I mean it is fine if someone wants to input some yelling about our distressing “left” party in power in the hopes that it will make it better. What makes it irritating to me is the dishonesty, with made-up attacks that have resonance and emotional weight but no real accuracy to them, and the total disconnection with any type of strategy that could help anything.
“Uncommitted” movement? Fine. Let’s put pressure on the Democrats to be better, in a way that’s organized and has some passable chance of saving some lives. Great stuff.
“Genocide Joe” and “I’m sitting out this election and you should too”? Great, you made things worse for the Palestinians. Joe Biden isn’t running, and Kamala’s opponent just wants to kill them all.
Jon Stewart interviewing AOC about all the horror and corruption in the Democratic party? Great stuff. She’s got some good insight and they both clearly care and are alarmed about the bullshit and trying to do something about it. Great stuff.
“Yeah but while we’re talking about Reagan, isn’t it really Senator Biden’s fault and mostly his along that things are bad in America right now?”
It’s just a bunch of shit. Always has been. And they never change their mind: The “Democrats are shit” theory is all they want to talk about, and if you discuss them into a corner, they’ll just fall back to some kind of generalized nihilism or change to some other assertion about bad things the Democrats did.
There is a theory that it’s proper to block these people, to reduce the blood pressure of your Lemmy experience, but in my opinion it is better to call them out on it when they start up with it.
No you don’t. This place is filled with articles and tens of thousands of comments criticizing the shit that Republicans are doing and Democrats are helping them achieve a lot of their goals, so why shouldn’t we throw these people under the bus too? Quit treating politics like a team sport and wake up to the fact that they’re working together to fuck us all over.
It’s taken for granted that “Republicans are bad” is the default here. So what I only ever see here are leftists complaining about how bad the Democrats are.
They are a known both sideser
God forbid the Democrats ever get criticized for anything. 🙄
I see more criticism of Democrats than Republicans on this website.
Just my personal experience.
I mean it is fine if someone wants to input some yelling about our distressing “left” party in power in the hopes that it will make it better. What makes it irritating to me is the dishonesty, with made-up attacks that have resonance and emotional weight but no real accuracy to them, and the total disconnection with any type of strategy that could help anything.
“Uncommitted” movement? Fine. Let’s put pressure on the Democrats to be better, in a way that’s organized and has some passable chance of saving some lives. Great stuff.
“Genocide Joe” and “I’m sitting out this election and you should too”? Great, you made things worse for the Palestinians. Joe Biden isn’t running, and Kamala’s opponent just wants to kill them all.
Jon Stewart interviewing AOC about all the horror and corruption in the Democratic party? Great stuff. She’s got some good insight and they both clearly care and are alarmed about the bullshit and trying to do something about it. Great stuff.
“Yeah but while we’re talking about Reagan, isn’t it really Senator Biden’s fault and mostly his along that things are bad in America right now?”
It’s just a bunch of shit. Always has been. And they never change their mind: The “Democrats are shit” theory is all they want to talk about, and if you discuss them into a corner, they’ll just fall back to some kind of generalized nihilism or change to some other assertion about bad things the Democrats did.
There is a theory that it’s proper to block these people, to reduce the blood pressure of your Lemmy experience, but in my opinion it is better to call them out on it when they start up with it.
No you don’t. This place is filled with articles and tens of thousands of comments criticizing the shit that Republicans are doing and Democrats are helping them achieve a lot of their goals, so why shouldn’t we throw these people under the bus too? Quit treating politics like a team sport and wake up to the fact that they’re working together to fuck us all over.
It’s taken for granted that “Republicans are bad” is the default here. So what I only ever see here are leftists complaining about how bad the Democrats are.