If history has taught us anything it’s that nothing good comes of a united Germany.

you’re voting for Palestinians to be killed by Trump

First of all i’m not voting at all in US elections because i’m not American and don’t live in the US. But also, why does abstaining (which i’m not saying to do, if you think voting has an impact you can always vote third party or write in a candidate) count as a vote for Trump? A Republican could use the same argument as you to argue that: “If you abstain you are just giving your vote to Biden!”. How is their argument any different? The argument that abstaining means voting for party B only works if you want party A to win. A leftist should want neither to win since both are enemies of the working class.

who will not be as easy to sway with public opinion as Biden

I’m not seeing Biden being swayed by public opinion at all, the only ones who seem to sway him are the neocon warmongers, Wall Street, and the military industrial complex. He continues to enthusiastically aid and abet the genocide of Palestine despite massive and repeated protests. He continues to back NATO militarization, anti-Russia, anti-China and anti-Iran war posturing. He has started to bomb yet another middle eastern country with his strikes on Yemen. And that’s if you actually believe that he is the one making the decisions.

I think you’re fooling yourself into believing in a version of the Democratic party that does not exist outside its supporters’ propaganda rhetoric. It’s just strange for someone choosing to call themselves an anarchist to functionally be indistinguishable from a liberal in their views on bourgeois elections…

P.S. I’ve tried to be polite and restrained in my responses so far but if i were you i wouldn’t have the cheek to accuse others of lacking empathy when you don’t even have enough empathy for Palestinians to stop voting for a party that is helping and defending their murderers.

to reduce voter turnout on the left

It’s not really voter turnout on the left if you turn out to vote for the Democratic party which is an enemy of the left. That’s voter turnout on the right. I am a socialist, why would i condone voting for enemies of socialism? I am an anti-imperialist, why would i condone voting for imperialists? I am anti-war and anti-racist, why would i condone voting for racist warmongers?

You keep missing the point and thinking that Democrats winning is somehow a beneficial or desirable outcome for leftists. It is not.

how doing exactly what the government wants

What the bourgeois government wants is for people to keep voting for either of the two fascist warmonger parties. It doesn’t really matter which of them you vote for because the bourgeoisie wins either way. Just so long as the illusion of democracy is maintained. Just so long as the unrest and frustrations of the masses are channeled into activities which fit within the predefined framework of the system.

Voting for the “lesser evil” is how we got here. It’s how we slide deeper and deeper into fascism.

You’re mixing up US election results with unrelated things.

Everything is related. US election results both do and don’t affect a lot of things. Washington policy impacts much around the world that you would consider “unrelated”, but at the same time that policy doesn’t really depend on the result of elections as long as the same two parties keep winning because the same permanent security state and foreign policy establishment is still there regardless who is “elected”. Because elections in the US (and in all “liberal democracies”) are a theater for the masses more than anything else. The same capitalist class still pulls the strings. I just have a difficult time understanding why you would go to bat so hard for the racist and very likely senile figurehead currently sitting in the oval office considering under him objectively more people have died and the situation has gotten significantly worse around the world.

So vote for who you want, it won’t make a difference in the outcome except that you are yet again validating the legitimacy of the bourgeoisie’s little shell game they call elections, but don’t insult our intelligence by trying to portray the genocider-in-chief as a “lesser evil”. Many of us are also in vulnerable demographics, a lot of our comrades here are queer or belong to one or another marginalized group, we know the danger of living under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. But that doesn’t mean we have to fall for their electoral bait and switch over and over again. Fool me once…

I’m glad that you feel safe under Biden, i’m not being facetious, i genuinely am, but a million Gazans being terrorized, crippled and murdered daily by the dozens if not hundreds, by bombs supplied by Biden to a regime financially supported and militarily aided by Biden in commiting this genocide (a little reminder that US drones flying over Gaza give targeting information to the occupier so that it can more easily bomb children in refugee camps, doctors in hospitals, homes with entire families in them) do not feel so safe. By your logic, in voting for Biden you vote for their deaths. The only moral choice is to oppose ALL those who support and enable genocide, not just those who threaten you personally.

So, you’re advocating accelerationism.

No, if i was doing that i would say to vote for Biden.

The only thing i’m saying is i personally couldn’t bring myself to vote for Genocide Joe. Or for anyone associated with either of the two main warmongering imperialist parties in the US for that matter (and that includes Bernie who betrayed all those who bought his “democratic socialist” act, bent the knee to the establishment, and has revealed himself for the imperialist warmonger many of us already knew he was ever since he supported the bombing of Yugoslavia).

We’re out of time to prevent climate collapse, and mitigating it has to start right now.

