We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it
We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it
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We can beat Trump together — but there's only one way to do it
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We could have done that last November, but some people decided it was better to single-issue abstain / protest vote / spread FUD / otherwise get in the way. Yes, I'm still salty about that.
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I’m a salt mine over this. And now that they have full power, because fucking snowflakes couldn’t even bother to vote on the local and state level, they will not give up that power. People are dying, poor families with disabled children are losing healthcare, trans people are under federal attack, science and education is being gutted, and on and on, because of political edge lords.
There won’t be another chance. Vote next time or don’t, it won’t matter because fascists aren’t going to just say ‘welp, I guess I’ve been voted out now’. Like we were saying, 2024 was the last free election if they won. But they couldn’t be bothered.
Add some potatoes to me, I’m done.
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I’m a salt mine over this.
I like that expression.
People are dying, poor families with disabled children are losing healthcare, trans people are under federal attack, science and education is being gutted, and on and on
According to the people we're both salty at, that's apparently an acceptable price to pay to "teach the Dems a lesson". (That was one of the most common reasons they'd give last year, and yep, I'm still salty about that too).
But at least they saved Palestine ¯(ツ)_/¯
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People didn't learn from the "Bernie Bros" who told people not to vote for Clinton in 2016.
Two things I always point out.
Frederick Douglas worked for Lincoln in 1860, despite the fact that Lincoln was not an abolition candidate. At best he was willing to consider it. Douglas could have backed a full on abolitionsit, but he decided it was better to win with a poor candidate than to lose with a perfect one.
Second, MLK had a gay second in command. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin]
Rustin and King knew that 1960s America wasn't ready for a gay rights movement, so they kept Rustin in the background.
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Please stop repeating this myth. 80% of Sanders supporters voted for Clinton in 2016. This was up to 10% higher than the percentage of Clinton supporters who voted for Barack Obama in 2008.
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Rustin and King knew that 1960s America wasn’t ready for a gay rights movement, so they kept Rustin in the background.
Though it is worth pointing out MLK's movement continued to expand to other groups, was more of a pro-socialist push near the end and probably would have kept going, had he not gotten shot.
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Left unity doesn't include right wingers who are willing to throw away and entire election because they won't stop supporting Israel. If you wanna win an election, try actually appealing to the left instead of obstinately moving farther and farther right along with the party you unconditionally support
I voted for Kamala btw, so don't bother trying that angle. And I will never, for any reason, support newsom and his anti trans, anti homeless, fascist platforming ass. If you're already supporting him, you're exactly why Kamala lost, and why he'll lose in 2028
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As you should be. Here we are.
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With a baseball bat?
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I was going to say rusty rebar
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Well if he gets tetanus, he'd finally have to shut the fuck up.
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I was thinking a sock full of old batteries might be cheaper if you buy in bulk.
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The Heritage Foundation is a cancer. It has to be irradiated, then cut out.
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I think the biggest problem American politics has is only going to be fixed my overturning Citizens United
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I can't believe we're not even one year into this yet.
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To be fair, quite a few have been. Theyr targeting each other
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With clubs, in a large group, Caesar-style, so nobody knows which of us did it?
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The only way to defeat us is if the Trump administration and the movement that undergirds it manages to divide us. We can’t let that happen. To win as a majority coalition, we must always invite everybody who believes in civil liberties and human rights.
Sooooo we're defeated? 1/3 of the population voted for this and is actively cheering it on, 1/3 don't give enough of a shit to take action for whatever reason, and the last 1/3 are the target of the first 1/3.
How the fuck are we supposed to band together and "invite everybody that believes in civil liberties and human rights" when half of the country is either championing or passively allowing the stripping away of those rights? This would require the right wing to fundamentally shift their views on immigrants and gay people, which they obviously have no interest in doing.
All that was needed to defeat Hitler was to make the Nazis see Jews as people.
That's pretty much what's being said here. Can we please be realistic and not pretend that both sides are equal and valid in their rationale and behavior? If someone starts punching every gay person around them, you don't tell the gay people to be more cooperative and understanding, you arrest the fucker and punish them.
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That's not the only way.
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Baseball bats?
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That was my guess too!
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If there were only some laws that would protect us or maybe a document outlining who we are as a people. Dammit! /s
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The Constitution's not self-enforcing. People in the USSR under Stalin, on paper, had more rights than Americans did.
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Memes and jokes will break this administration.
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Don’t forget videos! If we post enough videos of Trump buying a detestable fuckwit I’m sure everything will turn out just fine.
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Not sure what kind of "together" we can have. Working with anti-MAGA conservatives is supposedly wrong, working with (even anti Netanyahu) Israel supporters is supposedly wrong - won't get a majority that way.
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“Anti-Netanyahu Israel supporters”? What, people who hate the leader but are fine with the slaughter and subsequent extermination of an entire ethnic group? And the only reason why people “can’t work with them” is because they get mad if you say that Israel is committing a genocide?
Anti-MAGA conservatives are also still very wrong and we have piles of evidence to show it. Compromising and making them feel good abojt how they’re only just now realizing how bad the far-right is while still clearly not learning the bigger lesson isn’t going to help anyone and instead just muddy the water.
There are a lot of progressive people who would get energized by a better campaign. Just gotta actually do that.
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Define 'work with' in a way that doesnt involve compromising on genocide.
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Agreed. The purity testing and splintering into to niche issues is what always screws the left.
If people could just focus and align on some core root cause issues, like getting corrupt money out of politics, the message would be stronger.
All well and good, but what happens when someone comes to the meeting and says "we should end corruption and remove Trump, but I don't like DEI policies."
I'm guessing that will suddenly be added to the "root" cause and we're right back into splintering and purity spirals again.
Hopefully yes, because that's exactly what it is. You can't fight fascism with fascism lite.
@FaceDeer @justanotherperson @simplejack
"I'm a huge racist, but I don't like Trump. Can I join your group?"
No.
That person should go find a "Racists Against Trump" group.
But but… wHaT aBoUt SuPpOrTiNg GeNoCiDe?
Centrists never have a problem when they do it against leftists, but cry fowl when leftists refuse to compromise with awful human beings that deserve the worst things that happen to them including the end of their lives.