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> Democrats are secretly communists who want to communist genocide you Isn't this just how politics looks now? The Republicans say that, the Democrats say the

> Democrats are secretly communists who want to communist genocide you Isn't this just how politics looks now? The Republicans say that, the Democrats say the Republicans are secretly nazis who want to nazi genocide you, both parties contain millions of people so both can point to some extremists on the other side saying something shocking and then they both go back to trying to get 51% of the votes so they can be the ones picking your pocket this year. edit: It's beautiful how the two immediate replies to this post are, respectively, "it's not both sides because only the Democrats are actually Marxists" and "it's not both sides because only the Republicans are actually Fascists".

micromacrofoot 6mo ago
a republican mob stormed the capitol in an attempt to overthrow the election the republicans have actually started arresting people they don't like and building camps to imprison them in via ICE earlier they deported people, without trial, to foreign prisons to be kept indefinitely how long are we going to hand wave this away as "both sides are extreme"? this is a little more than the typical insider cronyism isn't it? edit: your edit is also wrong, and kind of validates that you're only seeing what you want to be seeing
Zigurd 6mo ago
All five actual Marxist-Leninists in the US appreciate your attention. Now let's list the actual fascists. Symmetry is beautiful but sometimes it's just not there.
- smallmancontrov 6mo ago
  Exactly: the tear-down-the-system left barely exists outside twitch and college campuses, while the far right has the presidency and majority control of the Republican party. These are not the same.
smallmancontrov 6mo ago
When things are this lopsided, both-sidesing is indistinguishable from sweeping for the bad one. Want to prove me wrong? Show me the last time Kamala Harris engaged in guillotine rhetoric (which is the left-coded equivalent). Point me to what you think the Democratic equivalent of the ICE killings are. Show me dead protestors and stifling of legal proceedings to hold them accountable. Show me Democratic fraud on the scale of the $40B swap line to Argentina, pumping and dumping the American economy by announcing on-again-off-again war, creating a board of peace / putting yourself in charge / giving it $10B, and shitcoin rugpulls.
- cramsession 6mo ago
  The Democrats have a very similar platform to the Republicans (especially around ICE and Israel, both of which Harris vowed to continue supporting). Trump is uniquely incompetent though, which if you believe in accelerationism may or may not be a good thing. For instance Democrats have long yearned to go to war with Iran, now Trump did it, but he did it in such an incompetent and rushed manner that it's led to US bases throughout the Middle East being destroyed and abandoned. That's a good thing that came out of a bad situation.
  - smallmancontrov 6mo ago
    Lots of yapping, no showing. Show me the equivalents I asked for. > Democrats have long yearned to go to war with Iran Really?
    - cramsession 6mo ago
      I'm not trying to be combative, just honest. Here is Harris saying Iran is our greatest adversary (sorry for the Zionist source). Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton have also been very vocal about wanting to attack Iran. Clinton actually recently praised Trump! https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2045697406612762951 https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2045697406612762951
      - smallmancontrov 6mo ago
        Oh, Harris called Iran an adversary! Wow! I'm glad we didn't elect her or the party that negotiated the last deal with Iran! The party that tore up the Iran deal and kept joking about bombing them into the stone age and started 2 out of 2 of the last middle eastern forever wars is the much better bet. What? They bombed Iran and started forever war 3 of 3? Who could have seen this coming?!
        cramsession 6mo ago
        The Democrats started the genocide against Palestinians and Harris vowed to continue it (just as Trump has).
magicalist 6mo ago
> edit: It's beautiful how the two immediate replies to this post are, respectively, "it's not both sides because only the Democrats are actually Marxists" and "it's not both sides because only the Republicans are actually Fascists". I don't think we should pat ourselves on the back too hard for milquetoast takes devoid of any specifics. (also I think you misread the responses to your post)
- smallmancontrov 6mo ago
  You're too kind, he hallucinated harder than an LLM on that one.
  - AnthonyMouse 6mo ago
    > All five actual Marxist-Leninists in the US appreciate your attention. Now let's list the actual fascists. Symmetry is beautiful but sometimes it's just not there. "There are five actual Marxist-Leninists you need to be paying attention to in the US but we can't even name one relevant actual fascist, so the symmetry isn't there." That was my initial reading, and it's because I've encountered numerous people who sincerely believe that. Using sarcasm in posts subject to Poe's Law is a good way to be ambiguous.
    - Zigurd 6mo ago
      Lets start: you. Followed by Stephen Miller. Trump, per the assessment of his own former chief of staff. Josh Hawley. Leonard Leo. All the "Dark Enlightenment." Your initial reading is tendentious and of little value. Are you seriously going to challenge the notion that American politics has a spectrum from center right to fascists-would-blush ideological crackpots like the dark enlightenment?

