• Bristlecone@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I’m not saying D are all paragons, in fact fuck much of what they have done, and fuck them for being beholden to the rich, fuck them for a bunch of other stuff besides, but there was more genuine intent for good than this absolute filth fascism horseshit. Lefties are supposed to be the side of the spectrum that can actually parse differing levels of evil, but it seems more like many of us want to make perfect the enemy of good

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      23 hours ago

      The US is not and has never been good. The Ds are not and have never been good. They preside over genocides, support Nazis and NeoNazis, starve millions of innocents for political gain, kill children, destroy the environment for generations with chemicals and radioactive waste, mass incarcerate people for profit and political control, purge leftists from the country when necessary, spread lies about the world to create hatred and fear, and never stop spending money on the larger war machine in history as it grinds people into blood and dust.

      The Rs do it too. There is no good to be found in the US political system. None. Zero. Zilch. The perfect is the not the enemy of the good here. There is no good to be an enemy of. The leftists in America fighting both parties are the good. Perfect is the enemy of the revolutionary left.

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        22 hours ago

        “Every single person and political American participant ever is evil!” Just generalizing and equating every American ever. The fuck is anybody supposed to do with an attitude like that? I supposed to you the only thing to do is to riot and burn down all institutions and kill every politician right? You hearing now how that sounds like a fucking Russian bot? It’s not like they are supporting one side or the other their goal is chaos, and buddy this shit your spewing is fucking chaotic

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          22 hours ago

          Talk about a slippery slope. Your position is that we can’t possibly do better than genocide, settler colonialism, and supporting Nazis and neonazis, and anyone who says those things are non-starters is obviously a bloodthirsty murderous Russia supporter.

          Do you see how your worldview is so tiny that it affords literally no other room for anything other than mass murder?

          Are you really so depraved that you can’t imagine anything better than mass incarceration along racial lines, bombing countries at our whim, committing mass murder and then saying we’d do it again, and starving innocent people for the crime of not selling their oil to the empire.

          There is a better way than the American way. The American way is a dead end. It must be overturned. Building a just society on the basis of land theft through genocide is not sustainable.