What an unhinged view of conservatives in the US. You should try keeping your political leanings secret in a conservative area while being white-passing, straight-passing, male-passing. The things you hear will curdle milk. Yet around people they know are liberal or will otherwise take offense, suddenly they're all sugar and sweetness.
"Stop talking about how the man who promised to end democracy on day one of his term is promising to end democracy"
Dumbass joke. Vance is a traitor. He won’t hang.
You'd be surprised. Even the most loyal bootlickers can hang if they're inconvenient enough.
Political violence IS bad, but for the same reason that violating a truce is bad. It's not always because the shot is unwarranted, but because of what the shot leads to. "You can't always give people what they deserve" kind of energy.
Sometimes there's no other reasonable choice, but normalizing or condoning it means opening up... well, open conflict. And you need to be pretty goddamn sure that there's no other viable option before you do that, unless you enjoy widespread devastation and the deaths of thousands of people at minimum, in which case you've been reading the Doctrine of Fascism's musings on struggle and need to go home and rethink your life.
"Don't vote for fascists" is browbeating people, and mean, and besides Both Sides(tm), and nothing will change under a Trump administration, you're all just scare mongering.
You know, the classic, hitting every cheap dogwhistle they can.
They just want to agitate for fascism. Below they admit that they don't see Trump as any exceptional threat and that the US is already fascist.
Why they think voting matters at all in a fascist state, I'm not sure, but it's probably completely logically consistent will all of their claims. /s
No, I'm the guy who called you out for pretending that Trump is just "business as usual" and that your normalization of fascism was disgusting. You then descended into a series of non-sequiturs and tangents.
You’re basically saying “want freedom?? choose exactly who I say!!!”. I’m sure you can see how it’s bad optics.
Holy fucking shit, our options are "Fascism" or "Not-fascism", sorry for finding only one of those actually acceptable?
It plays well in the Lemmy echo chamber, but ffs pay attention to other people.
It plays much worse in Lemmy than it does in real life, since in Lemmy there are always a seemingly endless number of commenters ready to throw a fit over the idea that preventing fascism is necessary.
what about air
Like many others I would vote for Biden’s animated corpse over Trump, but I’m not a mythical “undecided voter”
They exist, sadly.
They're awful. Or, at least, awful citizens. The problem is that the Dem party thinks they're "In the middle", but though some might THINK of themselves that way, that's not what they really are. They're people who vote on vibes. When the Dems move policy right, it doesn't ACTUALLY sway most of them. They don't have real policy positions, and they're quick to endorse contradictory positions as simple 'common sense'. One might think this level of ignorance would lend itself to GOP partisanship, and probably it does in many cases, but I have unfortunately known pretty indisputably non-GOP voters who have this same poor civic education.
Also DF rep
Rekt
This is Left Praxis, LIBERALS would never understand the 4d chess involved in how Trump winning helps Palestine and American minorities.
God, Other M made me pissed on so many levels. Especially coming on the heels of Prime 3.