• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 days ago

    If you hate against Dems, even if it’s the same amount as GOP, and you dont topple the regime and fix the democracy first, you will just help the GOP.

    Translation to plain English: successfully overthrow the entire system or meekly accept everything the lesser evil offers you without complaints, no matter how evil.

    Let’s be real

    Yes, let’s.

    Your pretending that all criticism of the shortcomings of Dems amounts to support for the fascists is the same thing as fascists do when semi-fascists who ACTUALLY support the fascists dare mildly question Dear Leader.

    So you just make the GOP stronger, talking like that, in the current situation.

    On the contrary: you’re making the GOP stronger by enabling the fecklessness of their so-called opposition.

    I don’t see this potential in the US.

    Of course you wouldn’t, being an unwitting part of the problem yourself.

    Stifling all dissent in a misguided attempt at not making an unresponsive party look bad makes that party look WORSE and thus LESS likely to attract the votes it needs in order to win elections.

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      2 days ago

      Americans falling for the same old scam of a fake democracy over and over and over again. 2 heads, 1 monster.

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        10 hours ago

        No, there’s more heads than you bother to count.

        You’re pointing at the stage and ignoring the strings of not-paper in your hand.

        It doesn’t even bother to note you that those strings are zapping all bothersome you feel from being so obnoxious from having to count them and make sure no one stole your strings.

        You thought the strings brought you dinner.

        That dinner just poisoned your whole decaying concept of having a concept of perception to begin with.

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      2 days ago

      Overthrow the government, or vote for the lesser evil. Yes. Those are the options. The lesser evil here is pushing for as many progressives in primaries and then voting dem. Overthrow includes a massive non-ending strike with coordinated goals. But even that seems impossible. So vote accordingly. What else is there to do?

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          1 day ago

          Not overthrown per se, but dramatically change directions maybe. Especially for a government beholden to the billionaires if they actually start to lose money, power.

          • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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            1 day ago

            they have enough money to sit this out tho.

            and it won’t be lasting fix, because the old and rotten power structures will still be in place. (like trump reverted things his predecessors did. as soon as he was back in power, for example.)

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              22 hours ago

              Don’t get me wrong, pitchforks and guillotines would be better. But surprisingly, the billionaires can’t stand losing money even though obviously it doesn’t really affect them.