Kind of. There was the thread on hexbear, then the thread on Meanwhileongrad (where the comment for this thread originated), and now this thread, which IMO doesn't belong here at all. Disregarding my personal feelings about meanwhileongrad, the subject of this thread should stay there and doesn't have a place here if we are following the rules of each community honestly.
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To be clear, this is a comment on a Hexbear/Lemmygrad/Lemmy.ml bashing focused community, it's a drama community already. Regardless of your individual problems with Hexbear, the last time a thread like this showed up the Moderator locked it. It just looks to me like OP is trying to signal-boost drama that already has a better community for it, when the Moderator has said this community isn't for any such bashing purposes but instead taking an affirmative, positive approach to Lemmy.
It's Kabuki Theatre, lol. Biden serves the interests of the DNC's donors, not the public.
I have repeatedly advocated for Revolution, do you think I believe the problems with the US can be solved at the ballot box?
However, if Claudia De La Crúz did manage to get elected, she would do better, yes.
28 million? That's pennies, this is just virtue signalling. The US has the power and resources to entirely solve substance abuse, but won't.
Cool. Woefully insufficient, not terrible. This is drops in the bucket of required protections, akin to a band-aid on a gaping wound.
You gish-galloped. I wanted a concrete example and you sent a tidal wave of unverified claims, we can't use that for discussion.
Look dude, honestly since I've seen you around so much fighting for your side, there is nothing I can say that will sway you. There is also nothing you can say that will sway me. Let's just call it's quits here then, cause this is pointless
That's fine, you're not going to be able to convince me to take an anti-Marxist position.
The people have more power than you think. It was UNTHINKABLE for 70 years that a major party would even entertain someone who is sympathetic to socialism like Bernie Sanders. Yet they allowed him a national stage in the past two elections. That’s actual cultural and institutional change that is happening quite rapidly actually.
Bernie has been entirely cast aside by the DNC proper, though. The people love him for being a Social Democrat, not even a Socialist, and yet he has no power over policy.
Your expectations and aspirations need to be adjusted to the reality of what levels of change humans are capable of accepting over time.
As Capitalism decays, leftism rises in popularity.
You saw how the country (and the world) reacted to the election of the first (half) black president, right?
Yes.
The entirety of this surge of right wing neo-Nazi fervor we are seeing across the world over the past 16 years is a direct result of the deep-seated racism of the people who vote.
No, fascism is rising because Capitalism is decaying. It doesn't matter if the people who vote are racist, what matters is that Capitalism is declining.
The people who don’t vote (and those who vote for a losing but admirable third party) have had no say in the matter. You are respectfully abstaining, and allowing the fascists to dominate.
No, liberals are contributing to the rise in fascism by petpetuating Capitalism.
I contend that those third party voters and nonvoters could have stemmed the tide of fascism we are seeing today. Without you, we are weaker than the fascists. And the fascists will keep on winning.
Fascists win when liberals side with them over leftists. Read the first chapter of Blackshirts and Reds.
Again, excellent work was done in collecting this! Always great to see leftists doing a good job of protecting trans comrades and making everyone feel safe and comfortable.
I asked for a concrete example, you gish-galloped a huge list of unsourced and incomplete points. It's useless, there's nothing to discuss.
Now you're being rude for getting called out for gish-galloping, rather than actually answering the question at hand. I could have been rude too, but chose not to.
The original Zionists did make deals with the Nazi Party, the Nazis supported the formation of Israel because the Zionists were anti-yiddish and anti-communist, and because Israel would help serve as a bulwark against the Middle East. To Stop Marx, They Made Zion is a good article going over the antisemetic origins of Zionism, written by a Jewish person.
Theodore Herzl, one of the founding Zionists, once wrote "It would be an excellent idea to call in respectable, accredited anti-Semites as liquidators of [Jewish] property. To the people they would vouch for the fact that we do not want to bring about the impoverishment of the countries we leave. The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.”