• @Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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      I just perused the Wikipedia page, doesn’t seem like a boogeyman to me. Considering it’s backed by the Heritage Foundation. It seems horrifying to be honest.

      • alternative_factor
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        Don’t worry. I’m sure they don’t really mean to install Trump as the president for life, make LGBTQ+ illegal, instill Christianty as the state religion, deploy the military for law enforcement, etc, etc. Hitler didn’t REALLY mean he was gonna kill millions of people!

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            Let me guess- if you are American you stopped hanging out with your right-wing neighbors/family? Because for some insane reason, I didn’t. This is 100% what they actually believe. They really think that anything left of Trump is part of the deep state conspiracy, homeschool their kids, think that bringing back “god” in school/state will fix everything, that Trump will save the country, etc, etc. Some of them already know about project 2025 and have greeted it with thunderous applause, the rest of the right will too.
            If you are not American, fuck off. You have no idea how bad the right-wingers really have become

            • HACKthePRISONS
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              -393 months ago

              you don’t know anything about me

              this whole comment is attacking me personally rather than refuting anything I said

              • NaibofTabr
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                263 months ago

                You haven’t made any statements worth refuting, you’ve only given your unsubstantiated personal opinion.

              • @Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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                You didn’t say anything of actual value comrade. Explain to me why you think something backed by the heritage foundation, which is a big money organization and not something to be taken lightly, holds no weight? I’m not American, but seeing this makes me worried for Americans. It seems like Republican takeover of a huge amount of power in the states.

                The democrats are atrocious for leftist movements. This is not debatable. But this is death of the leftist movement in America shit as far as I can tell. It seems like a huge leap towards Christo-fascism if attainable. I don’t see it as something that should just be ignored on any level. Why do you feel that it is? Maybe you know something I don’t.

                • HACKthePRISONS
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                  I don’t think I have some special knowledge. the heritage foundation are impotent, and p2025 is like a child’s letter to Santa. they will get some of it, but they’d be getting that whether they wrote the paper or no.

                  • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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                    Saying The Heritage Foundation is impotent might be the most ignorant thing I’ve ever seen. The Heritage Foundation is basically running the judicial system in our country. Their strategy completely worked they control the Supreme Court and they control a lot of the federal courts in this Nation. They are an existential threat to democracy. Project 2025 is a road map. Anyone who can’t see that at this point is probably rooting for that road map.

      • @Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
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        223 months ago

        Its not, but plenty of Lemmy accounts are running around with a vested interest of convincing one and all that Biden and Dump are the exact same candidate and not voting is the answer. Its why theyll spam anything and everything about the Gaza genocide to the front page while not so sneakily inserting comments like this or, “gEnOciDe JoE” in the middle of it all.

        • @Krono
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          Or maybe people have a legitimate moral concern when their country is aiding and abetting an ongoing genocide?

          • Doc Avid Mornington
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            183 months ago

            Two things can be happening. People with a legitimate moral concern, such as myself, don’t actively act against that concern by helping elect a candidate who would make that concern even worse. There are ways to express our anger and sorrow about Biden’s handling of this without supporting Trump.

            • @Krono
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              Biden is going to lose if he continues his genocidal policy in Gaza.

              People like me put pressure on the Biden admin to change course. By engaging in good faith criticism, I am trying to get Biden elected.

              People who refuse to criticize Biden enable him to continue on this losing path. Enabling the worst of the Biden administration’s policies is helping to elect Trump.

              • Doc Avid Mornington
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                103 months ago

                Yes, I completely agree, so far as I can without looking up your post and comment history to confirm that you do what you are saying here you do, but taking your word for that. Good faith criticism isn’t what Pan_Ziemniak seemed to be describing.

                • @Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
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                  13 months ago

                  I left a reply to the other reply under ur comment, if ur curious to hear me elaborate on the patterns im describing. As u stated, it is not good faith criticism that im railing against. Theres not a person i know who doesnt criticize Biden, but thats not what im afraid of here.

                • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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                  -13 months ago

                  Good faith criticism isn’t what Pan_Ziemniak seemed to be describing.

                  That’s because what he was describing is a strawman.

