• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Well, how about we just try it first

    Nobody in the United States has ever tried to vote against a fascist dictator?

    instant armed combat

    Who do you think is actually organized an armed uprising against Trump? How do you think they’re doing it “instantly”?

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      Untrue I tried three times to vote against a fascist dictator but over half of my fellow Americans are morons who overrode my vote two out of the three times. But the key here is that voting worked one of those times and no matter how much kicking and screaming and bitching and moaning may have happened his butt was kicked off the WH lawn on Inauguration Day so clearly it does work.

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        You mean Biden who believes we would have to create Israel if it didn’t exist, who continued the war drive, who delivered weapons and training to genocidaires, who put infants in solitary confinement at the border, who was instrumental in ensuring that the prisons were full of black people who could be used as slave labor, who pardoned the judge who took bribes in exchange for sentencing 8 year old to juvenile detention for jaywalking, who failed to do anything meaningful to stop Trump, who failed to do anything meaningful to limit the power of the executive so it couldn’t be abused, who failed to do anything to stop fascism at all?

        Those 4 years where voting a different guy in didn’t do literally anything to stop fascism in the least?

        Sure. Do it again. I am sure continuing to not stop fascism is exactly how we stop fascism

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        3 hours ago

        And then we got another genocidal imperialist, worker protections continued to erode, and imperialism persisted.

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        3 hours ago

        I think the leftist point being made isn’t that any particular election has no effect. Of course elections have effects. At the very least they provide legitimacy. I think the point is that even though it worked to unseat Trump in 2020, the election did not halt the long term processes leading us towards fascism. It slowed them down a bit but didn’t reverse trend. Reason being that the owner class kept expanding their wealth and therefore control over the entire system. I think leftist memes about elections are often poorly communicated or understood, which isn’t ideal, but then it’s …memes.