this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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  1. Mod of [email protected] posts a great Greta Thunberg quote, but then tries to use it to justify not voting in the upcoming US election
  2. Multiple people point out that’s very clearly not what she meant
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Using your mod powers to decide who is allowed and not allowed to speak is not very anarchist of you, @[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's not a few memes. It's an aggregate that you are contributing to. You are aware that there are state actors that are attempting to influence the US election, and your post is in line with the messaging from those campaigns.

And then you are demanding no assenting opinions.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Not just demanding, but removing forcefully, while mischaracterizing what those dissenting opinions are.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the most winnable election of the entire history of elections. Liberal versus fascist, very clear choice. But no, she and Biden made a conscious decision to defend and support a genocide. Why are you blaming me, a person with very little agency in the US elections, for ruining the Dem's chances of winning, when it is Harris and Biden themselves are sabotaging their campaign? You're barking up the wrong tree mate. You could get mad at Harris, you could get mad at Trumpists and Republicans, but nooooooooooo. It's the scary yet ineffectual anarchist everyone must speak against.

And they are free to speak their minds all over Lemmy. Pray tell why they are entitled to anarchist spaces for their anti-anarchism? Note that their crass and disgusting ideological cover for genocide wasn't even removed from c/not_voting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

Notice that there has been a historical level of USA investment in isreal. This year, when isreal decided to paint a target on themselves, it gave the USA a choice of tripling down or lose a significant level of force projection in the middle east. Losing that would ALSO sabotage the democrats campaign. The USA as a cultural whole is responsible for genocides in all the regions it has dumped money into. Maintaining the institution of the US is integral to the security and wellbeing of many people that live outside the USA.

it is NOT anti-anarchism to point out that geopolitics is a series of hostage situations, which several people are trying to convey to you.

YOU ARE in a position of power, and i'm mad at YOU because you are using that power in an irresponsible way. YOU have put moral responsibility on the hostages.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

tripling down or lose a significant level of force projection in the middle east

Oh so you're an imperialist apologist. Opinion discarded.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

NOPE

I'm willing to understand the operating paradigm of other people. This is the modus operandi of the US. They have motivations that they SHOULD dissuade themselves from being influenced by, but that doesn't make a difference in how the world currently is, or what currently motivates them.

You can conflate in your head what is and what should be, but that just frustrates real attempts to making the world closer to what it should be.

This reductionism on your part is disrespectful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Opinion discarded.

While I agree that the sentence is imperialist apologia, I disagree with this approach. There's something to be learned from everything, especially when there's much mroe than what you're focusing on.