“Concern trolls” LMFAO

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
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    Ever heard the expression “cutting off your ear to spite your face”?

    Hate the democrats all you want, but it’s the party that has the greatest chance to displace the current administration. 2024 saw a comparatively large number of independent votes, and Trump was victorious as a result. Division is what they want because it weakens the opposition. You are playing into their hands and against your own interests.

    Having an imperfect solution is preferable to nothing but grand ideas of a nationwide revolt and daydreams of a perfect world.

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      Trump “won” because 15 million Democrat votes either didn’t bother voting for Harris or their votes were stolen. Either way blaming it on third parties is just straight up delusional nonsense.

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        Of course reality is more complex than my comment. It’s even more complex than what you wrote if we consider all factors, like the propaganda targeting muslim, hispanic, and black communities, the gerrymandering, protest votes, Gaza, Russia, everything that happened behind the curtain that we have no knowledge about…

        Non-voters conributed to the result. So did independent votes. Blaming it on any one factor is nonsense, but a deep and exhaustive analysis was not the point of my comment.

    • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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      There are no meaningful federal elections until the king is dead. The liberal experiment has ended. It will not return until we have escaped the depths of hell we are in, which not only means Trump is long dead and buried, but we are no longer ruled by corrupt politicians who always favor capitalism over democracy.

      The sad truth I doubt you’ll be brave enough to accept is that your attitude was the reason the Democrats lost. The voters should’ve never been expected to shape themselves into the people their billionaire backers wanted. The politicians needed to cede more to social democracy if they wanted to retain the liberal order. Just like the capitalist oligarchs, liberals expected a free lunch. They wanted popular support for the system without doing jack to make it popular.

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        Be the first, then. Throw the first brick. Fire the first shot. Prove your philosophy.

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          You some kinda glowie trying to bait me? The fuck you think my philosophy is?

          The only thing I believe with total conviction is that I want to know the truth, no matter how hopeless, unfortunate, or inconvenient it may be. If that’s too radical for you, you should probably go worship billionaires on corporate socials instead of hanging out here.

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            I’m not calling you out or anything, I’ve used it myself in the past before I found out myself, but apparently “glowie” has a pretty racist etymology, referring to Terry Davis’s rants about “CIA n***ers that glow in the dark”

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            I could elaborate, but I have no wish to place myself under the ban hammer, and tilting at windmills is a habit I’m trying to kick.