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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Cool, so you don't care if fascism wins and minorities are murdered. Unsurprising.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The system is shit, but you can't force people to participate in it's perpetuation.

"We will only throw some people into a wood chipper." is not a great platform and I understand those who dont want to be complicit.

The American political system is not changed in the ballot box.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (7 children)

“We will only throw some people into a wood chipper.” is not a great platform and I understand those who dont want to be complicit.

And by refusing to be 'complicit', they are instead complicit in "We will throw as many people as we can into a wood chipper".

Not exactly morally praiseworthy.

The American political system is not changed in the ballot box.

Not changed for the better, maybe. But it absolutely will be changed for the worse at the ballot box. Forgive me for not being excited for fascism.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What country do you live in? I mean, what’s it like there?

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Bad, but unfortunately we are not armed as well.

We do have more than two parties though.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The American political system is not changed in the ballot box.

I think it’s fascinating you wrote “in” the ballot box.

Not to mention, the system is literally changed first and foremost by the elections. But sure, biden bad, let the orange chips fall where they may and so on.

If you are in fact able to vote in the US presidential election, I hope you’ll do it and support all the downballot candidates as well.

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh I'm sorry I made a tiny error in spelling.

You're very welcome to continue this conversation in my native German.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ich wünschte, ich könnte Deutsch sprechen. Aber wenn ich könnte, würde ich mich wahrscheinlich nicht zum deutschen politischen System äußern, nur weil ich erstens nichts darüber weiß und zweitens sowieso nicht dort lebe?

[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How much German election content do you get injected involuntarily into all your news feeds for two years every four years?

And the American election impacts the entire world like no other single national election does. The US influence through culture, trade and interventionism is felt throughout the entire world.

So yeah, I have opinions on that.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Ein fairer Punkt, denke ich. Aber wir schwimmen bereits in Leuten, die Trump helfen, es wäre besser, wenn wir Trump keine Hilfe von Leuten geben würden, die nicht einmal wählen können. Wie die russischen Trollfarmen. Ich wäre daran interessiert, eine deutsche Sicht auf die Wahl zu sehen, aber das ist ein freiwilliges Interesse, denke ich.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I truly hope people aren't stupid enough to be convinced by this "trickle down economics"-type bullshit

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

fascism and genocide are currently happening

[–] blazera@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

When these protesters were getting arrested i got so many upvotes for calling it fascism. Oh but Bidens the champion to save us from fascism.

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee -2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Okay, but that's the entire reason the "left" in the US is so pointless. They just have to be less shit. They don't even have to try too hard to avoid a genocide. They still win. But as Trump showed, that doesn't weaken the right. The right can just say "Hey, look, the leftists don't do shit! Now if you'd kindly be distracted from our increasing fascism..." Liberals have no recipe against fascism. At best, they just postpone it by one or two election cycles. Like, I'm not saying don't vote for Biden. I'm glad I don't live in the US with your stupid two-party system. I'm glad I don't have to decide whether to vote for everything that's wrong in that country rn, or the worse alternative. If you think voting democrat is the right move, good on you. If you want to convince others from that view, great. Just, don't be a dick about it. That "so you're secretely a fash, hur di hur di hur" shtick isn't gonna do anything but alienate others further.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Liberals have no recipe against fascism. At best, they just postpone it by one or two election cycles.

Perhaps you can clear this up by directing me towards the political ideology that has the recipe against fascism?

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I highly doubt that you're gonna like this, but... communism. Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's anarchism. But liberal democracy has failed that task time and time again.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Would you like to inform me when and where communism has indefinitely thwarted the rise of a totalitarian regime like fascism?

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

First of all, what the fuck kind of standard is that, "indefintely"? At least it doesnt actively lead to fascism. I'd cite the "fascism is capitalism in decline" thing, but since Lenin said that iirc, that'd be like citing the bible to prove the bible.

Second of all, socialists, communists, and anarchists were always on the forefront of fighting fascism. They were the major force in the Spanisch civil war until they lost because fascism is better at the military. They were the ones arguing the loudest against Nazis, which is why they were such a threat that the first concentration camp were made for them. In Cuba, they literally overthrew the fascist dictatorship that was there at the time. Even reformism won out in places like Chile until the USA (you know, that liberal democracy that's all the rage now) decided they'd rather see a FASCIST DICTATOR in its place. And even though I don't like the Soviet Union for a variety of reasons, especially once Stalin took over, they were the ones who bore the brunt of the war against the Nazis while the USA were initially only helping for profit. And yes, I am aware that the USSR also played a significant role in letting the Nazis grow to power. Like I said, Stalin (and the system he represented) bad.

To get back to the original topic, since we both evidently disenjoy fascism, we (as in, our respective ideological groups) should maybe join in a united front against it. Not as a centrist "reach across the aisle", just to work together on this particular issue. And I'd love to do that. But Joe seems stuck in the proud 'murican tradition of panicking at the sight of red flags and siding with fascists.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

First of all, what the fuck kind of standard is that, “indefintely”?

Is that not the standard you're applying to liberal democracy?

They were the major force in the Spanisch civil war until they lost because fascism is better at the military.

