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Okay, but the other side isn’t fascism? They are hardly democracy, but they aren’t totalitarians?!
Oh sweet summer child… All Usian politicians are totalitarian fascists. The US is a fascist country, the USian culture is a fascist culture.
In reality, one of these sides is significantly closer to the edge of the pool, and much less slippery.
It’s so funny how even in analogies you’re reduced to splitting hair and grasping at straws desperately trying to find any meaningful difference between the Dems and Reps that isn’t easily debunk-able because as the Dems go increasingly mask-off you have less and less to work with to make your “vote blue no matter who” spiel.
Like, you do realize how utterly negligible a difference what you just said “adds” to the metaphor right?
Life is full of choosing the lesser of two evils.
“LiFe iS fUll Of chOOsIng tHe lEsSer oF twO eVilS.”
Do you have any actual arguments or just instant noodle armchair truisms?
“Lesser evils” are only worth choosing if the difference between the 2 evils is big enough to have an impact. In this case it isn’t, both parties are genocidal gangs with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The only difference between the 2 is what they say when they know the public can hear them (and even then their rhetoric is getting more and more similar) and what the corporate owned media says about them, but in practice, when it comes to quality of life, repression, violence, wages, legislation, etc… aka metrics that actually matters, there is virtually no difference between the 2.
Ah well, if there’s no difference you can vote for the side building concentration camps in the US then I guess. I mean, the DHS is literally unfunded at the moment because democratic lawmakers are demanding ICE reform.
Or, if you start your own party let me know, I’ll vote for ya. 😉
Democrats were literally building concentration camps and funding ICE when they were in power too.
Yes they were, but it wasn’t as bad, which is sort of the whole point.
Would you rather have hand-wringing neoliberals with some accountability, or hardcore right wing authoritarian nazi republicans with no accountability?
One leads to a new holocaust in the US, the other leads back to the status quo. Take your pick.
One leads to a new holocaust in the US
From outside your shithole, that sounds perfect.
Your ‘other side’ is OK with holocausts too, as long as they’re somewhere else.
Suffer and eat shit, you all deserve it.
Zero sympathy for you sanctimonious scumYes they were, but it wasn’t as bad
Self-parody achieved
Multiple things can be true at once.
- The election process in the US is horribly constructed in the first place
- It’s executed even more poorly
- Nevertheless, voting does determine who sits in the seat
- It does matter who sits in the seat
- The person who sits in the seat will represent the wealthy and powerful, not you
- It does matter who represents the powerful, because they can be pushed (by the people, and by the powerful) in different ways
- Even if we get the right person in the seat, and do a very good job of pushing them, it won’t be enough
- We need to do it anyway, because that act of organizing isn’t only to influence politicians — it’s also to influence ourselves, and improve our ability to find a path to real victory
Don’t think that voting alone is sufficient. Don’t think that voting and organizing are sufficient. But also don’t think that voting and organizing are not necessary.
