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Essentially, there have been two reactions over on grad today:
I'm foreign so I'm keeping out of the inevitable political arguments. Just be mindful of the rules and report those who break em
"I don't really believe in voting"
I know.
You believe in "left leaning" authoritarian military dictatorships that pay lip service to communism or whatever alternative political ideology you espouse, where the only left leaning thing about them is telling the people that their practical enslavement through disciplinary labor measures is necessary and good for them all.
The women, immigrants, trans and minorities of the US thanks you Hexbear! You've shown those damn liberals how to make the world a better place! Jeffrey Epstein's closest friend will be saving Palestine any day now, just watch him.
Don't give a single fucking shit about anything but performative ideology.
I have very little time for the sort of oik that treats reality like something they view from an emperor's box.
They prop up whatever the Russian troll factories prop up. You can tell by what's unsaid, how much less of a problem they have with Trump.
Don't blame at all trumps voters, nooo, you need guilty somewhere else 🙄🙄.
Don't put a vote system, if you can't choose your favorite candidate 🙄🙄...
The primary contradiction (settler colonialism)
Isn't PSL the only who stared in the hit classic movie Elf?
"There wasn't a no genocide option, so I decided the more genocide option was fine."
The lives of minorities aren't worth a handful of minutes to tankie fucks.
"I'm white and don't care, so what's the difference between one genocide and three?"
Millions of lives.
But drag, how can we pretend to be superior to other leftists, if we aren't enabling greater amounts of genocide? /s
This was my ex. A single issue voter about a war another country is waging. Fuck Israel but got damn letting Ukraine die because of your fuckin morals is ridiculous.
Lefties suck, they don't have their way and don't vote. This is why no progress happens.
They're simply not very smart, and they're impatient like children.
Pretending that Shitface winning the election is good for Palestine is also just mind boggingly moronic. Zero sympathies, they brought this onto themselves.
I wouldn't call people like that a leftist. Left is progress, Right is conservatism. Their choices led to less progress so they're not lefties.
The tide is sure as fuck going to be shifted. They got that part right.
If you want a preview about how any of these dummies that are actually in the US are going to behave, look for the reaction of the civilian Germans after World War 2. For the most part, it was, "This is awful and unfair, I can't believe they would be so mean to us, when we didn't even do anything."
I struggle to understand how they're so delusional about their number of potential fighters.
Except not like germany because American Exceptionalism
Look, I also thought the whole "don't vote" schtick was kinda annoying, but personally, I place most of the blame on:
a) those who actually pursued this outcome (fascists)
and
b) the DNC for their limp-dicked campaign strategy of being the Republicans-but-less-so while appealing to institutionalist values within an extremely populist cultural zeitgeist