The argument from authority doesn’t make the point more or less valid.

Nah I just think he says it way better than I can.

And here we see a useful idiot in its natural habitat manufacturing consent for free 🤦

Well if Omar El-Akkad is an embarrassing child that shits his pants then I guess I’m one of those things too

The word “potentially” is doing a lot of lifting here 😆

But the moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing. Only the least worst thing will no longer be the mild, ethics-agnostic emptiness of modern Western liberalism, nor will it be the multitude of barbaric authoritarians and their secret prisons. It will be communal solidarity, or else nothing, a walking away from all of this. Countless otherwise pragmatic people who would in any other circumstance choose liberalism by default will instead decide none of this is worth the damage to one’s soul. They will instead support no one, vote for no one, wash their hands of any ordering of the world that results in choices no better than this. And the obvious centrist refrain—But do you want the deranged right wing to win?—should, after even a moment of self-reflection, yield to a far more important question: How empty does your message have to be for a deranged right wing to even have a chance of winning? Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.

• Omar El-Akkad, noted embarrassing child

It’s not yet a genocide in Venezuela, but the logic of “soul damage” absolutely applies.

I know, I’m so embarrassed. God help me 😭 🙏

Lots of people will this coming year when their healthcare goes up 700%

Implying that wouldn’t fucking happen under the Democrats, but liberals wouldn’t be yapping about it because it’s not their faction of capital that’s winning.

To be clear: I’m not a Trump supporter, but the person I was replying to was getting upsetti spaghetti at me for taking a principled stance against voting. Usually I would be a lot more patient and explain this to that individual but I just don’t care about stupid AmeriKKKan’s insecurities right now.

Yeah, the correct answer is both of them, since both parties are subservient to the will of the capitalist class.

No, I think you’ve been duped by one faction of the capitalist class into thinking they represent your interests.

Are you nuts?

Unironically yes

In what universe would Harris bomb Venezuela and kidnap Nicolás Maduro?

The one where I wasn’t born yesterday

Trump will pass a law requiring him to rub his bare ass onto every single female congressman and these guys will be going “do you really not think Harris would have her hairy asshole pushed onto people as well?”

I see, you don’t understand the difference between domestic policy and foreign policy.

You really think Harris wouldn’t have done this? Because AmeriKKKa is uniparty in terms of foreign policy.

All good

goyslop

No need to bring Jewish people into this. “Slop” would do just fine.

Nah, at least one 😆

Yup I’m the biggest idiot ever. An idiotosaurus rex.

You’re missing a few K’s 🔥

You cannot fall for something that will never happen.

Don’t take this the wrong way but there’s nothing structurally stopping Harris from running in 2028 and winning. So that’s not even as strong an argument as you think it is.

But let’s be honest with each other…I wasn’t born yesterday. I was alive during the Obama administrations and the Biden administration. I know this country is uniparty on foreign policy, especially oil and socialist countries. It’s a matter of “when” and “how”, not “if”.

So if you have a better meme suggestion then I’m all ears, but clearly that user has been duped by the AmeriKKKan war machine.

I mean it’s a foregone conclusion like gravity

She’s not invading because she wasn’t elected. If she was elected, she would have invaded. That person fell for the lie that the Democrats and Republicans are not identical on foreign policy.

It’s okay, I figured. And also I am USian so it’s actually 1000% justified to scream at me over this.