And trump is saving lives by rescinding funding to Ukraine and siding with Putin allowing him to steamroll and ethnically cleanse and subjugate all ukranians right? And he is also helping by removing access to abortions and allowing people to die via failed births oh an all trans people I bet are suuuuuuuper helped by the outlawing of their mere existence?
The thread is talking about how it ought to be acceptable to criticise the Democratic party, and the reality of what you’re doing is needlessly deflecting back to Republicans in a context in which it’s irrelevant.
In a perfect world, people would stop feeling the need to redirect every criticism of Democrats into pointing out how someone else must be worse, and maybe realise Democrats as they exist and as the party is structured is an almost useless vehicle for any meaningful change or opposition.
In a perfect world, liberals would stop idealising Democrats in the way they did in the post I was responding to, where they implied the Democratic alternative would save lives, after that party literally full throatedly endorsed genocide right up until they lost the election (and still do).
Democrats were saving lives by bombing children in Gaza.
And trump is saving lives by rescinding funding to Ukraine and siding with Putin allowing him to steamroll and ethnically cleanse and subjugate all ukranians right? And he is also helping by removing access to abortions and allowing people to die via failed births oh an all trans people I bet are suuuuuuuper helped by the outlawing of their mere existence?
What the fuck are you on about? What do you think you’re responding to?
The alternative… As the thread is talking about the alternative aka Republicans that ended up being elected.
The thread is talking about how it ought to be acceptable to criticise the Democratic party, and the reality of what you’re doing is needlessly deflecting back to Republicans in a context in which it’s irrelevant.
In a perfect world we would have a vote reform and get rating based voting…
In a perfect world, people would stop feeling the need to redirect every criticism of Democrats into pointing out how someone else must be worse, and maybe realise Democrats as they exist and as the party is structured is an almost useless vehicle for any meaningful change or opposition.
In a perfect world, liberals would stop idealising Democrats in the way they did in the post I was responding to, where they implied the Democratic alternative would save lives, after that party literally full throatedly endorsed genocide right up until they lost the election (and still do).