I've had multiple people on Lemmy tell me that Bernie Sanders is a Zionist, and they can't in good conscience support him.
And yes, it's fake. I mean, some of it might be stupidity or useful-idiot-ness. But some of it is absolutely just people deliberately trying to hurt the left, and it's succeeding very very well.
I know, I know. Just like ~~Biden~~ Kamala Harris wasn't what America needed right now. It was super important for everyone to hear, and keep in mind and remember. I sure do appreciate you working so hard to keep the most important things to focus on front-of-mind for everyone, thanks so much.
Sorry, do I know you? I'm extremely sure I have never banned you. Are you just following a "how to stir shit with somebody who used to be in a moderator role" checklist or something?
Rules that improve the discourse of the community from the users' perspective isn't really how lemmy.world does things. Most of the big communities seem to have mods that vigorously enforce things no one wants, and don't bother to enforce things that people would like to see.
Gaza's Health Ministry is obligated to be conservative. The true death toll was almost certainly above 150,000 even before the starvation really started, and of course the number of people crippled. stunted, or otherwise ruined for life is much much greater.
There's a reason it's coming back around to the fore, I suspect. Because it's time to play the favorite game of "This left person isn't left enough! Let's attack him!"
I mean yeah Gavin Newsom is kind of a POS. I don't even like the guy, he's not particularly left-wing and I wish the Democrats had more better standard bearers than this guy. But what the fuck, he is fighting against Trump and that's a good thing. Supporting Gavin Newsom for sticking his thumb in Trump's eye is absolutely in no way incompatible with supporting more genuine left-wing people (including supporting replacing Newsom with someone better as soon as that becomes feasible.) Just replacing him with "let's let the bad guys win instead" is fuckin' stupid.
I have no idea who this man is, I just saw the video
Why you gotta be so hurtful
"Hey, Jack. Can I just say 'investigate for being transgender'? There's no such thing as 'transvestigate.'"
"That's great, that's why you're here."
(thumbs up)
Honestly, man, I get what you're saying, but also at some point all that stuff just becomes someone else's problem.
This is what people forget about the social contract: It goes both ways, it was an agreement for the benefit of all. The old way was that if you had a problem with someone, you showed up at their house with a bat / with some friends. That wasn't really the way, and so we arrived at this deal where no one had to do that, but then people always start to fuck over other people involved in the system thinking that that "no one will show up at my place with a bat, whatever I do" arrangement is a law of nature. It's not.
Is that really true? I guess I have no reason to doubt it, I just hadn't heard it before.
Here, let me draw you a pie chart of what happened in the election:
I actually 100% agree with you that modern Democrats are horrible. Like I said at the beginning, I definitely don't like Newsom, and then you saw fit to lecture me about how I need to understand that he's not all that good. The problem is that our political system rewards people for being dogshit, and punishes them or casts them out if they are not. So yes, it's not real surprising that most of the Democrats are shit. IDK how people who seem so informed about politics and talk about it so incessantly keep being surprised by that apparently.
We need to fix our political system. There are a million ways to do that. Some people are working on them very hard. We need to be in the streets, right now, we need to be working hard to make a future before we all wind up in the camps. Sure, let's replace Gavin Newsom WITH SOMEONE THAT WILL BE BETTER. Just shitting on him randomly is not going to improve the system. Neither did it for Kamala Harris, neither did it for Biden.
I voted for Bernie. I voted in the primaries. I've been to protests. I've contacted my congresspeople. I did some volunteering in this last election. I honestly don't really know what to do. But it constantly pisses me off to see this lazy and entitled mindset where people are just going to sit back and let the whole place slide into the fucking ocean because our "left" party hasn't reached the point, independently, that they feel like it needs to have reached before they'll feel comfortable supporting, and so who cares what happens even when people are straight-up dying at the hands of the government.
My sibling it's not going to get there on its own. It's American politics. It's fucking horrible. The DNC will not redeem itself just through people withholding votes. They'll shrug, walk across the aisle, and keep making six figures. They don't give a shit.
Tell me: What activist organization can I sign up with? What can I do? I'm genuinely asking. I already know that spending time online shitting on the Democrats will accomplish fuck-all to save the country. It's just you and me wasting our ever dwindling allocation of remaining time wasting our fucking breath.
So, okay, you're lecturing me on what I need to understand. Tell me: Who should I sign up with? How should I get involved? How can I fix this? If Gavin Newsom is a POS, then who should I be supporting and working for instead? And what on God's green earth is the point of spending any energy at all shitting on Newsom in the meantime, to suppress by one little sliver some of the outrage when Trump puts him in the camps because he's "not a progressive" and that's super important to remember right now? I mean, fuck it, don't answer that last part, you don't need to. But what should I do?