• n1ckn4m3
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    6 days ago

    What, are you gonna be on the front lines with your guns shooting? The overwhelming majority of people with this mindset have never held a firearm in their entire lives and have no idea what they’re even talking about. What are you even insinuating here? Is your end goal that we burn the entire country down because “wahhhhh both sides aren’t perfect”? Grow up, only children refuse to see greater good through compromise because they can’t see past not getting what they want. Single issue voters love to stick their head in the sand and pretend the one issue that they’re whinging about is the most important in the world.

    Have fun standing on your “genocide” comment when you’re in a fascist dictatorship run by nazis. “but but but the genocide wah”

    • queermunist she/her
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      -536 days ago

      I’m insinuating that we can become ungovernable and force the government to capitulate to our demands. Mass protest, general strike, public disruptions, boycott, we have options to fight back.

      Instead of just voting every couple years.

        • queermunist she/her
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          -116 days ago

          I donate to bail funds and support resistance groups financially, because I live in the middle of fucking nowhere and there aren’t protests for me to join.

          • Tiefling IRL
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            96 days ago

            Start one then if you feel that strongly about what’s going on in Gaza

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              Oh come on, that’d expose them to actual risk from their neighbors who likely don’t share their views, and they surely cannot do that. Except when they become ungovernable when things get worse partially because of their vote, and then they’ll magically be capable of winning a revolution or whatever.

          • @WoahWoah
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            25 days ago

            So you support genocide because you live “nowhere”? OK.

      • @[email protected]
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        256 days ago

        Hey guess what? Fascists dont give a fuck about that shit, youll end up in a puddle of your own blood cause ya wont have the numbers. If it didnt work out for the fighters at Blair mountain a hundred year ago what makes ya think youll achieve anything.

        Fuck ya’d have a better chance doing random acts of terrorism that put the fucken IRA to shame. Still probably end up in a ditch but you could probably kill some of the ones trying to kill you.

        • queermunist she/her
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          6 days ago

          If you actually believed this sky is falling bullshit you’d be doing a hell of a lot more than voting. Do you even own a gun? lol

          EDIT sorry don’t answer that. What I mean I, I doubt you own a gun because you do not believe you’d ever need one, because you do not believe fascism is actually coming. This is all rhetoric.

          Fuck ya’d have a better chance doing random acts of terrorism that put the fucken IRA to shame. Still probably end up in a ditch but you could probably kill some of the ones trying to kill you.

          We don’t talk about that on Lemmy.

          • @[email protected]
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            36 days ago

            Im a Redneck, course I own a fucken gun. But heres the thing the Republicans are a party of fucken fascists, even if they dont get as bad as I suspect theyll still most likely use the police to gun down protesters and strikers. I just aint an idiot who assumes shit will work out, so I take every fucken step I can to keep the worst from happening. “Prepare for war hope for peace” is a pretty solid summary of alot of my philosophy.

            I assume for the worst and the worst involves concentration camps, firing lines, and the destruction of civil liberties. Sure ya can probably take out the local police with an ad hoc militia, but can ya take out say an SS or SA equivalent? What about the National guard or the military itself? Cause my rough guess is that the corruption would take about ten years minimum to destroy the professionalism and tech advantage of the US military.

            Voting costs nothing and depending on where one lives can have an outsized impact.

        • queermunist she/her
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          -106 days ago

          As much as we can, plus financial support.

          But I’m not going to organize a protest in a rural cornfield lol

          • @WoahWoah
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            15 days ago

            So you support genocide because you live in a cornfield? Cool.

            • queermunist she/her
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              -25 days ago

              It’s not like you’re out there fucking volunteering for Harris anyway. Do you want Trump to win??? 🙄

              • @WoahWoah
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                25 days ago

                Another narcissistic comment. You assume everyone else must live in a cornfield doing nothing because you do. SAD, especially since you support genocide.

                • queermunist she/her
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                  -25 days ago

                  I know, for a fact, that most people don’t do anything political other than vote every few years. I’m assuming you’re one of them.

                  Am I wrong?

                  I donate to bail funds and resistance orgs.

                  I bet you haven’t donated to Harris.

          • @Feathercrown
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            You have three options:

            • Kamala’s policies
            • Trump’s policies
            • “I don’t care” (no vote)
            • surprise mystery 4th option: vote 3rd party

            One set of policies is more helpful to ending the war peacefully than the other is. If you cared about your cause instead of grandstanding, you’d vote for it. Not voting sends no signal, and on average ends up with a policy somewhere between the two options, which is worse than the better option by definition. If you’re going yo waste your vote, at LEAST vote third party so that your message will be heard.

          • @[email protected]
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            36 days ago

            Part of Harris’s platform is a cease fire and a two state solution. Voting for her wouldn’t be “voting for genocide”.

      • @mhague
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        86 days ago

        Over people dying in another country? And not for important things like disenfranchising and taxes?

          • @mhague
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            14 days ago

            Important, but not to the level of civil disobedience like when we protested police abuse and systemic racism. Like a 4/10 judging by people’s actions.

            • queermunist she/her
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              -14 days ago

              2023 was the most deadly year for police shootings. Systemic racism and police abuse didn’t go away. Yet, no one is in the street.

              Why do you think that is?