salvador Allende in Chile. Socialism isn’t just “social programs,” socialism refers to a mode of production where public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, ie the large firms and key industries. The Nordic countries are Social Democracies, welfare capitalism essentially.

                The Nordic Countries have the large safety nets they do largely due to proximity with the USSR, who was the first to dramatically expand their safety nets. Combined with millitant labor organizing, these concessions in other countries forced the bourgeoisie’s hand. The problem is that these social safety nets in the global north are funded through imperialism, vast extraction from the global south.

                The Overton Window has nothing to do with it. The system is dominated by capitalists, the only way to get even a fraction of what the workers want is through millitant organizing and running our own parties like PSL, the only way to actually get socialism is through revolution.

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                  To most, Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy mean the same thing. Since actual Socialism is usually so irrelevant it requires no clarification. Since you’re an actual socialist I’m gonna doubt we have any constructive dialogue from here on out.

                  But for the record I don’t believe violent revolution is a winning strategy. It’s a failed experiment that killed millions and it won’t work this time either. Neither is sitting back and hoping things work out, so I can’t dock you.

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                    No, the large majority understand the difference between democratic socialism and social democracy. The Nordics don’t call themselves socialist, because they aren’t.

                    Further, socialism is extremely relevant. The PRC is Socialist, and is the world’s largest economy and industrial power. Support for collectivizing the economy is growing in the west, even if absolute numbers are still low. Socialism remains the only way to move on.

                    Revolution did not “kill millions of people,” in all major socialist countries life expectancy increased by 50%-100%, infant mortality plumetted, and poverty dramatically reduced. Revolution has proven to be the only way to genuinely democratize the economy and establish socialism, when you try to do that within a liberal capitalist framework like in Chile, you get couped by the US Empire.

                    You’d do well to join an org like the aforementioned PSL, reading theory and history books are also helpful.

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                    It’s a failed experiment that killed millions and it won’t work this time either.

                    Better give the USA back to the British Crown then, dumb-ass.

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            Democrats seek to regulate said capital

            No, they aren’t.

            Serving capital does not mean we’re not a Democracy

            If you think that you live under a democracy, i.e. that your government’s decisions reflect your wishes, then you should be held accountable for the genocides and invasions that your state keeps committing.

            Attempting a coup of the government and disinformation does, however.

            The US suffering a coup would at worst not make anything worse, including in terms of ‘democracy’.

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            No they want to appear to regulate capital. Most of the time they don’t actually want to regulate it. Yes they won’t be as overt as to do the massive wealth transfers they the republicans do . But they will. Who was president in 08 ? Who continued to dump money into our military contracts despite running as anti war?

            Like yeah the parties are different domestically but foreign policy wise the outcomes are usually the same.

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              Most right wing policies done by Democrats are necessary because of the electoral college. There is resistance from the right, and Democrats working within the unfair rules need to appease these swing state voters through compromise. Those compromises are ugly and unfair. It’s not usually because they want to appease billionaires. But definitely there is corruption on both sides. Just 10x as much on the right.

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                these swing state voters through compromise. Those compromises are ugly and unfair.

                Unless that compromise is “don’t commit genocide”, then they’ll happily abaondon the swing-state voters.

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                How did you quantity that 10x times?

                My best naïve estimate puts Democrats at 1.44-1.98x as corrupt.

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                  😂 I mean for one, the entire presidential election was purchased by a few rich people who used disinformation tactics. Then taxes for the rich were eradicated at the expense of everyone else. That’s the exact opposite of the Democrat’s political ideology. I should say 1000x. I’ll call it “orders of magnitude” instead.

                  So where did you get 1.98?

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                    Answer the question, genocide denier. How did you quantify 10x times? Or 1000x?

                    That’s the exact opposite of the Democrat’s political ideology.

                    No, it’s exactly Democrat political ideology.

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              They did. They were all pardoned by Trump. Trump would have been sent to prison if he didn’t win the election. Our Democracy is working, it reflects the idiocy of over half our population who voted for everyone to jump off a cliff.

              When I walk around, over half the people I talk to support Trump. The other half is actively fighting against it. That’s not support. We’re merely losing.

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                Trump would have been sent to prison if he didn’t win the election.

                Trump would never have had the chance if Biden elected an AG who didn’t spend 4 years fucking around.

                The other half is actively fighting against it

                Its a shame the democrats dont represent those people and chose not to dismantle Trump’s ICE and instead tried to work with republicans.

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        One side supports a criminal Nazi apologist who tried to overthrow our Democracy and hasn’t given up yet.

        And the other side commits genocide. It also overthrows other people’s democracy, but you don’t consider foreigners human.

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            Most Democrats express greater sympathy for Palestinians. That’s not what I would call “committing genocide”.

            Committing genocide is committing genocide. What the fuck is wrong with you?

            What I see is Democrat officials expressing support, but powerless against Republicans who do not.

            Then you had your eyes closed for all of 2024

            That’s not supporting genocide. We’re fighting, but losing.

            Genocide denier

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                Ok, I’ll return your argument strategy exactly as you stated it: [Some thing that in no way resembles anything I said]

                You people really cannot behave in good faith, can you?

                If not, you are a genocide denier and had your eyes closed for all of 2025. What the fuck is wrong with you? You shameful asshole. People are dying and you don’t even give a fuck. You have nothing more to say that I care about until you personally feed an affected person. Hypocrite."

                Incoherent. But I guess I shouldn’t expect more from a genocide apologist fuck like you.