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A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
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Still here, not going to appologize, I stand by my statement, both of them are facist, and the only two difrences between them where trajectory into utter decay, and retoric. Both of them make libs sanctamonious and tell me that I cannot call a spade a spade because the spade is actualy a hoe (it is very much a spade).
I never said they where congurent, or exactly the same, I said they where in the long run equivelent, and I stand by that statment. I said that Harris did nothing to earn my vote, and I stand by that, I said that running on "I am slightly less bad than the other guy and because there are only 2 parties that means you have to chose me" is not a sound or acceptable electoral stratagy, and I once agian stand by that. I said that her winding down her "they are wierd" and "Its neighborly not to hord wealth and be a rich ghool" tactics, that where working, and where austensably the reasons she chose Walz as her running mate because her brother in law, an Uber Exec did not like it was moronic and I stand by it.
Why have I decided not to keep posting about this, because your lot has stopped screaming that I have to cast a vote to someone that if I did I would not be able to sleep at night because I made an afermitive choice to suport them, because i see no significant disagreement between your view that "trump is a facist and the US is NOW facist" and mine "Wow trump as expected really plunged at a steep slope, he took some of the plausable denyability out before I was expecting, but it does not change that the Previously Facist US that is still Facist is moving down the Facism railway" so there is no god damn reason for me to post about it all the time
And before you ask, yes I know there are lives at stake and live are being torn apart, I am aware and not unsympethetic, no I do not think that it would have accelerated this fast with Harris, no I am not an accelerationis, no I did not "want" trump, yes if only 2 options exist harris would have been the slightly better one, but agian that is like saying eat dog shit, or eat dog shit coated in chocolate, I am not going to willingly chose either of those options.
So no, I am not sorry, no I am not gone, and no I am not "quiet" I just see no significant disagreement on the basis that I feel the need to write a comment, let alone now that election season is over you see a whole lot less trying to tell me that one would be the greatest thing ever.
I'll repeat and elaborate on something I said a few times before the election. As a preface, I fully understand your desire to not just 'choose the lesser evil', but the timing of your (the collective you, all the people who either sat out the election or, worse, convinced others to sit out) decision to make a stand is the part I take offense to.
The time to choose the lesser evil is when you have only those two choices and neither are good. You did indeed have a third choice, but that third choice was to walk away and potentially let the greater evil win -- which it did. In that way, you are partially responsible for that greater evil succeeding. Had you (collectively) voted for the lesser evil, we would not be slashing federal staffing, waging cold trade wars, deporting people, and letting several idiotic and vengeful toddlers run this country into the ground right now.
The time to take your stand is actually, RIGHT NOW. If you are not engaged in trying to field a better candidate, then you are letting the "system" drive instead, and it will continue to present democratic leadership that is not aligned with your beliefs. You alone probably can't make any significant impact, unless you happen to be wealthy and have tons of free time and want to go run for office. However, if all those people who were 'BoTh SiDeS!'-ing in October would come back and continue to hammer on the Democratic party to put forth candidates that reflect their values, we might actually get somewhere.
The way to do this is simple, but hard:
Either find candidates or run for offices. Failing that --which I'd admit is challenging; public service is not lucrative and is also very unstable, which is why we generally see already-rich old people in those positions -- become an advocate for your policies and rise up through precinct, district and state to reach the national stage.
If you are not working on those goals, Shut the fuck up and vote for the lesser evil. You are not helping anyone by posting here.
I've done step 2. My values mostly align with my precinct Democrats, and I helped with Get-Out-The-Vote initiatives in my area. What did you do to prevent fascism?
I'd also like to point you to Wikipedia's article on Fascism and see if you can provide a few examples of where Kamala Harris espoused those particular values. For each item in that first paragraph, I could quickly find you something where trump tells you that's him. A lie will fly around the whole world while the truth is getting its boots on, though, and maybe someone else can take over if you need examples and can't google by yourself... Kamala was going to at least stay within the system, while trump is going to destroy it.
Why do you not use spell check?
I mean mostly because I did not see the red lines and so I did not think to right click it, and I am generally shit at spelling