• EmmiLime@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      LMFAO this is literally the same from an outside perspective. You BLUEmaga people really do only care about decorum and domestic issues in politics. You even admit that Biden wasn’t good. It’s all “lesser evil” for you. And guess what, evil is still evil you fucking idiot.

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        I care about decorum insofar as I think in personal discussions calling someone a fucking idiot is not useful to understanding or changing their views. In politics I don’t really care about decorum? Why do you think I would?

        As for domestic issues: Yeah I care about them, I fucking live here. If both practical options have the same outcome outside the nation but vastly different ones inside, why wouldn’t I vote for the party that’s going to improve one of them? It’s not like the democrats are worse than the republicans internationally.

        As long as there are two choices in this system I will always choose the better choice. Not doing so is completely illogical. If you want a choice that’s not evil you have to work to change the system entirely. If you were planning on doing that, why not also make things less bad when you can?

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          That’s literally the point, you will legitimize a system if it serves you. You do not consider how your rationale and accepting this harms farm more people. Billions vs. a few million within the Imperial Core.

          Just so you know, marginalized groups in your own country do not fare any better under a democrat. They are still all the time under threat of ICE, they were so under Biden but you lot just did not give a single fucking shit about it because liberals lack object permanence.

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            3 hours ago

            Just so you know, marginalized groups in your own country do not fare any better under a democrat

            You might actually be delusional. Name any metric under which a marginalized group could fare better or worse and I will show you the difference.

            Anyways “legitimizing” is a vague principle that leads to incorrect choices. If there would be a real, practical effect you could point to, you wouldn’t have to speak so vaguely.

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              You might actually be delusional. Name any metric under which a marginalized group could fare better or worse and I will show you the difference.

              Deportations.

              Anyways “legitimizing” is a vague principle that leads to incorrect choices. If there would be a real, practical effect you could point to, you wouldn’t have to speak so vaguely.

              It’s called reading theory and organizing with communists and preparing for a revolution.

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                2 hours ago

                Deportations.

                This is actually not as clear cut as you might think. The Biden admin carried out fewer deportations of people already inside the united states than the Trump admin did, instead opting to turn many more people away at the border. Kind of unclear how to count that, but since we are discussing the qualify of life of maginalized groups within the USA, I would say that yes, fewer people in that group are being deported. The manner of tracking and treating people in ICE “custody” was also significantly better under Biden afaik. This article has a good breakdown of the numbers (source quality isn’t known to me but appears well-researched):

                https://www.migrationpolicy.org/journal/policy-beat/comparing-biden-and-trump-deportation-records

                And this is the example metric you chose, so if democrats treated marginalized groups equally as bad as republicans on average you would expect it to be clearly worse in this case assuming you chose the most obvious example.

                It’s called reading theory and organizing with communists and preparing for a revolution.

                Responding elsewhere.

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                    It literally is better though, like quantifiably. Fewer people are having their lives ruined. Not only are fewer of them being removed from the interior US but those who are are often being told to leave rather than thrown in cages. Your claim was that marginalized people in the US do not do better under democrats, but they do, so your conclusion that voting is useless is illogical. If this doesn’t matter now, why did you suggest it as something that would support your argument earlier?