• deathbird@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    All you can do is whataboutism and distraction.

    You can point out every failure in shortcoming of the so-called left of the US government and it doesn’t fucking matter. They’re still to the left of the right. There’s still a discernible difference. Some things improve sometimes when one party gets into office, and most things get worse when the other gets in power. I don’t know how it works in your country, but here that counts as a difference. Sorry you can’t vote out capitalism over the next 4 years. That’ll have to be worked on some other way. In the meantime, voting is still better than not.

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      22 hours ago

      whataboutism

      People who use the word ‘whataboutism’ unironically (i.e. when their hypocrisy is called out) are silly, should be disregarded, and should not be politically empowered.
      This is especially silly after you tried to claim that the enslaver of Libya was good.

      All you can do is whataboutism and distraction.

      What am I distracting anybody from in this case? From the ‘strategy’ that your empire has convinced you of being fruitful, despite it yielding no results beneficial to the oppressed?

      You can point out every failure in shortcoming of the so-called left of the US government and it doesn’t fucking matter. They’re still to the left of the right.

      This is like saying that if one doesn’t support, say, Ernst Röhm, they are somehow bad, and that it doesn’t matter that he has “shortcomings”.

      They are not to the left of the right. They are on the right. They have the same policies, and you can’t even claim that they are in opposition to the other part of your uniparty, as they literally fund their election candidates.
      The only difference is aesthetics.

      There’s still a discernible difference.

      Which is what, exactly?

      Some things improve sometimes when one party gets into office

      The negotiation for the removal of NATO’s troops from Afghanistan was negotiated under Trump, which is more than what I can say about the blue fascists.
      Meanwhile, the other party’s administration undid the legal precedent for abortions that they promised to put in the constitution.

      and most things get worse when the other gets in power.

      You mean how the ICE usage got worse under Obomber to the point where each of his individual terms saw the most prolific usage of them? Or how his state enslaved Libya?

      In the meantime, voting is still better than not.

      You are so insistent, but are yet to provide proof of that in the context of the US.