Yeah, too bad that the US under Biden committed the biggest act of ecological terrorism in history by blowing up the Nordstream pipeline, forcing Europe into a dependency on expensive US LNG shipped by highly polluting tankers across an entire ocean… Germany is burning more fossil fuel than ever, and at the behest of the neocon warmongers in the Washington NATO wants to massively ramp up military production and is foaming at the mouth to go to war with Russia, Iran and China essentially simultaneously. Do i need to remind you that militaries are among the worst polluters on the planet?

Doesn’t look to me like Biden mitigated much of anything. In fact i struggle to see much of a difference in policy at all between Democrats and Republicans, only in how they are perceived and how much pushback they get.

When Trump was president Europe was distancing itself from the US and starting to co-operate economically more with China. The fact that Trump was hated was a good thing. Now all of that has been reversed and more. Europe is deeper than ever in the pocket of the US which is catastrophic for Europe and the world. Domestically Trump also provoked much more resistance whereas Democrat presidencies not only demobilize the masses, they lull them into actively supporting reactionary imperialist policies like the proxy war on Russia.

Trump was objectively a weaker president as he was hated by the establishment state apparatus, and a weak US in internal conflict with itself is a good thing for the world.

The Biden presidency has accelerated WW3 by 4 years and has made the entire world less safe for everyone including trans people.

He also took no meaningful steps to protect trans people or even basic women’s rights like abortion in the US.

Turns out the choice was just between a competent fascist and an incompetent one.

Oh no…don’t threaten me with a good time!

Highest level: طلت الراية الحمرا

Content aside, this is a really great meme format and we should use it more often.

Yeah…that is very strange to include in this meme since it is well known that communists historically have been predominantly atheists.

But i will give OP the benefit of the doubt and assume they meant the liberal/reactionary kind of atheists, the Dawkins/“Rational Wiki” types.

Turns out Russia is the real free speech haven. Snowden isn’t the only American who went to Russia to escape political persecution…

Fair point, maybe the snippet here is missing the larger context where they could be clarifying that they don’t actually believe in this dichotomy.

But praising the arch-reactionary Solzhenitsyn is still a big red flag…

Some argue it was intentional

Yeah, that “some” are the Nazis and other rabid anti-communists with zero evidence

most seem to think it was a degree of both of those

Given the fact that all serious historians admit there is no evidence of any intent, that is a bare faced lie.

Let’s not rehash this same topic for the millionth time, it’s been discussed ad nauseam: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1155

What never ceases to amaze me is the sheer shameless hypocrisy of anti-communists. So quick to attribute every problem in socialist countries to socialism or its leaders, yet when something of equivalent magnitude like the Great Depression happens which also produces millions of victims you never attribute it to “colossal mismanagement and incompetence”, let alone genocidal intent. Even when such intent is quite clearly demonstrable like in the famines in colonized Ireland, colonized India and many other instances in the global south where colonialism, imperialism and capitalism have and continue to murder many millions more than socialism ever has… But under capitalism that’s just an unfortunate natural occurrence i suppose.

Doesn’t sound at all decent and dialectical to me. From the very beginning it establishes a false dichotomy between “bureaucracy” and “individual liberty”. That in itself is a libertarian framing that no serious Marxist would ever adopt.

Even liberal historians admit the so-called “holodomor” narrative is Nazi propaganda.

Russia’s armed forces are now bigger, better armed and more experienced than when the conflict started. Its military industries are in high gear and its civilian economy has actually been helped by the sanctions to start producing more domestically rather than relying on western imports. Unemployment is at an all time low in Russia.

Meanwhile most of the West is entering into a long term recession. It has been largely unable to ramp up military production despite the political promises to do so, and it is running out of surplus to send. The US is already looking for a way to extricate itself out of this trap so that they can focus on other more important fronts, but i’m not sure that they can.

They would like to shift the whole thing onto the Europeans but even some of their most loyal lackeys in Europe seem reticent to continue supporting Ukraine if the US pulls out. And i see no way to make it politically feasible to simply cease all support for Ukraine, that would be an even more humiliating defeat than their pullout from Afghanistan.

For now they are stuck with Ukraine. And the conflict in the Middle East is also going very badly for them. Their empire has never been more overextended and more vulnerable than it is now.

As i said, i do not believe that NATO will stop supplying Ukraine with weapons. They may deliver less and less as time goes on, but they can’t just stop completely. They have trapped themselves politically and psychologically.

That’s an optimistic prediction. I think the support is decreasing but i don’t see it going away entirely. As for how long the conflict will drag on that depends on how long Russia decides it wants it to drag on. If they were looking to end it this year they probably could but they may be calculating that NATO and US hegemony will be damaged more severely by a longer Ukraine conflict. Looking at the overall economic and military trajectories of Russia and the West that does seem to be the case. But because the West have no good way out of it they will continue to pour resources that they desperately need elsewhere into the Ukraine black hole. This is to the advantage of the entire global south and opens up a lot of opportunities to score even more victories against the West and its proxies.