Please report any genocide denying US democrats below. They set up shop on a lot of the fediverse, but we don’t have to provide them a space here.
I can’t tell what on the left is doing. Someone help?
If you are being serious that’s Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd
I was. Never saw photo before thanks for helping
From Wikipedia:
And the guy representing the DNC is Tou Thao, who prevented onlookers from intervening in the murder. Highly appropriate meme.
Of course!
Thanks, that is very helpful as I had no idea what the OP image was
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Not exactly. The mass pig expansion program across the country in the 1990s was spearheaded by Bill Clinton. The pro pig Dems are just as actively racist and murderous as the pro pig Reps.
Bombs vs bombs with rainbow flags.
That depends entirely on who we vote for in the primaries.
See: Zohran Mamdani for an example
To be fair, Mamdani is facing massive backlash from the Dem establishment.
That’s the thing; most democrat politicians hate him nearly as much as the republican ones do, as they’re more similar to one another than either is to him. There are a few exceptions, but we’re going to need people aligned with Mamdani to be the norm rather than the exception if we want the democratic party to become a real force for good.
I doubt it’s possible for the DNC to be a force for good, better to have a new party entirely.
I know you know better comrade.
They’re stuck in the endless loop of trying to fix something that’s broken, while it’s functioning perfectly at keeping the status quo.When I read that, again 🙄, I like to post this, from 1871
"It is well known that the Americans have been striving for 30 years to shake off this yoke, which has become intolerable, and that in spite of all they can do they continue to sink ever deeper in this swamp of corruption. It is precisely in America that we see best how there takes place this process of the state power making itself independent in relation to society, whose mere instrument it was originally intended to be. "
…"we find here two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most corrupt means and for the most corrupt ends – and the nation is powerless against these two great cartels of politicians, who are ostensibly its servants, but in reality exploit and plunder it. "
Marx is always a banger, great quote!
Why? The party is dead. They’re just holding onto their seats
Take the seats, you take it all. Keep the infrastructure of the party, keep the name recognition and the data they have, and replace the members
It’s happening already - Hoggs funneled money into Mumdani’s primary even as they try to ratfuck him out…
If the party is dead, why rely on a party designed from the ground up to serve wealthy donors? Entryism doesn’t work.
You spelled “take” wrong
It matters because the party isn’t the people, it’s infrastructure. It’s buildings, it’s support staff, it’s mailing lists and payment processors
It’s getting a special (often unfair) place on the ballot in all 50 states. It’s 50 (often flawed) primary processes that follow local laws
And it’s a banner. Not one people like, but it’s one banner. A banner that theoretically stands for democracy and the common man
The left is not organized. Do we rally behind a fresh, ideologically pure banner? Which one? How long to work out which group is the best? How long until we can build up that infrastructure?
Fuck that. Winning is what matters.
The people are on our side for now, there’s so much anger and energy. How long until they adjust to the new normal and go back to refusing to believe in a better world?
We have a chance right now. The next 18 months. In one sweep we can take a tattered banner and get in control - before people get cold feet. While they’re still just screaming for someone to stop Trump.
We can use the momentum to unfuck our democracy once we take control, but we can’t get distracted. There’s no room for purity or lofty ideals. We have to take what is offered and exploit every opportunity. We have to use the system against itself.
We have to win. Now. Or we all die
take what is offered
That’s the true Blue MAGA spirit.
We’re shit, we do a little genocide and whatever but forget that and vote for us bcs we’re not Trump.The infrastructure and design of the DNC is built from the ground up to service its donors, wealthy people. There isn’t anything about a bourgeois party we need. Just join a party like PSL and learn from the success of other Socialists around the world. It isn’t about ideological purity, it’s about practicality, and what you’re describing has never happened, ever. Entryism does not work, again.
The US never had a democracy. Trump is about as bad as every other president, only more honest about how evil it all is. The system cannot be used against itself, the state must be smashed and replaced entirely.
I understand that you have a lot of anger and energy, and I think it would be fantastic if you channeled that into studying successful leftist movements, read some theory, and join a good org, rather than try to repeat something that has never succeeded, ever.
Better in a vacuum, yes, but as /u/disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world pointed out, a huge amount of voters pay absolutely no attention, and just vote for whatever color they’ve always voted for. Hell, a bunch of people searched “Did Joe Biden drop out?” on election day, because they paid so little attention that they didn’t even know about Harris. That’s an extreme example, sure, but it’s just not a realistic expectation to think people will really think hard about a 3rd party, especially when it won’t get a proportionate amount of attention even if it got a huge amount of support, thanks to the billionaire-backed media.
