We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women - eviltoast
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But the same thing can be said for the people ignoring the faults of Kamala…

    Especially when they’re just begging for an end of genocide, or fracking destroying their communities, or any other of multitude issues where Kamala and Trump have the same policies even though the majority of the Dem voting base disagrees with them.

    It seems odd to act like the “high road” is the one where genocide is ok, when we could just have someone who was anti-genocide…

    There’s fall less people willing to hold their noses to vote for genocide and fracking than the other way around. And very few people who are only voting for Kamala because her border, genocide, and fracking policies are the same as Trump’s.

    The people that want that are still voting trump, if they told you that it would change your mind…

    I hate to break it to you, but they lie about this shit all the time so even if they lose they win.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      No one is ignoring her faults. She is just less flawed then the alternative. People need to learn how to vote. It is literally the only zero sum game that matters.

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        2 months ago

        He doesn’t, neither does Kamala…

        So why get mad at someone who’s line isnt the same place as yours?

        You can tell at them to throw their morals out the window, or unite with them and demand just a little more than the bare minimum you would accept

        Why is no one allowed to ask for anything more than your bare minimum? And why would you risk trump to not help get more?

        I don’t logically understand your position, I understand what it is, just not why it’s your position.

        Can you elaborate on how this:

        just speaking from positions of privilege because they don’t personally have as much on the line. I just find it hard to sympathize with that perspective.

        Isn’t applicable to you wanting people to ignore genocide? In some cases where it’s literally their close family over there as the victims?

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          2 months ago

          He doesn’t, neither does Kamala…

          Then why even have this argument?

          How about we swing this double edged sword the other way? Why try to alienate women who lost their rights with the overturning of Roe v. Wade because of Trump’s supreme court appointments? Or what about every LGBTQ+ person in the US who is trapped at the edge of their seats because members of the supreme court have stated they’d like to revisit Obergefell v. Hodges, too?

          How about all of the kids who are shot to death at school because of unchecked gun proliferation that Trump’s party has blocked attempts to regulate? Or people who are drowning to death in medical and student debt that Trump blocked attempts to solve, while he just has a “concept of a plan” that no one is able to describe?

          Or maybe we can look at his previous presidency, when his hateful rhetoric caused sharp rises in hate speech and crimes committed against people of color and the socially vulnerable? The rise in white supremacist/domestic terrorist groups? The election denialism that resulted in January 6? The complete and utter failure to properly manage the Covid-19 pandemic that led to the preventable deaths of millions?

          The threat of fascism literally looming over our heads and being told none of that matters because Kamala is no different from Trump in my specific hand-picked list of issues, that’s what I take issue with.

          If someone is not willing to do the bare minimum to keep him out of power because they don’t see a reason to vote for Kamala, I have a long list of less-kind words I’d love to say if I didn’t believe in trying to maintain civility online.

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            2 months ago

            Then why even have this argument?

            Because if instead of spending time and effort trying to convince voters to lower their morals…

            We’d be better off uniting to hold Kamala to a higher standard, because then we’d stop trump, and get more of what we want.

            I’m not sure what’s confusing about this.

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              2 months ago

              Goodness you are a speed reader, replying within 2 minutes and acknowledging the very first sentence I wrote.

              I am literally holding Kamala to a higher standard. Everything I wrote is the standard that anyone with half a braincell and respect for their fellow man should understand. Anyone who does not is not worth being pandered to.

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                2 months ago

                That’s literally the opposite of what you did and that last reply was just insults…

                Have fun acting like that, if you’re wondering why more and more people stop replying, it’s because they’re blocking you because of how you behave.

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                  2 months ago

                  You’ll forgive me for being a bit passionate when trying to justify the fact that I deserve to be alive when people are trying to buy and sell my rights during each election cycle, and I am tired of having this debate over and over again with bad-faith actors.

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                    Sorry but I’m gonna be really passionate now: USE YOUR FUCKING BRAIN FOR FUCK’S SAKE!

                    The simplest easiest way for you to “remain alive” as you claim to care for (frankly I bet it’s bullshit, but lets proceed under the assumption you have failed to analyse the subject from a strategical viewpoint rather than that you’re a disgusting tribalist liar) is for Kamala to change her position, not for millions of people to change theirs and this goes double next election because voting Kamala now “because Trump” isn’t going to solve the problem for the next election since it’s yet another “just this time” that doesn’t change people’s opinion of the Democrats nor does it challange their politics and hence doesn’t change the trend, but the Democrat leadership pivoting away from their trend of getting closer to Fascism (so far only abroad) has long term implications (that will save many lives, probably including yours if your claim is genuine, in the next decade or two) unless they pivot again.

                    So you should be fighting like crazy for the Democrat leadership to change their stand, and should have been doing it for 6 months already, unlike being an useful idiot like the ones who were defending Biden 6 months ago with exactly the same arguments as you use now, so he felt secure enough in power to send 2000lb bombs to Israel (which the US Military refuses to use because of their massive collateral damage) which Israel used on residential areas in Gaza and Lebanon killing thousands of civilians, so now these people (which might include you if you too were defending Biden like this back then) have the blood of hundreds of children on their hands.

                    No matter how you cut it the Moral standpoint of “I will not support the enablers of the mass murder of children” is always far above the one of “I don’t want to risk my own life” - even the most disgusting of sociopaths cares about their own life.

                    So stop preaching the supporting of the enblers of mass murder because “poor me” from the top of that bloody pile of children’s bones which at best you’ve naivelly confused with a moral high horse and at worst knowingly sat on top of whilst supporting your tribe like the worst kind of sociopath.

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                    2 months ago

                    I am tired of having this debate over and over

                    Don’t lie to us, you live for this shit.

                    If you were truly tired of it you would go touch grass instead of focusing on how to be the biggest contrarian in the thread.