You're on it. Lemmy is rife with leftist infighting.

Hey. Remember when the Biden Administration listed "anticapitalist views" as a good reason to suspect someone of being a domestic terrorist?

No, and the documents you linked don't either. "Capitalism" only appears once, and while violent anti-government/anti-authority action is referenced, being anti-capitalist is not in itself started to be a cause for suspicion. They only talk about the targets violent anti-capitalists might choose.

And yet you vote for the austerity party instead of going for any of the various left wing parties and devoting your energy there

I spend my energy supporting a left wing party. I vote for that left wing party in Democratic primaries, when available. But voting for a third party in the general election helps no one except the fascists.

You're here scolding people who held to their principles and voted for what they want

What they want doesn't matter if they don't have the ability to get it. If we had ranked choice voting or something, you'd have a point. But we don't, so voting for what you want is mathematically worse than voting against the worst outcome.

can you at least quit actively endorsing the status quo?

If you think I'm endorsing the status quo, you haven't paid attention to a single word I've said. I'm very much not endorsing the status quo, I'm endorsing a specific action within the status quo to mitigate damage until we have the organized power to dismantle the status quo, and dismantling the status quo is in fact what I'm endorsing. But that takes time, and until then our best electoral action is voting for leftists in the primary, and voting against the far right in the general. Luckily, we're reaching a point where leftists are winning more primaries, so hopefully in a few cycles we won't have to vote lesser evil anymore. But I'm not going to pretend we're closer to that than we are.

If I am doing a genocide, and you vote for me, it makes it clear you are at least apathetic about genocide.

That doesn't imply the converse, it doesn't mean that not voting communicates any information about your stance on genocide, it just makes it clear that you're apathetic in general.

Voting for the DNC makes it harder to build anything else.

How? The GOP is actively arresting people trying to build anything else. Attempts to co-opt a movement isn't harder to overcome than prison.

I suppose the republicans are more overt, which is a positive, since it makes even liberals reel.

Again, they are causing additional suffering. You think it's a positive because you're not one of the additional people suffering. My empathy won't allow me to ignore the additional suffering caused by my action, or lack thereof. I can't just take an ideological stand when I know it will increase the suffering of others.

Constant suffering I've learned to cope with, since I'd be catatonic otherwise. But the people only on one list? I can't just stand by, I have to at least save them. I don't know how you can do it, my body physically revulses at just the thought of standing by even if the difference is only one person. I don't think I'd feel human.