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  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoAnnouncements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy v0.18.4 ReleaseEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Support development

    I’ve subscribed monthly, if you can afford it, you should too!

    There’s no present danger of making the development team rich enough to dismantle the capitalist state. The funding is yet to reach normal subsistence level. You can see the sums collected in each of the platforms.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•No rights no pussy rule
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    1 year ago

    With the way our government works, it’s really hard to not vote for candidates that you don’t have at least some problems with. With the way presentational elections seem to be going, you end up having to choose which one is less bad. And in FPTP, voting for a third party is basically useless.

    And yet that doesn’t change the dynamics of what I described. This is why every voter who has problems with whoever they’re considering voting for should be weighing the bad parts. We know how GOP voters weigh the bigotry that comes with voting for its reps. That’s all we need to know. The truth is literally laid bare.

    I’m sure most, if not all of them, genuinely wish for the country to be better (same thing applies for any politician).

    That’s a nice thought. I see you still haven’t run out of benefit of the doubt to give.

    I don’t change my opinion because someone calls me a bigot. I’ll change my opinion if they can show me how my view is flawed, and why their view is better.

    That’s your prerogative. We’ve ran out of arguments to give. “We” is the many people I know who are of this opinion. I’ve yet to meet a conservative that’s arguing in good faith and is willing to change their view when presented with a sound argument. That’s where we’re at and it ain’t our fault. We’ve spent years of our lives trying and gotten nowhere. The radicalization is just getting started.

    See you at the ballot box!

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•No rights no pussy rule
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    1 year ago

    OK. Let me try. Trump espouses bigoted and non-bigoted policies. A person likes the non-bigoted ones. They vote for Trump. Their vote put Trump over the line. Trump enacts both the non-bigoted and bigoted policies. The person in question’s vote was the cause of bigoted policies being deployed. Policies that hurt other people. Does it matter whether the person supported Trump’s bigoted policies? The end result is the same. The person supporting Trump resulted in bigoted policies hurting people. That person bears responsibility in that result, as someone who voted for Trump. So what we’re saying is - you can’t hide your responsibility behind the book definition of a bigot. You could try but we see the results in reality and we will judge you by the results of your actions. We’re saying - look - your actions constitute bigotry in practice whether you realize it or not, and if you really believe that you’re not a bigot and you don’t want to be one, perhaps think about the results of your actions and what they produce in reality. Maybe don’t vote Trump next time. Replace Trump with any GOP bigot and the person in question with any American that’s in a similar position.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•No rights no pussy rule
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    1 year ago

    No, what we look like is people who’ve tried to give the benefit of the doubt for ages and gotten fucked for it. We’ve run out of benefit to give. Conservatives are actively hurting people in North America (probably elsewhere too) and we see ourselves and our children on the chopping block if we keep giving leeway. So we’ve stopped. You’ll keep seeing more of this until conservatives stop hurting people. This meme is just a funny reflection of that. Maybe it’s even gonna make some gears spin in some people’s heads.