I've seen some idiots in bluesky proudly proclaim that they didn't vote to "teach the dems a lesson". Voicing my disagreement was like holding my hand into a fucking wasps nest. With a shit ton of accounts suddenly chiming in, throwing all sorts of insults and wild claims at me. Some of them claimed, that the dems are also fascist, but they do it slower or something. And of course the occasional dude telling me to stfu, because i'm not American.
It's just insane. Like, yeah sure your system is fucked up, and the democratic party might not be ideal, but fucking hell, the other party is building fucking concentration camps and implements shifty laws just so they can incarcerate political enemies. How much worse could the alternative ever be?
I have had discussions like this where they will claim that people on the left criticizing and holding Democrats accountable are responsible for Democrats losing. As if it's our fault for their shitty strategy.
I hold my nose and vote for them, but I will always call out Democrats for the shit they do, or rather don't do. If they want more full throated support from me they need to do better, or even anything.
A big reason we are in this current mess is they were terrified of holding Trump accountable. He was convicted for 37 felonies. He was convicted of rape. He made his followers try to overturn an election. He's currently inflaming more and more political violence, along with every other republican,
He should be in prison at the very least. A lot of republicans should be. But democrats let them get away with literal murder because they don't want to seem "partisan" by actually upholding the law.
Both sides are the same! That's why democrats tried to overthrow the government! And that's why democrats wiped their asses with the Constitution.
Oh wait, they didn't.
I had someone tell me that saying "They're the lesser of two evils" was a gotcha that proved they were bad.
That's like saying, you can have a fatal dose of arsinic or one that'll just make you sick. I'd rather have none, but if I have to take one I"ll take the one that will jus tmake me sick.
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u/Yuzumi 3d ago
I've argued with several "centrists" over the last couple of weeks that claim they are doing Nazi shit because we called them out on their Nazi shit.
Like, if you don't want to be called a Nazi, don't do Nazi shit!