If we don’t get someone into one of the 2 established parties, we’re crippling ourselves, likely to the point of immediate failure. It would be significantly more viable to change one of the parties by flooding it with new socialist politicians than it would be to build up a new platform based on socialism from the start.
Nah, entryism is a proven failure. As conditions worsen, people pay increasingly more attention to politics. Reformism in general is a lost cause, revolution is necessary, but entryism is especially bad.
It can’t have been proven without participation. Congressional primaries haven’t seen more than 15% attendance in over 40 years. We’ve been allowing retirees from the Silent Generation and now Boomers to decide our candidates. Gen X and younger need to actively participate in primaries and attempt to take the party over before we can actually say we’ve proven anything.
The US does not have a unique set of physics that only it applies to. We have a wealth of historical experience proving the ineffectiveness of entryism, even in the US. People have tried this, it doesn’t work, and even if it did miraculously work we would have a worse party than if we put all of that effort into building up PSL.
That doesn’t matter at all. He won the primary with a grassroots campaign, so he doesn’t need their funding. Being in the blue/Working Families column will win the know-nothing vote in NYC.
The key is for us to seek out the progressive on the primary ballot and vote. We shouldn’t be rewarding the candidates that have the financial means to find us in our living rooms. Sign up for mailers if you forget to vote. Sign up for mail-in ballots if you have an irregular schedule.
It’s less about funding, and more about the fuckery they can do by making Cuomo run as an independent. Electoralism will never be the permanent answer, revolution is still necessary, but Mamdani is still good for now.
Or the wtfery they can do by denationalization.
The Democratic party is terrified of that dude. Primary all of them.
100%. There are primaries all the time. The only difference with Zohran is we showed up.
And because he won that primary 2 other mainstream “Dems” are going to be challenging him in the General as well.
not really just that, as the system resists when actual socialists get into significant power in capitalist institutions.
weve been there, done that. i assure you they will be doing their best to stop or coopt him, if they aint already.
the bright side is you just got an opportunity to actually really improve things materially, hes a good sign. this will depend more on his supporters than himself though, and i don’t think the us public is just about ready to actually really materially support a socialist dissident in power.
Two cheeks on the same ass.
two balls on the same cock
It’s June, so the democrat cop should have a pride pin.
Careful you’re going to make Godric very angry and he will have to be the adult in the room
Yeah. But also a quick test to see how far gone American society is: if the Dems get elected it means that, at least for the sake of optics and spin, morals play some sort of role still.
Don’t kid yourself. Rich Democrats love dirty cops.
I’m talking about getting a read on the country, but yeah, rich fucks (the truly rich ones) worship money. 🤷
This made me laugh hard
The rest of us standing there just looking at them
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Why did your party do this?
- After winning the Nobel peace prize, he dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.
- Began a campaign of drone assassinations in the Middle East and Africa, in which 90% of those killed were not the intended targets, but innocent civilian bystanders, including women, children, and US citizens. 1. Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the Obama administration has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. He authorized 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush, 2. The Obama assassination program is detailed in the drone papers.
The US democrats are a vicious, brutal, genocidal party.
If not sooner or as soon as he distanced himself from Reverend Wright’s words, let alone with quitting his church over them to become more powerful, we should have known. And it’s easy to “sell our souls” by centimeters, of “not as bad,” and I’ve certainly been guilty. It creeps up on us.
It’s hard to know exactly when that sudden, terrible decisive action needs be taken, but there is a point when not taking it is the worse crime against humanity. In thinking of the necessary terrible wars fought, I think of the Kali myth of going into battle to help her husband. She licked the blood from the ground not as an act of simple bloodlust, but because not doing that would mean a demon would have sprung from every drop spilled.
What that looks like in a decisive war action is in need of serious and long discussion.
Nah, people like you who were willing to defend any evil committed by the democrats, up to and including genocide, are the reason you have Trump now
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Any criticism of Democrats isn’t the same thing as saying “both sides are the same”
if you still think that reps and dems are the same after Trump’s actions during his current term, then you must not be reading any news or you’re willingly blind to his atrocities.
They’re not the same. But the Dems are just watching.
