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[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 196 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Once you are under dictatorship, you can't vote to hold anyone accountable. Vote for Trump and you won't have a say in what happens to Gaza. Or anything else.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

If Harris wants my vote she should at least try the bare minimum to get it. Her campaign wouldn’t let Palestinians endorse her at the DNC. Her entire message to our community is; we make no promises at all but Trump is worse. That’s no comfort to those in my community who had relatives die in bombings by US-supplied weapons. “Trump didn’t kill my relatives. Biden did.”

Why is Harris so bad at this outreach? All she has to do is make some bland comments and it would win more people over, and she can’t even do that because she thinks being a hardliner against our community will win over a few Republican votes. Clinton tried that in 2016 and it failed.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 115 points 2 days ago (50 children)

yea, but you get to brag to all the other inmates in the political prison yard that you stood up for your principles by not voting!

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They'll be in the same political prisons as their primary enemies, the classic liberal Dems.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Am I allowed physical violence to the purported leftist idiots who land us there? I'll piss on their cracked skulls while reminding them we have the same values but I'm practical and trying to survive to fight for them.

[–] NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

You'd fight us but not Republicans because we destroy the notion that you're the good guys. You both want to preserve the status quo, with libs preferring marginally less grotesque methods of enforcement, and superficially opposing the fucked up methods Republicans prefer to employ. Good cop vs. bad cop routine, and you hate us because we're pointing out that the good cop wants us imprisoned too.

Let's be real, in actual prison, you'd be making aliances with the skinheads and guards 15 minutes in, then call on them to do your dirty work instead of doing any fighting yourself.

Same dynamic you're employing right now actually: "Fall in line or I'll sic the Republicans on you!" while fantasizing about the left getting sent to the camps for daring to oppose your brand of status quo preservation...just like Republicans, but less honest about your intentions.

Dipshits of both lib and fash varieties fail to recognize themselves as allies in defence of capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, yet somehow you always instinctively know who is more important to fight, the left.

The SPD voted for the concentration camps the KPD died in. Same dynamic will play out here.

You defended Biden for not closing the migrant camps, understanding that you would never spend a second inside one. We opposed them the entire time, not caring that they'd eventually be used for us.

Smart fascists understand how useful your brand of performative opposition is to legitimizing the system that keeps the treats flowing, so even if they throw did your ass in prison to appease their base (they won't), you'll be let go. You're too useful an idiot for keeping the real opposition (communists) from taking power.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 15 hours ago

Oh hey everybody, it’s the toughest guy on the internet! What’s it like being so damn tough?

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

LOL i can't wait to get in fistfights with them

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Fuck the fist fights, I'll be playing human shield with their corpses while I sneak out in the cadaver wagon.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Oh Lemmy. Don’t ever change ❤️

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

Exactly.

"In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote." - Trump

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