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[-] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 35 minutes ago

"do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good" MOTHERFUCKER GENOCIDE ISNT GOOD monke-rage

[-] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 11 points 3 hours ago

I was a dem soc in 2016, border line "Bernie Bro" or whatever, and still voted Clinton in Florida and the best progressive options I could down ballot.

I got blamed for her losing Florida.

I voted Biden despite this. Even though I was a real leftist is 2020.

Somehow, I'm still to blame.

I ain't falling for this shit this time. They want to piss and cry and fart that I'm a problem. But they won't work to get any of the 50% of eligible voters that are disengaged, only to blame the 0.3% that protest vote. Controlled opposition is too nice, they're just opposition at this point.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 3 hours ago

I was a Titan Project or buster back in 3028 and I deeply regret it. The Drej won't be defeated by joining Matt Damon, John Leguizamo, Janeane Garofalo, and Drew Barrymore on some silly quest.

Bill Pullman and Nathan Lane had the right idea, so we should participate in their system.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 6 points 2 hours ago

I feel like listening to some Powerman 5000.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago

TFW the supernova goes paawwp

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The End Is Over

I thought they were actually pretty fun when they were making ridiculous scifi-themed songs and dressing up in astronaut suits. Ironically, when they tried to get more serious they got very cringe.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I prefer the old style wackiness.

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] blame@hexbear.net 9 points 3 hours ago

wow that's one for the olds

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, it's an old gag, but I liked the "Dredge/Drej" pun for this comm too much to not invoke it a bit.

[-] blame@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

ive had mayan pilot stuck in my head for longer than most hexbears have been alive

edit: oh wow that song isnt in the soundtrack, but the band is

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago

I think Creed's "Higher" was in one of the movie's trailers but wasn't in the movie, either.

I found out about Jamiroquai from that movie and I still like that band.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 20 points 5 hours ago

won't defeat it by not participating in the system

the system IS genocide and you won't defeat it by participating within it

[-] kittin@hexbear.net 26 points 6 hours ago

Imagine if someone evil was shooting at these prisoners instead of me

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 25 points 7 hours ago

Straight up genocide denial. It's the only way I would describe this. Neither Harris or Trump are going to stop the genocide.

[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 41 points 8 hours ago

"as aoc said when arguing why you should vote for biden the first time: you’re not just voting for the person who already gives you everything you want. you’re voting for the person you will argue against, criticize, protest and try to convince to do what you want. out of the two, who do you think is less likely to respond to protests? who’s more likely to be open to dialogue, even if it’s an adversarial one? vote for Harris, then protest the fuck out of her positions you don’t like. maybe with enough pressure you can force some change. with mango mussolini you have no chance."

My favorite lib strategy. Give up what little leverage you have, give the person you don't like everything they want, and then complain about it from a position of zero political influence. Also, if you complain well enough to actually require an issue be addressed, you'll get the full weight of the US legal and enforcement mechanisms on your ass.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago

If that's your metric I'm not sure K-dolf comes out on top. Both are genocidal maniacs but Trump is so vain and erratic that you could at least imagine him doing something for popularity's sake even if it was the right thing to do.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 13 points 4 hours ago

who’s more likely to be open to dialogue, even if it’s an adversarial one?

Libs completely ignoring that both Trump and Harris are equally unlikely to listen to the average person. With a majority of the country opposing genocide, it's still full steam ahead even though it might cost the dems the election.

[-] migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

The "both sides" argument. Lovely.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"how can you think they're the same? Trump will sign the authorizations for weapons and funding with a darker sharpie" —you, a clueless genocide apologist

[-] newacctidk@hexbear.net 9 points 2 hours ago

Both are supporting a fucking genocide you ghoul

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 15 points 3 hours ago

Yes, both sides are complicit in genocide which should be a red line. Is there literally anything that the democrats could do that would result in you not voting for them? If Harris came out and openly said "I support the genocide of Palestinians", would you still vote for her because Trump would be worse?

