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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t think mls would show up to vote if we did have a group up left leaning party.

I knew plenty of MLs who did vote for PSL in the last few elections, just feels like you're dealing in caricatures.

It seems to me that your lack of urgency is due to privilege.

What lack of urgency and privilege? I've been plenty impacted by this government, I even had a person I knew through housing organizing get taken by ICE last year. I don't see the democrats as credible 'harm reduction'. they are useless at best, co-conspirators at worst.

Just look at how much effort I have to go to ask a lefty, you, to encourage others to form a party and at least vote as left as possible.

I already said it's minimum civic engagement, I even vote in municipal elections and try to get comrades to at least vote in those because they're decided by like a hundred people. Whatever you're arguing against, it's not my position.

J Edgar Hoover couldn’t have done better if he trained agentes himself

if you're going to accuse me of that, my observation is that the only one doing freelance fed work in this conversation is you

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What lack of urgency and privilege?

The kind were you are so dismissive about building out our options and growing progressive politics. Particularly in regards to voting.

I knew plenty of MLs who did vote for PSL in the last few elections, just feels like you’re dealing in caricatures.

And I've spoken to many that are dismissive and taunting about just not doing so.

I don’t see the democrats as credible ‘harm reduction’. they are useless at best, co-conspirators at worst.

Which is why we should vote as left as possible. Particularly in primaries. Ideally have our own party running.

and try to get comrades to at least vote in those because they’re decided by like a hundred people

Great. It does not seem like it. It reads like you would do the opposite.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Great. It does not seem like it. It reads like you would do the opposite.

as we've already established you're barely reading anything I'm saying

Ideally have our own party running.

are you going to vote PSL if they're on the ballot for you?

The kind were you are so dismissive about building out our options and growing progressive politics. Particularly in regards to voting.

I said that voting isn't organizing. it's not something that leads a movement, it follows a movement.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I happen to be in one of the last places they might show up. That said, if they were I would vote in their primary and again for them in the general.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sounds like we're in agreement on that at least then

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And we can move forward together there. I'll always vote as left as possible.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

It's good to hear. from re-reading this exchange I don't even think our practical positions are particularly different, we were talking past each other and have different electoral environments