Again, you assign stances to me that have nothing to do with what I said. It’s not about “nobility” or “purity,” it’s about establishing a political platform capable of addressing the root causes of the problems faced today. The status quo cannot last indefinitely. 4 years from now, things will have gotten worse and you’ll still be saying that we have to vote blue no matter who to preserve the status quo, as the status quo stops working for more and more people. It’s a doomed strategy.
By the way, I didn’t call you tankie to call you names, it was the label you used for yourself. If you recall, early on I was surprised that you were a tankie who actually seemed to want to stop Trump. Now that I see you’re advocating not voting for the only person who can stop him, I see that you’re a typical lemmy tankie. The insult was in the word typical.
Oh, weird. In my feed, they’re always trying to convince left leaning folk not to vote for Biden so that Trump wins.
I initially thought you wanted to stop the far right. You clearly don’t even care enough to put a mark in a box.
Of course, I don’t take any offense to the term tankie, or being called a “typical” lemmy tankie.
What I said initially had nothing to do with the US election. Then, I correctly responded to you that I haven’t seen any tankies supporting Trump. I’m sorry you got confused about my positions, I guess.
So vote for progressive candidates in primaries, but given the chance to postpone the advent of a self-declared right wing dictatorship for 4 years, with as complete state capture as he can manage, and now with the SCOTUS nothing’s-illegal ruling, that’s a lot, and you’re sitting on your hands? That’s the crazy to me. That’s the deluded hypocrisy of the typical tankie.
Tankies prefer the poor to suffer less,
So why would you sit by impotently and allow trump to make the poor suffer more?
I literally just explained the reasoning for my position. The strategy of preserving the status quo is a doomed, defeatist strategy. Even if it means starting from square 1, it’s better to push for a solution that actually has the potential to work.
Of course I’m a tankie, I never claimed not to be. I even used the word “us” when referring to tankies in my original comment. Tankies prefer the poor to suffer less, in fact, tankies are responsible for three quarters of worldwide poverty reduction since the 1980’s.
Again, you assign stances to me that have nothing to do with what I said. It’s not about “nobility” or “purity,” it’s about establishing a political platform capable of addressing the root causes of the problems faced today. The status quo cannot last indefinitely. 4 years from now, things will have gotten worse and you’ll still be saying that we have to vote blue no matter who to preserve the status quo, as the status quo stops working for more and more people. It’s a doomed strategy.
By the way, I didn’t call you tankie to call you names, it was the label you used for yourself. If you recall, early on I was surprised that you were a tankie who actually seemed to want to stop Trump. Now that I see you’re advocating not voting for the only person who can stop him, I see that you’re a typical lemmy tankie. The insult was in the word typical.
I initially thought you wanted to stop the far right. You clearly don’t even care enough to put a mark in a box.
Of course, I don’t take any offense to the term tankie, or being called a “typical” lemmy tankie.
What I said initially had nothing to do with the US election. Then, I correctly responded to you that I haven’t seen any tankies supporting Trump. I’m sorry you got confused about my positions, I guess.
So vote for progressive candidates in primaries, but given the chance to postpone the advent of a self-declared right wing dictatorship for 4 years, with as complete state capture as he can manage, and now with the SCOTUS nothing’s-illegal ruling, that’s a lot, and you’re sitting on your hands? That’s the crazy to me. That’s the deluded hypocrisy of the typical tankie.
So why would you sit by impotently and allow trump to make the poor suffer more?
I literally just explained the reasoning for my position. The strategy of preserving the status quo is a doomed, defeatist strategy. Even if it means starting from square 1, it’s better to push for a solution that actually has the potential to work.