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The fix is in, Lemmygrad: Project 2025 is likely another Pied Piper op. (www.thedailybeast.com)

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According to the tax statement, the Omidyar Network has contributed a total of $400,000 to American Compass since 2020. (In reality, Omidyar has donated $500,000, including forthcoming installments.) The Hewlett Foundation—a longtime supporter of National Public Radio—has accounted for more than one-third of American Compass’ total public support, giving a combined $1,486,000 over the same period, with an extra $475,000 dose this January.

That’s more than Hewlett gave to NPR or the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in the same timeframe.

The donations are striking because American Compass is a partner organization in Project 2025, a controversial right-wing think tank that has been building the policy and personnel firmament for a second Trump administration.

But y'know, you gotta vote for the "lesser evil", regardless of the lesser evil's tactics, regardless of where the lesser evil spends their money, regardless of who the lesser evil genocides in their homes-- you just gotta voot, and voot bloo, no matter whoooo 🙄

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Second Thought YouTube channel made a good video on this too, it doesn't deep dive but it gives a good summary of why it's bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj7butDWLtg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are libs really this naive?

"Oh no, look at all these horrible but extremely popular things the GOP wants to do! You wouldn't actually want to vote for exactly what you have been asking for, would you, American people?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Christofascism isn't popular with most of the country, it is just that the christofascists are arguably the single most organized voting bloc in the country

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can someone give a TLDR on Project 2025?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Basically, the Trumpist fringe's 'playbook' to more or less attempt to foist christofascist theocracy on the country under the hand of whoever wins the next Republican presidency(hence the name, they think 2025 is when this goes into effect), or so the breathless reporting about it makes it sound. Genuinely bad enough to make one question what liberal organizations are doing donating to think tanks curating polisci-offshoot college shooter-flavored manifestos like Project 2025.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Wanna be the lesser evil, but don’t look so great? Just help the other side get even more evil.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Literally the crap-fanfic tactic where the writer wants to imply a 'correct' ship so they deliberately write the other leg of the triangle to be the most awful bastard possible

[+] NuXCOM_90Percent -35 points 9 months ago (6 children)

So support the greater evil?

I don't want to get shot at all and do what I can to avoid it (like not hang out at elementary schools). But if it comes down to it, I would rather a blap in the ass than the face.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In 2016 alone, the US under Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa (3 bombs every hour), up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia. He authorized 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush. 1

Those dead civilians families really appreciate your vote for the 'lesser evil'.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 1 points 9 months ago

And Romney would have had more restraint?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What exactly have demokkkrats done to protect you exactly? They had 2/3 branches of govt which is all that's required to coup the 3rd. And they did what pray tell? While whining about Roe also sponsored some "pro-life" candidates in elections. Their opposition is dinner theater.

[+] NuXCOM_90Percent -28 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I am not saying Democrat are good.

I am saying Republicans are worse

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you really believe that, I have a stolen-and-settled bridge in Kansas to sell you. They're on the same fucking team, just playing a never-ending 'good cop, bad cop' routine-- and honestly, ever since y'all first started boiling the choices down to "support the segregationist cracker who penned the original pipeline Crime Bill of '94" or "support a literal reality show host", that was when I started fighting the greater evil.

Amerika is that greater evil. You will never put up an even decent candidate. There will always be a legacy of racism, of genocide, of chauvinist exceptionalism, of western capitalism. No matter what color tie the cracker bastard wears, they will always be the greater evil that deserves to be fought, tooth and nail.

Cracker ass.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tens if not hundreds of millions of people across the world, whom the Democrats have bombed, starved, exploited and murdered exactly the same as the Republicans have, beg to differ.

This "Democrats vs Republicans" idea is a false dichotomy. Democrats and Republicans are not two different opposing parties, they are two wings of the same uniparty. Voting for one is the same as voting for the other. They each continue each others' fascist, imperialist, genocidal policies. Republicans could not do what they do without Democrats and vice versa. By continuing to buy into the "lesser evil" narrative you are enabling them to keep pulling this trick on you over and over again.

If there is a "lesser evil" it is that which most weakens and destabilizes the US, that which creates the maximum amount of internal conflict, of political-economic and social dysfunction, thus minimizing the harm they are able to inflict on the rest of the world.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

In fact, democrats are the party that tends to start more wars statistically https://thebaffler.com/latest/democrats-are-the-real-party-of-war

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

A knife 12 inches in your chest and a knife "only" 6 inches in your chest.... sweat .. damn.. choice be hard.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I am not saying that the good cop is good, I am saying the bad cop is worse, so why shouldn't I take the good cop's advice and sign this confession?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Damn, I never thought of controlled opposition politics as being pretty much the same as the good-cop-bad-cop routine, ty.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

And i am saying, again that by supporting Democrats you literally support Republicans and right wing think tanks. By voting for and donating to a group that funds fascism they have been tricking you into doing what you are claiming we are.

The. Democratic. Party. Funds. The. Fascists. Then they tell you vote dem, to fight the guys they helped put there.

I'm not saying i have an easy answer. Im just trying to show you that you don't fully see the problem yet.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 1 points 9 months ago

I disagree with the premise as we can see vast differences between red and blue states and if democrats were really secret republicans, jan 6 would have been the endgame.

But I do agree that democrats aren't a good answer. But until there is a good one, I am going to advocate for harm mitigation while working with orgs to push more progressive candidates at the local and state level.

As opposed to arguing for voting for republicans because Reasons or occasion acknowledging the end goal is the country with the most guns and nukes to have a violent civil war

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How about criticize both? Do you have to accept and defend one? By showing Democrats and Republicans are the same, we are already fighting the greater evil.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 1 points 9 months ago

Where am I saying to not criticize Democrats? At the best of times they are "rather ineffective"

But when it comes time to vote? One party is barely moving the needle forward every few years. The other wants to get rid of it entirely and build an autocracy.

Hence. The lesser of two evils

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

So support the greater evil?

No u

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

side 1 is funding the worst part of side 2

“If you’re saying side 1 bad then you must mean you want me to support side 2.” 🤓

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You're falling into the fascism slip-n-side that the democrats set up. Raise an eyebrow at anyone outright voting for the overt fascists, but don't feel proud voting for the cryptofascists either. They're the reason things have gotten this bad in the first place, often outright funding it.