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    Got a comment removed yesterday for ‘hate speech’.
    Lemmy .world is just Blue MAGA complaining about Reddit being Red MAGA.

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      I saw that; it was particularly ghoulish because it was in a comment section full of actual, overt hate speech. But that hate speech was directed at America’s enemies, so guess who’s catching the ban.

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    There’s been so many blue maga types popping up since the news came out and it’s hella annoying. For an entire day on bluesky you couldn’t go anywhere without seeing some ex Facebook boomer blue maga type glazing genocide joe. God forbid you said anything against him and you got absolutely dog piled and scolded by people who were one wrong turn away from being Trumps strongest soldier.

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    I think a lot of people are neglecting to think of Biden’s lifetime record in public office. The United States is the nation on Earth with the greatest proportion of its own citizens imprisoned and we have Biden’s 1994 crime bill in large part to thank for that. Unfortunately it wasn’t terribly shocking when he went on to be more supportive of the Palestinian genocide than any other president in US history other than Trump.

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      They’re not neglecting it, they’re purposefully ignoring it. People will tag (correctly, mind you) Reagan, Nixon, and Dubya as the issue of modern America, but if you bring up the voting/writing record of the most recent Blue Guy, somehow its not their fault, people are allowed to change, people can learn better, etc. etc.

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    Every liberal would be cheering and partying in the streets if Trump got stage 4 cancer.

    Then they turn around and say “Wow you’re so uncivil for cheering for the guy who has aided in a genocide, helped make COVID a permanent issue, ignored kids in cages, and made Trump run again.”

    Do they just not see all the issues with their favorite candidates or are they just unable to witness their own doublethink?

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        If Sanders keeled over, .world would be smugly saying “Aren’t we glad he didn’t have a chance at winning? He would have turned Murica into a socialist commie hellhole!”

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      Remember when they got mad after Trump said “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters”? They said it was cult-like behavior by his followers.

      But when Biden bombs children, or backs a genocide, it’s somehow not cult-like behavior to keep supporting him.

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      Blue MAGA is not a saying born lightly. These people are truly incapable of seeing their own party for the monters they are.

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        And then when you call them out, you’re calling being a useful idiot for having a braincell that wasn’t fed propaganda for a doupoly.

        Every time someone says “Blue MAGA isn’t a thing” I just roll my eyes and recall every time I was right about the DNC failing to protect the democracy they claim to support, and got downvoted, banned, flamed, censored, etc.

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    11 hours ago

    I think gloating about cancer is gross.

    I also think using cancer as an excuse for hagiography of a man who knowingly sold weapons for an ongoing genocide is gross.

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    I won’t excuse genocide. And apparently I’m the devil because of it.

    If someone can excuse genocide that’s a personal failing they should see to.

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    15 hours ago

    Civility towards the powerful. Callous indifference to the downtrodden. The liberal way.

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    Libs stop thinking in electoralist terms challenge [back-breakingly toilsome]

    Democrat politicians abandoned you decades ago and don’t have your interest in mind, please please PLEASE stop defending them/putting your hopes on them (and the electoral Kabuki theater in general) and do something about your situation yourselves. Organize, build community, help people in need, use your privilege where it matters.

    It’s too late for elections, even more if that’s the one and only thing you’re willing to do politically. You might “win” a presidential term for a democrat president next time but the damage is already done and everything is rotting around you.

    All this dumb bickering about “voting for the lesser evil” is incredibly frustrating for people from countries who endured dictatorships. So if anything, listen to them and act before it’s too late.

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    14 hours ago

    What if I don’t give a flying fuck about Biden? And I find both the people dancing about his nearing demise and the people clutching their pearls about that fucking stupid? There are almost certainly more important things of substance to place your energy into.

    I’m so fucking tired.

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      11 hours ago

      Less than a year ago he was the Democratic nominee for president. The fact that he was obviously unfit for the job is an indictment of all the Democrats who lied about his health for years.

      This is very much relevant to the future of the Democratic Party, not a “gosh who cares

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        That’s not what the people who are gleeful about his impending death are downright cheering about. They’re gleeful because of their parasocial hatred of the man.

        What you are talking about is an entirely different discussion. You are just shifting the goalposts.

        I hate Biden because he had a major hand in letting Trump win, but I legitimately do not give a fuck that hes dying of cancer, pro or con. He is irrelevant now. And the people invested in this are experiencing their own derangement syndrome, only worse than most cases because Biden is no longer even president.

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          Well, he did enslave and/or murder millions of people so there is plenty of revenge to be had

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          The gleeful people are gleeful because the man is responsible for a genocide, and a painful death is the only measure of justice he’ll get. “Parasocial” is a term for obsessivelt following twitch streamers, not seeking any sort of accountability for the most powerful person in the world.

          Plenty of people are also rightfully upset at further proof that Democratic leadership lied to them, and lied to them in a way that threw a layup election to Republicans.

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    Liberals: but what if we compromised, how about only some genocide? What if Israel only tortured half as many babies? What if Israel only illegally annexed half of the West Bank instead of their current plan to annex the entire thing? What if people were able to afford 50% of rent and 50% of all bills? What if we only cut Medicare and Medicaid by 50%?

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      Don’t be silly, liberals aren’t offering to spare half the Palestinians, there offering “killing all of them, but with a troubled expression on our face.”

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        Or kill just half of them and then, as a compromise, only kill half of the ones who are left (repeat until total remaining Palestinians is less than 1)

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    2 days ago

    Nooooo guys!!! Biden genocide was better than Trump genocide! 😡😡 You don’t understand, he said he was trying not bomb children!!! 😢

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      I know I’ll get downvoted for this, and to be clear, all of our governments supporting this genocide are absolute bullshit and capitalism is bullshit.

