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[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Mexico: (which really should be Guatemala and other Central American countries where people are migrating from) deportations have scale UP under Biden.
Trans people: Biden's admin has done nothing about trans people being persecuted.
Feminists: lol
Ukraine: lol
LGBTQ: Same issue as trans people, it's all words and no action against persecution.
BLM: Police budgets have grown nationwide since the George Floyd protests.
Muslims: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/1/31/two-women-wearing-hijabs-denied-entry-to-democratic-campaign-event
Intersex and nonbinary: ??? feels like the meme only has this group to pad.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

The only organization that wants to commit genocide in Ukraine right now is Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Biden's admin has done nothing about trans people being persecuted.

If you’ll notice, for the last 3+ years the only time the Biden admin recognizes trans people it’s either Biden reading some prepared words or whoever runs his twitter account says something very mildly supportive. Nothing ever off the cuff, much less any policies that actually protect trans people.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The last off-the-cuff reference Biden made to trans people was, afaik, responding "at least three" when asked how many genders there were by a chud provocateur on the campaign trail.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Which tbf to him was by far the best possible answer.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

You’re forgetting the most important part: OP. They aren’t affected, so it might as well not have happened.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

BLM: Police budgets have grown nationwide since the George Floyd protests.

Oh, Biden wants more Klan Citi-- I mean, Cop Cities in more states! After letting RICO charges for 61 protesters slide, and federal slavecatcher mobs sent after the ones who gave to the bail funds! Those crackers ain't helping us!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If the state of your democracy is at the point that these are the decisions you're making, you've already lost it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Guys we have to vote Jim for Kapo, he might be able to get half of us a stay of execution!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Even disregarding all the bullshit about every other group that Biden is killing just as much as Trump: Pakistan? Didn't the coup happen under Biden?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

Liberals do not think of Pakistanis as people.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So many of the things on the republican are already happening under Biden lol. Dude is president and managed to get Roe repelled

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Never forget

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would bet anything that whoever made this garbage doesn't even know that's the Pakistani flag. They simply saw a star and crescent and thought "this means Muslims" and copy-pasted it in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

That's literally exactly what I was thinking. This makes so much more sense if this dumbass white girl just thought that was the "Muslim flag" lmao

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do they think the trolley problem has a solved, obvious answer?

Somebody call the philosophers. It's over.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

"consciously deliberately committing pointless mass murder is good, actually" is the Democrat party line

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Implies four things

  1. They believe there's a hierarchy of marginalized people

  2. They're willing to sacrifice specific groups of people for poltical expediency

  3. Genocide is permissible as long as only certain peoples are targeted at a time

  4. The genocide of other groups are permissible as long as the hierarchy of oppressed people is acknowledged

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

First they came for the Gazans and... I supported them because I was foolish enough to think it would stop them from coming for me

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't even think you need to believe in hierarchy of marginalized people, all you need is to not want to see killing happen at home because it's icky up close and all of a sudden it makes a lot of sense.

Maybe I'm wrong but I came to this conclusion because it seems people don't care (or at least don't care as strongly) if LGBTQ+ people are killed in oversees conflicts, but care a lot about the idea it might happen in their country.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That misses the fact that as genocide is normalized overseas abuse of the corresponding minority at home is also normalized; historical examples include the treatment of Japanese Americans, the explosion of Islamophobia as a result of the war on terror and recently the murders of Arab Americans and that assault on camera of a student activist by a tenured professor

No, there is absolutely a hierarchy in these people's minds and it shifts depending on which minority group and their corresponding international counterparts are in disfavor by will of the ruling class

These people also reveal their cynical intentions thru their omissions of Biden's horrific and disastrous polices that target the minorities they pretend to care about; record deportations, record police funding, prosecution of activist groups, and the refusal to even acknowledge let alone act against the unprecedented conservative anti-LGBTQ+ hate campaign of the last three years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I think I definitely agree with what you've said.

