this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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No Geneva was trying to say in their OP that the candidate opposing Ken Paxton is a poor candidate, which is true, but as I have learned today from 2 threads in two ask lemmy communities on both instances: .ml doesn’t want people to vote.
They have no solution to get rid of trump, just the intention that they wish they could burn all of America and Israel, and don’t want to be called extremists, but also don’t really want to say those quiet parts out loud. (Possibly because they know their extremism could land them in legal trouble in some countries where their servers are)
The “but biden” is a far right dog whistle, which is interesting because .ml is supposedly far left, though the far sides can indeed be very close to each other when plotted on a circle.
So what’s the liberal solution to get rid of the Obamas, the Bidens, the Kamala’s, and the Newsroms? Becuase it’s never happened yet.
If your solution is only to remove one bad option and never focus on the less bad option that is not a solution either.
Electing progressives and anti zuonists to seats and the DNC to make it useful. Work has already started.
Progressives have already had the power to fight against the zionists, and keep chosing not to. They only pretend to fight against zionists when convenient.
Hell, look at you right now, defending zionists.
Yikes, guess we'll continue on doing nothing then, thanks.
Can you point out where I said we should do nothing? Because it seems pretty clear to me that I never said that.
I love how libs have to keep making up arguments that I've never made, rather than discuss the things that I've actually said.
Just the general unhelpfulness, cheers.
Holy fuck, are liberals okay? Jesus christ, man.
Hoooolyyyy fuck, lmfao!
Please tell me your dictionary has more than just the letter F. You seem to really struggle with basic comprehension and discourse in the simplest of languages.
You are a horseshoe theorist with absolutely no concept of how ahistorical and laughable of a position it is. Communists are the opposite of fascists. Liberals are a flavor of fascist.
You have reformist, liberal views and you are completely and utterly intentionally ignorant to Marxism. You're not interested in truths, just paranoid xenophobias and conspiracy theories. You're not prime for radicalization. The only thing left to do is point and laugh so others know what not to do.
Your clamoring for civility, as liberals do, is meaningless. Your comments in this thread are shameful. I am laughing at you.
But then, how come I feel great? I feel like I can do this forever. I have a postive can do attitude towards a broken system because I believe in humans, not in box thinking.
Good on you for using paragraphs and no swear words. You seem to proclaim yourself as someone of the enlightened variety whilst attempting to label me based on diagonally read comments.
Do tell, what do I need to know about Marxism that is relevant to my quest to help Americans to displose of their little orange problem? Make sure in your answer that it at least sounds like it is somewhat relevant, as I’m sure many will outside your echo chamber will struggle to see it.
I can see communists and fascists not being the same thing, but I’d say that communists, capitalists and imperialists have all had from time to time had to deal with fascists sneaking up in their power structures.
And who said I wanted to be prime for radicalisation? What are you? A Taliban recruiter?
Who even talks like that in 2026?
Continuing to display your imbecility is certainly one way to proceed.
You can't "see" anything. You base your conclusions off of vibes and refuse to study even cursory history before flapping your gums. You're a perfect embodiment of a dumbass reactionary. Saying, out loud, that "imperialists have to deal with fascists too!" is perhaps one of the biggest self-reports I've ever seen.
You do not know anything about politics. This isn't a debate, I am lecturing you. You don't have the requisite curiosity and honesty to have a debate about politics.
Literally everyone with even an iota of political education. The idea you dont know you're radicalized as a liberal tracks, though.
Bro I'm not debating Zionism or Nazism with you, lmfao. Good luck finding a debate partner somewhere else.
If you were half as good as me as defending your viewpoint, I’d be scared too.
So far your "defense" has been "If you hate genocide, you must be a russian bot", or "If you are against zionists, you must secretly want Trump to win". I wouldn't call that being good at defending your viewpoint, as much as I'd call it "Slinging around baseless accusations".
Lmfao. Good luck with that, psycho.