• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    In a burning house with three people, one is fighting the fire, one is pouring gasoline on everything and one is on the couch watching TV.

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      Let’s add a 4th person in there, someone who thinks they’re helping by doing nothing but yelling that the fire isn’t allowed to burn things

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          “If you had just picked a better water bucket, we wouldn’t be in this mess. It’s your fault if the house burns down.”

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          If more of you would have voted for Jill Stein, we wouldn’t be in this mess!

          /s in case that wasn’t obvious

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                Democrats are the ones criticizing the ones actually trying to put out the fire but doing jack shit about it.

                What’s more, they’re the ones who doused the house with gas not a half a year ago, and whenever they’re not delighting in the terror going “oh I bet you must love it, you didn’t vote for the lady with the matches and now you got the guy with the flamethrower” they’re passing his budgets, they’re complying with Musk’s unelected goons, they’re getting on with his Gaza agenda and largely silent about the protestors getting kidnapped.

                Asking for donations isn’t resisting, it’s ransom.

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                  So to be clear, you believe Jill Stein voters to be representative of the ones “actually trying to put out the fire”? Am I understanding you correctly?

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                    Anyone who didn’t think genocide was an entirely negotiable part of the platform/a wedge issue nuisance, basically. There were some Jill Stein voters there, some PSL voters, some non voters who are otherwise politically active, certainly a bigger percentage than Dems who think politics is a thing you do every two years for a few hours.

                    I’ve yet to see democrat leadership organizing for a general strike or advocating for civil disobedience, unlike those others mentioned.

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      I wish 1/3 of the USA were trying to put the fire out… The majority of this third are just watching in horror how the fire consumes their house

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        They are really earnestly and as hard as they can trying to put the raging fire out with a cheap children’s water pistol that isn’t working very well.

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          100% this. Every other memper of my family voted for this. I do my best, but they’re so blinded by the media and their own bias that it’s almost impossible to convince them on even 1 topic.

          Its incredibly sad and frustrating actually

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            The fact that you are there and aware of what is happening to your country is hope for change. I always sound doom and gloom in my posts but I’m also hopeful for the change. I’m Indigenous Canadian and my entire life has always felt like failure in everything me and my family has been exposed to for generations. The greatest thing I learned from all of it is to never give up … even in the face of overwhelming odds.