If it’s a normal year, you are among friends who know you’re not serious or you are actively at a rally/wearing pro Harris merch, by all means, give the democratic party some much deserved roasting. On the internet, among strangers, months before an election where the state of American democracy is under literal threat… at best it makes you seem tone deaf, at worst it makes you sound like a MAGA bro or Russian agent trying to poison the idea of voting blue. Context matters.
This is the same logic we were fed when a minority of us were calling for Biden to step down and we were told that there was not enough time for anyone except Biden because, checks notes, fate of democracy. All I’m hearing from this comment is shut up and get in line.
There’s a difference between calls to action to improve the party/candidate to invigorate Dem voters and putting the party/candidate down implicitly boosting the competition. Also, while I was among those wishing Biden would drop out, it was also very fair to be scared that that would backfire. That it worked out as well as it seems to have was not a guarantee. I don’t fault anyone for reacting badly to such a dramatic strategy change.
Agreed, but my point is that neither are allowed on Lemmy. People asking for Biden to step down were downvoted. Memes about Biden’s age were definitely downvoted. Anything that even sounds like criticism of the left is not tolerated.
We can all see that this shit need radical change but every four years we’re supposed to vote for the lesser of two evils. As though this system has a chance of self-correcting from within. A year from now, we’ll be back to complaining about the same issues. I’m probably as progressive as most of the users on this site, but seeing all this pro-establishment shit makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Being downvoted isn’t not being allowed on Lemmy.
Sometimes I do wish karma accumulated and there was a negative karma limit though…
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Then go back to reddit.
