You’re talking to people that want to continue rationalizing their tacit, frequently racist support for genocide, and their easiest out has always been to say, “but Trump is worse”. They have never done the introspection required to look at their own personal role as a political being beyond what they’re told to do by the Democratic Party and their donors: slacktivist vote shaming, always presuming the high ground for themselves (even while tolerating genocide!), and doing as little as possible on the ground outside of minor exercises in false catharsis like a cop-escorted, permitted march or an ignored letter writing campaign.

When challenged on this by people on the left that do read and do self-reflect, these are the folks that responded in bad faith, even when the context is genocide, because they have made politics into an extension of their egos rather than a project to which to subordinate yourself and devote real work to.

Whining about .ml is their way of pretending to be vindicated every time Trump does something bad, as they cannot actually argue against what the people in .ml say, they must rely on inventions and emotional implications.

In short, many on .ml vocally opposed supporting genociding Democrats. None that I’m aware of expected Trump to be better. At best, a roll of the dice.

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Sorry, folks. I failed to consider that this is the home instance of the people being target by this comment.

Just to be clear, I’m not a big .ml fan, I’m just an anarchist who’s never seen this particular gripe of mine worded so nicely.

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    “You’re talking to people that want to continue rationalizing their tacit, frequently racist support for genocide”

    this is not happening, and like every single other person who cries about Democrats, I’m sure you don’t have a shred of evidence either.

    “their easiest out has always been to say, “but Trump is worse”.”

    Trump is worse.

    Trump supports the Palestinian genocide explicitly.

    and “always”?

    how old are you, eight?

    That’s how long Trump has been politically relevant.

    “slacktivist vote shaming”

    If you didn’t vote, you should be ashamed.

    If you didn’t vote against Trump, you are the reason Ukraine is not receiving aid, you are the reason diversity is being ruled back, you are the reason women don’t have bodily autonomy.

    If you didn’t vote against Trump, you should be ashamed of your selfish cowardice.

    .ml supports the disrespectful and illegal authorian practices that have perpetuated the Palestinian genocide.

    your post is trashy trash trash and you don’t have a sprig of evidence or logic behind it.

    • This is not happening

      The justification here is that voting for a genocider is an endorsement of the genocide

      Trump is worse

      Yeah duh. This goes without saying

      Voting stuff

      I’m queer and disabled- like second on the chopping block for Trump- and I put my own safety aside in defense of Palestinians by refusing to vote for anyone who intended to have them murdered (Both Harris and Trump)

      .ml stuff

      I’m not a .ml stan- I didn’t post this here for that part

      other rude nonsense

      Your comment is rudey rude rude and you’re pretty rude

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        “The justification here is that voting for a genocider is an endorsement of the genocide”

        nobody who voted against trump voted for a “genocider”.

        trump is worse.

        “Yeah duh. This goes without saying”

        you are looking down your nose at voting against Trump and have a wait and see mentality about the devastating effect his greed has already had, is having and will continue to have in the real world, so it needs to be said loudly and repeatedly that Trump is worse empty Harris was a better candidate, that Trump is killing people and ripping apart the US because of your inaction.

        that Is a significant fact, since you and others who didn’t vote against him clearly don’t understand the consequences of your apathy.

        “I put my own safety aside in defense of Palestinians by refusing to vote for anyone who intended to have them murdered”

        Palestinians are now in a worse position because of your myopic, selfish posturing, and so are you and other vulnerable populations.