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[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 75 points 3 months ago

My favorite is when they say “I know Republicans are worse in every way but Democrats can’t solve a decades old issue in another part of the world so I’m just not going to vote and let Republicans win”

Ah the good old "it's not Biden's fault that there's a genocide going on"

[-] normal_user@hexbear.net 57 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My favorite has to be this one comment :

far left: works in theory, but has never worked in practice. far right: has worked for as long as empires have existed.

I'm not even sure I 100% understand what they are trying to say since the empires he is probably talking about don't exist anymore (unless he is aware of the US one).

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 56 points 3 months ago

It's just a fascist jerking themself off over the roman empire yet again

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

I hope time travel gets invented so that they can go to Rome, get enslaved, and die in the asbestos mines.

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

I refuse to interact with anyone who says "coMmuNiSm onlY wOrkS In tHEorY!"

It's the most level-0 anti-communist talking point out there, so it's automatically indicative that anyone who says it isn't educated enough to entertain without wanting to bash your skull in. They want to sound like they have a solid argument against communism without actually knowing anything about it basically. It's how you know they truly fell for the capitalist propaganda bait.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago

At the most charitable interpretation it still makes that person look like a dipshit. "The stateless, moneyless, classless society envisioned as the highest state of communism has never been achieved, therefore mild social democracy can't work".

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah it was my basic idea about communism before I knew anything at all of substance

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

seeing the "works in theory, not in practice" argument in the year of our lord 2024 after being in my cosy Hexbear+literature bubble is like being a quantum physicist writing groundbreaking papers on chromodynamics and only talking to his colleagues about the latest theories and developments and then walking down the street and hearing a guy explaining to his friend that he thinks the world is made of fire, air, earth, and water

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yea Biden doesn't have to solve the issue himself. All he has to do is stop sending weapons and giving diplomatic support all the time.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago

It's so easy. It's the one time he can win by literally doing nothing, yet he refuses to do so. THE W IS RIGHT THERE OLD MAN!

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

a decades old issue

At least the OP knows that "centuries" is a mistake. A lot of talking heads use pundit copypasta.

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

Other decades old problems closer to home for the imperial core ghoul:

-Abortion rights -Healthcare -College debt

To name a few. But then they'll just pull out the "Republicans are too obstructionistwojak-nooo " argument. Or how even when the Democrats have a majority, but you have spoiler representatives (Liberman, Manchin, Semna, etc) you still need those Democrats around or else the Republicans would have power.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 3 months ago

Bidens pushing far right on immigration but that's just 4d chess move to make gop look bad while ignoring the GOP don't care about anything

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's the problem, he thinks he is solving it

It's just his idea of solving it is letting Israel kill or drive out everyone they don't like

[-] flan@hexbear.net 58 points 3 months ago

modern liberals have this interesting perspective that is essentially the opposite of “the ends justify the means” where the means are actually the ends. The problem is not the genocide or the exploitation, it’s the authoritarianism that necessarily accompanies those things. So if you were to use authoritarianism to destroy a fascist movement it is exactly the same thing as using authoritarianism to do genocide. It’s not the genocide or the destruction of fascists that is good or bad, it’s the means by which you do it.

[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago

He's so gentle and nice while supporting genocide, he even sent a strictly worded letter to Netanyahu for him to stop destroying the aid packages Care-Comrade

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's infuriating to see these children smugly lecture other people about how effectiveness if for bad people, and don't you realize that if you become effective you are therefore bad? Bet you didn't think about that, better read up a little more or your politics there kiddo, I understand being young and idealist but one day you'll understand the we had to do this genocide to beat the fascists.

[-] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

The irony is most people who tell you to learn history or read literally dont do either of those things. Everyone I've met like this is very anti-intellectual and lazy.

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

So if you were to use authoritarianism to destroy a fascist movement it is exactly the same thing as using authoritarianism to do genocide.

This is what comrade dril has been telling us for years. dril

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago

Gonna enjoy this before it gets rule 8ed

[-] dannoffs@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago

Gotta have our fun before the cops show up

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

Pretty funny how Reddit is so convinced I want their content I MUST use their app.

[-] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

It's like the Nigerian Prince scam. It is poorly written to filter out smart people.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

hungrypotato19

I've caught a ton of right-wingers right in this sub pandering the "Genocide joe" crap. A couple of them have admitted that they don't even live in the US.

Yesterday, it was 5 of them.

Old_Baldie_Locks

Shit, I engaged with one of them a few days ago who forgot he wasn't supposed to admit he's Russian. Hope he didn't get fired.

Guys, there are people on this site expressing their political opinions and they're not even from the US. Anyone one of us could be a foreigner. Trust no one.

[-] absolutefuckinidiot@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 3 months ago

Not even allowed to be a Russian person online anymore

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

As a Russian bot living in America, I'm planning on voting for Biden because Putin told me to. I have no choice but to obey my programming.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

I'm going to demand my girlfriend turn in her phone.

I didn't think she could've been using it for internet purposes until now.

[-] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 months ago

every russian is payed by the goverment (they have UBI now)

[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

this is liberalism

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