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[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

This is such a tired narrative. You guys really want to focus on the leftists when half the country voted for an authoritarian?

Every movement has its radical fringe. Virtue signaling either your ideological purity or your solidarity with the only viable opposition are equally feeble attempts at clinging to a notion of victory in the face of total defeat.

EDIT: I wasn't expecting this comment to generate discussion but since it did, let me elaborate on what I meant by "total defeat." The defeat is not an electoral loss, it's the fact that we have relinquished so much political power that all we have left is voting for one of a set of compromised politicians every few years. It's a tired argument because it assumes that it's possible to vote our way out of the mess we're in, and it simply isn't. We need to attack the point of production because it's where the ruling class derives its power. And arguing about our sham elections is getting us nowhere.

[–] syreus@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] KatakiY@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is a bad metaphor. I agree harm reduction helps, but Democrats are not owed a vote and the obsession with blaming what is apparently a small minority of voters or the sole reason Democrats lost depending what is convenient, is truly damning of liberals.

If libs put half the effort into courting leftists they do in blaming leftists perhaps they'd win. Instead a group of people who would by and left never vote for a dem anyway, didn't vote for them.

This is the bed they made and now they want to blame everyone else for shitting their pants.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

but Democrats are not owed a vote

I'm so glad you decided that Blue Circus wasn't OWED your vote, so letting minorities be genocided is an okay consequences you're willing to live with.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The bottom line is the left has a problem with members who choose their own moral superiority over the wellbeing of the nation and themselves.

That's a problem that needs to be talked about.

[–] lemmingrad@thelemmy.club -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Someday some country will vote to bomb your loved ones

You have to understand, the other guy was worst.

Anyway here's your daughter corpse lmao (well what's left of it, white phosphorus is no joke)