• BannedVoice@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Well, how about we just try it first instead of resorting to instant armed combat against our own government or a civil war?

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      3 months ago

      Sure thing, would another hundred years suffice or would that still be too early to tell?

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      3 months ago

      you’re right. one more election and we fix climate change, ranpant exploitation and discrimination! We just have to vote properly.

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      Well, how about we just try it first

      Nobody in the United States has ever tried to vote against a fascist dictator?

      instant armed combat

      Who do you think is actually organized an armed uprising against Trump? How do you think they’re doing it “instantly”?

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        Untrue I tried three times to vote against a fascist dictator but over half of my fellow Americans are morons who overrode my vote two out of the three times. But the key here is that voting worked one of those times and no matter how much kicking and screaming and bitching and moaning may have happened his butt was kicked off the WH lawn on Inauguration Day so clearly it does work.

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          You mean Biden who believes we would have to create Israel if it didn’t exist, who continued the war drive, who delivered weapons and training to genocidaires, who put infants in solitary confinement at the border, who was instrumental in ensuring that the prisons were full of black people who could be used as slave labor, who pardoned the judge who took bribes in exchange for sentencing 8 year old to juvenile detention for jaywalking, who failed to do anything meaningful to stop Trump, who failed to do anything meaningful to limit the power of the executive so it couldn’t be abused, who failed to do anything to stop fascism at all?

          Those 4 years where voting a different guy in didn’t do literally anything to stop fascism in the least?

          Sure. Do it again. I am sure continuing to not stop fascism is exactly how we stop fascism

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          over half of my fellow Americans are morons who overrode my vote

          “How about we try voting”

          “This doesn’t count, I voted but then other people voted the opposite way”

          Maybe the problem is that people on Lemmy don’t understand what an election is.

          But the key here is that voting worked one of those times

          Oh yeah. Famously, all the fascism in America stopped existing on January 6th, 2021.

          That’s why everyone was at the US Capital celebrating.

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          I think the leftist point being made isn’t that any particular election has no effect. Of course elections have effects. At the very least they provide legitimacy. I think the point is that even though it worked to unseat Trump in 2020, the election did not halt the long term processes leading us towards fascism. It slowed them down a bit but didn’t reverse trend. Reason being that the owner class kept expanding their wealth and therefore control over the entire system. I think leftist memes about elections are often poorly communicated or understood, which isn’t ideal, but then it’s …memes.

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      Because they’re already drawing weapons and we’ve been “trying” so hard we elected him twice. You think this will change? You think the Dems will wave a wand and institute voting reform and healthcare or increase wages or improve the living conditions?

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        Actually my hope is that when this is over people in the MAGA movement will finally wake up and see how much of their own lives have been destroyed by what this ass clown did to them and we as a country can agree to NEVER allow it to happen again and that we can finally go back to letting the adults govern the country instead of a man who would have been a used car salesman had his daddy not given him everything he has.

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          after germany lost in ww2 only 300 people stood in front of nuremberg.

          every fascist that survived just used their position of power and recognition and continued staying in politics. they didn’t change their minds, only the approach.

          fascism wasn’t suddenly eradicated. the generations they put into this world were taught and raised by these fascists in hiding.

          MAGA fucks won’t change their minds. They’ll just change the approach.

          and honestly: as a non-american it doesn’t matter if trump or a dem are in power. they’ll continue murdering people in their interest.

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            If we just keep changing the bandages and apply no antibiotics, surely the infection will just give up

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      We’ve been trying for a long time? How long should we wait? Do they need to officially declare fascism?

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      Is Lemmy just full of hateful ass people or something? In what world does saying we shouldn’t start an armed rebellion worthy of all the downvotes? Y’all are fucking wild.

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        3 months ago
        your commitment to the bit is truly laudable 🤣

        how about we just try it first

        😭