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    2 months ago

    Coming from across the big pond, Trump is simply worse though. Not like Biden is a great choice, but Trump is definitely worse.

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          You guys just remove comments you don’t like? I was being pretty genuine…

          Just to be clear I don’t want to see Biden or Trump elected and I don’t support the genocide in Gaza.

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              2 months ago

              …this post is about the vote? You made a post very clearly antagonizing people who think you should vote for Biden. Why would you then ban and remove everyone who comes to defend themselves?

              If you don’t want to talk about the vote, let’s stop talking about the vote.

              • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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                2 months ago

                The post is criticizing liberals who derail conversations criticizing Biden by whatabouting about Trump. It is not telling you how to vote.

                There’s no valid defense for chronic whatabouting about Trump, and doing so runs against this community’s guidelines (rule 5)

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            2 months ago

            We don’t allow whataboutism arguments and by saying “worse fascist” you are implying that there’s no problem with Diet Fascism™ to be the “Left-wing” option.

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              2 months ago

              Saying that A is worse than B is not an endorsement of B, and I said nothing about the “left-wing”. Biden isn’t the left candidate, he’s the democrat candidate.

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            2 months ago

            i think we build local community, we take care of each other and survive, we learn about revolutionary spontaneity, and we bide our time until the moment is right

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              That’s my thought as well. Collect allies, try to dispel non-allies of their propaganda (very hard), create microcosms that gradually become bigger movements that eventually consume the state

              But in the meantime, it’s hard not to consider the situation dire and urgent on a grand scale when we see people being tortured, killed, and subjugated for the interests of a privileged few. It’s easy for me to sit behind my keyboard and tell others what they “should” do. It’s another thing entirely to be a person with friends and loved ones who’ve been directly harmed by our leaders, or to see it from their point of view.

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                2 months ago

                it is hard. it is dire and urgent. but to the original post, non-voting doesn’t currently buy any power (though that may change), and trump is worse, so I’m still going to vote biden while supporting my communities and helping those who have been harmed locally

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                  That’s fine. That’s one opinion about how to cope with the current situation, and I won’t tell you otherwise. I tend to agree.

                  I just don’t want happening here what I see in the politics communities on some other instances where people are disparaged, shouted down, or even dehumanized for expressing so much as a hesitancy to vote for Biden. I want to take care that this doesn’t happen here. I firmly believe that if anything, such tactics only serve to discourage people from voting.

                  We’ve had multiple posts in this community from people describing why they’re choosing to vote Biden that don’t undermine our grave concerns about him in the process. I’ve always welcomed people to make such posts.

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          I know there are many groups suffering under Biden’s leadership, and no I’m not sure how to stop that

          I speak up, I send money, I support the protestors, and I’m very involved locally

          I’d suggest local involvemen. We’ve helped undocumented workers evade deportation, tried to establish community support networks, etc.

          But as far as dismantling the United States so we can solve the actual problem? Yeah, we need to work on that

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    Quick reminder for the comments: whataboutism is not allowed here and bootlicking Genocide Joe will result in your comments being removed

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      If you’re delusional enough to believe that someone who’s just fine with murdering children and imprisoning refugee families is any kind of ally, then that seems like the type of deeply offensive thought you should keep to yourself. This is utterly gross.

      Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds.

      Mask. Fucking. Off.