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Hell, there were (are still?) segregated schools up until around 2000. I know at least one wasn’t set to desegregate until sometime in the 90s.

This got me thinking: How is this any different from the ending of the books?

Harry becomes a magic-cop and goes on to uphold the draconian institutions that enforce goblin slavery and Muggle oppression/classism.

Ah yes, please forgive this fascist genocide supporting worm of their sins of not hearing an internet meme! I shall present my backside for proper flagellation forthwith!

I’m getting mixed signals here. Blue MAGA means Biden-Harris supporting pro-Israel and their genocide Dems, but now it means leftists who believe that the Dems can be used as a stopgap to elect actual leftists who care for the people like Mamdani?

And this isn’t a flame out, you’re the one who accused me of being a pro-genocide conservative. I’m merely over here being confused about what the hell you’re going on about and explaining why I use the term for Grad users specifically.

Since when? I’ve literally never heard it used in that context except for your claim here that it means…corpo Dems I guess? Anything to the right of your views I could understand - that’s how Grad works and why they call socialists fascists or conservatives. For not being communist enough. Hence why I refer to them as Blue MAGA. That, and the fact that they outright harassed Blahaj on our own server to the point of defederating to protect the users. Again, because we weren’t Communist enough for them. They see little difference between most forms of leftists and conservatives.

And what the fuck does any of that have to do with being opposed to genocide? That’s just common sense. The only people that I’ve seen who aren’t opposed to the genocide in Gaza are racists and politicians/companies who are gargling Israeli nuts for $20.

I’m not even a Democrat. Milquetoast centrists and moderate conservatives slurping corporate dollars are not for me. I vote Dem for the few actual leftists among the party and the rare independents who are forced to work with them and because the only other choice is hatred and racism except when MAGA isn’t just outright stealing from the people.

You can fuck all the way off.

That’s an issue with any form of information sharing, though. Your local library is full of false information as well, whether that’s because it’s outdated or because you live somewhere like the US where all school curriculum books have to be approved by a Texas based group per federal law.

Lies spread faster than the truth, and the internet is great at spreading information.

Isn’t that just Dixiecrats/Dixie Dems then? AKA former Confederates.

I use it because of the extremism of the MAGA crowd, not the conservatism. Not like Horseshoe Theory, but that extremists on the leftist side could have fallen down the MAGA rabbit hole instead under different life circumstances, and that they can show similar behaviors in “purity test” attitudes, etc. Not that they’re terrorists like the MAGA crowd, but that they should probably log off and touch grass once and a while.

Not something to be used wildly, but towards those who show 4chan-like behavior.

This isn’t a zero sum game and this isn’t about defending a president who can at best be said to have kept the ship afloat and recovered some of the economic damage caused by Trump’s COVID response, nor the shitty option B the Dems forced on us without a primary. All of the above can be terrible. That’s always an option.

You see one jersey or the other, I saw two jerseys with twice the players on the horizon. The policy is the same now, but in 2024 during the election? When the guy who idolizes war mongers like Putin and who used to read Hitler’s speeches before bed (according to the biography of an ex-wife), and who had previously said about the Middle East that he wanted to “nuke the sand into glass” said that he wanted to invade Gaza and put a carrier just off the coast, I fully believed that the strip would be gone and the people who lived there a footnote in the history books written by Israel and the US by now.

Both suck. Both support genocide. But one was talking about accelerating it by an order of magnitude that didn’t leave nukes off the table. If they hadn’t replaced the big red button in the Oval Office with one that orders a diet coke, he would’ve slammed it the first chance he got.

Says the judgemental accusation throwing nut job. I’m a socialist with no love for the Democrats, only people who actually care about making things better.

Where did I ever imply in my comment that I think genocide is good? I merely explained that many people used the “both sides support genocide” as an argument for not voting or voting for Trump. Just like the weirdos who voted for Trump instead of Hillary in 2016 because actively supporting that dumpster-fire was somehow the best choice in their mind after Bernie got shafted by the Dems in the primary. Or the “both sides” centrism that’s actually just conservatism in a mask.

It was a campaign to sow voter disenfranchisement into progressives. And it worked. I saw it online, and I saw it in real life. That’s why they asked you who you voted for. Because actual people decided that the best course of action when forced to choose between genocide and genocide with an extra side of evil was to throw a tantrum, vote for neither and let somebody else choose which of the two would run the country, and then shame anybody who did vote for Harris for voting for genocide.

Because it means you at least tried to mitigate the harm. Most people who took that stance said that people shouldn’t bother voting at all because voting for either was supporting genocide.

And yet a large portion of them don’t vote because of what you said in your previous comment. They say that their vote won’t matter because nothing will change, and therefore don’t vote.

If we could convince them to vote out the Republicans and then hold the Democratic party over the fire until we can replace them with actually competent candidates (third party or not, we should remove parties period and enact ranked choice imo), then we might have a chance. But no conversation ever gets past the first hurdle of “vote blue no matter who won’t change anything.”

I mean, Trump at this time did say that he was going to put American boots on the ground in Gaza and pave it over to put up a luxury beach resort, so I wouldn’t say that they’re literally the same on this, but it’s a measure between actively supporting genocide and actively supporting and taking part in said genocide through direct military action.

Both parties love Israeli money, one just also happens to be run by a man who would love to wipe non-white ethnicities off the planet and build more towers to his inflated ego where they once lived.

Ironically, I use Blue MAGA to refer to people like those Grads. If they had hit 4chan before reading communist theory, they probably would’ve ended up on the other end of the spectrum.