Eldritch

Yep, it was never about just accepting what Democrats tepidly offered. Primary them every election, drive out the establishment. But keep the open fascists in the Republican party out of power at the same time. Democrats aren’t good. Republicans are far worse.

If that’s what you need to tell yourself. That isn’t what was said. If you already have them imprisoned and at your will. Treating them with the basic humanity you might have felt denied is the ultimate power move and demonstration that you are better/benevolent. Rather than a new oligarch same as the old oligarch. It’s got nothing to do with politeness. But wielding power with humanity and justice. Something impossible for a state to do really.

But good luck cheering on those for whom brutalization and oppression is a primary tool in their arsenal. So long as they’re hurting the right people. Just like the magats here. Praying they don’t become the right people despite always being the right people.

You should be. Showing that you can be as bad or worse than oligarchs. Doesn’t defeat the oligarchs. It just creates new oligarchs. Ones who will just as happily give you the exact same treatment for the crime of disagreeing with them.

So is construction and community building. Better even.

Ain’t it the truth. This is abominable treatment regardless of who’s doing it. You can tell a lot about a society by how it treats those “outside”. And those who hypocritically defend their abuse. Abuse isn’t justice, and will not be a deterrent. But eventually another rallying cry.

Prison should only be for those beyond rehabilitation. Even then it should not be such conditions. Any person or society that tolerates it is not benevolent or “good”.

No. But regulations and laws are meaningless with a complicit Congress.

The GOP attacked education and created echo chambers for the last half century for a reason. Sure they were self aware enough to know the GOP was screwing them. But they had been told their entire life that the DNC was far worse. Not saying the DNC is good. just the effectiveness of propaganda and echo chambers.

No, both are unacceptable. You are unacceptable.

An attempt at Ml logic. Literal fallacies such as attacking the messenger to justify worse hypocrisy. The west does bad things, therefore China gets to do similar or worse bad things.

Keep in mind for the last several years. This person pretended to be concerned with what was happening to Palestinians. Screeching at anyone that didn’t agree 100% with them. with transactional allies like them, who needs more enemies.

You don’t do reading comprehension well do you? None of that disproves what I claimed. This is always been a problem with dishonest tankies like you. You argue strawman and not what people actually say.

None of that disproves that there are likely counties and precincts which could have been won/swayed by third-party votes that could have made the difference. As I stated unfortunately there is no data that exists to show definitively one way or the other on that. But considering the margin of victory was just two or three percentage points. Third party voters could have easily made a difference in many places.

Please write back when you’re ready to have a grown up conversation.

I was having a grown-up conversation. You are the petulant little tanky that started off with name calling. 🤷‍♀️

Idk if you have some Lemmy instances blocked or what, but I get plenty of replies.

Hey genius, it was literally a reply to you stating that “they never reply”. So which is it? Do they reply or don’t they reply? Can you be consistent? Can you not lie? This is where we’re at now. 😅 strawmen and inconsistencies. I’m not surprised coming from a dishonest tanky. Though we always hope you all learn better someday. You’re worse than the Liberals you seem to hate so much. Don’t get me wrong it is hilarious to try to watch you all act like you’re mature between all the name calling and immaturity.

Hmmm interesting. I don’t think I’d ever heard that before. I will have to look into it

γαμημένος κλόουν?

Or in case you meant latin. Because I’m not sure what the point/significance of trying to translate it to Greek would be.

scurra malus

Finally. Something we can all agree on.

I’m not sure which of the two previous comments was the worst generalization or shit take I’ve seen in a while. It’s pretty ridiculous all these people that reflexively get bent out of shape around anything regarding llms or generative models. Especially considering anarchists explicitly don’t support the wealthy bourgeoisie using it to displace workers and regular people. They are just tools and can be used for good or bad.

But implying that .world is a haven for liberal zionists. Is an equally bad take. Easily disproven by just spending a few minutes there. I think anyone making this sort of accusation is probably more likely to be the problem they accuse others of.

Either way. Both are problematic and emblematic of talking past each other and not to each other. Which isn’t damning, all of us have the capability to do it. Just discouraging how frequently we all do it.

Wow with all the copious amounts of evidence that’s out there already indicating this. He must really be sundowning hard to have needed to be told again.

I have as much proof as you do that they didn’t. Go on. Post your proof. I guarantee you there are counties and regions that were close. Where a third party voter could have made a difference. But if you have the evidence to show me that no county no Village no town was that close with regard to third-party voters. Please post it.

There were many factors contributing to the Democrats loss. Many of them their own fault. But plenty of them were people who couldn’t be bothered to show any solidarity or extend any Mutual Aid to actually fight off a fascist. Which really sucks believe me. I would much rather see all natural offices dissolved and national elections ceased. Hell I’d like to see that the most State offices as well. None of them represent me.

Have you given any thought to the fact that the reason no one replies to you. Is because they’ve got better things to do than deal with a name calling petulant tanky pretending to be an anarchist engaging in bad faith?

Third party votes in a presidential election are effectively virtue signaling. And nothing more. One of the many things that it signals is that you didn’t really care who wins. Whether they are Fascist or not. Or that you were hyperbolic / disingenuous in calling them both fascist. Which don’t get me wrong Democratic Leadership really seems far too comfortable with the fascists. But they certainly aren’t the same.

It is still your god-given right as a voter to use your vote in that way. Though people are right to point out that you didn’t show any sort of solidarity against the fascists. The Republicans margin of victory was so thin. This was literally the hypothetical everyone talked to you all about without end. Where you could have made the difference. But chose not to.

You’re not wrong that Sanders had some of the most toxic supporters. And still seemingly does. But there’s a lot of reasons for that. Part of it was that many of them just like the concept of him and were not supporters of him for any particular political stances. He was the candidate that the GOP focused on promoting the most, to divide and conquer left-leaning voters turning them against each other. Something Sanders himself didn’t want. But which worked in spades.

Sanders the person I think is genuine and a great candidate. I would easily vote for him AOC or Warren on any given day.

I was still referring to the last decade so yes. 2015 till now. That particular patch of time. People were telling her as the most principled and moral candidate rivaling even Bernie Sanders.

All the people that tried to convince me over the last decade that she was somehow an intelligent principled candidate. Where are they now LOL. She was worse than even I implied at the time.

Gotta love James. Super creative, and he’s joined the movement to de enshitifying peoples lives picking up Linux and working to switch his workflow to open source alternatives.