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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

it might be worth reflecting why a lot of the electorate no longer sees the Democratic party as the anti-war party

The only reflection I am able to accomplish is to look at the GOP and say "Worse, tho".

If you aren't voting for the lesser evil, I have to assume you hate America and want it to fail. And that's worse than genocide.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

The only reflection I am able to accomplish is to look at the GOP and say "Worse, tho".

OK, but so far, that hasn't been a very effective electoral strategy. I think we should try something else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

First off, that's a ridiculous assumption. Not everyone subscribes to your ideology of lesser evilism, and the vast majority of people who correctly reject that ideology are not accelerationists.

But secondly, just curious, if I was a German citizen who hated Nazi Germany and wanted it to fail, would that make me worse than the Nazis? The Nazis were just doing genocide, after all, but I committed what is apparently a far worse sin in your eyes, of insufficient patriotism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Not everyone subscribes to your ideology of lesser evilism

If they don't subscribe to my ideology, they must be a greater evil.

if I was a German citizen who hated Nazi Germany and wanted it to fail, would that make me worse than the Nazis?

It would make you a Communist Fifth Columnist Jew-Loving Traitor and earn you a ticket straight to the camps.

The Nazis would absolutely say you were worse than them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

The Nazis would say it, sure. Would you agree with them? Because it sort of sounds like you'd agree with them.