Tankies:
All genocides are bad! Don't vote democrats!
Everyone else:
Yeah we hate the genocides in Palestine, Ukraine and of the Uyghurs in China.
Tankies:
Where is your proof that Ukraine and Uyghurs are being genocided?
Tankies:
All genocides are bad! Don't vote democrats!
Everyone else:
Yeah we hate the genocides in Palestine, Ukraine and of the Uyghurs in China.
Tankies:
Where is your proof that Ukraine and Uyghurs are being genocided?
The real horseshoe theory:
MAGAts and Tankies got hit on the head by a horseshoe.
The real horseshoe theory:
MAGAts and libs: vote harder for me otherwise the other will win, even tho both parties interest just lies with israel
Technically correct, although I wonder whether it would be easier to challenge the system under the "nothing will fundamentally change" party or the "We are actively and gleefully changing things for the worse" party...
Best is to organize the working class behind a 3rd party.
That would be best, yes. Is there a 3rd party in the US that already exists that could be organized behind?
@MousePotatoDoesStuff I dont know as I am not american but the greens are way better as a starting point than the dems.
what ever came of the initial wave of “yeah but ukraine is using literal nazi units in the war, so russia is still trying to kill nazis and get the territory back for they reason?”
It still pops up now and again. On the Triad you still see people saying things like "Ukronazis"
The Triad? Neat. I am guessing those are the instances that shall not be named?
I don't like being lumped in with these people just because I chose to register on the devs‘ instance.
A person's instance can be an identity, of sorts. Not everyone going to make assumptions about you, but you are going to be exposed to a ton of unconscious bias, regardless.
If I see someone at a baseball game, it's safe to assume that the person actually likes baseball. It's so safe of a guess that many people wouldn't think twice about making that assumption.
I am simply calling out the conundrum for what it is. Stereotyping isn't the best thing in the world, but it is inevitable.
"You aren't being invaded, you're the fascist invader and Russia just defends itself from NATO!!!111"
And then there's https://lemmy.world/post/48392030 here on lemmy
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