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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 51 points 5 days ago (4 children)

If "stop supporting genocide" isn't the first step, then what the fuck is? I can't think of a lower bar, but I'm told it's actually a "purity test".

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago

Genuinely speaking the people crying about MAGA being a cult are acting cultish by expecting you to vote for someone who is openly promising to maintain genocide; MAGA is now openly saying they don't care about all the evil stuff Trump has done, and blue MAGA are saying they don't care if their favorite lib candidate is going to maintain genocide.

If Adolf had been an actual socialist, and the guy he was running against was literally satan, would they actually say the solution here is to vote holocaust no matter who?

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[–] ILikeToMeow@lemmy.ml 40 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Democrats and Republicans aren't actually against each other, they pretend to be two different parties as it is an effective psy-op to keep the populace believing in a Reformist path to change, so we do not pursue a Revolutionary path instead. As long as the populace continues to believe a Reformist path (like voting) is able to save them, the Capitalists can continue doing what ever they want, only Revolution can save us (IE we must save ourselves by overthrowing the Capitalists), and only once the people in general realize this, can Revolution actually succeed. It is also why we must keep pointing out to people how the system is rigged against us, how as long as we live in Capitalism Democracy is a lie and the oppression and exploitation and U.S. bombings will continue.

[–] huey_m@reddthat.com 10 points 3 days ago (25 children)

100% not a psy-op or collusion. They really just both bought deeply into the shift to neoliberalism in the 80's, and it has so defined politics for the last 4 decades that few politicians have wrapped their heads around the fact that the continual rejection of both parties by the people is really a rejection of that neoloberalism that we're clearly in the death throes of. Trump succeeded not because every person who voted for him was a racist (I mean, that's definitely a big cadre among his supporters, but it isn't what got him in), he succeeded because people are so desperate to end the neoliberal norm that's crushing everyone that they'll vote for a guy that literally soft-pedals fascism over another neoliberal.

But I really do think the majority of them are true believers. They've been born and raised in that politically environment. It's all they know and they really can't imagine anything else, even if it's really only been a few generations ago that things looked very different.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (8 children)

A distinction without a difference. There is no need for collusion when you're moving in the same social circles, meeting the same people, having your campaign funded by the same social class with the same needs and objectives.

And yes, Trump was a mold breaker there, but only as a facade, the reality is not that Trump is "rejecting" neoliberalism, it is that neoliberalism is breaking apart, by its own incoherence, in the US as everywhere else.

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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This "Good" Cop / "Bad" Cop routine has been going on for decades. Both parties are still cops and ACAB.

[–] ILikeToMeow@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Just to be clear, Cops being bad is not an inherent property of them in and of itself, but rather Cops serve the State, and in a Capitalist country, the State serves Capital, and so the Cops also serve Capital, but in a Socialist country, such as China, the Cops are completely different as the State actually serves the interest of the overall masses, and so the Cops also by extension.

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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago

I remember when they were trying to endorse Mike Bloomberg the republican billionaire.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago
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