That's not even close to true. The fascists won the Spanish Civil War due to a mixture of outside help and the Soviets literally backstabbing the socialists and anarchists.

In Cuba, they literally overthrew the fascist dictatorship that was there at the time.

Oh, cool. What did they replace it with?

And even though I don’t like the Soviet Union for a variety of reasons, especially once Stalin took over, they were the ones who bore the brunt of the war against the Nazis while the USA were initially only helping for profit.

Jesus Christ.

And yes, I am aware that the USSR also played a significant role in letting the Nazis grow to power. Like I said, Stalin (and the system he represented) bad.

Okay, then you are also aware that the USSR was a fascist regime painted red which engaged in a great deal of ethnic cleansing and mass murder, as well as autocratic governance and the destruction of workers' political, civil, and economic rights.

So you've still not offered a single ideology that has actually managed to hold off totalitarianism in a way liberal democracy has not.

To get back to the original topic, since we both evidently disenjoy fascism, we (as in, our respective ideological groups) should maybe join in a united front against it. Not as a centrist “reach across the aisle”, just to work together on this particular issue. And I’d love to do that. But Joe seems stuck in the proud 'murican tradition of panicking at the sight of red flags and siding with fascists.

Cool. The United Front here is really easy. Vote for the coalition candidate; you know, the one running with the party that has DemSocs and SocDems in it in addition to moderates and neolibs; against the literal fucking fascist.

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

The standard I'm applying to liberal democracy is the lowest one possible. "Does it actively cause fascism, or support it in its rise?" To which the answer sooner or later becomes "Abso-fucking-lutely."

The Cuban fascist were replaced with a workers' state that survived and to some degree prospered in spite of isolation by the USA and their lackeys. There sure are human rights issues, but besides at least some of them stemming from the definition of human rights as anything diverging from bourgeois parlamentary democracy, that's not enough to completely discredit communism. There are plenty capitalist natuons with abysmal human rights records.

Yes. The USSR sucked ass. In my view, there's a number of reasons they (and China) shouldn't even be considered communist (workers had no real control, and they abandoned internationalism in favor of petty nationalism). But they generally seen as part of the communist lore, so whatever. That doesn't make them fascists.

So you've still not offered a single ideology that has actually managed to hold off totalitarianism in a way liberal democracy has not.

Nice shifting of the goal posts there, buddy. We were talking about fascism, not totalitarianism. The latter is just a label you stick on countries you don't like in order to equate them with fascism.

Vote for the coalition candidate.

What coalition? Many of the Dems (at least from what I notice outside the USA) view anything that's actually more left than a better healthcare system as more evil than what the Republicans are doing. They happily play along when the Republicans bring up the red spectre (there's a certain irony to that) of communism.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

76% of the nazis killed in WWII were at the hands of the Soviets.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Is this the same Soviet regime that ran a totalitarian society whose primary difference from fascism was the coat of red paint? The same Soviet regime that itself collapsed into modern Russia?

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Christ almighty you just sent the goalposts into orbit.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Uh, here I thought being a fascist society or collapsing into a fascist society might disqualify a country from the title of "Held off fascism indefinitely", but uh, you do you I guess.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just because all major communist efforts in recent history ultimately manifest as totalitarian horror shows as a matter of course doesn’t mean it isn’t cooler than those stupid lapel flag pins. I mean. The music is pretty good.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

The music is unironically good, though, unlike brownshirt fash trash. GRENADA, GRENADA, GRENADA MOYA!

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow look at those goal posts go!

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

How so? The question regards indefinitely thwarting fascism, which the other commenter accused liberal democracy of being unable to do. I ask which ideology it is they think CAN indefinitely thwart fascism in a way that liberal democracy has failed to.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From which ideology has a recipe against fascism to which can indefinitely prevent the rise of a totalitarian regime similar to fascism

Don't pretend that isn't moving goal posts just because you don't like communism and so you hold it to a higher standard than liberalism.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If 'indefinitely' is not required, then liberal democracy has a recipe against fascism which has worked for at least the past 80 years; as long as fascism has been around, and the question becomes self-defeating.

If you think the Stalinist and Maoist regimes were different from fascism in anything other than the coat of red paint, I can't help you. "The People's Genocide" is not actually better than "Genocide", believe it or not.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Now we're adding horseshoe theory to goal post moving? You're such a good debater and totally worth talking to!

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The only requirement for Evil to win, is for Good people to do nothing.

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I guess then it's a good thing that I'm not advocating for inaction. We just have very different ideas on what to do.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Perfect being the enemy of good, you've sided with pointless to remain pure. Such an example of futility and ignorance. But you do you.

[–] dogsoahC@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Liberals have no recipe against fascism. . . I'm glad I don't live in the US with your stupid two-party system.

Does anyone saying liberals bad in this thread live in America?

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee -5 points 5 months ago

Strawman arguments are pretty lame... Something I'd expect from conservatives really

Maybe you should be mad at Biden for not working to get the votes? Not doing whatever it takes to get those votes is basically giving the election to Trump. Dems should know better, since this "bully them into voting" strategy failed last time too.

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