zbyte64

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

That ship sailed when OP posted propaganda

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago

Bingo. It can't be the AI that's not working, it must be the workers!

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

Like when the DoJ doesn't release the full video of Epstein's death we get to make any argument we want

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago

New recipe calls to make a stew with the pig still attached to the boot

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

But this idea that "I won't settle for anything less than perfect" is really defeatist

We have all interacted with tankies that act like that, but they were never going to vote anyways. For everyone else, not supporting a genocide is not asking for perfection. Characterizing it as such is only going to push those voters towards the tankies.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

Both can be true. Biden was improving the economy in places, but many people did not feel the recovery.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Which is more likely: a Tankie being convinced to vote Democrat or the Democratic leadership rejecting genocide? Like yes voter apathy is helping Republicans, but the cure isn't "voter discipline", it's having a party that listens to its constituents.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Arguments like yours helped maga get back into power, and are helping them stay in power.

I was with you until that line. The democrats are responsible for being unpopular, not tankies.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 0 points 6 days ago

If Republicans start apologizing for their mistakes then we can talk. Never will happen though, best we get is "I was wrong this time but I learned nothing"

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why do you care what tankies think? Do you need their help to win elections?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

If Isreal treated Palestinians like how China treats the Uyghurs then Kamala would be president.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Less thinking of the golden rule, more about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, but he was a theologian so maybe that's part of it. He said something to the effect that some politicians come to power through cynicism of the people and that the antidote is a politics that utilizes people's ability to act independently (or alternatively without coercion).

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