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Lemmy just can’t handle someone who’s anti-genocide

They can’t when that stance conflicts with their party. Hence why “The dems need to stop the genocide, people are not going to vote for genocide” gets you downvoted.

“fuck Biden for arming Israel” meme that has 1,500 upvotes

Those exist on .world? I see a lot more “You have to vote for genocide because trump would do genocide and also other bad things”.

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auk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t know how much I want to go around this merry-go-round. I’m losing some of my good humor about it. I’ll try though.

If you need evidence, here it is:

lemmy.world/search?q=fuck biden&type=All&listingT…

Let’s look at the first page:

Fuck Biden and fuck Putin.

(Even though I did vote for Biden in 2020 and plan to again in 2024 if he’s the Democratic nominee.)

118 upvotes (inb4 you pretend that the other three also included that little disclaimer, even though they didn’t)

Also genocide. Never forget that Biden is aiding and abetting a genocide. Don’t fucking look away because he’s your guy, motherfuckers

81 upvotes

Obligatory: Fuck Biden, Fuck Putin, Fuck Netanyahu/IDF and anybody else complicit in killing innocent people and/or oppressing people.

51 upvotes

Broadly, Biden supporting this genocide in the way that he has is costing him the election. Acknowledging this doesn’t mean you support Trump. Arguing that if you don’t support Biden in-spite of this position is headspinning, and some posters here (@PugJesus@lemmy.world ) are doing the work of trying to separate the left from Democrats in this regard.

49 upvotes

Expressing the viewpoint that you are claiming is banned, is incredibly popular.

You said, “They can’t when that stance conflicts with their party.” That’s backwards. I can’t speak for everybody, but for me, it’s exactly the other way around. Because I dislike genocide, and because Trump getting elected will accelerate the genocide tenfold, I support Harris. I’m not clinging to the Democrats even though they’re enabling genocide. I’m voting Democratic in this election because the alternative is more genocide. Much, much more.

You can understand and deal with that viewpoint head-on without caricaturing it into something else. You could say it doesn’t make sense, you could criticize the logic, you could try to argue some other strategy that is no genocide, instead of Harris or Trump. All fine. Instead you’re doing a little dodge where you pretend that the only reason someone might say that, is that they love Democrats and are okay with genocide. For as long as that’s your debate style, you are not welcome, as far as I’m concerned. Learn to respect the point of view of people you disagree with, if you like. I think it’ll help you. Or don’t, and get used to being not listened to in some forums, and banned from some others.

You can take that or leave it. I’m not trying to debate you. But I’m now pointing out for the second time that, rather than the issue being your viewpoint, which is popular on Lemmy, the issue is that you are caricaturing your opponent’s also-popular viewpoint on Lemmy into something nutty, so that you can send messages which have no possible possibility of any productive impact. That’s disrespectful and inflammatory. That’s why you are banned. Not because of your viewpoint, which is very popular on Lemmy.

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