• wpb@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Translated: if a democrat were president, we wouldn’t care about the genocide, suppression of speech on university campuses, racist police brutality, and deportations, and we’d be having brunch while those things are happening, just like we did during the Biden regime

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      It’s a country well trained to think that centrists are leftists. All they gotta do is be better than the comically evil one and all their problems are solved!

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      How is this administration better? Fucking purity tests i swear, are the reason we are being drawn more and more into fascism. You can be against genocide and vote for the lesser of two evils. Its not black and white like you want to make it put to be. A lot of people were very angry (myself included) with the Biden administration’s response to the Gaza protests, and dissent crackdown.

      • Mythra@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        19 days ago

        THEY DID SOMETHING. FUCKING ANYTHING.

        Trump’s a shitstain of a human, but so is every other of your politicians. Everybody knows they’re liars, yet you pick favorites and sides. There was absolutely no chance Biden/Harris would back down, and, with the democrats in charge, you’d go back to living as though politics is a game for you and not recognize for others it’s life and death.

        GOD FUCKING DAMNIT! American liberals are the stupidest, most inbred Neanderthals I’ve ever had the displeasure of knowing. You are more harmful to resistance than any individual Republican, and I’m well aware that after voting you’d just sit back and not care about children being burnt alive.

        Fuck your “elections”. A 2 party system was never a democracy. You’ve never been free. EVERYBODY else knows that the West, and most of all America, are fucking lying about freedom and democracy every time they open their shit eating mouths.

        When are you going to fucking catch up?

        • underwire212@lemm.ee
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          19 days ago

          I understand the anger. I really do. But you need to relax. Because anger and hatred isn’t going to get us anywhere.

          We need to try and understand each other better. We need solidarity, and that will only come from attempting to, in good faith, understand each other and where we come from.

          We all have much more in common than you’d think, but speaking like this is just going to close the conversation off instead of opening it up.

        • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          19 days ago

          You expect people to automatically have the correct opinions like we’re all born ultra-leftist and act as though any belief that deviates indicates a flaw in their cognitive ability or a personality defect. You think a single mother working three jobs just needs to be scolded about praxis by some college-aged brat who just discovered Kropotkin last week? Do you think the black family whose about to lose their apartment from gentrification deserves it because they didn’t have a Marxist reading group every Friday?

          It’s a shitty attitude to have and speaks volumes about your feelings of superiority. Try being more charitable instead of getting salty about people being imperfect.

          • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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            I mean, you don’t need to read theory to hold the opinion that killing innocent people is wrong. What you’re describing isn’t a lack of praxis, but of morals. The rest of your comment is just nonsense. Nobody is losing their apartment. People are dying though, and you’re not doing anything about it.

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        19 days ago

        Its the same as saying that a person who puts a house on fire is as guilt as someone who did not put it off. Top burguerlander mental performance

  • Dammam No. 7@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Liberals are racists. The signs have been there all along, but it took me until very recently to notice it. Until November 2023 for me.

    Edit: the sidebar made me feel safe to share my thoughts and opinions. I didn’t expect the Liberal Inquisition. I had liberals explain to me why the genocide in Gaza was necessary and if those were a fringe then there is also a video of Bill Clinton saying the same.

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      Saying ‘liberals are racists’ because of a few examples is like saying ‘teachers are abusive’ because a couple of bad ones made headlines. It’s not just a stretch. It’s a serious mischaracterization of the vast majority.

      The overwhelming majority of liberals actively oppose racism and work toward inclusion, even if their approaches or language might differ. Just like with any group, there are going to be outliers, contradictions, and some people who get it wrong. But that’s not the same as the group being racist.

      We should absolutely call out racism wherever it exists, but we should also be honest enough not to assign guilt to an entire, diverse set of people based on a biased sample or a personal turning point. That’s not truth-seeking. That’s scapegoating."

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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        Are all liberals racists? Consciously, I would say no. But liberals do have a ton of implicit biases and policies that are straight up racist. Whether it’s writing laws that disproportionately affect black people and calling them super predators (the Clintons), or deciding which countries get aid based seemingly upon skin color, liberals have a long history of policy that is very often racist, sometimes overtly so.

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    18 days ago

    is this a joke? is someone trying to ironic-sign the ironic-sign march? why do we live in this timeline

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    19 days ago

    MAGA will just say enjoy your avocado toast and mimosas. Lib trash! I’m going to church!