Really? His account is 2 months old and this is his first actual post, unless he switched accounts recently or I just can’t see the full history from my instance for some reason

I don’t even know why someone would do that, but it’s just striking me as weird

I’m about 90% sure this picture and story has been posted on lemmy before

I mean, that sounds so reductive to me, but it’s the only thing that makes sense.

He’s paranoid and seeing shadows, but he supports Israel so it doesn’t matter if he’s losing his mind. As long as his hallucinations are telling him to vote with the major party positions, they might as well just be another staff advisor.

I think the dems are trying hard to resist the popular momentum in the progressive side of the party, and letting his seat be re-filled would open a vulnerability. There’s a small chance that a special election would cause them to lose the seat entirely, but the nationwide sentiment is in their favor - it seems to me they’re more worried about a progressive challenger. But that’s just speculation.

WHY IS THIS MAN STILL IN OFFICE

Between this and the other story earlier this week, its crystal fucking clear that he is not well. Does nobody close to him care about his clear brain damage from his stroke? It’s like the entire federal government is weekend at bernie’s and the whole thing is being run by staffers

Everything i disagree with is propaganda

Like that?

Lol, well, uh… then fuck you?

Jesus christ. Maybe i don’t care about Ukrainians or Europeans because they were mean to me once? If you think the genocide in Gaza doesn’t 100% have the risk of spreading through the Middle east and into Europe, too, I don’t think you’re worth the time. And anyway, those weren’t the genocides I was referring to.

Feels a little like you just don’t like Arabs or Muslims.

I see absolutely zero indication of this being right-wing propaganda.

I’ve seen a lot of mentions of other genocides on my instance, but what’s notable about the Palestinian genocide is that the US and the western world is directly involved in it.

Typically when I see this complaint it’s paired with a general vibe of wanting to deflect attention away from western atrocities. Not that I know enough to accuse you of that, but still.

Absolutely this.

Anyone denying the clear signals of despair from young voters is coping. Idk why anyone is getting mad at people demanding progress from dems at a time when there’s no risk of electoral losses - makes me think those people are actually just carrying water for ani-reform neoliberal fascists.

Just don’t do anything that’ll raise attention to your opposition to fascism, tho

Tell people they’re being oppressed, they’ll become defensive, then frustrated opposition will retaliate against their fallacies, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Religion becomes more important than education, and the government gains more control over the people.

If you’re suggesting that even just pointing to existing oppression is going to lead to this ‘self-fulfilling prophesy’, then I think we have very different definitions of ‘complacency’ and ‘smart’.

That is a hell of a conflation, between vocal opposition to fascism and a fucking assassination attempt.

No, I don’t think anyone here is advocating suicide by amateur assassin cosplay. Even just dispassionately calling this as it is will be held up as ‘dangerous’ - it’s not at all about the optics.

If all you’re doing is just waiting for your next opportunity to cast a ballot, you’ve already lost.

Lmfao

Any small act of retaliation will be blown out of proportion on Fox News.

Any act at all with be turned into reactionary fodder.

You’re looking right at a huge symptom of the problem but not seeing how deep the crisis is.

Electoralism cannot save us from fascism.

Your anger gives them power.

So does complacency.

Well if it comforts you, the same analogy could be interpreted as them being ‘opposites’

Still ‘of the same coin’, though

I’m not great at reading but I don’t think thats what they said

“Biden is doing his best to pressure them to stop!”

I’ve been told that this qualifies as an attempt to stop Israel’s genocide

We got to where we are because we’ve been choosing the lesser evil, for far longer than 20 years

If liberals hadn’t been so content with choosing evil, we’d have avoided the last 50 years of backsliding.