      However, at least you had one choice that wasn’t actively also trying to destroy your own country and take away the rights of people in your own country to such an extent that they now can’t even worry about what’s happening elsewhere because they’re too worried trying to find healthcare and not get deported, killed, or permanently detained.

      If you were going to not vote in order to take down the system, then show up and take down the god damn fucking system.

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        you had one choice that wasn’t actively also trying to destroy your own country

        If both parties are doing a genocide right now, how can you argue this is a bad thing?

        From a global perspective, the U.S. empire can’t end soon enough. It’ll even be good for the U.S. if we manage to take all that money reserved for worldwide slaughter and build houses and pay for education with it. Unfortunately, none of that appears likely to happen unless the empire crashes and burns first. Whether we can make something better out of that is another question.

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        Let me give you this dilemma, given the imperial nature of the US and that you need an overhaul of the system, isn’t trump the perfect candidate to vote to do just that?

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        However, at least you had one choice that wasn’t actively also trying to destroy your own country

        When a normal, moral person discover that a country is hellbent on genocide, they would think that destroying that country is a good thing.

        take away the rights of people in your own country

        The genocide in the colonies must continue for the benefit of the people in the capital.

        they now can’t even worry about what’s happening elsewhere

        So you were worrying before? Certainly didn’t accomplish anything.

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        “I’ll get downvoted for this but…” Says the most valid take ever

        Nevermind

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          The valid take of “yes the people I support are committing the worst acts imaginable to mankind, but I stand to personally benefit, so it’s actually good to support them.”

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            You made me think I supported someone who was against Palestine, he literally does not say that, you only infer that just because he isn’t fully anti-democrat and is using the ‘lesser evil’ arguement

            Oh the thinks Palestine/Hamas will destroy Israel nevermind

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              Where the fuck did I say Palestine would destroy Israel?

              I am 100% pro-Palestine, I just genuinely do not understand how voting someone in who has exponentially sped up the genocide and sped up the suffering of brown, queer people and women, in his own country is somehow the more moral choice in all of this. It doesn’t make any fucking sense to me.

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      I mean it is though, at least from a numbers perspective.

      Neither should happen but since i don’t get that choice, I choose the option that saves millions of lives.

      Not to mention the US is now party to the Ukraine genocide too.

      not to mention the real threat to foreign born citizens and LGBTQ people in the United States itself.

      So yes Biden is better even if we are dealing with shades of black

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        I mean it is though, at least from a numbers perspective.

        And which numbers are those? Oh, you meant vibes.

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        This is also false. Biden drastically upped the military aid to Israel after Trump left office.

        The US democrats are a vicious, genocidal party.

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          Its also one we have a better chance to influence. What serious organization for progressives is there?

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            Its also one we have a better chance to influence.

            What fucking garbage. democrats only listen to republicans and netanyahu.

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            It’s okay, we got it. You supported genocide and now you are trying to justify it so you can sleep at night.

            The only true unserious people here are those who defend a genocidal monster even when the monster literally confessed to be one.

            Have a shower.

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            You had a zero percent chance of influencing the Democrats, as evidenced by over a year of complete failure to do so. So no, you didn’t have a better chance to influence them

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              What serious organization for progressives is there?

              If you don’t have an answer for this you are just trolling and not serious about any matter.

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                Democrats are retaliating against David Hogg as a direct result of his serious organization to primary shitlibs.

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                You can’t answer it either, lol, that’s why you’ve been reduced to pretending you can influence the Dems when you’ve conclusively demonstrated that you can’t.

                But that makes sense, given that you admitted to being a troll.

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                  You can’t answer it either, lol, that’s why you’ve been reduced to pretending you can influence the Dems when you’ve conclusively demonstrated that you can’t.

                  I did answer it and you are making fun of my answer right there. Fair enough, but I have asked you what your ideas are, and all you can say is to twiddle your thumbs.

                  Voting dem and making it more progressive is an actionable item. What is your alternative that is so much better?

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            Its also one we have a better chance to influence.

            Lol. LMAO, even. We can’t get them to lift a finger against fascism, dude

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                So far Trump has proven easier to influence against Israel just because of how petty he is.

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        Okay, but then if we point our finger at your face and call you a genocide supporter, you shut up and take it right?! Right?

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          no i wouldn’t because i don’t support it and your inability to see shades of gray will paint darker and darker paths

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            When people start talking about “shades of gray” with regards to genocide, they 100% support genocide

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              and your abstinence vote 200% supports genocide, you not only gave your vote away to trump, but you actively sabotaged the dems chances

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                You have no idea how I voted, or if I live in a swing state, or if I’m even eligible to vote, so shut your presumptuous mouth. More to the point, only a BlueMaga lunatic could try to claim that not voting for genocide supports genocide twice as much as voting for genocide. Like, you don’t actually believe in anything, not even the meaning of words; you’ll just say whatever you can to confuse and antagonize.

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                  You have no idea how I voted, or if I live in a swing state, or if I’m even eligible to vote, so shut your presumptuous mouth.

                  centrists don’t care how you vote. If you’re to their left on the only issue any of them care about, everything is your fault.

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                  I refuse to believe these people are real and in good faith. One of the two thing must be wrong. You can not be this stupid.

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        You did not have to preface it with pretending to save anyone. You simply care only about yourself and you do not care about anyone else.

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        Except now Trump is starting to play hardball with Netanyahu, and is distinctly unhappy with the the U.S. taking so much flak while being treated as a money fountain.

        There is a much more real world where Trump gets sick of Bibi and pulls his support than Harris pulling support from Israel. A fully isolationist U.S. is better for Palestine.