I moderate a community. Do I need to move that community? Or can I just give it over to my new account?

The universe wanted memes, so it made us.

I wish I felt less socially awkward about making positive comments about others appearances.

It is sad, but the DNC should never have run him for 2024.

I’ve had a couple lemmy arguments where I missed a subtle point that the other person was making and mistook it for something else.

You just got to bite that bullet, I usually say: I’m sorry. I misread what you were saying. It’s my bad.

And then I continue on with any other disagreements I may have, but if there’s none then I usually end it with. Have a nice life.

The moment it is more about winning than it is about truth, the less interesting the conversation is to me.

Well, the numbers are in and it looks like capitalism will be killing us all.

Do you have a mental illness? I neither believe that nor can you infer that from any statements I have made.

Edit: You know what, I am done. You are obviously either a troll or just blindly following some kind of dogma. Have a nice life.

Oh you’re right! Trump’s plan to make the Palestinians go wherever and die for all he cares so he can pave Palestine and build a giant hotel for him and his oligarch buddies.

Way better and totally not also genocide.

There was no option that didn’t involve Palestinian genocide as far as the US is concerned.

Edit: I better preemptively add this. I think Democrats are bad. I can vote for Democrats and say that they’re bad. I vote for Democrats because the Republicans are worse.

I agree that Democrats are there to prevent leftward movement. But they also prevent rapid rightward movement towards fascism.

It’s easier to organize when you’re not in a camp heading towards the gas Chambers.

I don’t know man. It sounds like you’re an accelerationist that doesn’t really care about the collateral damage. You know you can be an accelerationist and still care about people.

You could say “Hey, It’s good that Trump got elected because that will make people hurt and wake them up to political issues.” And also say “It’s really bad that USAID terminated canceled because it will result in a lot of Innocent deaths.”

You do know that capitalism and fascism is global right? And that the problems with the US will start showing up in other countries? The solution is not to burn the US to the ground. It’s to figure out how to solve the problem.

Edit: Also the termination of USAID. Doesn’t make fascism weaker. It just makes America weaker. Again, it seems like you’re not trying to actually solve any of the real problems.

I don’t know what you want from me man. Yeah, I agree. The Democrats suck at being a political party. I guess if that’s your point that the Democrats are less effective at getting elected than the Republicans are. I agree completely.

But I’m not arguing about effectiveness at getting elected. I’m arguing about morality. I thought we were arguing about morality. Are we arguing about morality?

Did it look like Biden or Kamala was going to disable usaid before the election?

Ohh, ok.

Well, unfortunately, if the Democrats have secretly been keeping pace with Republicans the last 20 years. They have been extremely competent at keeping that a secret. A competence I haven’t seen them have in most other things they do.

I can’t refute this claim because it is unprovable either way. So, we can’t really have a discussion if we don’t agree on the facts.

Have a good one.

Yes, all of that is bad. And the Republicans do all of that too. And the Republicans do more. The history has been pretty clear here.

Most people’s position is that Republicans are worse than Democrats. The people who are accelerationists don’t deny that. You on the other hand are taking the psychotic position that both parties are the same.

I’m now leaning towards you’re a Republican troll.

So, in the remaining years of our lives, political we… What? Give up because we can’t organize?

Ok, so you have very specific secret reasons why we shouldn’t vote for the lesser evil, or you are just a Republican troll.

I guess that is the best I can do.

So your argument is Biden deported more people. Ok, I don’t disagree with those articles. Now that it is May, I wonder what the numbers are and if they are comparable. Also, Trump isn’t deporting less because he is pro immigration. He is deporting less because of skill issues on his part. If he could he would deport 5 times as many people as Biden. Again, I am not saying the Dems are saints here.

But lets say I give you that. Biden is worse on immigration. Do you have articles on Biden doing unitary executive theory? Do you have articles on Biden deporting innocent US citizens? How about articles about how Bidens head of health and human services is targeting all autistic people? Biden arresting judges? The bad stuff the Democrats do the Republican party also does and more. We are very close to losing habeas corpus in the US.

The shift to fascism has rapidly accelerated in the US since the republicans have taken office and I just don’t see that same acceleration with the Dems. I am trying to understand how you could seriously compare the two parties and say they are equivalent, but I don’t see it. Right now, the only thing that makes sense to me is that you are a Republican and you want people to not vote in elections because that benefits Republicans. You don’t seem like that kind of person though, so, can you help me understand?

I agree they both are fed by the same oligarchs. And I agree that the fascism of the Democrats have killed people.

But you can’t say the difference is non-existent. Was Biden or Kamala going to start shipping citizens over El Salvador? I think not and arguing that the two parties are the same is very silly.

Also thanks to first pass the post not voting for Democrats is giving more power to Republicans. Whose fascism will kill way more than the Democratic fascism.

Yeah, I agree. I think first past the post has not been good. That’s what forces us into this two-party system.

I would vote for a third party if it became more popular than the Democrats or the Republicans, and it was progressive/ leftist.

The problem is getting it over that hump.

I agree. We need time to build a leftist party or to fundamentally change the Democratic party. I’m not opposed to completely rewiring the Republican party if it’s a faster option.

We can get more time by voting for the least fascist option. That way we won’t be sent off El Salvador while we’re trying to fix things.

I don’t disagree with anything there. I still don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to slow fascism down as much as possible. One day of voting seems like a pretty good deal for the outcome.

You can both organize and vote.

It grants you slower fascism rather than fast fascism.

One day of voting for Democrats seems like it could prevent a lot of bad from happening. It’s a pretty good bang for your buck in terms of time spent organizing.

As far as consent and legitimacy goes, that’s more of a media thing, not a voting thing.