• snooggums
    link
    fedilink
    English
    83
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    I’m going to vote 3rd party to send whoever is running against Hitler a message!

    • OBJECTION!
      link
      fedilink
      91 day ago

      Unironically the correct thing to do, historically speaking. It was the “lesser evil” candidate who won and appointed Hitler as chancellor, which allowed him to seize power.

      • @orrk@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        315 hours ago

        what exactly are you talking about? Hitler became chancellor because the NSDAP had the largest support (~30%), he won because no one wanted to support the “lesser evil”, imagine if all the left-wing micro parties actually put together and voted just the SPD or KPD, it would literally have stopped Hitler.

        yes, Hitler happened because people refused to vote for the “lesser evil” because the ASPD, the KAPD, USPD, KPO, etc… couldn’t vote for the SPD

        • OBJECTION!
          link
          fedilink
          114 hours ago

          In the 1932 German Presidential Election, the candidates were Hitler, Hindenburg, and Thälmaan. The SPD endorsed “center-right” Hindenburg as a lesser evil to stop Hitler, and he won. Then he wound up appointing Hitler as chancellor anyway.

          • @orrk@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            214 hours ago

            and it got to that point after the conservatives already pulled a bunch of voter suppression and the 1933 election where the Nazis got most of the votes, and because the left vote was split, their combine greater total meant nothing

            • @yankturdscum
              link
              16 hours ago

              Are you saying communists are to blame for the holocaust?

              Be very careful about what you are implying lmao

            • OBJECTION!
              link
              fedilink
              -514 hours ago

              Sure. Obviously, the split on the left was unfortunate and a major reason why Hitler came to power. Another reason being the declining economic conditions under the governing coalition of the SPD with the center-right.

              I don’t really see how that makes the case for lesser-evilism.

      • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        924 hours ago

        Unironically the correct thing to do, historically speaking. It was the “lesser evil” candidate who won and appointed Hitler as chancellor, which allowed him to seize power.

        “If only they hadn’t rallied around the lesser evil candidate, then the Nazis could’ve gotten into power even earlier!” - MLs, unironically, it would seem. Unless you’ve forgotten who Hindenburg was running against.

        Fucking insane. Wanting Nazism to come into power as soon as possible so it can start murdering people even earlier. Just mask-off fascism from you lot, huh?

        • @yankturdscum
          link
          1
          edit-2
          6 hours ago

          Communists are to blame for the holocaust ofc. If these fascist stopped being communists the center would have won against fascism. Everybody knows the right is because of the left. /s

        • @barsquid@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          319 hours ago

          They’re the sort of .ml user who is so deep into the propaganda they deny China has done any human rights abuses at all (and none to Uyghurs in specific). It’s hard to consider anything they write as good faith.

          And, indeed, if I look it up, it leads me to wonder: if the NSDAP were not the largest party in the Reichstag at the time (perhaps one means of this happening would have been people voting for lesser evils!) it may not have happened.

          • @yankturdscum
            link
            15 hours ago

            Yeah the holocaust happened because of leftists

      • themeatbridge
        link
        fedilink
        44
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        This is why nobody can take you seriously. Harris is not engaged in the genocide, and Trump is on record as wanting Netanyahu, the actual architect of the Palestinian genocide, to finish the job. Harris is the VP of a different country, and the person who is Hitler in this analogy prefers her opponent.

        And there’s no way to reach your position through intellectual honesty. Your motives are transparent, and that is why you will fail.

          • So if we take moral responsibility for Harris’s stance on Gaza, surely you will take moral responsibility for Trumps. Is that too far of a leap? I mean Harris isn’t president. She doesn’t dictate policy, yet. Her being responsible for the current situation is just as far removed as you being responsible for a Trump win.

            • @yankturdscum
              link
              16 hours ago

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

              The modern vice presidency is a position of significant power and is widely seen as an integral part of a president’s administration. The presidential candidate selects the candidate for the vice presidency, as their running mate in the lead-up to the presidential election. While the exact nature of the role varies in each administration, since the vice president’s service in office is by election, the president cannot dismiss the vice president, and the personal working-relationship with the president varies, most modern vice presidents serve as a key presidential advisor, governing partner, and representative of the president.

            • Nougat
              link
              fedilink
              91 day ago

              More: The arms sales to Israel are dictated by Congress, not the president. The president has very limited ability to pause certain arms shipments to Israel.

              House Republicans actually passed a bill which would prevent Biden from doing that pausing. That bill never made it to the floor of the Democrat-controlled Senate, and so Biden did pause certain arms shipments.

              • @dank@lemmy.today
                link
                fedilink
                113 hours ago

                This is just misinformation. The president has the ability and arguably the obligation to halt arms transfers to Israel.

                FADEL: Now, you’ve written that a case could be made that Biden is legally required to stop funding Israel’s war. How?

                BLANK: Well, there are at least three different laws that come into play here. One is the Humanitarian Aid Corridor Act. One is the Leahy Amendment on Foreign Assistance Act. And one is the conventional arms transfer policy, which is a different type of legislation. The clear text of all three of these pieces of legislation really would seem to prohibit or restrict the ability of the U.S. government to transfer aid. This, I should emphasize, is under existing U.S. law.

                https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250402819/biden-says-he-would-stop-weapons-shipments-to-israel-if-it-invades-rafah

            • @Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
              link
              fedilink
              -131 day ago

              What responsibility? Harris is not responsible for anything genocide related right?

              Similarly I have this advice: not voting for Harris does not mean you did not vote for Harris.

          • YeetPics
            link
            fedilink
            721 hours ago

            You’ve inverted honesty/dishonesty again, like a real comrade!

            Get fucked.

            • @yankturdscum
              link
              16 hours ago

              Everybody that disagree with me is a dirty ruskoff!! No im not a racist

      • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        211 day ago

        I want to hear the plan.

        Say you get what you want; no one here votes for Harris. What happens the next day?

        Lay it out so I can understand.

      • Nougat
        link
        fedilink
        91 day ago

        The only genocide you care about is the one you can use to get fascism elected.

        • @yankturdscum
          link
          16 hours ago

          And that is still one more genocide than you care about lmao