no one has ever used that term for similar actions in the past.

They have, it’s been a genocide. The whole point of the genocide convention was to stop them while they’re happening, not to preserve the term for historical labeling and partisan bickering. The person cynically wielding and demeaning the term is you, because you only recognize genocide when it’s not ‘your guy’ doing it.

People like you disgust me. So invested in team loyalty you will minimize a genocide to avoid admitting your own parties participation. Just because I criticize democrats for their complicity doesn’t mean I am happy Trump won.

They were still doing a genocide under joe biden. She did nothing to distance herself from the admin and the only people to blame for her loss are herself and her enablers.

Don’t trust him at all, absolutely still CIA.

TBH I was more using that facetiously because it’s what our media tends to call any regime successors in enemy countries, regardless of the accuracy

political memes comm

The enraged downvotes are all the engagement I ask for 🥰

Okay, but that’s a very disingenuous framing of most the people we’re talking about. Especially on the fediverse. I 100% believe that someone somewhere made such claims but that wasn’t the common sentiment. No one was largely telling anyone not to criticize Harris and the Democrats for their stances. Far from. They earned all that and more.

I am not interested in getting to shitflinging because we agree on most other things, however this itself is kind of disingenuous framing of what I just said; I said:

I find the people complaining about ‘both sides’ rhetoric and blaming nonvoters incredibly off-putting because they’re absolving a hostile party of its obvious negligence and preventing any lessons from being learned in the name of smug self-satisfaction.

I didn’t say that they were saying not to criticize the democrats even, I just said that fixating on blaming voters is serving the end of whitewashing the failures of the democrats and contributing to an atmosphere where they learn nothing.

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I don’t blame or begrudge people for feeling betrayed by Harris and the Democrats.

They have been betraying us, it’s more than a feeling. The democrats as a party are not invested in winning and have no principles they run on other than being ‘not trump’ while still being fully on board with war, empire, harsh border controls, and corporate monopolies.

I find the people complaining about ‘both sides’ rhetoric and blaming nonvoters incredibly off-putting because they’re absolving a hostile party of its obvious negligence and preventing any lessons from being learned in the name of smug self-satisfaction.

They’re more interested in scolding voters than reflecting on how the parties own actions led to them losing to a game show host, twice now.

He didn’t drop out until they had effectively prevented any internal challengers by waiting until the primary was over the make the switch to his hand-picked successor.

If they had had an actual primary and not just ignored all the people protest voting ‘uncommitted’ in the joke one that they did have they wouldn’t have botched it as bad as they did. That’s on democratic leadership, not the voters.

Piefed user moment

I am so glad I don’t date cis straights, it sounds awful

Biden put a 100% tariffs on chinese EVs, making it essentially impossible to import them. not like trump was going to roll those back

I’d rather buy a Chinese one, but mr Biden made that impossible.

as an anarchist I have way more common cause with ‘tankies’ than with running dogs for empire

I don’t really bother blocking people; I prefer to use my winning personality to make them exit the conversation

I find the mornings work best. I tend to take naps if I’m feeling tired, usually in the afternoon

I actually like .ml because I can see hexbear/grad and still access pretty much everything else other than porn, which is a win/win for me. Last I checked defed.xyz it looked like it was only a handful of servers actually fully defederated from lemmy.ml

Lmao great depiction of what happens when someone fresh from reddit wanders into a hexbear thread

Christians have been doing mental gymnastics to reconcile worshiping Jesus and empire ever since Constantine made Christianity the state religion. Prior to that they’d be refusing military service/wars, holding property in common and refusing to worship the state/emperor. now pretty much every ‘christian’ is the opposite on all fronts.

I’m a vegan! No animal products, check the labels.

I got a freezer full of reactionaries in my basement

Certified plant-based breakfast, long pork dinner

This shit ain’t nothing to me