The comments have went so far off the rules (and rails). Locking, because mods volunteer, and we’ve been flooded with reports for this post thread alone.
I have no hope for America, it’s a so-called society of hedonistic, intellectually challenged children and seriously depraved, amoral sociopaths. Being a genocidal settler colony turned slaveowner paradise, I have never expected it to be anything more than what it is. And these kinds of “arguments” just give me more supporting evidence. Oh well. America could have 5 civil wars and they still wouldn’t change their ethos, believe me.
Don’t let the loud 0.1% affect your opinions.
“For dinner you can pick between overcooked turkey, or a bowl aged horse urine, children’s fingers, and broken glass. You have to eat one of them.”
“Neither option is vegan and the turkey is dry, so it doesn’t matter which one I eat .”
I feel like post like these are a psyop to get no one vote.
Hey, so as a trans person in Ohio, where both of my gubernatorial candidates hate trans people, it’s decidedly not an easy choice.
There wasn’t a Dem primary either.
Sorry to say, but reality doesn’t conform to your MS Paint meme :/
Am in the UK were our system allows for 3rd parties so this isnt as much of an issue here.
To be fair to the communist guy in this cartoon if your trans and your only options are get killed or change nothing while its an easy decisión to make once, make it 5 times and it will kill any love or motivation you have for politics.
You need to move the convo, it cant be do trans people exist it needs to be what rights they are allowed if you DONT argue for that then no rights expand and the argument forever stays there. I mean look at the UK as soon as the center/left party stopped arguing for trans rights out of fear, trans people basiclly lost all progress made…
This account is constantly posting this kind of BS that blames progressive voters and leftists for an authoritarian coup.
Non voting lefties contributed so little to trump seizing the whitehouse. The democratic party have much more responsibility for refusing to offer the progressive policies that their base and the majority of the electorate wants.
Also we have a system when dark money and open bribery matter far more than voting. It’s especially ridiculous to blame any voters in a non-democratic system.
I am directly making fun of the “BlooMAJA, both sides same, electorism is evil” clowns who provide no realistic alternative. Votes fucking matter, the moneyed class wouldn’t spend so much money influencing them if they did not.
Antivoting chucklefucks are absolutely complicit in what’s happening right now, I will not absolve them while they’re indistinguishable from Republicans with “don’t vote for Democrats” rhetoric. This is a knife fight to decide if the most powerful country in the world becomes out and out fascist, so I have nothing but contempt for jackasses who won’t get on fucking board, or get out of the fucking way.
interesting how you start being divisive in the way that makes your side look as offputting as possible every time there’s an election
This is a knife fight to decide if the most powerful country in the world becomes out and out fascist
it already was, you just want your preferred style of fascists running things
so I have nothing but contempt for jackasses who won’t get on fucking board, or get out of the fucking way.
feelings mutual, i have nothing but contempt for people who can only browbeat
Oh, I’m sorry I wasn’t politely disagreeing with tactics that result in:
This game seems fun
Do you think the leftists that refused to vote hold that much sway in a general election? Are they that big of a group, are they that influential for the Democratic party?
If yes, then the Democratic party really should have given them some more of the platform to encourage them to actually vote. If not, then the Democratic party’s strategy failed to get more votes than Trump of all people.
If you’re were actually concerned you’d be directing scorn at the sources of the problem: the democratic party that refuses to fight fascism, not the electorally insignificant number of lefties who fight against fascism but didn’t vote.
Lies like yours distort people’s perception of what the problem is, making unified opposition to this fascist coup harder.
Non voting lefties contributed so little to trump seizing the whitehouse.
Non voters definitionally don’t contribute, that’s like the whole point.
Glad other people are noticing and calling them out on their bullshit.
Funny thing how this is the sort of thing that those troll factories we’ve read about that feed propaganda on all sides of an issue would do.
Be smart enough to realize what outcome you are really contributing to when there are no ideal solutions and not the ideology that resides on a dead end that really favors the worst outcome.
But guuuuuys muh rachet effect! Every DEMONcrat is exactly the same ok? The system is broken so we shouldn’t try to do anything about it, it’s way more cool and revolutionary to talk about an eventually revolution generations down the line, the trans and browns can wait! If you vote you’re CAPITALISTIC SWINE WHO LOVES GENOCIDE. The 33% who didn’t vote last election didn’t just let Trump win they were actually cool revolutionaries ok?
You can vote third party, the important thing is to be a voter rather than a non-voter.
If you don’t save everyone, what’s the point in saving anyone?
So if I’m in plane that’s lost pressure with an oxygen mask on, I shouldn’t help anyone get their’s on because I couldn’t help everyone get their masks on in the like 1.5 minutes you get before brain damage?
Like I know this is a slippery slope example, and I do a agree with you that you should aim to save as many lives as possible…
But FFS this is literally the same wording right-wing politicians use to break down laws and decay public infrastructure because if it can’t work perfectly its not worth having, and then they let companies in to canabalize what’s left.
I think that’s the point, the person forgot to put the /s so people who don’t get it was sarcasm can see it was sarcasm.
WAS it sarcasm?
Yeah I mean, pretty easy to tell related to the situation.
With the range of political opinions on lemmy, Poe’s law is definitely in effect.
To virtue signal, naturally
Don’t save a drowning child because there could be other drowning children who didn’t get saved. /s
Don’t turn off the orphan crushing machine because sometimes it spares the white ones
Except your solutions don’t turn it off, they turn it up.
The argument of the 2024 Presidebtial election.
If you won’t save anyone, what’s the point in pretending you want to save everyone?
What was the death count on the cancellation of us aid again
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths
But i guess you dont care about them
I think you might be misunderstanding me?
My point was that the “if you won’t save everyone, why save anyone” argument is dumb. I would rather vote the bastards running things right now out and replace them with boring and ineffective Democrats.
Sure, it would be better to put someone with a spine who will repudiate and fix everything the Trump administration has done. But the “don’t vote, the Democrats aren’t good enough” crowd would rather let even worse people run things.
Sometimes, ya gotta punish people loudly as a deterrent. Nazis, I mean. Let’s not save the Nazis.
Big “all lives matter” vibes
Not really.
The problem with “All lives matter” is that it dismisses the fact that there is racial discrimination alive and well in our law enforcement system.
This is an argument against ideological purists kneecapping ONE movement trying to make change in order to maintain their purity. The effectiveness of that change is very much up for debate, but the sacrifice people who choose to vote are making is negligible compared to the potential impact their vote CAN make (see Zhoran Mamdani or Donald Trump for the extremes of that change).
I’m choosing to believe they were being sarcastic but yeah. Don’t forget that the tankies would rather have everyone die than not have every one of their demands met under their terms.
Literally. Tankies would gladly sacrifice every trans person if they thought it would usher in their nonsense global revolution.
Yeah and I would wager that tankies are actually even doing it intentionally some decent percentage of the time because it’s a movement based in ego and supremacy, and that usually follows that they tend to have a lot of sacrificable out groups…
Y’all got any more of them pixels?
“Just shut up and take your bullet like Che did!”
