‘Pipe down’: Biden allies step up calls for Dems to rally around president - eviltoast
  • LordR@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Then vote for someone else in the primaries. But as soon as it is the general election it is either the democrat or fascism. Even if you don’t vote at all, it will just strengthen the fascist party.

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      The electoral college decides who takes office. I vote third party because the popular vote doesn’t mean shit (in most states iirc) and I want to do my part to show, statistically, that the democrats need to move left. We can’t have two far-right parties in control of this country, and so long as they’re running with Biden that’s what they are.

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        Even in Europe the Democrats wouldn’t be considered to be far right. They are a big tent party spanning from center to left.

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          I have to disagree strongly with that first part, but of course that’s what they want people across the world to think- there is very little room for leftists in practice.

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        You should learn more about fascists then because that is obviously wrong.

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          I believe it’s largely a matter of interpreting the facts. if you have a bias that prevents you from from believing the Democrats could be fascist that might stand in your way of coming to the same conclusion I did.

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                The influence of the president on the FBI is quite limited.

                Feel free to suspect massive faschist influences in the FBI (like in most law enforcement organizations), as that is probably true. So unless you have a personal message from Biden to the Boss of the FBI, this is not evidence at all.

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                  it’s an executive agency. the chief executive absolutely has influence.

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                Put aside that you might sympathize with antifascist goals. From a law and order perspective, would you argue that the FBI is wrong? I don’t think so. Extremism in resisting fascism is kind of their thing.

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                  i am an insurrectionary anarchist. i believe laws are bad, and the fbi is the jackbooted gestapo.