spooky2092

And allow the American Nazi Party (but Blue) to run rampant on people and their rights

BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE arguments are why people don't take you seriously. It's almost hilarious how arguments like this devalue just how awful the right is, when you're comparing concrete domestic trans, POC and intellectual attacks from a party that supports Israel to the party that just supporta Israel.

I would laugh if I was sure you didn't actually drink the flavoraide.

wolf knoten

I had a friend who liked to talk about her 'wolf knot' periodically. I still do, but we talk about her current exploits more lol

I'm sorry to hear that you're disabled friend, I have a few friends that are fairly disabled as well, so while I can't understand your situation, I can at least sympathize with what you may be going through.

I’d like to know actually what I can do, because I’m not happy with where things are. You suggest it’s a moral failure but I literally don’t know what action I can take that would not be judged a moral failure.

Being housebound definitely limits your options, but there are ways to vote early (which takes much less time and would likely not impact your caretakers as much if planned ahead of time) and absentee which would allow you to still vote even when the cards are stacked against you. I know that those options are not universal, but they've at least been available in the couple states I've lived in and the ones my friends live in (which, is still only like a half dozen total).

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but decrying the inaction from the majority of our population is shifting blame to the powerless.

See, I don't see it as shifting blame to the powerless, I see it as calling out the culpability of those who are powerless because they choose not to exercise the little power they have. I understand there are quite a few who are able to vote on paper are unable to vote due to circumstances in life. But, speaking from personal experience, I've also known plenty of people who choose to do nothing while complaining about the state of the world or their life while they passively watch time slip away. I want to make sure you understand I'm in no way suggesting you are a part of this group, but I've had this argument with blood family for over a decade until they passed as well as with many acquaintances over my life. Most were the type you see on lemmy that would rather not vote if there isn't a perfect candidate on the ballot, even if there was one candidate that they agreed with the majority of items.

So it may be personal experience coloring my opinion, but I see nothing positive coming from not acknowledging that there is a full third of our country that chooses not to participate in the process when that inaction is how we get shitheads like trump in office. I'm a firm believer of 'inaction is still a choice', so I'm not going to let people who chose not to participate have a pass without commenting on it. Because a fraction of those people participating could have changed where we are today and prevented letting the American Nazi Party from running rampant on the people and their rights.

So then why excuse the violence?

Me watching "Undressed" on MTV as a youngling....

Now they don't even have the personnel to do anything about it, assuming they find it this time at all.

while the final third stand by and watch silently.

And according to some on here, we shouldn't blame any of the individuals in that final third because it's not fair to put the blame on them for the shit they stand by and tacitly support or something.

It's amazing how far some people will go to excuse the actions of those who are content to watch fascism take hold and murder it's fellow citizens while doing nothing about it.

Oh, well I guess rampant violence excuses their bigotry

Cis = cisgender = she was assigned female at birth and is not transgender

He'd become a painter instead of a singer.

Womp womp.

The only sympathy I have is for the overworked employees.