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

    • OBJECTION!
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      923 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.

      • @orrk@lemmy.world
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        313 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!
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          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
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            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
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              14 hours ago

              Are you saying communists are to blame for the holocaust?

              Be very careful about what you are implying lmao

            • OBJECTION!
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              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
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        922 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
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          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
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          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
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            Yeah the holocaust happened because of leftists

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        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
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              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
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              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
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                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
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              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.

                • @yankturdscum
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                  The vice-president is what one calls soft-power, and you are voting for a party, not for a person.

                  In 3 months for now, we will see she did not change shit and you will still whine that she was the right choice because trump would have been worst.

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

            Get fucked.

            • @yankturdscum
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              14 hours ago

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

      • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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        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
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        The only genocide you care about is the one you can use to get fascism elected.

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

  • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    301 day ago

    If that fellow were dumb enough to be one of the usual suspects on Lemmy, he would respond with “Yes, I see no difference between you and the SPD, which I also find antisemitic.”

    • @yankturdscum
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      Sorry did the SPD actively bought weapons to give to the nazis?

      Coz the dems did that

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      I’m sitting this election out because Vogel gave up his pacifism during the Great War! Both sides are the same. I’m very smart.

      • Whopraysforthedevil
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        101 day ago

        I’d much rather have someone who’s never been a pacifist! At least they’re consistent!!

      • Whopraysforthedevil
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        41 day ago

        I’d much rather have someone who was never a pacifist to begin with! At least they’re consistent!

    • