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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m going to go right now into your history and upvote every comment of yours I agree with

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s great that you agree with me on some things.

    Democrats still need to listen to criticism. They still need to realize that there are things they can do that will cause people who would otherwise vote for them to stay home in well-earned disgust. Voters have standards, and when they see a party willing to do nothing for them and anything for a genocidal apartheid regime on the other side of the planet, the expectation of unquestioning enthusiasm takes a lot of gall.

    You can blame voters all you want, but the party wasn’t failed by the voters. The voters were failed, repeatedly, over the course of decades, by a party that has no interest in ever actually representing them.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”. That serves the fascists.

      End of story.

      There are ways to say what you want to say carefully. But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”.

        I’m remarking on a genuine phenomenon. At no point did I tell anyone to stay home, but anyone who wants no criticism of the party interprets all criticism as such.

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    • gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      No one here brought up the Democratic Party or genocide except you.

      This is a post about division on Lemmy.

      You actually don’t have to demonstrate that. You can choose to find common ground in the culture of the platform and save the division for matters that are important to you in the communities that discuss them. That’s up to you, friend.

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      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        No one here brought up the Democratic Party or genocide except you.

        This is a post about division on Lemmy.

        And it sure would be nice for all the centrists who spent a solid year screeching abuse at anyone who dared to say that genocide was wrong if anyone who said it could be silenced by saying that they’re being divisive.

        Meanwhile, I don’t see you saying boo to everyone who’s calling anyone to their left a tankie. “Divisive” is a club used by the orthodox to enforce orthodoxy.

        You actually don’t have to demonstrate that. You can choose to find common ground in the culture of the platform and save the division for matters that are important to you in the communities that discuss them.

        I can choose to agree with genocide or shut up. That’s the only thing you’re saying.

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