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[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 49 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yeah. Voting blue no matter who turned out to not be a good strategy.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 34 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Liberals suck so much. She was probably told the talking point "protect children" yada yada and just signed it hoping to score political points without any critical thought on how it's the opposite.

She also signed an EO that lets people get covid shots without a perscription because the fed is run by people intent on destrying the country, so.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She is acting on behalf of lobbyists. That's how America got to this stage. Lobbyist lawyers and marketers write laws that benefit them, and they "donate" to politicians to pass that legislation.

The only politicians who actually read anything they vote on are leftists like Bernie and AOC; everyone else is doing what their financiers tell them to do.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Okay thanks. I was just confused if it was the covid thing

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Big Blueballs™

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish someone would make a "protect children" bill that actually protects children

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 10 points 2 months ago

But that would target all the people in power.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They're craven and evil–not compulsively evil like the red menace

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And so we should need a prescription for a COVID shot? Am I misunderstanding you?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No its just the contrast between nonsense and common sense.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, yes, agreed

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 8 points 2 months ago

It doesn't stop fascism, that's for sure

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Voting blue no matter who turned out to not be a good strategy.

It's funny how you relabel harm-reduction in voting, and imply the alternative wouldn't have been far worse. It's an art.

Weird how none of the party backed whatshisname in new York. Please stop.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's harm reduction to vote for someone who just lets fascists implement their policies, anyways?

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes because they're quieter and the white cis middle class liberals can all pretend everything's okay. The gay ones too, until recently.

Harm reduced. Not even some bullshit evisceration of a homeless guy (which I wanted) or harrowing shit done to trans people (which I could not give a single shit about) or immigrants dying in cages (behind tall walls where i don't have to see them); harm to me! Harm that matters!

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

How about that Keir Starmer?

Nothing makes me more hostile to the idea of voting blue than this fractally abusive rhetoric. If you're a RNC operative, you are a very very good one.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The larger problem is that the Democrats are worthless and unpopular by design. So they are incapable of defeating the Republican. There is no alternate vision, they are playing defenseon what the Republicans do.

So while it might be better than the alternative, the alternative is inevitably going to happen because they suck.

[–] tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Exactly! Alternate visions are not welcome in politics.

A vote for a democrat is at best toilet paper.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It would have worked if the tankies and the normies had actually bothered to vote! But no, you rather vote for genocide and fascism by staying home.