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And Democrats were warned that they need to stop putting their thumbs on the scale to push the most dog shit candidates that don't promise anything that will help the working class. Fascism happens when democracy is unresponsive to the needs of the working class, and for the last 50 years Democrats have just been great at finding excuses for why they can't do something. Do you think Trump will listen to the parliamentarian if they disagree with something?
Fuck, Democrats have even been voting for his cabinet picks, despite claiming Trump is a fascist. They all voted to confirm Marco Rubio.
So, the litmus test of this logic is this: Do we blame the opposition for the Nazi party? Should we start doing that too after 80 years?
It's a concurrence. Who do you blame for the rise of the nazi party: the nazis who kept rigging the deck in their favor and sowing discord, the conservatives who enabled them, the ineffective social democrats whom people were disillusioned with, the people who held out against voting for them, or the people who basically were screaming at the latter three to do fucking something.
With the amount of screaming and championing that the Dems have ignored I refuse to believe it's incompetence or ignorance. This is wilful and active support for the party they claim they're in opposition to.
Yup, in other words post WW1 German society as a whole. People don't get to blame Dems without laying blame on themselves as part of this present society.
The antifascists are the only ones who weren't partly to blame. But also on a scale of who's most to blame, it's the nazis.
yup. that's my point, sometimes users on Lemmy (and other left-leaning sites) imply that Dems are much more to blame than trumpists. Ultimately it's the people who voted for trump and then the people stayed at home, and then the Democrats.
Yes, we should, as liberalism works for capitalism and capitalism always leads to fascism. Rosa Luxembourg said it best, socialism or barbarism. But Marx and Engels described the end stage of capitalism almost 100 years before fascism.
They're not an opposition. They famously will not act like one. They're complicit. After this loss and the lack of resistance I'm done. I've canvassed and fought for Dems for almost two decades and I could count our number of "Wins" on one hand. What a colossal waste of my time and effort.
Dems/Reps aren't the same because they're just as bad as each other, they're bad because they're both on the same team. The Dems had multiple chances to stop this and actively chose not to. It was a trolly problem with no one on the other tracks.
We have no opposition party lmao. Was it worth it for Harris to throw the election by siding with Israel? Neoliberals are also fascist.
Yes.
And voters were warned with years of inaction that they needed to start being more engaged.
The reason we have so many shit candidates is because people don't show up for the real ones.
"The purpose of a system is what it does". If our system consistently produces shit candidates, shit policies, shit results and demoralizes voters... Then we have a shit system and nothing will ever improve until we demand a modern multiparty democracy with proportional representation and safe guards against fascism.
This is certainly a viewpoint, but I don't necessarily agree when people state it as if it's a foregone conclusion.
Starve the beast exists. They purposefully cripple these systems, and if you were to adhere to that statement, then it means that we should do away with the systems altogether because they're currently broken (read: sabotaged).
That is a bad take imo
Someone responded to me with this a while back. The purpose of a system is what it does. I shot back some shit, but then I thought about it. They're right. The purpose of a system is what it does. It became clear to me. It literally does not matter in the real world what the creators of a system say it is for. The purpose of the system is what it does.
I mean... no. The purpose of the Department of Education has been very clear. Just because they fire a shitload of people, and make it so they cannot perform their function for the time being, does not mean that the purpose of the Department has changed.
The purpose remains, the Department just needs to be fixed so that it can continue to serve its purpose.
This is how I used to think. But we need to simplify things in order to approach them with appropriate action. The original purpose of USAID, NOAA, Department of Education, those don't matter at the moment. It's hard to articulate, but when you get down to it, the purpose of the system is what it does. No, over arching beliefs, vision, or plans from the founders will not work right now. The purpose of a system is what it does.
I don't want to argue with you anymore comrade. Please give a read to the link. Just a few days ago I would have had the same response as you.
Democrats fielded someone who wasn't a criminal IN A BINARY CHOICE.
It's baffling how stupid people are. Just vote for the person who isn't a rapist bent on destroying the country. Like "see the man-child who can't keep his hands to himself? Vote for the candidate who isn't him."
Stop whining that Dems didn't field mother Theresa.
