When the government prosecutes people who actually committ crimes then it’s good, yes.

Yes but the first instance is the government doing what it’s supposed to and the second is fascsits weaponizing the government.

Well Trump actually broke some laws.

No, fascists do not need to be “enabled.” They will be fascists whether there are racists in the Democratic party or not. It’s not like they said “Hey, a democrat is racist, so we can be too!” That’s not how it works. They would be Islamophobic regardless if there are also Islamophobic democrats. The Democratic party has zero control over Islamophobia in the Republican party. This is stupid. Every single democrat in the whole country could not be racist and these people would still be racist. This shit is not hard to understand.

Fascists subvert institutions to gain power. The only way you can blame their opposition for “enabling” is by not killing them. I mean is that what you’re trying to say? Because it sounds like you’re trying to claim that somehow the Democratic party normalized racism and Islamophobia in recent decades which is total bullshit.

Hey you’re the one telling people to fuck off because you can’t handle that your own freakin’ story isn’t as cut and dry as you think. How about you come back when you figure out what the fuck you’re talking about?

It should not be a bannable offense to point out that racist democratic opposition years ago to Ilhan Omar’s candidacy has little to do with Trump’s DOJ and their persecution of her due to baseless conspiracy theories. Fascists don’t need to be enabled to be racist, they are already racist, and calling for someone to be banned for not automatically agreeing with you is a dick move.

Eat shit and die you anal licking douchebag. Did you or did you not say Inuit communities are supporting fossil fuel jobs? How the hell is pointing that out “a pro-genocide” comment?

Oh no!
Well anyway…

Let me ask, what has the left actually accomplished in this country in the last 30 years, besides cancelling a bunch of comedians?
Unlike you, I actually want the shit I want to actually happen in my lifetime.
If you think these things are going to happen by NOT VOTING, then you are dumb. Blocking you now.

But he didn’t say a pro-genocide comment. He pointed out the Inuit communities are supporting fossil fuel jobs, according to your own story.

Note that nowhere I said people should stop voting, it’s kind of crazy how that’s always a knee-jerk assumption.

Plenty of people on the left (even here on Lemmy) are telling me that by voting for democrats I’m “enabling fascism” or “voting for the people who gave us Trump.” What I haven’t seen from any of the people saying that is an explaination as to how we get the things we want by not voting. We do not have basic things that people in other countries have, like Universal healthcare for example. Even Mexico has universal healthcare now - and it didn’t happen by a “movement” of activists doing it on their own. It happened because people voted.

I’m just tired of this shit where when I vote for the opposition to the fascists, the people on the left turn around and blame me for the actions of the fascists I voted against. What kind of shit is that? If anything it’s the other way around - I actually tried to stop the god damned fascists, while they sat around and did nothing. If anything they’re more responsible for this shit show than I am, because they didn’t even try. God damn.

Edit: Not mad at you specifically @extrajudgement, just frustrated.

That’s dumb.

The problem is nobody on the left is actually doing those things. It’s almost like bitching about people on the internet has taken the place of actual activisim.
I want to have things like Universal Healthcare and a living wage and/or UBI before I die. That stuff isn’t going to happen by not voting. If “the left” were capable of achieving these things by not voting then we’d have them already.

I mean, Comic con is in San Diego. WTF.

Go ahead and invalidate my lived experience, you do you.

Projecting your lived experience onto an entire set of people you’ve had no personal experience with is the very definition of bigotry. Young people nowadays seem to understand this when it comes to race, sex, or gender, not so much when it comes to age.

Fuck you man

Fucking lol.
That’ll learn’em.

Maybe if nuclear power plants didn’t meltdown sometimes and render dozens of square miles uninhabitable to human life by scales measured in geologic time then Greenpeace would support them.

Well idk, most of the billionares are rich and white and old also. Meme still kinda fits.

I agree. Let’s put the blame where it actually belongs.

Minors don’t have the same rights adults do, especially when it comes to schools.