The Democrats are unfathomably evil, but America will be a much worse place if they lose the midterms … although I’m still fishing for ideas on what the Democrats would actually do. They’ve kind of tacitly approved everything that Trump is already doing and it’s hard to imagine how far he’d need to go to push the Democrats to act.
The Democrats aren’t going to act on economic issues unless it’s pro-business, but on social issues I’d hope they have some kind of red line. They won’t go after ICE or help trans people, but maybe they would slow Trump’s rollback of abortion rights and same sex marriage.
Are you mad? We absolutely need a Democrat take over of the house and senate
That’s right gotta have a veneer of legitimacy that you chuds can hide behind and do your mental gymnastics to justify imperialism. Trump just doesn’t give you lot anything to work with.
Why, so they can condescendingly pretend to be acting out of a sense of stoic necessity when they continue to do all the same things as the Republicans?
Fuck the democrats, Free Palestine
Because I’m trans and don’t consent to my rights being used as a bargaining chip do you can stomp your feet and stick it to the dems.
You really think the blue genociders will give a shit about trans people?
Considering I wasn’t as blatantly under attack under Biden as I am under Trump
Ah yes, people who oppose genocide are just stomping their feet and throwing a tantrum over nothing.
Democrats presented you with a prisoner’s dilemma and instead of standing for humanity, you unhesitatingly threw every Palestinian to the wolves, man woman and child, like a Good German. You supported genocide. You voted for genocide. You are a genocide supporter. You are a fascist, whether you choose to accept it or not.
I didn’t support genocide. There was no option to save Palestine. Trump didn’t do it.
There was an option to save transpeople in America. That was Kamala. You didn’t take it. You sacrificed me in order to satiate your ego.
Yeah, keep arguing with each other. That’s how you’ll defeat facism.
I don’t want to argue, I figure actively reducing harm was a no-brainer, but Tankies prove me wrong.
Reducing harm is when you install a nazi junta in Ukraine and send endless bombs to the IDF rape army👍
I would have a shred more respect for you if you could just finish the sentence. You care about reducing harm…to yourself, at the expense of countless others. That’s it.
While I really do appreciate this attitude and find it more practical than most, there’s a fundamental hangup that has to be addressed if we, collectively, are going to destroy fascism: it needs to be understood that this is imperialism turned inwards, that American imperialism has always been bipartisan, and that it can never be destroyed by giving our support to it’s perpetrators. From Aimee Cesaire’s Discourse on Colonialism:
First we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and interrogated, all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been instilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.
And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers standing around the racks invent, refine, discuss.
People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.
Yes, it would be worthwhile to study clinically, in detail, the steps taken by Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanistic, very Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the “(slur)” of India, and the “(slur)” of Africa.
I didn’t support genocide
You literally voted for it and now you’re trying to pretend there’s nothing you could have done. You Vichy collaborators make me fucking sick.
There was no option to save Palestine
Not by continuing to support the same people destroying it. That should’ve been your indication that it was time to stand up and stop enabling these fucks! They only felt safe telling you to suck it up and support genocide in the first place because acquiescent toadies like you indulged them on every other rightward lurch, never imposing any consequences!
There was an option to save transpeople in America. That was Kamala.
Kamala, the cop who put trans women in men’s prisons and promised nothing? That’s your salvation? The party that has shown it believes in nothing and will sacrifice absolutely anyone? You must be as blind as you are spineless not to see that collaborating with them will bring you no protection whatsoever. Come next election, they’ll cut trans people loose and justify it by saying it was to “protect” whatever group is next on their chopping block. Your gormless ass has laid the groundwork for your own annihilation as soon as they find it politically convenient.
You didn’t take it. You sacrificed me in order to satiate your ego
First they came for the Palestinians, and you cried “Sure, they can die! Do whatever you want to them, just don’t hurt me!” Your pathetic display of selfishness in the moment when it mattered most has marked you in the eyes of history and humanity as yet another nazi.
“They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”
-A.R. Moxon

Nice antifascist party you got there, I’m sure they’ll never turn around and eat your face. Enjoy the fruits of your cowardice, kapo. I hope all the dead Palestinian kids were worth it to you.
- Literally there was no “Spare Palestine” option on the ballot
- There is no viable political party in America that doesn’t want to destroy Palestine, however I recognize that Trump is more excited to do so than the Dems
- Trump banned Transpeople from owning passports, Kamala wouldn’t have done that.
- There was literally nothing I could do for Palestine, there was no “Save Palestine” option on the ballot. There was a “Don’t do Transgender Genocide” option, but you blew it for me. https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/experts-warn-u-s-in-early-stages-of-genocide-against-trans-americans
- John Fetterman had a stroke and became a Conservative. He is a Democrat in name only. But I think you knew that before you picked him as your example of a typical Democrat because you exercise in dishonesty.
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That’s a fatal indictment of the people making the ballot, not an excuse to consign millions to the flames
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“I had no choice” didn’t work at Nuremburg 1 and it’s not gonna work at Nuremburg 2
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Kamala would have simple done nothing while states did it instead, if history is any indication
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The fact that you cannot imagine any action outside of filling a bubble in a paper is a fatal indictment of you, not an accurate assessment of your actual options.
you blew it for me
Oh, do I have that power? Wow, that makes it even more inexcusable that the Democrats wouldn’t even not commit genocide in order to win my support. That was all they had to do, and they couldn’t resist the taste of blood. And you put your hope in these people? Dumb as hell.
- John Fetterman was always like this, he chased a black jogger with a shotgun as mayor and still got the party’s support. Now he’s cheering on the gestapo and they haven’t done anything to discipline him. They still let him be in the party because they Do. Not. Care.. He’s useful to them to acclimate their base to further fascism. Again, you put your hope in these nazi pricks? Dumb as hell
Anyway, the genocide you supported will hang over your fascist head until the day you die, so have fun with that.
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BlueMAGA
Both are a product of the same system. Some are just more honest about their intentions.
It’s the honesty of trump that pisses off people so much not the actions most of the time.
The original version of this meme was problematic but my god this version of it is spot on accurate. And it still would be accurate for countless other things that could be put in the Biden/Trump speech bubble. Despite what Democrats pretend, and how they like to (ineffectively) play the role of opposition to Trump, they are fine with 90% of what he does, he just does it without any deference to the liberal theatrics of “law,” with too much bombast instead of fake personal difficulty making “hard choices,” and because he’s not on team Blue. Granted, there are a few significant things I think it’s safe to say would not have happened under a Democrat president, but vanishingly few of those are things they wouldn’t have wanted to do.
Yeah but at least Biden followed the law while doing it and didn’t make silly twitter posts
As long as the burger reich declares it legal, it’s fine to do a genocide right?
Legal brown people bombing? Missed that class in law school.
The legality is in their head.
President has a D in his party, so it’s socially legal I guess
I remember January of 2009, when Rachel Maddow’s position on using drones to murder civilians completely flipped on inauguration day.

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