micromacrofoot 6mo ago

a republican mob stormed the capitol in an attempt to overthrow the election the republicans have actually started arresting people they don't like and building camps to imprison them in via ICE earlier they deported people, without trial, to foreign prisons to be kept indefinitely how long are we going to hand wave this away as "both sides are extreme"? this is a little more than the typical insider cronyism isn't it? edit: your edit is also wrong, and kind of validates that you're only seeing what you want to be seeing

Zigurd 6mo ago

All five actual Marxist-Leninists in the US appreciate your attention. Now let's list the actual fascists. Symmetry is beautiful but sometimes it's just not there.

smallmancontrov 6mo ago
Exactly: the tear-down-the-system left barely exists outside twitch and college campuses, while the far right has the presidency and majority control of the Republican party. These are not the same.

smallmancontrov 6mo ago

When things are this lopsided, both-sidesing is indistinguishable from sweeping for the bad one. Want to prove me wrong? Show me the last time Kamala Harris engaged in guillotine rhetoric (which is the left-coded equivalent). Point me to what you think the Democratic equivalent of the ICE killings are. Show me dead protestors and stifling of legal proceedings to hold them accountable. Show me Democratic fraud on the scale of the $40B swap line to Argentina, pumping and dumping the American economy by announcing on-again-off-again war, creating a board of peace / putting yourself in charge / giving it $10B, and shitcoin rugpulls.

cramsession 6mo ago
The Democrats have a very similar platform to the Republicans (especially around ICE and Israel, both of which Harris vowed to continue supporting). Trump is uniquely incompetent though, which if you believe in accelerationism may or may not be a good thing. For instance Democrats have long yearned to go to war with Iran, now Trump did it, but he did it in such an incompetent and rushed manner that it's led to US bases throughout the Middle East being destroyed and abandoned. That's a good thing that came out of a bad situation.
- smallmancontrov 6mo ago
  Lots of yapping, no showing. Show me the equivalents I asked for. > Democrats have long yearned to go to war with Iran Really?
  - cramsession 6mo ago
    I'm not trying to be combative, just honest. Here is Harris saying Iran is our greatest adversary (sorry for the Zionist source). Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton have also been very vocal about wanting to attack Iran. Clinton actually recently praised Trump! https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2045697406612762951 https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2045697406612762951
    - smallmancontrov 6mo ago
      Oh, Harris called Iran an adversary! Wow! I'm glad we didn't elect her or the party that negotiated the last deal with Iran! The party that tore up the Iran deal and kept joking about bombing them into the stone age and started 2 out of 2 of the last middle eastern forever wars is the much better bet. What? They bombed Iran and started forever war 3 of 3? Who could have seen this coming?!
      - cramsession 6mo ago
        The Democrats started the genocide against Palestinians and Harris vowed to continue it (just as Trump has).

magicalist 6mo ago

> edit: It's beautiful how the two immediate replies to this post are, respectively, "it's not both sides because only the Democrats are actually Marxists" and "it's not both sides because only the Republicans are actually Fascists". I don't think we should pat ourselves on the back too hard for milquetoast takes devoid of any specifics. (also I think you misread the responses to your post)

smallmancontrov 6mo ago
You're too kind, he hallucinated harder than an LLM on that one.
- AnthonyMouse 6mo ago
  > All five actual Marxist-Leninists in the US appreciate your attention. Now let's list the actual fascists. Symmetry is beautiful but sometimes it's just not there. "There are five actual Marxist-Leninists you need to be paying attention to in the US but we can't even name one relevant actual fascist, so the symmetry isn't there." That was my initial reading, and it's because I've encountered numerous people who sincerely believe that. Using sarcasm in posts subject to Poe's Law is a good way to be ambiguous.
  - Zigurd 6mo ago
    Lets start: you. Followed by Stephen Miller. Trump, per the assessment of his own former chief of staff. Josh Hawley. Leonard Leo. All the "Dark Enlightenment." Your initial reading is tendentious and of little value. Are you seriously going to challenge the notion that American politics has a spectrum from center right to fascists-would-blush ideological crackpots like the dark enlightenment?