• Flying Squid
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    420 hours ago

    You do know ‘averted’ doesn’t mean ‘avoided happening forever until the sun engulfs the Earth’ right?

    • @hark
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      219 hours ago

      Perhaps your standards are low, but I don’t count keeping the seat warm for one presidential term as averting anything. Biden could’ve picked an AG that actually pursued prosecution of Trump, but instead he put in milquetoast Garland who sat with his thumbs up his ass the entire time.

      • Flying Squid
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        -219 hours ago

        Then you don’t know what ‘averting’ means. When you avert your eyes, do you look away and not look back again for an hour?

        • @hark
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          319 hours ago

          My bad, I thought the goal was to fight fascism, not merely put a short pause on it. I suppose taking a one minute break between eating shit is better than continually eating shit, but I’d rather not be eating shit.

          • @PugJesus
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            -419 hours ago

            And yet, curiously, you continuously argue for the equivalence of eating shit and any amount of time spent not eating shit.

            • @hark
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              219 hours ago

              How am I doing that by arguing we should be putting pressure on democrats (our only seemingly pliable party in this two-party system) to actually fight fascism?

              • @PugJesus
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                -119 hours ago

                How am I doing that

                This you?

                You’re making a pointless argument. Things can always get worse. Name anything that could be done and I’ll tell you how it could be made worse. All you’re doing is distracting from the fact that both democrats and republicans are supporting a genocide and it’s not going to stop until Palestine does not exist anymore. The end result is the fucking same and you’re here arguing over pointless technicalities as if they mean anything. Get a clue.

                How do you measure this “speed up”? What you consider a speed up could’ve simply been the progression of the campaign which would’ve occurred under democrats as well. Either way the end result is the complete annihilation of the Palestinian people. Do you think starving them all to death is better than bombing them all to death just because it’s slower?

                • @hark
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                  -119 hours ago

                  Yes, that is me. What’s wrong with anything I’ve said? I’m pointing out the reality that democrats have been full-throatedly supporting the genocide. If you think we can’t do any better than that, then how do you think the genocide ends?

                  • @PugJesus
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                    Yes, that is me. What’s wrong with anything I’ve said?

                    That’s literally you saying you see no difference between [bad thing] and [any amount of time not spent doing bad thing because it will resume].

                    Like, this isn’t complex. I’d ask how you aren’t getting it, but I already know that you completely lack intellectual honesty. Not even two fucking comments and you’ve already pretended to forget the question you asked for evidence for.