• heggs_bayer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      10 hours ago

      A more accurate picture would have all of the people on the republican track on the democrat track too, just covered with a tarp to conceal their real aims.

      Also, tha US flag shouldn’t be on either track since neither of the two right wings of the capitalist party would dare throw away the empire that furthers their and their masters’ (the capitalist class) interests.

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      You can fight the trolley itself instead of justifying supporting genocide.

      PS this is the real world not a meme. Political power is not a trolley problem, it is a matter of organization and education. You disempower yourself and others by pretending you can only backseat cheerlead a genocide. Instead of supporting this, go and join an organization that is actually opposing it and start doing work.

      In the US, every student is eventually presented with lessons on the Holocaust and asked to think about what they would do. Right now, to be honest, your answer would have to be, “support it using poorly thought out propaganda”.

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        Absolutely. But you should also flip that switch real quick before getting to work fighting it. Just in case.

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          No, you shouldn’t, because this is the real world and not a trolley problem. Providing electoral support to genociders helps to entrench them and these discussions have the wrong framing when it comes to how political power works. I already mentioned this. Did you read my comment?

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            Yes you absolutely should. If you can effortlessly vote for the lesser evil in a way that doesn’t take anything away from the other fight, just do it real quick. Any argument to the contrary is accelerationism.

            If you are an accelerationist, then get bent, you’re wrong.

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              you: “Yes you absolutely should tacitly support genocide. If you don’t tacitly support genocide then you’re an accelerationist.”

              There are other candidates you can vote for that are vastly lesser evils than both the fascist democrats and fascist republicans; candidates who are not actively funding and perpetrating genocide but actually, get this, opposing it. If instead of voting for one of those, you still choose to support a party committing genocide, you aren’t just an accelerationist and wrong, you’re fucking despicable, evil.

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              Backseat cheerleading genociders, and telling other people to do so, is not helping. It makes you complicit and spreads a false and anemic idea of how political power works. You should be fighting them, not doing mental gymnastics for how you can still justify supporting genociders.

              There is nothing strategic in what you are describing, it is actually self-defeating and this is why you are told this logic from on high.

              As I originally said, join an org and fo actual work against genociders. Be part of the solution, not part of the genocide-excusing problem.

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        Very long way of saying you’re looking forward to trump being in power again and forever taking away your right to vote.

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          Very short way of saying you will never lift a finger other than to vote even if Trump takes away your right to vote.

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          My comment already contradicts your response, even with its inventions. Please try to address what I say rather than making things up.

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            You said to Organize and admit a genocide is occurring, while not letting yourself be convinced that voting is the only course of action.

            I’m saying that’s awesome but what do we do when trump gets elected because no one wants to vote now?

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              You said to Organize and admit a genocide is occurring, while not letting yourself be convinced that voting is the only course of action.

              Of course voting is not the only course of action. Voting is incredibly little. What, you check a box? Maybe wait a few hours at most to get into a pilling station? Dear God.

              This is an incredibly limited amount of political action, particularly given the way in which box checking translates into any political action (electoral college, media monopolies, biased education, wage slavery limiting political education, campaigns built on donations from capital).

              I’m saying that’s awesome but what do we do when trump gets elected because no one wants to vote now?

              You actually do political work. You become educated and join an organization that does more than act as a sheepdog that turns alienatuon into genocide votes.

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                And in the end Trump wins the vote and you lose your oppurtunity to do any real politcal work! Congrats.

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                  Trump was already president once and my political work was actually easier because liberals were outraged and could not understand the complicoty of their representatives. Their representatives merely reflect the cynical apathy of their position that is shielded when they are in power.

                  If Trump were an existential threat would you just be sitting around posting bad logic? You know he is just an incremental partial detriment in some ways and some vague miasma in other ways. Biden is, for example, a much more coherent genocidal Zionist, as is Harris.

                  Rather than quibble about how to appease one’s inner Eichmann, why not fight against it?

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                    Biden is, for example, a much more coherent genocidal Zionist, as is Harris.

                    Besides the token joke that Biden isn’t a “more coherent” anything, I think Trump would be equal in this respect (not worse, but equal). He doesn’t have the same developed reasons as Biden, but America’s zionist project has deliberately allowed for zionist organizations like AIPAC to buy out politicians and send lobbyists to him, and Trump will definitely follow the directions of the overwhelming majority of his allies if they are given to him consistently. He didn’t understand imperialism well enough to understand why military spending on South Korea made sense, but they simply don’t have much sway to anyone in America except a tiny minority. Israel – because of conditions the American imperial machine created and maintains for the purpose – does have that sway

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                    Trump was already president once and my political work was actually easier because liberals were outraged and could not understand the complicoty of their representatives.

                    Hope you can look trans and queer people in the eye and tell them their genocide will be worth it in the end because you’ll stop all genocides. You know, after they’re dead and gone.

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      Just openly admitting you support genocide. Disgusting. And don’t even pretend you care about anyone represented in the bottom half of the image; if Democrats said murdering trans folks was necessary to beat Trump, you’d support that too.

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        If Democrats said murdering trans folks was necessary to beat Trump that means the overton window is too far gone and I’d be looking to ship as many trans folks out of the country as I could manage with my means. If and when it reaches that point, US democracy would be too far gone to even consider saving it. I don’t believe it is right now, as flawed as it is currently. Which is why engaging in harm reduction is still worth it.

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          Maybe if any of you harm reducing fools grew a backbone and had some principles on who you’ll vote for we wouldn’t have to think about when that will happen in the US. Watching the Dems slide further and further right while saying they’re better than Republicans is not helping anyone, especially future Americans

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      Let’s pretend for a second that voting blue would stop the slaughter at “just” the Palestinians (it doesn’t).

      If you think you’re knowingly sacrificing an entire people to annihilation just so save your own skin, and you can not only live with that but argue in favor of it instead of redacting your entire government, you’re a fucking nazi. Peddle your them-or-us genocide support somewhere else you blue maga piece of shit.

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        Oh, please tell me which third party candidate not only has a real shot at this election but is also not just a far-right grifter in disguise.

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          Pretty much all but the libertarian party. Turns out if enough people vote for a candidate they get elected. Weird huh?