I still assert that people seem to care more about the risk of LGBTQ+ people being killed "close to home" versus them actually being killed in foreign conflicts; however I suspect the reason is probably because the ones "close to home" are white.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd add

  1. The idea you actualy have the power to stop this chain of events all together is discarded immediately. This genocide is a natural phenomenon akin to a unstoppable train which nothing can be done about it except minimizing the damage.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Nazism meets capitalist realism, wearing the putrefied skin of a progressive idealist

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago

if you live in a society which cannot avoid committing genocide, it is your duty to destroy that society. anything else is a dereliction of that duty.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“If you don’t genocide Palestine, everyone else will be genocided, it’s just a fact.”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ey look it's the Niemoller poem everyone loves so much, except the Libs are literally doing it and being smug about it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I didn’t know where that “First they came for…” quote was from, but I feel like it’s been twisted. Definitely feels like an anti-fascist message to me.

Oh you said they’re quoting it and still doing it. Yeah that’s peak fucking lib.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

First they’re coming for someone else and I don’t care because it’s not me. They will definitely spare me if I lick their boots hard enough.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Cool people to Vote blue no matter what libs were-gonna-kill-you

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's really nice we're not a part of the world and we don't have to worry about the atrocities that happen in our name. I don't want to know people who would like this post.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

It's xitter so they're now called xits (pronounced shits).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Why is it so fucking hard for these people to have their "come to Jesus" moment? Motherfucker look at the shit you are saying! It's literally just the "First they came..." poem all over again.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah I'm sure all the women and LGBTQ+ Palestinians in Gaza appreciate having bombs dropped on them.
I'm sure queer folk in countries the US is bombing appreciate having their public transport, docks and airports destroyed, or the extra military patrols that make it even more difficult to move about. I guess queer folk from anti-LGBTQ countries are expected to just teleport out.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I hate how they are trying so hard to make trump out to be the "default" win that can only be stopped by active votes for biden, obviously there is worse shit going on but this "strategy" they are all collectively doing to try and guilt people into voting biden is making me lose it. They've been hammering it home so hard and completely twisted their perspective they no longer see any moral ground anywhere that isn't simping for biden. And they have obviously worked themselves up like this so they can place blame at the feet of anyone but biden if trump wins. The shitstorm of rage directed ENTIRELY at third partys and non voters if trump wins is going to be ridiculous, as though there wasn't 50% of americans that directly plan on voting for the fucker.

Voting third party is not support for trump in any way

Not voting is not support for trump in any way.

Voting for someone who doesn't win is not a "wasted" vote

No voting strategy, including reacting to the spoiler effect, implies a moral choice.

If a vote is a choice no one is obligated to vote at all, no matter how mad that makes libs

I just need to keep repeating that stuff to myself for my sanity...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

We are dealing with people so neck-deep into Hitlerian moral calculus where they’ve decided that genocide is acceptable in return for (illusory) personal security. Go ahead and vote for 99% Hitler you fucks, see you on the same train they’ll put us all on to the camps. We’ll have plenty of time then to entertain your stories of masterful practicality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I can't wait for their rage. Rage is a very consuming thing that can't be kept up forever; not even by those with the most justification for it-- and these peckerwoods have none. So when that effete lesser settler rage burns out, they'll have to confront their utter and complete emptiness. Emptiness of morals, emptiness of principles, emptiness of life. There is no way they could purchase my support for a genocide, and I can't wait to see them rage out over it.

We're gonna get to see a LOT of liberal scumbags peel the layers back on their hatreds, get to see them show off that they're just as hateful as conservatives are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

"I support the Muslim minority but if Trump win because of them I'm gonna support their deportation, that'll teach them." not mad

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

how is that instance still up?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Some of nitter is back online. I forget the details offhand, but there is a workaround to locking out the API calls and guest accounts that nitter relied on previously, so some of nitter came back online due to this weird workaround making it possible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

isn't poast a fash instance or something

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

No that’s the lemmy poast, this is the nitter poast

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

All the other people are on the Dem rail as well. They're just out of frame cause the trolley will take a few more seconds to get to them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

tf has biden done for any of these groups

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Does our favorite four letter word solve on any problem?

Question: Solve the Schrödinger's cat paradox.

Answer: It doesn't matter. Vote!

Genius. The libs have done it again.