[-] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 41 minutes ago

Is there literally anything that the democrats could do that would result in you not voting for them?

the question you will never, ever receive an answer to

@migo@lemmy.dbzer0.com prove me wrong

[-] AdlachGyfiawn@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 hours ago

Do you guys say this even when both sides are the same? In a vote between sky blue and navy blue, neither option is red, and neither option is closer to red.

[-] Coca_Cola_but_Commie@hexbear.net 31 points 9 hours ago

Genocide is evil and I will oppose it by carrying out my prescribed role in the genocide machine. I’ve heard if you just work hard enough the machine will stop doing genocide and build a welfare state instead.

[-] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 27 points 9 hours ago

you won’t defeat it by participating in the system either.

[-] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 29 points 10 hours ago

the more egregious ignorance in that post is the notion that they are participating in the system

its not a very big club, and you ain't in it

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 25 points 10 hours ago

Torment is bad, which is why we all must do our part and clock in our 16hrs a day at the Torment Nexus type beat

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 42 points 11 hours ago

Bruh trump may have been effective in turning some arab states' backs on palestine but biden and harris ran one of the most effective white washing of a genocide I've ever seen. I don't think people contemplate how bad it is.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 3 points 40 minutes ago

how it doesn't psychically break liberals to campaign for someone like Harris is inconceivable to me

[-] RomCom1989@hexbear.net 28 points 9 hours ago

It's a paper thin cover up

They're burning all their soft power for their MENA base and it'll fuck their standing in the long run

[-] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 40 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

@jagged_circle@feddit.nl -5 • 43 minutes ago

Nah. I choose no genocide. Wtf is wrong with you.

Communist 1 • 10 minutes ago

awe sweet cant wait to see some solidarity!

That isn’t on the ballot, you don’t understand first past the post do you?

bocchi-glitch how does it happen everytime!!!

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 43 points 10 hours ago

you don’t understand first past the post do you?

smuglord

I'm so sick of libs going on about "first past the post" and ranked choice voting. They always have a magic reform they obsess over. Before this every lib would thought terminate with "We need to overturn Citizens United!" It's their magic smart person thing to say, that if this one thing changed then it will all be perfect.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 12 points 8 hours ago

Sorkin brain and its consequences etc

[-] huf@hexbear.net 27 points 10 hours ago

they never have a plan beyond wishing for it. it's just that oprah bullshit about thinking good thoughts, so good things come to them.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago

"The Secret" is just solipsism for brunch liberals.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 3 hours ago

The Secret is Calvinism for brunch liberals

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 7 points 3 hours ago

If good things happen to privileged rich assholes, it's because they manifested those good things correctly.

If the poors don't have good things happen to them, it's because they didn't do "the Secret" magic correctly and got what's coming to them.

Yeah that kind of checks out.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago

And just like in regular Calvinism, you can tell who's virtuous by how rich and "successful" they are within capitalism. It's a secular version of specifically the amerikkkan prosperity gospel branch of Calvinism.

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 23 points 9 hours ago

Libs operate based on 40k Ork magic, they think if enough people believe hard enough things will get better.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 3 hours ago

Cool, calm, and collected ones go faster. maybe-later-honey

[-] combat_doomerism@hexbear.net 18 points 10 hours ago

it just hurts that much more to see it coming from the username "Communist"...

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 16 points 9 hours ago

Someone needs to send them your pfp Red Rosa's book on the topic; for them to read or to bludgeon them with, whichever tbh.

[-] ObamnaSoda@hexbear.net 32 points 11 hours ago

Not trying to praise Bernie, but the they basically say 'I like bust actually'

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 28 points 11 hours ago

For us Bernie or bust meant if this electoralism shit doesn't work out we are gonna bust some fuckin heads.

For this fuckin nerd it meant they were just gonna shrug and give up.

[-] AvocadoVapelung@hexbear.net 15 points 5 hours ago

bernie or bust out the excuses for the lack of terror

[-] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 5 hours ago
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