Conservatives, liberals, and neoliberals are all just subtypes of the classical liberal.

These terms are rather well understood by leftists, it’s only liberals who think they mean the same thing.

I have much respect for drag and don’t disagree with that point in general, but in this particular case I must protest.

Democracy is a process for legitimizing a government. The voters cannot fail at voting, they can only be failed by elected parties that don’t faithfully represent their interests once in power. The responsibility is entirely incumbent on the parties themselves, as they get to pick how they manipulate public sentiment into supporting them and the voters have no agency in the decisions those parties make.

Sure, blame the voters for the lack of choice they were given. That seems very productive and totally not just an excuse so you don’t have to admit that the Democrats are responsible for enabling genocide.

Harris should have lied, then. There’s no punishment for promising the world and failing to deliver.

You’re not wrong, but there’s no way to get there from here that doesn’t involve the American political system becoming something else first.

People can only hold one set of beliefs in their heads at a time.

Republicans hold ten contradictory beliefs simultaneously and are immune to cognitive dissonance.

If they were so great, they wouldn’t need the PR.

What people need is organization and mutual aid to help them survive another Trump admin.

America was never a democracy, just four corporations in a trench coat pretending to be a democracy.

Reality isn’t even objective, relativity is the rule.

Also, we can’t even impose a religion’s brand of morality on its own priests, why would you pretend that doing so globally would even be possible?

Depends on what sort of god you are. Most are harmless, but the malicious ones get Nietzche’d.

I wouldn’t, too many people think the less-harmful fascists are on their side and would only actively resist fascism if the worse ones win.

Why does morality have to be objective to keep you from raping animals?

Then where do they come from, if there’s no objective morality.

They come from people, of course. Here’s a history lesson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence#History

Not true, abortion is becoming rampant because political factions are trying to change a moral fact.

False, abortion rates in the US have been in decline since the 80’s:

I enjoy political discussion and will happily argue just for the sake of it.

Also, the faces of liberals and other right-wingers turn all sorts of interesting colors when you explain basic political realities to them, like how the Democrats are fascists on par with the Republicans.

Hey @1984@lemmy.today, did you forget about me?

A solid blue one where my vote will count for nothing.

If you’re talking about your other post, you’ll find I responded to it line-by-line, and then you called me a Lib. XD

Of course not. You posted a wall of text in response to a very simple question and captioned it “This is good.”

If you have a point, please do make it. XD

Well, for one thing, my Mexican, gay and trans friends don’t have to be worried that they’ll be rounded up and deported or worse.

I’m gay and trans and one of my partners is Puerto Rican. Biden intensified Trump’s border and deportation policies: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/mar/08/alejandro-mayorkas/has-biden-deported-more-people-in-nine-months-than/

Of course it’s not ideal.

“Not ideal” would be if they were merely as bad as Republicans. Pretending to be on our side while being worse than the Republicans is a real feat.

But we have to play the hand we’re dealt. And we were dealt a two party system.

If someone tries to force you into choosing between bad and worse, the correct response is not to pick the lesser evil, it is to spit in the face of both your captors.

And until you’re ready to go up against tanks and fighter jets and bunker busters and knife missiles, I don’t see how you guys can just sit there and complain. Start your revolution already, if you think you can win.

Or just fucking vote, you goddamned babies!

Calling people names when you’re trying to get them on your side doesn’t seem very effective…