Which is why it’s a shame to see you fight each other as if that isn’t the case.

I would wholeheartedly recommend reading How To Win Friends And Influence People (or at least this summary). Especially if you’re trying to convince people to vote in the midterms.

  • Eheran
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    5 days ago

    That is what you want? Holy cow.

    • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      5 days ago

      Want is different from “can have”. One tick to the right in that picture here means 0.5 degrees of extra warming. 3 ticks means another catastrophic war. So yeah, let’s just stop it from moving rather than attack the only thing that can stop it.

      • LocalAreaMan
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        6
        ·
        4 days ago

        There was war happening under Biden. There was genocide happening under Biden.

        • DarkFuture
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          4 days ago

          This might shock you, but Biden wasn’t president of Earth. And he actually brought our troops home from the Middle East until The Rapist sent them back. He also openly expressed disapproval of Israel’s actions, floated arms shipment cancellations, and tried to broker a peace deal.

          Did he do enough? Nah. But you seem to have some imaginary concept of Joe Biden.

          • LocalAreaMan
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            4 days ago

            I’m shocked at how stupid you are. Yes.

            Biden brought troops home from Afghanistan, which is NOT in the Middle East, and only after he was an ardent supporter of the occupation for TWO FUCKING DECADES.

            If he’s not President of Earth" then why did Biden bend over backward to arm a genocide on the other side of the world? If he was soOOOOooo sad about it then why did he do it? Why did he consistently repeat debunked blood libel lies about “beheaded babies in ovens” from his campaign podium? He said he saw it with his “own eyes”!!! He’s a pathological liar, and has been for his entire career. It only got worse with senility.

            AM I really imagining this or do you have your head up your ass?

            Here’s a picture if that helps you understand what the Presidents of Earth have been up to.

      • LocalAreaMan
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        4 days ago

        Worse for who, you or kids in Gaza?

        I give zero fucks about one of these.

        • Talcosis@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          4 days ago

          Both.

          Edit: though I gotta say, my life has not gotten significantly worse since the reelection of trump, so. Thank you for your concern.

        • DarkFuture
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          4 days ago

          To be clear, I will always prioritize my own country and the people in it.

          To be even more clear, the rapist we got is WAY worse for Gaza than ANY Dem candidate would have been.

          So every dipshit that chose to stay home or vote for a candidate that couldn’t win literally condoned the WORST possible scenario for the kids in Gaza.

          • LocalAreaMan
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            3
            ·
            4 days ago

            I will never see the world through your chauvinistic lens. Human rights are universal.

            Your supposed rights and liberties are just selective privileges enjoyed on the backs of the oppressed.

            I can’t believe your making quantitative allowances for genocide. Wow.

            You deserve everything you permit onto others. And I really do hope you get it.

            • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              3 days ago

              I can’t believe your making quantitative allowances for genocide. Wow.

              Well not making them just made the quantities bigger. The problem with equating evils because they only differ by “degree”, is that it only peels off the voters who care about qualitative genocide, which tend to be those who vote against the greater quantitative genocide. The inevitable result is the total lack of qualitative reduction, and the quantitative increase of genocide.

              The actual people who make up that quantitative increase do not deserve that which you’ve permitted them. I had really hoped they wouldn’t get it.

              • LocalAreaMan
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                3
                arrow-down
                3
                ·
                3 days ago

                Dude. STFU.

                More people died under Biden and you still won’t STFU.

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        7
        ·
        5 days ago

        if only we could get rid of the right wing party that postures as left wing party and prevents all movement to the left

        • DarkFuture
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          4 days ago

          Maybe if you keep crying that will magically happen.

          • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            4 days ago

            projection

            i’m not the one making n+1 cope threads crying about how the communists and anarchists online are the reason democrats keep eating shit to a bunch of fucking clowns.

    • Feathercrown
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      5 days ago

      Disingenuous, they clearly state they believe it is the best we can hope to achieve, not that it is what they want. I don’t think they’re correct, but this is a bad faith reading. Avoid this in the future for stronger left cohesion.

      • Eheran
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        4 days ago

        No, that is not how it works. If I want a filthy street to be clean, then not adding more trash is not a solution. You have to actually remove existing trash. Voting the same party again that has failed people now and in the past is simply not the solution. If you vote shit instead of garbage because shit is at least compositing… the street stays filthy.

        • DarkFuture
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          4 days ago

          Voting the same party again that has failed people now and in the past is simply not the solution.

          It is in a federal election since no 3rd party can win a federal election. Literally.

          If you want to vote for something other than Dems or Repubs in local elections, even though no 3rd party is putting forth any effort to be viable in that arena either, then go for it and I’ll be cheering for you. If you want to pull that shit in a federal election. Well, time to return to school and receive a better education.

          The most popular 3rd party candidate in the 2024 election received 0.5% of the total votes cast.

          • Eheran
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            3 days ago

            You do not vote anything that would actually change things.l because that is not going to happen anyway, since nobody votes them. Oh there is an easy solution mate, not sure if I should tell you.

        • Feathercrown
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          4 days ago

          What I’m saying is, it was clear the other commenter did not want a filthy street. Their methods may have been ineffective at achieving that, but claiming they wanted it is incorrect.