I voted for Harris, but she was an accessory to Biden's genocide of Palestine. So don't pretend like she was a decent candidate. Her refusal to condemn genocide was monsterous and made her completely unfit for office, but she just happened to be the lesser evil so I voted for her.
Our system is just rotten beyond redemption. Conservatives ratchet the country towards oligarchy while Liberals act as bulwark against socialist reform that would actually help the working class.
Oh for fucks sake.
It's been ages now, it's getting to be like that all over the world. You don't vote for a candidate. You vote against the raving lunatics. It's starting to be like that everywhere. Do you really think you're going to find a politician you're going to want to vote for? What are you? 8?
Liberals: genocide is ok with us so long as our team wins.
Is the bar for candidates in fucking hell? How about you grow up and gain a fucking conscience? This isn’t John Kerry in 2004 this is a fucking genocider.
Well now you'll have an extra genocide in Ukraine since you care so much.
Maybe the US shouldn’t of fucked with Ukraine back in mid 2010s and there wouldn’t be a war going on for the last three years 🙄
Of course you're that kind of delusional. Figures.
Then why didnt Harris stand with Palestine if you are so concerned about genocide?
If this is true (it isn't) then why didnt Harris stand for Palestine, or even something basic like healthcare for all?
I swear if somebody brings up genocide with Harris again when defending Trump...
how was that response defending trump?
People keep defending not voting for Harris by saying she was for "genocide". But not voting for Harris allowed genocide on a scale that voting for Harris never would have -> so people who are clearly FOR genocide keep saying they avoided voting for Harris because they are somehow against genocide...
The original was saying they voted, so not in this particular case, except where they are saying the same thing, but I keep seeing that Harris=genocide response on here every other day, when we can clearly see (and from project 2025 could clearly see a year earlier) that the other option was a full blown nazi state which will kill millions. Got a very easy option to stop it before it started, with the added bonus that the Harris government would have been more responsive to protests (at this point, anything would have been more responsive to protests) and could have been then pressured to not go along with the Israeli occupation. Instead these people choose (and are keeping to defend their choice) to kill a few millions out of... idk, spite? Including the people they are claiming to protect by not choosing Harris. Especially them.
And right now I'm not sure if they are horrified by the blood that will be on their hands (better option) or trying to push the "don't support the dems no matter what" narrative to stop any coherent movement (propaganda bots). I'm guessing the latter in most cases, because they include AOC, who would definitely organize, IF there was some support which there isn't.
Everybody's so very sure the "other side" is blindsided by propaganda, but the fact is that both sides are blindsided by propaganda. It's pushing the nazis to act and pushing the woke to sit back and wait or run around like headless chicken and backstab their own. But you are both pushed.
tl;dr: the Harris=genocide narrative will still cause harm by stopping any support for dems organizing which is why social media is flooded with it right now
it’s amazing how you turned ‘i voted for harris but genocide is bad’ into ‘he supports trump’ as if there exists no other democrat
fuck off with you dishonest framing
Stop blaming voters and start blaming democrats. It’s THEIR fault they lost to fascist criminal when they ran a genocider and refused to hold a primary
Stop blaming your tools for what you do with them. Letting them run unchecked is what led here. Politicians should be kept in line by replacing them if they misbehave. People didn't do that, people stopped doing that decades ago, and now everybody is playing shocked Pikatchu.
Genocide apologist
Harris is a neoliberal in favor of genocide and Israel. If she wanted to win all she had to do was stand for Palestine and/or healthcare.
The sad truth is that a large portion of our countrymen do not care about Gaza. The Dem's are wasting time on what is essentially a minority issue in this country. It's not an election winning topic here. They need to focus on the economy at home first and foremost. The majority are short sighted and selfish and as I get older I genuinely question if a true democracy is even possible when the masses are so easily swayed by social media and bullshit. Just to be clear I'm not advocating for fascism, I just don't have any ideas.
and yet the guy who thought bombing gaza with a nuclear bomb would be a good idea was the one that won the election, so you're working uphill against a slippery slope with that argument my friend, because it seems like, nobody really gave a fuck.
The division is the point
what about biden? Dude was pretty popular with blue collar workers, and pushed a lot of good relevant legislation.
this is factually, not fascism, i feel like im speaking with nazis trying to "subvert" the normie population and "enlighten" them or whatever the fuck groypers do.