I’ll add homophobia to the list of reasons to disregard your opinions.
Also, -125. ☺ Fun Fact: -125 is -5^3
Karma’s definitely not a perfect way to track if someone’s genuine or not, but you need to be consistently and impressively awful to get numbers like that.
Yeah, but Biden’s not the one committing it. Biden is an incidental element of a much larger apparatus and if that apparatus is primarily meant to commit this particular genocide, he’s not a particularly effective one.
what makes you think he’ll stop it when he’s not at any risk of losing the election?
Literally nothing. No one is arguing that borderline unconditional support will make Biden change his mind. Why would you even ask? On the other hand, if making Biden think he’s gonna lose won’t sufficiently motivate him, then threatening to not vote is just an ineffective strategy. Your premise undermines the conclusion you seem to be hinting at.
People are often weird about the intersection of genetics and psychology generally. When I was in HS a kid tried to tell me that intelligence wasn’t heritable because genetics didn’t play a role. When I pointed out that people with genetically-linked intellectual disabilities exist, they said that it was different. Apparently they didn’t understand that disabilities are a result of (among other things) genetic variations and not the other way around.
Some folk are having difficulty figuring out that there aren’t any good guys here. We have (in no particular order):
Hamas, who are killing and raping innocent civilians, maintaining military rule, and generally being some of the most prominent examples of why theocracy is bad.
Israel, who’s doing a genocide and helped ensure Hamas was in power because Hamas is fucking evil and thus easy to hate.
The US who is supplying the former, and thus making things easier for them. Simultaneously, Biden appears to be trying to get a bunch of countries to form a peacekeeping force, but frankly I’m not giving him points for that. (Ofc, this does not mean you shouldn’t vote for him. Trump is worse.)
A large ammount of civilians who are being pushed by the first two into making each other victims and being brainwashed into thinking that one or the other is good.
The closest we have to a good guy in this scenario is fucking Egypt who’s participating in a scheme to maintain a peacekeeping force. And as far as I remember not doing anything shady that’s relevant. Reminder that this is the country that periodically comes out with a magical AIDS-curing laser.
In my experience, Anarchists and democratic socialists usually get along just fine, so long as they don’t argue over semantics. Tankies aren’t leftists.
I don’t think Libertarian Socialists should try to get along with tankies. I think we should excise them from every project. Not because we fundamentally disagree (we do) but because tankies are simultaneously traitors and an optics nightmare. Furthermore, they’re not a large contingent of the population and so they don’t really even grant us strong numbers by appealing to them. I’d honestly rather include progressive liberals than tankies because they’re less traitorous (because they’re usually not part of a personality cult) they’re not terrible for optics, our politics have a similar degree of divergence, and they can draw better numbers. Liberals are also less frequently brainwashed and often less politically engaged than tankies, which combined with their frequent love of hearing people out makes it easier to couch our goals in language they find appealing and thus helping them align.
Y’know, it’s funny. I was looking over my comment history just a second ago, and before I got your message the previous comment was sitting at 2 and now it’s at 0. Right after you messaged me. When your arguments are dogshit in a community that’s not particularly fond of China. It’s almost like you’re using multiple accounts to manipulate votes like a loser tankie.
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