Socialist techbro; extremely opinionated jewboy. Shouting as obnoxiously as possible into the void. I follow-back leftists, because I understand the struggle.
Any "vote blue no matter who" type that sees the Biden administration in action and still hasn't yet had the revelation that maybe it does kind of matter who just a little bit is beyond help IMO
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@hergie409 @kenklippenstein@Aobius Bret they have won all three branches of government and are accomplishing all of their policy goals
They are ascendant
This strategy *does not work*
you are coping
Please realize this for your own mental health
@mechabowser@CVM_S3RP3NT0R@LisaA311 Is voting literally the only way you can conceive of to oppose a politician
If so you in fact would have been the one complicit in fascism. Once Hitler took power you'd be at brunch, waiting for a next election which would never come
@mechabowser@CVM_S3RP3NT0R@LisaA311 Voting is not how Hitler was defeated. He lost his election and became Chancellor anyway. Read a book, or at least try to be less condescending to people who understand fascism better than you.
@foolsaint_@dendanver84@AGarretAnderson@CentristMadness@benigma2017 That's probably what Chamberlain said
I guess maybe you're not old enough to see the patterns, so I'll tell you: there's always a big scary bogeyman that you will be told to sacrifice your principles to fight. It'll never stop, unless we stop it. This isn't how.
@foolsaint_@dendanver84@AGarretAnderson@CentristMadness@benigma2017 Maybe it's not your fault. You've just seen too many trolley problem memes, too many hypotheticals set up explicitly to justify condoning fascism and death. Brainrot.
Maybe this will help: in your hypothetical, you're not Charles De Gaulle. You're Neville Chamberlain.
@foolsaint_@dendanver84@AGarretAnderson@CentristMadness@benigma2017 Half a Nazi is still a Nazi. You have still voted for a Nazi. Your soul is still tainted. You bargained with 3 million people's lives and found them acceptable losses. You have no standing to judge literally anyone.
@halogen1048576@MatthewSitman Even if this weren't an absolute falsehood in all ways, why would the media compare its darling to the Nazis and double down when challenged
@blamelessjay @AsVacation@Noahpinion ok. The actual government we have already farms healthcare out to corrupt private firms. That is what we're talking about. We are discussing the prospect of instead doing things correctly. Or at least I am. You're making excuses for billionaires.
@blamelessjay @AsVacation@Noahpinion A government that would take on this (hugely profitable!) industry to switch to single-payer solely because it would actually benefit its citizens is ALREADY less corrupt than the one we have. If we're going that far in discussion, let's also assume it gets done right, please.
@blamelessjay @AsVacation@Noahpinion This is a theoretical system that does not yet exist in our country, and you have taken as a given that it would all be farmed out to grifter consulting firms. All we'd have to do is... not do that.
@thx1138_v2 @blamelessjay @AsVacation@Noahpinion yes, as we all know, the many, many countries currently using single-payer systems do not have doctors at all, because they all went out of business
@blamelessjay @AsVacation@Noahpinion point 1 is making assumptions absolutely not to be taken for granted, point 2 is pretty hopelessly naive if you look at the way american capitalism actually works