• blindbandit@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    Honestly, you’re proving my point. If you people still think you can afford to be incompressible single-issue voters when it comes to defending democracy, seems like you’ve already lost your country.

    Bernie himself said he’d support Trump on any bill that genuinely helps working people. Yet, you won’t vote for a candidate who, at the very least, gives you and others a chance to fight another day. Trump won, and the party is over. Is the Michigan Muslim community better off now compared to six months ago? He’s already implemented nearly 50% of Project 2025, and you’re all still spinning.

    It’s disappointing to see Europe reacting this way, but it’s directly tied to America and your inability to get your shit together. You’re concerned about how effective the left in Europe has been, and I’d say they’re doing pretty well. Their opposition roles are working, as seen in how the far right has been contained by coalitions, despite significant losses in some countries.

    And where are the protests? Countries like Serbia and Hungary are seeing massive protests despite government oppression. The world is telling America “Your democracy is in dying RIGHT NOW!” and you’re wondering if 2016 was the last ramp off. 💀💀💀

    • SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      The reason I think 2016 was the last off-ramp is mainly because of conversations like this. The democrats could not have won in 2024 without the Arab vote in Michigan. You would be a single issue voter too if your mother, your father, your brother or, your lover was killed in a genocide with arms provided by the Biden administration. That is already fascism which you are engaging in apologia for. The Biden administration was no reprieve for some of us whose lives you’ve already disregarded.

      I can only imagine the outrage coming from liberals if the same thing had happened in Israel and Trump had been in office. But Biden does it and you shrug it off.

      The protests aren’t coming because civil society in the US has been destroyed by decades of neoliberal compromise with the right. American democracy wasn’t killed in a single election it was whittled down over decades of compromising with the right. Arguably going back to the new deal. The same thing is happening in Europe albeit more slowly.