I’ve seen this movie. It involves FISH! AND PLANKTON! AND SEA GREENS! AND PROTEIN FROM THE SEA!

No one here brought up the Democratic Party or genocide except you.

This is a post about division on Lemmy.

And it sure would be nice for all the centrists who spent a solid year screeching abuse at anyone who dared to say that genocide was wrong if anyone who said it could be silenced by saying that they’re being divisive.

Meanwhile, I don’t see you saying boo to anyone who’s calling anyone to their left a tankie in this thread. “Divisive” is a club used by the orthodox to enforce orthodoxy.

You actually don’t have to demonstrate that. You can choose to find common ground in the culture of the platform and save the division for matters that are important to you in the communities that discuss them.

I can choose to agree with genocide or shut up. That’s the only thing you’re saying.

Nothing but performative worship of democrats for their support for genocide will ever satisfy centrists.

Nothing the left ever does will ever be enough because every centrist got the only thing any of them wanted with the genocide support.

The party is shit on purpose until they change and their apologists love it.

Are these state charges, or is trump gonna pardon him?

You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”.

I’m remarking on a genuine phenomenon. At no point did I tell anyone to stay home, but anyone who wants no criticism of the party interprets all criticism as such.

There are ways to say what you want to say carefully.

There is no criticism of the worst behavior of the party that won’t be regarded as disloyalty from people who like how the party moved so far to the right that it supported genocide.

But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.

democrats didn’t even consider that enough of a problem to change their most odious position.

It’s great that you agree with me on some things.

Democrats still need to listen to criticism. They still need to realize that there are things they can do that will cause people who would otherwise vote for them to stay home in well-earned disgust. Voters have standards, and when they see a party willing to do nothing for them and anything for a genocidal apartheid regime on the other side of the planet, the expectation of unquestioning enthusiasm takes a lot of gall.

You can blame voters all you want, but the party wasn’t failed by the voters. The voters were failed, repeatedly, over the course of decades, by a party that has no interest in ever actually representing them.

You were going to say that about anyone who didn’t agree with you about how great genocide is.

No.

Centrists lie when they claim to agree with progressives, as indicated by their legislative accomplishments: blocking progressive legislation and arming genocide.

You may agree with them on those points, but don’t pretend that centrists care about anything else at all because they just fucking don’t.

It’s a genocide, no matter how frequently netanyahu’s simps keep trying to downplay it as a war.

And centrist democrats care about it a great deal. They were so devoted to it that they were willing to lose to trump instead of telling netanyahu no.

All money not spent on rent to other players. Buy a property? Free parking. Buy houses? Free parking. Pay to get out of Jail? Free parking. Unmortgage a property? Free Parking.

For games where the game is background noise that you don’t care about because you’re there to have good conversation with friends. Because it makes the game last forever. And there are ridiculous reversals of fortune.

They promote taxing the rich and removing money from politics.

And then do none of that and support genocide instead.

You have to support your side if you want people to vote for them.

You have to silence critics if you want your party to continue supporting genocide, which you do.

republicans don’t want to do it, and no one thought to include it as a rider on funding for israel, so democrats didn’t do it.

When they weren’t spreading it themselves.

You don’t?

On everything but an hour’s work, yeah.

It’s low for Garth Brooks in the 90’s, but I get what you’re saying.

As recently as the 90s you had mainstream country acts releasing songs like “Pass it on Down” and “We Shall Be Free”

And they got a ton of play on the radio. The former hit number 3 on the billboard country charts. The latter hit number 12 on the country charts.

Then again, the lackluster performance of “We Shall Be Free,” particularly considering the megastardom of Garth Brooks at the time, was due to some stations boycotting it for the line “when we’re free to love anyone we choose.”

But even then, there wasn’t a massive company that owned most of the radio dial back then, so boycotts had limited influence.

God in three persons, that’s bleak.

So, uh…

The CDC houses one of the world’s two remaining live samples of smallpox.

Can someone there please “accidentally” destroy it before trump decides to start using it against people?