You know, like the picture shows.
“Whoever knows what is right but doesn’t do it is sinning. So then, if we do not do the good we know we should do, we are guilty of sin”.
Just to quote the Bible that the Republicans love so much
“willingly blind to his atrocities”
Says the Blue MAGA character that for a year at least didn’t want to see the painfully obvious mental state of Genocide Joe(IDGAF) but worse, his atrocities in occupied Palestine or the kids he put in cages in record numbers.
Complete hypocrite.Let me guess: You didnt vote for Harris and wouldnt have voted for Biden? You still call him genocide Joe showing how completely stupid you are. Under Biden Gaza got some help at least. Trump wants Gaza to be cleared of Palestinians to built his Hotel there. Why dont you call him genocide Trump?
You are responsible for everything that is happening to palestinians under Trump if you didnr vote for the only candidate that could have beat him.
I don’t live in your embarrassing banana republic.
I just make fun of you idiots.
He will eternally be Genocide Joe bcs he did absolutely nothing to end it, on the contrary he helped tand armed those genociders.
The Pissraelis said it themselves.
OC you in your infantile campist reasoning want to make it about Trump.
Trump bad, our side good! Any criticism means you’re from the other side.
And I love Trump, yes he’s a slightly more fascist AH than Blue MAGA but he’s very good at destroying your shithole.
Expediating the demise of your warmongering shithole. This is the best thing that can happen for the world.
Since 95% votes for 1 of 2 MAGA sides you all deserve it.
I feast on your tears.
Please cry more.Why did Biden do this?
Genocide apologist
Tbf he’s a fascist in disguise, and his followers don’t know how to open a pdf, so there’s that.
The republican is actively killing. Yeah that seems to check out.
I know you’re trying to say they’re the same but no, they’re not. You accidentally showed how dems are better.
After winning the Nobel peace prize, Obama dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.
- Began a campaign of drone assassinations in the Middle East and Africa, in which 90% of those killed were not the intended targets, but innocent civilian bystanders, including women, children, and US citizens. 1. Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the Obama administration has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. He authorized 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush, 2. The Obama assassination program is detailed in the drone papers.
The liberal brain, gentlemen. Tou Thao was convicted for keeping bystanders from intervening while not doing anything himself. He might’ve been less worse, but he still deserved to go to prison. And he remained unrepentant to the end. Of the four cops he got the second worst sentence despite never laying a hand on Mr. Floyd precisely because he refused to admit any culpability. It really is a good comparison, seeing this comment.
It’s really a great representation because if Floyd actually overpowered Chauvin, you know for a 100% fact that Thao would have resorted to the same direct violence himself, he just didn’t have to because someone else was doing the dirty work sufficiently.
Yeah…they are watching and doing nothing…a failure and an accessory. The results are the same whether they are there or not, when they could prevent atrocities.
This who is better bullshit doesnt matter, they are complicit.
If we remove the Republicans, things get better. If we remove the Democrats, things stay the same. It’s not a question of who is better, but who is worse. Until we change the voting and representation systems (hello Approval Voting and Sequential Proportional Approval Voting) picking the lesser evil is the only logical and moral choice.
They are complicit by only striving to be less evil. Would you be happy between choosing a rape and murder of your parents or just a murder? One is clearly less than the other so we should be happy with that over the alternative.
One is clearly preferrable, neither is acceptable.
Dems had power for enough time to change elections and did not, thus enabling this regime.
Decades of “lesser evil” voting is what got you where you are today.
Nope. Decades of people choosing Republicans is what got us here.
But again, change the system, don’t ask people to change. They never will.
It’s not like the democrats committed a genocide
Ask George Floyd which was better for him.
Shitlibs thinking they’re the hero taking the photo and not the one under the boot .
It’s no accident, I’m sure. They are better, as they’re not helping the killers, but they’re nowhere near as good as is necessary to stop them. Pretty much the perfect definition of the average democratic politician these days: you vote for them to stop the killing, but you know that - whether by choice or not - they won’t do anything to prevent more deaths when the killers come back into power.
I’m happy we’re electing people like Zohran Mamdani, but we’re going to need a lot more of them before our leftmost viable party can be considered even a little left. We need politicians that make change, and when the system doesn’t let them, they band together with the rest of the population to force it, instead of just complaining about how they wish they could make change but can’t. The leaders need to be leading the charge, to battle if necessary.
