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But bad systems create the incentives. Chalking it up to "bad people doing bad things" is a shallow analysis that does nothing to address the underlying problem. If you replaced all the "bad people" with "good people" you would see the same problems re-emerge due to the perverse incentives created by the profit motive.

Tbf the guys up top were mostly on board with slavery.

The guy denied sexual assault by Hamas during Oct 7, got upset when I called him out for it, and then immediately downvoted a bunch of anti-fascist posts, for which I banned him from the comm that he did it in. In that thread, for that matter, there are all sorts of people falsely calling me a transphobe and saying I refuse to use neopronouns.

They denied "systematic sexual abuse by Hamas," which is a specific claim in the report made by the Dinah Project, and which the UN has been unable to find evidence for in its own fact-finding missions (partly due to the Israeli government's obstruction of their investigation). The UN's own reports find some individual cases of sexual violence committed against Israelis on Oct. 7, not sexual violence committed against Israelis by Hamas as a systematic tool of war. That you refuse to acknowledge these are separate claims is the issue at hand here.

On Lemmy, it's widely recognized that the Dem party is fucked up, but as seen in this very comment section, there are numerous people who still think outright not voting when literal fucking Nazis are running against the anti-fascist coalition candidate is not only fine, but commendable and even morally necessary.

One drum clearly needs beat here more than the other.

You beating this particular drum is not helping and will never change non-voters' minds. The message of "you have to vote for us to stop the fascists and that's the only thing that matters" didn't work on most people before the election and it isn't going to work now just because you're repeating it more angrily this time. Yes, it sucks, but that's the reality and you need to come to terms with it.

I understand the anger; I voted for harm reduction myself and am just as distraught that it didn't succeed, but instead of doom spiraling and angrily lashing out at non-voters I am focused on identifying and fixing the problem. People didn't vote for Democrats in large enough numbers to stop fascism, and the reason is that they are disappointed in and uninspired by Democratic leadership. The solution then is not to try and browbeat them into voting, it's to replace the leadership.

The solution is in the primaries, and this is where "purity politics" as you call it is necessary. Railing against "purity politics" in primaries only serves to perpetuate the status quo that led to this defeat in the first place.

Or they're bi. I grew up ultra religious and the choice explanation made more sense to me because I had both homo and hetero urges, and I assumed it was the same for everyone (I thought of people who claimed otherwise as self-righteous). In my mind at the time homosexual urges were just part of people's sinful nature they had to overcome. The whole thing only seems so incoherent from an outside perspective, which I was fortunately able to arrive at after experiencing the world more.

Short of massive, unprecedented, and devastating civil action, there is no hope.

Then call for massive, unprecedented, and devastating civil action rather than portending doom. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

This exactly. The only reason it even works at all is because they are building on top of an already functioning imperial system. Fascists are like prions emerging from within and taking over a far more competent - and more subtly evil - host, and making it lash out violently while melting its brain into goo. Even if it is not rooted out it's still doomed to kill its host and by extension, itself.

Perhaps you should reflect on why you feel the need to play defense for establishment Democrats despite claiming to support the paradigm shift that Zohran Mamdani represents. You have been obsessively commenting all over this thread trying to deflect criticism of the DNC by gaslighting people into believing that the DNC are all supporting Zohran Mamdani and that all these centrists coming out against him are outsiders. Are you secretly a campaign consultant for Biden or something?

extracting rent

That's their right

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Have I discovered a rare pro-capitalist user of lemmy.ml?

I remember when I had been fooled into believing it was.

Mix them in. We need to get out of the mindset that animation is not deserving of the same respect as live action.

Some people are, it's called antitheism. I confess when I was an edgy 16yo I was like that, but I had just left a religious cult so don't judge me too harshly.