I mentioned that I voted, and they naturally asked me who I voted for. I said, “De la Cruz. Third party.”

“Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that?”, one of them said, and the whole group looked at me a bit puzzled — so I reiterated, “De la Cruz, a third-party candidate.”

“…Wait, there’s a *THIRD* party?”

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    Any attempt to communicate that you may have had was utterly blown because you had to demonstrate your smug anticipation of watching scary tankies being mass murdered while you get to watch.

    You’re a scratched liberal, and there’s very few meaningful distinctions between you and mask-off fascists, except that you’re more passive-aggressive.

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      I’m not happy about it. I am trying to warn you that as many pig ballsacks as you post, you won’t be happy if Trump gets in and starts gunning for you for real, even if Kamala was also an American president and brought some killing to the table as they tend to do. It can still get worse, and I wish you wouldn’t help make it worse while smugly congratulating yourself on not being willing to engage with anyone who doesn’t want it to be worse.

      I like how you all assume I don’t have queer or vulnerable people in my circle. I do. I might be vulnerable, too. You definitely might. The idea of laughing at someone who’s trying to protect themselves and the people around them, because they don’t have the same pig ballsacks queued up to send to anyone who tries to talk sense into them, is distasteful to me, also.

      You might have a point that I shouldn’t come right away with smug hostility. But, honestly, I don’t know how else I could approach a conversation with this grouping.

      Have fun with your chosen outcome. I hope it brings you good things. Good luck.

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        I am trying to warn you that as many pig ballsacks as you post

        I didn’t post a single PPB and you’re still crying at me.

        you won’t be happy if Trump gets in

        No shit. The difference is that you believe that an effective continuation of Biden’s regime that didn’t even abolish most of Trump’s prior policies and even expanded many of them would induce happiness. Maybe for you it would, if your lanyard’s on tight enough and you’ve been huffing sufficient fumes from the wine cave.

        I don’t mean wine fumes.

        I like how

        Nope, not hiding that rage well. Stop doing that.

        Have fun with your chosen outcome. I hope it brings you good things. Good luck.

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          didn’t even abolish most of Trump’s prior policies and even expanded many of them

          Do you really believe this is true? I can probably hit a list of 20 that he reversed or removed, if you want to switch away from pure bait and into something factual.

          Tell me, what Trump policies did he expand? What are some of the many?

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            Do you really believe this is true?

            Biden didn’t close Trump’s camps (and Obama started most of them!), he just renamed them.

            Biden let most of Trump’s executive orders stand and didn’t reverse them.

            Fucking DeJoy is still running the Post Office, and that’s after his attempts to ratfuck the previous election!

            Biden handed out more oil drilling permits than Trump did!

            Biden dished out more money for foreign proxy wars than Trump did. The mass murder campaign still going on in Palestine is under his watch, approved and financed accordingly!

            Do you have any fucking ground to stand upon at all or are you just going to post more passive-aggressive shit?

            I can probably hit a list of 20 that he reversed or removed

            THEN FUCKING DO IT.

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              Biden didn’t close Trump’s camps (and Obama started most of them!), he just renamed them.

              This one’s a whole can of worms that would require some level of good faith and listening for me to explain fully. Short answer, Biden tried to change the US’s immigration policy several times and it didn’t work. It’s fundamentally a terrible system, and he did some amount to change that and didn’t hit the gas on its most terrible features like Trump did, but it’s still terrible today, and we can say that it’s okay to hold him responsible for that since at the end of the day, the buck stops with him. I have more I could say on it that you would interpret as liberal bullshit, but you’re not a million miles off base.

              Biden let just about all of Trump’s executive orders stand and didn’t reverse them.

              Biden reversed 31% of them.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_orders_by_Donald_Trump

              I don’t know what your metric for, “just about all” is. I think you’ll have to get more specific than just the raw number. I have no real idea which ones are most significant or whether specific ones in those significant areas were left or undone.

              To me, Biden did great on the climate, horrendous on enabling genocide in Gaza, and great on undoing the great fuckening of the working class that’s been a project since 1980. With both of those “greats” calibrated within the limits of what he could do within our pretty dystopian governmental system. Those are the biggest things I care about. If you want to talk specific actions, bring up the actions instead of just generalities about how many orders.

              Biden handed out more oil drilling permits than Trump did!

              There’s a popular way of talking about Biden’s impact on the climate that’s crafted by the right wing to depress support for the Democrats among the left, so that they can get people in who really want to destroy the climate, by making it sound like there’s no difference between the parties.

              The IRA is the biggest climate action an American president has ever done, ten times over. It’s predicted by experts to roughly double the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions every year:

              https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/07/12/new-study-evaluates-climate-impact-ira

              That’s not enough. It’s laughable. But how he got a bunch of American politicians including Joe Manchin to agree to that much, I have no idea.

              It needs to be doubled again, this year or ideally 15 years ago, to make a difference. If someone comes out saying that we need to redouble the thing 5 times over to make a significant difference, and laugh in the face of this 4% shit, that sounds great to me. I would support that. If someone cherry-picks particular ways of looking at it, counting permits being one of those ways, that don’t really reflect what it did for emissions, and then argues that it’s not worth voting because Trump would be basically the same, I’m going to be suspicious of their motives.

              I don’t know why I spent this much time laying out facts about how I look at it. I may not continue. But you said factual things, so I’m willing to have at least a short factual conversation about what happened.

