Because they support it.

Wood in my mouth; I struggle with popsicle sticks and chopsticks as a result.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

-Jean-Paul Sartre

And I’m not the one misquoting people in order to manufacture an argument.

No, you’re just straight up lying. And I didn’t misquote anyone.

This is why it’s advised to never argue with children. Even when you win, you still lose.

Sorry, I didn’t realise you were a child

My entitlement? I’m not the one saying genocide is ok so long as I’m comfortable.

And lol at “an agenda” as if being opposed to genocide is a bad thing

Not much of a democracy if “not doing a holocaust” wasn’t an option. Doesn’t seem like a big loss.

I see the BlueMAGA outreach is already working hard on losing the next election

Sorry, in future I’ll try to maturely insult people based on the instance they’re from, rather than the laughableness of their comments.

True, but it’s very much only a matter of degrees

Nah, I’m not accepting that kind of Dick Cheney rehabilitation. That man is one of the most evil men to ever hold power in the US.

You say, while fanatically defending the extremely authoritarian Democratic Party.

Scratched centrists

Major demon*

independent media and the NPR instead.

Lol

If you ever need further evidence that “tankie” is a meaningless snarl word, I present this post.

But apparently spending all you time attacking “tankies” makes perfect sense.

No they aren’t… What are you talking about?

The treatment of western politics as a spectator sport is so deeply engrained in the culture that it’s really hard to even get people to recognize they’re doing it.

And it’s ironic because I think it’s become that way because the political system seems so unresponsive to actual efforts to change the material world, so people need to find a different reason to engage with it.

Extremely well said, and a good point. I’m not sure it explains everything, but it’s something I should definitely consider.

Keep it in mind and I think you’ll find it does a pretty good job explaining everything. Think about it like this: I have never seen a single person who is openly pro-MAGA, I don’t know if I’ve even seen someone who’s pro-GOP. On the other end, we’ve been in this Trump dominated political purgatory for almost a decade. What’s the point then, of reiterating criticisms that have been repeated ad-nausea, to a community that universally has already heard them a thousand times and already agrees.

was predicated on observations of how nothing critical could ever be said of Russia.

Well, no, because things critical of Russia absolutist can and are said.

but not the invasion of Ukraine.

Plenty of people would, I certainly do. But the people who don’t certainly don’t not because they’re pro-Putin or anything.

So, it stands to reason since ml is reticent to criticize anything about Russia

We really aren’t.

I see a lack of criticism about Trump

How do you see a lack of something? What would be the acceptable amount of criticism for Trump? certainly you won’t see anyone there unironically praising him. If there’s more criticism of Dems, it’s because opposition to Trump is already consensus, so there isn’t really more to say about the matter, where as people on Lemmy still have some support for the Dems.