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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  . Continuing to vote blue no matter who makes everything worse.

  Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House in 1976. Every Dem candidate since Jimmy has been close to him politically.

  Back in 1976 people were being told not to vote for Carter because he wasn’t strongly against the racist South African regime.

  People like that were wrong then and you’re wrong now. “Not perfect” is much better than “truly evil.”

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  • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Carter was a neoliberal who paved the path towards fascism that we are now walking on. He undermined FDR’s New Deal style policies, weakened labor unions and normalized austerity and pro-market, anti-regulatory reforms that his successor, Reagan, milked the shit out of. But, yes, he performatively put solar panels on the roof of the White House. You make my point for me.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, because your point was that there’s no difference between one genocide in Gaza and multiple genocides all over the world.

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      • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People in this thread really do sure love telling me what my point is and getting it completely wrong somehow despite my having written literally thousands of words explaining my point today.

        My point is that there are only marginal differences between the Republicans and the Democrats, and that a stance of “Vote Blue, No Matter Who” is a completely ineffective measure of harm reduction and actually makes things worse.

        Also, what “multiple genocides” are you referring to? I have some ideas but I don’t want to jump to conclusions.

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