Kbin/Mbin (and possibly others?) definitely have the edge here since those platforms make votes public (only admins can see them on Lemmy). So, if you want to confirm what I’m saying here, go view some of these posts from Kbin/Mbin.
Every time one of the “usual suspects” says stuff like this in the comments, there will later be posts detailing how Biden is doing (or at least earnestly trying to do) exactly the things they’re saying he needs to be doing (oR ElSe i WiLl noT voTE anD NEithER ShoULD yoU!!!11!!). 100% of the time, those posts are downvoted by these same “usual suspect” accounts.
What gives? They have very strong opinions about how he should run his administration, so you’d think they’d appreciate him doing what they’ve been so helpfully suggesting. Unless…it was never about the issues at all.
That thin veneer of concern they’re hiding behind is not as thick as they think it is and is quite easy to see through. Now you know where to look.
Edit: Please don’t name and shame any specific users. That may violate the community or LW rules. We all know who most of the “usual suspects” are.
Also, even if he’s not, are you really stupid enough that he’ll be exactly as harmful to those causes as Donald “My Draft Platform is Literally ‘Droppin’ the Pretense we Doin’ Fascism Now!'” Trump?
There are only two ways you could genuinely believe that, conspicuous use of the lense of privilege, and just being the most politically unaware moron this side of a YouTube comment section.
There’s two ways to end up with an authoritarian regime. And they both stem from a lack of accountability. One is the state being unable to hold people accountable and the other is the people not holding politicians accountable.
If you are blindly supportive of war crimes then the opposition will be no better. Democrats aren’t an altruistic organization. Their goal is to control the government. They just support doing it legally for now.
Thing is you accuse supporters of being blindly supportive of anything. That’s where you’re wrong, both about the blindness and the support.
It doesn’t matter how much noise you make if you reliably pull the lever for them. That action is the blind support. And that support was justified before Democrats decided genocide was okay. If genocide isn’t a deal breaker then we’re already over the cliff and in free fall.
the opposition will be no better
You people are still trying the “both sides” thing? It’s getting old.
Any criticism of democrats is magically dispelled by calling “both sides” huh? This may be shocking to you, but democrats and republicans i.e. “both sides” are actually the same on a number of issues, including many major ones like undying support for the genocidal ethnostate known as israel. You can’t just dismiss this with the magical “both sides” accusation. You’re mistaking “both sides are exactly the same in all ways” with “both sides are bad in certain ways”.
