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    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      22 天前

      Beautifully stated.

      Democrats would have needed to deliver on anything and I mean fucking anything popular to get 56% and keep it forever. It’s controlled opposition. They’re not trying to win. They’re not ideologically aligned with anything besides being the same machine that ratchets the atrocities and dampens popular movements.

      You have had this grievance about not liking Hilary Clinton in 2016 FOR A DECADE NOW! Where has it gotten you? A narrow margin after a Trump election (having to ult to keep Bernie out btw)? You had your chance to inspire anyone to see your POV but the PARLIAMENTARIAN got in the way? It was as nakedly ridiculous as any of Trump’s antics. That’s why there’s no change to healthcare, affordability for housing+kids, imperial war, public transport, genocide, FUCKING ANYTHING WE DON’T AGREE ON ANYTHING. AN ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRAT AGREES WITH TRUMP MORE THAN THEY AGREE WITH ME. SO WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY STOPPING?! FROM MY POV ITS NOT EVEN STOPPING TRUMP ITS KEEPING THE SEAT WARM FOR THE NEXT ONE BUT THE NEXT ONE HAPPENED IMMEDIATELY AFTER AND IT WAS TRUMP AGAIN. DONT WORRY M’LORD I RATCHETED IT JUST LIKE YOU ASKED

    • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      55·
      22 天前

      First time I ever voted the Dems got a supermajority, possibly the best thing they could get via voting, and proceeded to checks notes pass Romneycare and drop bombs on weddings.

      • radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        33·
        22 天前

        No, but a Dem had to go to the hospital, and the Democrats are the only party that has no means of enforcing party discipline. That is why liberals having a majority in all three branches of government can’t produce any results. If only we had 70 senators, so that finally the 60 real and good democrats can out-vote all the 10 Manchins and Libermans, then we can finally do real progressive reforms and reign in the War On Terror.

              • SchillMenaker [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                26·
                22 天前

                There you loony lefties go again making the perfect the enemy of the good. We need to band together to pass the funding increase for the Manchinite death squads and THEN we will worry about reigning in the mandatory organ harvesting laws NEXT ELECTION when we win the 94 seats we need to really change things.

              • radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                25·
                22 天前

                Oh, sorry, that is right. The Democrats would need all 100 seats, so that there will be 60 real democrats to outvote the 40 Manchins. Also, we would need the Parlimentarian, and the Puerto Rican, and the DC non-voting representatives, so that the three of them could scold the 41st Manchin into voting with the Democrats.

              • Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                23·
                22 天前

                No no you’re not getting it, we’re going to get one Republican to vote for it, by offering an extensive series of preemptive concessions in the legislation!

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    46·
    22 天前

    Shortly after my conversation with Kagame, I ran into an American military-intelligence officer, who was having a supper of Jack Daniel’s and Coca-Cola at a Kigali bar. “I hear you’re interested in genocide,” he said. “Do you know what genocide is?”

    I asked him to tell me.

    “A cheese sandwich,” he said. “Write it down. Genocide is a cheese sandwich.”

    I asked him how he figured that.

    “What does anyone care about a year-old cheese sandwich?” he said. “Genocide, genocide, genocide. Cheese sandwich, cheese sandwich, cheese sandwich. Who gives a shit? Crimes against humanity—where’s humanity? Who’s humanity? You? Me? Did you see a crime committed against you? Hey, just a million Rwandans. Did you ever hear about the Genocide Convention?”

    I said I had. It was passed by the United Nations in 1948, in the days after Nuremberg; it has been ratified by scores of countries; and it says that they will all undertake to prevent and punish genocide if it should ever happen again. “That convention,” the American at the bar said, “makes a nice wrapping for a cheese sandwich.”

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/12/18/after-the-genocide

  • DogThatWentGorp [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    45·
    22 天前

    My only response to this in the wild will only ever be “You’re right. I ruined it. And I’ll do it again if you don’t do what I want.”

    The American liberal fundamentally has no understanding of how power or negotiation works.

    • Poophammer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      22 天前

      Ill let burn this place into the ground if they dont do what I want lol, its going to happen anyway if we dont bite the bullet now. The fascist arent going away

  • radio_free_asgarthr [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    45·
    22 天前

    God, I really can’t understand how these guys can directly say “being anti-genocide is a woke-left litmus test” and then argue that they and their fellow liberals are not fascists, rather than just being the Strasserite (“left” as a relative term compared to the Hitlerite wing) Nazis.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      22 天前

      These are probably watchers of lib journalists and commentators who implicitly supported the genocide when they said “Our way of life is better”; the slaughter of the global South isn’t a crime to them, it’s just a little embarrassment.

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    38·
    22 天前

    I know it’s extremely beside the point, but isn’t it amazing how the blame is always solely on the left? Like, it takes two sides for there to be a disagreement, but the zionists sticking to their guns (literally) doesn’t seem to register as being a choice, only the anti-zionists doing so. idk dude, maybe you’re just a zionist.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    22 天前

    Hey I just thought of a new litmus test called “the shit you support abroad says a lot about the shit you’ll support at home” so go on supporting a genocide then, democrats

    • the rizzler@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      21 天前

      you don’t even need to go that far. there’s so many dems who say “ice’s mission is great, it’s just the decorum bro they need the decorum bro”