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It is interesting to me that the people who are PASSIONATELY concerned about the plight of poor people in the third world, spend so much time pushing the solution of not voting for Kamala Harris, and so little time pushing support for charity work, NGOs in the United States, supporting the rare tiny handful of politicians who actually do care about human rights, or similar things. I think the amount of content I saw from them before the election that was dealing exclusively with the importance of not supporting Democrats probably outnumbered the other stuff by about 10:1. I guess as long as we make enough Kamala Harris memes, the Palestinians will be saved. Who knew?
Well, it worked out in the last election, I can't wait for everything to get better for everyone in Gaza. That's definitely what's going to happen now, right?
I’ve run into you a few times. Let me save us both some time with the bullshit lesser of two evils finger wagging, neolib.
Kamala in no way, shape, or form supported any kind of peace in Palestine. So I have no idea what you’re pretending about.
Did you even look at the votes in the election? Not enough people voted third party to make a difference in the results of the election. But sure, try to blame people that oppose the genocide in gaza. Sure..
That's true. However, I think there was a massive propaganda effort, quite successful, to get people to follow certain antipatterns of logic to help get Trump elected:
And so on. It happens that foolish people on the left who thought that refusing to vote for Democrats was a way to help the Palestinians were one of the target audiences. But in the aggregate, I think the combination of those diverse populations getting suckered in their individual ways absolutely had a big impact on the election.
And please don't say I am blaming the people that oppose the genocide in Gaza. I oppose the genocide in Gaza. Everyone on Lemmy opposes the genocide in Gaza. Because I oppose the genocide in Gaza, I didn't want Trump to get elected, because he is about to make things much, much worse. If you have some tactical disagreement with how I want to oppose genocide, because you also oppose it but in some different way, then fine. But pretending that I have an issue with people who oppose genocide is just a dishonest strawman engineered in some think-tank somewhere, to help get Trump elected.
Yeah, there was certainly a lot of propaganda and lies to help elect Donald, but let's be very real here - leftists not voting or voting third party over Gaza wasn't a major part of his victory. Kamala Harris had a very weak campaign that didn't address the concerns of young, white male voters. Personalities like Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and others really do appeal to those people, telling them that they're just fine and pointing their fingers at an endless list of targets to keep these people angry and afraid - and ultimately to vote for people like Donald who claim they'll fix everything. I wasn't trying to strawman but I have seen a lot of online comments purely blaming leftists for this election, and it's frustrating.
What did I say, in my comment, to address exactly what you just repeated?
Specifically I'm interested in this part:
That had a very specific answer in the comment you're replying to.
[citation needed]
Now listen here whippersnapper I've been around too long to not know that it is, in fact, helpful for your praxis to touch grass. Declare it political if you want, but don't bloody talk about politics while doing it.
Read Clausewitz: Absolute war is impossible because for a people to turn all its efforts to war, it would have to give up the things that it is fighting to defend. War being nothing but the continuation of politics by other means, this also applies to politics.
It is you, here, who is trying to make politics an absolute war, you're the one barging into a bar where people are singing the people's songs and dancing the people's dances and say "up, to arms! what are you dancing, what are you singing, you need to fight for your right to sing and dance!".
In short: Your praxis boils down to party pooping. Don't be a party pooper. Party with the people, then go back to your politics as others go back to their looms and mills.
Tsk, tsk. Upvoting yourself from alt accounts is generally a bannable offense. I've reported you.
Note: You're not being silenced for your opinion, here. You're being silenced, if you do get silenced, for your abuse of Lemmy systems. I realize you're probably going to conflate the two dishonestly, but that's what happened.
Do you have any evidence?
https://kbin.earth/m/fediverse@lemmy.world/t/740517/Do-you-think-the-mostly-limited-range-of-political-views/comment/4095945/favourites
Note the upvote from his alt on programming.dev, along with two suspect upvotes from other @infosec.pub accounts at exactly the same time. The one from @lemmy.eco.br seems like it could be real.
So... you're banned here? Why then do I see your posts?
Cut that victim complex and actually engage with what I said instead of complaining that noone's listening when you say shit 99.99% of people here already know, providing not solutions but analysis that is so undercomplex it barely qualifies as soundbites.
You're not being a revolutionary, here. You're an angry kid taking their first breath, loudly screaming as to the sudden incursion of the real-world into your sheltered life. Plenty others have been taking breaths for long enough to not be screaming, but scheming. Get to that level instead of having the gall to say "when people ignore me then that must be because they're billionaires". Too easy. Suspiciously easy, don't you think? How many people ignore you, downvote you, how many billionaires are actually on lemmy?
“Allergic to analogies” should be your username. I’m not reading that insipid wall of text when the first sentence misunderstands my very clear analogy. Of course no one mentioned banning me. Try to follow along.
You may want to have a look at the definition of "sarcasm" and "rhetoric".
I explained, in detail, why you're getting ignored. You still refuse to engage with the topic. Try to not ignore me, ignore others, maybe then you'll understand why what you say you simply doesn't resonate. It takes more than one person to vibe.
Did that non sequitur rebuttal make sense to you in your head? 🤡
lalalalalalalala I can't hear you so I won't respond to your argument (if you even made one)
Lol, say you are a westerner liberal without saying you are a westerner liberal
Congratulations, you found a very novel thought-terminating cliche. I'm impressed by your creativity.
you know absolutely nothing about us in global south.
Brazilian, eh? You mean the country with higher GDP/capita than no less than nine European countries?
Stop pretending to know, in any shape or form, what it is like to be born in Burundi. And don't pretend you're not a colonial state, you're barely better than the US when it comes to fucking over the indigenous population and that's not a high standard.
Stop pretending that 7:1 is an everyday occurrence and count those stars on your jersey.