• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    it might be worth reflecting why a lot of the electorate no longer sees the Democratic party as the anti-war party

    The only reflection I am able to accomplish is to look at the GOP and say “Worse, tho”.

    If you aren’t voting for the lesser evil, I have to assume you hate America and want it to fail. And that’s worse than genocide.

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      14 hours ago

      The only reflection I am able to accomplish is to look at the GOP and say “Worse, tho”.

      OK, but so far, that hasn’t been a very effective electoral strategy. I think we should try something else.

    • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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      15 hours ago

      First off, that’s a ridiculous assumption. Not everyone subscribes to your ideology of lesser evilism, and the vast majority of people who correctly reject that ideology are not accelerationists.

      But secondly, just curious, if I was a German citizen who hated Nazi Germany and wanted it to fail, would that make me worse than the Nazis? The Nazis were just doing genocide, after all, but I committed what is apparently a far worse sin in your eyes, of insufficient patriotism.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        Not everyone subscribes to your ideology of lesser evilism

        If they don’t subscribe to my ideology, they must be a greater evil.

        if I was a German citizen who hated Nazi Germany and wanted it to fail, would that make me worse than the Nazis?

        It would make you a Communist Fifth Columnist Jew-Loving Traitor and earn you a ticket straight to the camps.

        The Nazis would absolutely say you were worse than them.