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[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s what I think of anyone that tries to pretend they’re not sharing propaganda when it’s so painfully obvious.

It’s insulting that you think people are stupid enough to buy it.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So it's propaganda when pointing out Biden is another run of the mill Republican?

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It’s propaganda when someone does nothing but post bad-faith half truths and fully untrue bullshit targeting one person all the time and to the same community.

People recognize patterns. OP is a well known poster here that does almost nothing but post anti-Biden propaganda.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Liberals don't look for truth, they seek confirmation bias. The exact same thing republicans do.

Liberals wont hold Biden accountable, someone has to do it. If trump were doing the exact same things Biden is doing right now, and he will, democrats would be in an uproar.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

And socialists do what exactly? Cry online and suggest everyone withhold their vote? How is this fixing anything. None of you bother to show up to vote anyway, so everyone pretty much writes you off as no big loss.

You believe in an untested/unproven system that has a VERY poor track record, and yet you smugly shout from the rooftops that you know of a better way while the only suggestion you all seem to have is guaranteed to destroy democracy- not voting.

And you wonder why people accuse you of being right-wing trolls.

So forgive the rest of us when we show it back that you’re not to be take seriously.

VOTE LIKE LIVES DEPEND ON IT- because they do.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And you call us smug.

Votes should be withheld until they are earned, that's how this democracy thing is supposed to work. With the current system your rights are held hostage by your own party for ransom in exchange for power. But in the end you never get rights, you get bread crumbs with more promises of rights which never materialize. When you are defending someone funding and condoning genocide you and your party are not the lesser evil.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Yes. I call you smug. And suggesting that people don’t vote is about the most selfishly ignorant thing you can do.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Don’t forget manipulative and unethical.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying don't vote. I'm saying you don't have to vote for either right wing senile pedo.

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Name one third party candidate that can beat Trump in November.

I’ll be waiting.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Based on polling, your main line right wing senile candidate can't win either

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So you’re not going to name one, eh?

Oh and anyone with a brain knows polls are bullshit. It’s been proven.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, polls are bullshit unless they contribute to the echo chamber and provide confirmation bias

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So not only do you admit you have no answer to my question, you also admit that the poll you showed is either bullshit, or contributed to your echo chamber and served to prove your confirmation bias.

Not very bright man.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

the poll you showed

What poll did I show?

Not very bright man

You can't seem to differentiate me from OP

The only polls liberals think are accurate are the ones that provide them with dopamine hits of confirmation bias

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Based on polling, your main line right wing senile candidate can't win either

The poll you referred to. Look man, you’re way out of your element here. I asked you right off, what third party option you think had a chance to beat trump, and like a typical socialist, you balked and tried to distract with typical socialist insults.

You’ve been called out man. You lose.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The poll you referred to

I didn't refer to A poll, all polling shows Biden's numbers suck.

I lost nothing, im not the one breathing a dead horse calling it progressive. Things will continually get worse because liberals have no proverbial balls to do the right thing and end the status quo

[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Kick some rocks man. This is over.

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago

A leftist refusing to vote for the status quo, which is not not progressive, is no more apathetic than a Democrat refusing to vote for a Republican. You have to decide if you want progress or keep things the same, because you can't have both.