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Lemmy sucks. You're whiney fucks. Enjoy the win. Both sides are not the same. This is an unfathomable event previously. Anyone remember Jeff Sessions first months in office? Stop bitching and show some fucking gratitude. Thousands of people are being pardoned. Is it perfect and everything we want? No. Does that take away from the achievement? No.
Purity tests all the way down and it's why populism never actually works. You can't be happy, even a little bit, about incremental progress if the "real problem" hasn't been dealt with. That problem will always be broad and impossible to truly achieve outside of theory. You end up with an ideology just centered around anger and despair.
People who do this shit maintain positions they know are practically unworkable because the thing they fear most is actually having to govern and make difficult choices in the real world and then answer for the consequences of those decisions. It's much easier to just loudly state a preference for fantasy.
"Lemmy sucks."
You are top comment. I always hated this "reddit sucks" attitude that everyone always adopted, especially when taking the most common and popular opinions on the platform.
Hahahahahaahhahahhaa I rarely go back to see votes and shit.. I've yet to ever have a highly voted comment here. Only bc your reply did I catch this. Phenomenal it's this comment
Like all the people bitching about the reddit hivemind just because they have an opinion that isn't literally dominant.
Hivemind was always the wrong word anyway. It's more of a mob mentality than anything organized and productive like a hive.
There are a lot of right wing Poe's law trolls here pretending to be leftists, and a handful of people who get caught up in their privileged contrarian virtue. It's shocking to me that this isn't extremely obvious to more people here.
I think there's also a lot of far left people here accusing left people to be right wing.
For sure. Actual leftists often criticize the Dems, because the Dems aren't leftist. They are mostly just centrists and they are in bed with Corporate America. That being said, I don't understand why some people have to criticize every little thing. I have been pretty critical of the Democratic party, myself, as a self identifying Socialist (begrudgingly still vote for them, because the other 1 option is way worse). These pardons are a good thing, though, and I don't see what the problem is for some people.
Some extreme leftists just turn into such contrarians that they end up sounding the same as right wing fear mongerers. It's like the political spectrum is a circle, with both of the left and right ends meeting up in a bubble of authoritarianism and hate.
Same ideals here
I think the problem is that there's a very real sense that the party will make the first step the only step if we let them.
100%. Look at all the cities that rolled back progress on changes made to their police departments from the BLM movement as soon as they could.
It will be if the left criticizes biden for not doing more while at the same time praising hamas as a resistance force
It will be if we stop applying pressure while at the same time mindlessly supporting genocide for its own sake.
A zillion percent. So much so I blocked a ton of keywords of political posts showing up for me here Then I ate a bunch of edibles and wrote an essay about my feelings on the matter.
I think there's a lot of centrists who scream that all criticism from their left comes from all the way to their right in order to dismiss it.
Well observed. Def feels like that is what's been ramping up lately
I'm sorry you're forced to be here.
It didn't suck when I chose to come here.
And it still doesn't. Not everyone has to fake an orgasm over every incrementalist baby step just because you want them to.
Your comment is what sucks: I'm asking "Why does everyone treat a base hit, the same as a game losing strikeout?" You're accusing me of saying "Why aren't you assholes celebrating this base hit like a grand slam?!" Please take a second to think about this without taking it personally. If the analogy is off let me know how so and I'll try again.
Ok. If you wanna do baseball analogies, let's. Democrats have a tendency to hit the showers without finishing the game as soon as they hit a single. No amount of rejoicing over the single is gonna get them to the world series.
Hahahaahahha well done. I'm tearing up laughing at how real that is. Once more, I don't disagree with you. Doesn't change the fact Lemmy has a shitty attitude and no joy. I have gratitude for this order by Biden. None of the dialogue on this post and this action, is about the legitimate positive impact of the change in policy stance.
Personally, I think people who generalize and complain about Lemmy or Reddit as if they're some sort of monoliths or "hiveminds" are the ones with the shitty attitude.
There is no joy in Mudville.
That was one of the first books I ever owned. Major lasting impression for some reason.
Are you old enough to remember Billy Crystal talking about baseball stats on a horse, in theaters?
I don't think you can blame people for being sick of the negativity. It's everywhere these days. You can't get away from it. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this smallish move on Biden's part would be greeted with indifference rather than outright boos, but no, nothing is ever good enough, this is the world we live in.
No. The political racketeers that caused this problem tacitly admitting that they've destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives for no reason at all is in no way or shape any kind of "win."
When they start paying reparations to all the people they've victimized through these self-serving laws throughout the decades, then we can start talking about "wins."