• Pratai@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’d bet real money that the kids chanting “genocide Joe” are entirely unaware that their little grassroots movement was created by conservatives to boost Trump’s election chances.

    And it’s totally working.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah Trump made Genocide Joe bypass Congress to bomb refugee camps in Gaza. Everything is Trumps fault vote for Biden everyone nothing to see here. Both sides schmoth sides amirite.

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                9 months ago

                In fairness… I’ve had accounts banned for arguing with socialists here. I can’t blame anyone for standing down in debate vs anyone that supports the ideology of the whole genocide Joe.

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                    9 months ago

                    Wasn’t this account. And I regarding this one- I wasn’t any more uncivil than anyone I was discussing the topic with.

                    The point I was making was taken entirely out of context and a ban was issued.

                    It’s safer now to just agree with any and all socialist posts on lemmy or be banned.

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        9 months ago

        It was. It’s also being pushed very hard by the Russians and other foreign actors who have a huge interest in seeing Trump reelected. Why wouldn’t they? It’s way too easy and it’s working exactly as intended.

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          9 months ago

          Of course the right is going to disingenuously use this as a wedge issue. But, what exactly is your ask here? If a Democratic president is complicit in genocide, are fellow Democrats obliged to keep their traps shut? Furthermore, do you really think that the left needs the right to tell them that genocide is bad?

          I personally think the situation is far more complicated than many on the left are acknowledging, and there are some real defenses for most of Biden’s actions and his general approach to a terrible situation. But you aren’t availing yourself of those arguments. Instead, you just want to argue that the president’s critics should sit down and shut up because Republicans like it when we disagree. This is exactly the attitude that hardens ideological disagreement into cultural division.