              Do you have any fucking ground to stand upon at all or are you just going to post more passive-aggressive shit?

              Lol. I am king passive-aggressive. I don’t need anyone’s help at being liberal or smug. But someone from Hexbear complaining that they’re talking to someone who’s not being nice to them in their tone and presentation is fucking hilarious.

              I’ll talk facts for at least a short time, if you want to, but let’s not get ourselves confused about who took a shit in this particular paddling-pool and made it all unpleasant to have a conversation in.

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                This one’s a whole can of worms that would require some level of good faith and listening for me to explain fully

                In other words, you will believe everything and anything about the camps except the material reality that the camps are not fucking closed.

                Biden reversed 31% of them.

                That’s fucking pathetic. That’s a win to you? queen-ohoho

                There’s a popular way of talking about Biden’s impact on the climate that’s crafted by the right wing

                AGAIN, you will believe everything and anything except the material reality that Biden handed out more drilling permits than Trump did.

                Lol. I am king passive-aggressive.

                Trying to own it doesn’t make it less obnoxious, you liberal clown.

                But someone from Hexbear complaining that they’re talking to someone who’s not being nice to them in their tone and presentation is fucking hilarious.

                Once again,

                I’ll talk facts for at least a short time

                So far your facts have been desperately coated in cope about why Biden was so ineffectual and by your own admission that at least 69% of those executive orders from Trump stand.

                If you want to keep showing your whole ass, continue. Just lay off on the passive-aggression and the cope coating of each and every Biden failure (or deliberate victory for the ruling class, as intended).

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                let’s not get ourselves confused about who took a shit in this particular paddling-pool and made it all unpleasant to have a conversation in.

                you did that by being a part of it you fucking donkey

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                let’s not get ourselves confused about who took a shit in this particular paddling-pool and made it all unpleasant to have a conversation in.

                Yeah there’s broad agreement that was you. So if everybody but you says you’re a smug asshole, consider the possibility that you’re not infallible and you are in fact a smug asshole who doesn’t know what they are talking about

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                here’s a popular way of talking about Biden’s impact on the climate that’s crafted by the right wing to depress support

                Die in a fucking fire. Die screaming. There is no fucking way your liberal settler ass really fixed your face to read all the 100% VALID ANSWERS TO YOUR FUCKING QUESTION and the first fucking place you go is “buh buh this was a right-winger-crafted argument” ON A FORUM FULL OF COMMUNISTS, ANARCHISTS, AND MAOISTS.

                Please die. Die and stop inconveniencing the electrons your smug horsefuckery propagates through

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                You don’t get to complain about “good faith” when you burst in to complain about the ppbs we haven’t even posted yet, you get to climb to the top of a very tall building and yeet yourself into the void.

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            Tell me, what Trump policies did he expand? What are some of the many?

            Well you would know this if you’d engaged with the arguments put forth by some of the many many many people who responded to you before @UlyssesT@hexbear.net did (myself included). The fact you still act oblivious to these things makes it ever more clear that you’re just a regular schmuck who mistakes their farts for the smell of roses. You’re not here to convince anyone of anything, nor are you here in good faith or in the interest of discussion. You’re here because you’re a shitty person who lacks basic humility and decency and you want to be told that it’s actually completely fine to vote for genocide.

            Have the common decency to stop pretending. Just admit you hate brown people, don’t give a fuck about queer people and feel revulsion for poor people. At least republicans have the decency not to pretend these things and you’re as far right as they are. You’re just cutesy about it
            norm-respectable <- You
            holden-bloodfeast <- What hides under the skin you use to camouflage yourself as a divine being with a soul

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        even if Kamala was also an American president and brought some killing to the table as they tend to do. It can still get worse…

        We know. Democrats create the conditions that make it nearly inevitable that someone even worse will come to power.

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        you won’t be happy if Trump gets in and starts gunning for you for real, even if Kamala was also an American president and brought some killing to the table as they tend to do

        If you understand that both parties are actively dangerous to us, why would we support either?

        It can still get worse, and I wish you wouldn’t help make it worse while smugly congratulating yourself on not being willing to engage with anyone who doesn’t want it to be worse.

        Do some material analysis. Have the Dems and Reps ever not been in lock-step when it comes to anticommunism and Imperialism?

        I like how you all assume I don’t have queer or vulnerable people in my circle. I do. I might be vulnerable, too. You definitely might. The idea of laughing at someone who’s trying to protect themselves and the people around them, because they don’t have the same pig ballsacks queued up to send to anyone who tries to talk sense into them, is distasteful to me, also.

        We believe that voting Dem is not a meaningful way to protect ourselves, you haven’t disproven that, just handwaved it away, mainly he-laughed

        You might have a point that I shouldn’t come right away with smug hostility. But, honestly, I don’t know how else I could approach a conversation with this grouping.

        You could start by asking us why we believe what we believe. Hexbear is very down to Earth, you can ask questions without coming out swinging.

        Have fun with your chosen outcome. I hope it brings you good things. Good luck.

        You could join us. You already said you are starting to organize, why not join FRSO or PSL?

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        I like how you all assume I don’t have queer or vulnerable people in my circle. I do. I might be vulnerable, too. You definitely might.

        Bruh lmfao yeah I “might” be vulnerable too for being a queer. Those of us most marginalized are the ones who are calling for political change, because the only way out for us is through. You get to paint yourself as “maybe” marginalized while some of us get called removeds on the street.