                  • @Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
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                    Its bc what i was describing won me tons of bans on reddit post API changes, and then was the first thing I noticed here on lemmy on literally day 1 of making an account. The pushback at the moment is real, but take note how you hardly hear the world news subs talk about Ukraine being genocided, but you only hear about Gaza, even though the casualty count in Ukraine is much higher. The Gaza posting is relentless, too. Almost like its a distraction from the place that russia has described as a steppingstone multiple times now.

                    Ive been furious at israel for over half my life. Even before they started gunning the strip down, they were an apartheid state cramming as many political prisoners as they could into their jail cells. Somehow tho, that went from being a fringe opinion to all u hear about overnight. Accounts link the ones i listed in another cpmment spam post anything and everything they cant to keep the eyes of the public where they need to be. Its no coincidence that this aligns perfectly with russian goals.

                    Meanwhile, weve got Status Quo Joe following up on 70 years of precedent and selling arms to whats been a key middle eastern ally of the States, and everyone acts all shocked pikachu that we dont get to just shit on our worldwide softpowers and convince our remaining allies who are very wary of our continued political instability that we may just abandon them too, if only the tides swing the other way. The genocide in Gaza will not be stopped, but for the first time in my life the man in the oval office is actually dishing out criticism of israel and stood behind Schumer when he aaid israel could use new untimely elections over this.

                    In the other corner, youve a man who doesnt want any more free elections in the country, rubs shoulders with dictators of countries that want nothing more than for the US to be utterly ruined, and actively campaigns on allowing not just the ongoing genocides to continue, but also genociding our own, native vulnerable groups.

                    In 2016 id bring up the russian trolls/shills to some who claimed “nonsense, not here on reddit,” or the comments sections of whatever news it was they followed. And yet, we still learned after the fact that almost every account in the country had directly interacted with russian bots at some point or another. Id like to be clear, russias MO of deculturalizing and destabilizing countries has been pretty consistent for centuries now. I recommend watching that 1980s interview with the KGB defector that floated around reddit some years back. It outlines that bit pretty well.

                    What i rant about is hardly a strawman. Its pushing back against narratives that seek our end.

            • @Krono
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              Orange man is so bad that you’ll actively support a genocide, very enlightened, great job.

              • @nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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                Thanks! “orange man bad /s” really takes me back to the days I was scrolling r/con for laughs

                Congrats on making it to Lemmy

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                Orange man is going to crank it up to 11. Dems range from feckless to complicit, none of us disagree. The GOP would just straight-up take over for Israel if they can get away with it (they probably will) and they’ll sanction murder of people within our own borders.

                Blue man is so not good enough for you that you’ll actively support escalating a genocide. Very enlightened, great job.

                • @Krono
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                  We can’t afford to wait until November.

                  Can’t escalate a genocide if they’re already dead.

              • @Nudding@lemmy.world
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                The neoliberals here will have no problem adapting to life under fascism. It’s a tale as old as time.

          • @Albatross2724@lemmy.world
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            33 months ago

            It’s hard to get Americans to care about the death and destruction that occurs at the behest of the American Empire. People like the commenter above see the people of Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and so on as subhuman cannon fodder. Why should they care about the genocide of those they don’t even see as human. In their eyes, all brown Muslim people and the spectrum of humanity that resides in these countries ravished by our foreign policy, are just simply terrorists. And when younger generations watch these horrors unfold in real time on social media, and advocate for human rights, the knee-jerk reaction of Congress is to ban a social media platform rather than to have any meaningful impact on the situation, as their MIC/corporate/AIPAC donors have dictated.

          • @Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
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            Ahh, gotcha. Guess we really gotta push for Status Quo Joe harder then unless we want “stepping stone for the de-nazification of Europe” Ukraine to be genocided even harder than they currently are. Or, lemme guess, the russian talking point i see the shills parroting is, “ackshwallee, Ukraine has some guns/ammo so that mustn’t be a genocide,” right?

        • HACKthePRISONS
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          -163 months ago

          >Lemmy accounts are running around with a vested interest of convincing one and all that Biden and Dump are the exact same candidate

          if this were true you could show one.

      • HACKthePRISONS
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        -123 months ago

        they couldn’t keep bush 1 in office, no one takes their economic freedom index seriously, they didn’t stop Obamacare… they’re a joke.

        • @root_beer@midwest.social
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          13 months ago

          You say that as if Obamacare was what we actually wanted. They wrote what became Obamacare decades before the tea party threw their tantrums over it, their opposition to it was political theater and the chance to water it down even further