• @notsoshaihulud
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    104 days ago

    Democrats were warned

    So, the litmus test of this logic is this: Do we blame the opposition for the Nazi party? Should we start doing that too after 80 years?

    • @captainlezbian
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      134 days ago

      It’s a concurrence. Who do you blame for the rise of the nazi party: the nazis who kept rigging the deck in their favor and sowing discord, the conservatives who enabled them, the ineffective social democrats whom people were disillusioned with, the people who held out against voting for them, or the people who basically were screaming at the latter three to do fucking something.

      • @WagyuSneakers
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        94 days ago

        With the amount of screaming and championing that the Dems have ignored I refuse to believe it’s incompetence or ignorance. This is wilful and active support for the party they claim they’re in opposition to.

        • @captainlezbian
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          -14 days ago

          Cool but I’m actually asking who you blame in the 1930s. In the 2020s I think the dems loved the idea of opposing Trump when they thought it was easy and not when they didn’t. But i can also see scenarios in which they acted how they did while hating the whole situation

      • @notsoshaihulud
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        74 days ago

        It’s a concurrence. Who do you blame for the rise of the nazi party: the nazis who kept rigging the deck in their favor and sowing discord, the conservatives who enabled them, the ineffective social democrats whom people were disillusioned with, the people who held out against voting for them, or the people who basically were screaming at the latter three to do fucking something.

        Yup, in other words post WW1 German society as a whole. People don’t get to blame Dems without laying blame on themselves as part of this present society.

        • @captainlezbian
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          94 days ago

          The antifascists are the only ones who weren’t partly to blame. But also on a scale of who’s most to blame, it’s the nazis.

          • @notsoshaihulud
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            3 days ago

            on a scale of who’s most to blame, it’s the nazis.

            yup. that’s my point, sometimes users on Lemmy (and other left-leaning sites) imply that Dems are much more to blame than trumpists. Ultimately it’s the people who voted for trump and then the people stayed at home, and then the Democrats.

    • @MellowYellow13
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      33 days ago

      We have no opposition party lmao. Was it worth it for Harris to throw the election by siding with Israel? Neoliberals are also fascist.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 days ago

      Yes, we should, as liberalism works for capitalism and capitalism always leads to fascism. Rosa Luxembourg said it best, socialism or barbarism. But Marx and Engels described the end stage of capitalism almost 100 years before fascism.

    • @WagyuSneakers
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      34 days ago

      They’re not an opposition. They famously will not act like one. They’re complicit. After this loss and the lack of resistance I’m done. I’ve canvassed and fought for Dems for almost two decades and I could count our number of “Wins” on one hand. What a colossal waste of my time and effort.

      Dems/Reps aren’t the same because they’re just as bad as each other, they’re bad because they’re both on the same team. The Dems had multiple chances to stop this and actively chose not to. It was a trolly problem with no one on the other tracks.

      • @[email protected]
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        3 days ago

        That’s not true, the professional managerial class (“coastal liberal elites”) that Harris laundered a billion dollars through only to lose and their donors aka the “good billionaires” (words of the new dnc chair not mine) were on the other tracks.