INB4 tHEyrE AUthORiTaRiAn
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Social democrats who live in reality: The Democrats are better than Republicans.
Lemmy Communists: Liberal!!!
By that logic, Hindenburg was "better" than Hitler, but choosing one still got you the other in the end.
You can guarantee yourself Hitler, or you can pragmatically choose Hindenburg and give your country a chance.
Liberals be playing Hitler Gatcha lmfao
And lemmy communists be playing Hitler cookie clicker.
If we had the electoral power you losers think we have, why aren't you bending the knee to us instead of moderate Republicans who fantasize about throwing you into meat grinders
I'm not the one who needs to bend the knee, and those "moderate Republicans" aren't ever going to.
Plus you're all kind of obnoxious so I wouldn't really want to be associated with you publicly.
Then stop complaining about us not voting for you.
Ah yes, the classic "the tankies are loud and mean so I HAD TO BECOME A FASCIST"
Not loud and mean, smug and delusional.
This from the "Hitler is the only option and we must support him" loser
Beats mecha-hitler. Fewer people dying is better.
Wait wait, before you were saying better Moderate Hitler than Hitler. Now you're saying better Hitler than Mecha Hitler. See how easy it is to make you even more of a nazi? All they have to do is keep adding 1 degree more Hitler, and that's what they're gonna do, and you're gonna keep falling for it while people with brains and souls wise up.
So I can count on your vote for Mecha Hitler against Super Mecha Hitler, right citizen?
I adopt the terminology of the person I'm replying to in order to avoid a debate on semantics. Clearly you're interested in debating semantics at any cost.
"This is just semantics!" From the guy who supports an actual ongoing genocide AND funding ICE
We need to effect what we can control first and foremost. Harm minimization and resistance, it's not one or the other and either way it's not fascism to acknowledge that there is a path towards harm minimization.
If you actually consider non-Americans to be equally human as Americans (and let's be honest, you don't) then the "harm minimisation" path is the one that collapses the genocidal empire the fastest.
I'm not American in the first place.
Why the fuck do you go to bat for Copmala and Genocide Joe then?!
That doesn't make your white supremacy better
Harm minimization and fascism resistance is when vote for mass slaughter and genocide, endlessly support a party that gives billions to the gestapo to put people in concentration camps, talk about how much you support the lesser of two hitlers, and tell people organizing actual resistance that they're being unrealistic.
Lmao lick my gutters, nazi clown
We aren't ever gonna bend the knee either, so you can either start practicing your lunges or start practicing your goose stepping. I'm pretty sure I know which one you'll choose.
I'm not telling you to, mostly because it wouldn't work. I'm just saying that despite how smart you all think you are, you don't live in reality.
You didn't even know who Hindenburg was until 15 minutes ago but still confidently replied to a comment about him before looking it up, maybe don't lecture others about their knowledge of reality.
Is that the reality where your Hindenburg already had a Holocaust under his belt before the election, and you supported him anyway like the good little nazi you are?
Yeah but that was one of those good genocides like the kind Dems fund and arm
Okay have fun electing Hitler then.
Incredibly scratched liberal
Off the charts on that one.
Your gotcha roll for a "moderate hitler" got you a Klaus Barbie. Congratulations.
This is a bit, isn't it? There's no way you actually believe the things you're saying.
I adopted the other person's framing, but I do think "moderate Hitler" isn't as bad as "Hitler". Just like "moderate Republicans" (the Democrats) and better than "Republicans".
I don't think I'm the weird one for wanting to do harm minimization when harm eradication isn't realistically on the table.
Shit, this take is literally so bad that I might need to go to the hospital for a stroke. Actual cognito hazard.
Watch out y'all, they found a way to kill commies over the internet.
"A better world is not possible, the best we can do is moderate hitler unironically" was NOT on my bingo card for today, but here we are.
oh my god, you're actually not joking
I could get you to support anything by this logic, rather than refuse the non-choice and choose revolutionary means instead. Literally the only value on display here is the preservation of the current state of things.
You're the one saying it's not on the table, since your idea of political participation doesn't seem to ever go beyond voting every 4 years for parties that stand for the same thing in the end.
Your communist revolution is not as imminent nor as popular as you think.
It already happened and has over 1b people behind it.
Neither is the party you support lmao. May I remind you that despite billions of $ in campaign findings, dozens of appearances on TV and other mass medias, dozens of political rallies, all while being the one of the 2 duopoly party and having no obstacle, Kamala still managed to lose to Trump of all peoples.
your moderate hitler lost to hitler
Sure, a non-Hitler would've won, but that's not the race we were dealt.
Don't you think that if a system has you year after year advocating for "moderate" reactionaries who, even by your concessions, are still doing a tremendous deal of net-harm, that destroying the system trying to convince you those are the only two options is a much better use of your time than doing your best to make sure we all bleed out, but slightly slower?
geriatric moderate hitler helped the moderate hitler party halt their pseudo-democratic moderate hitler candidate selection program in favor of undemocratically annointing an even more wildly unpopular and more hated moderate hitler that promised to do everything hitler did but with a smiley face so you could stay at brunch.
A candidate who then lost to the regular hitler lmao.
It's amazing that the only political options you can imagine is voting for the hitler or 99% hitler party until you get hitler anyway or a revolution you consider impossible. The revolution doesn't come from nowhere and revolutionary politics is not just immediately taking power. You build up parallel institutions of power to be ready to fight when you need to and seize power when the opportunity comes.
Your entire stance here is just "better things aren't possible, hitler is inevitable".
The vast majority of Americans think seizing power is putting the Democrats in charge. Not dismantling the government, military, press, and capitalism.
Yeah, in that case "the vast majority of Americans" are wrong. You're also overestimating how many people believe in that sham of an electoral system, look at polling on whether America is democratic or look at voter participation rates.
thx made me chuckle
Again, you keep sincerely saying these things that we say as jokes and it's tripping me up
Yeah, "moderate hitler" seriously got me. Do they not realize that people say "moderate hitler" to mock the exact political position they now seem to be unironically supporting?
It's funny how pathetic of a "win" that supposed difference is yet you have to defend it because it's the only leg desperately trying to hold your ridiculous argument together.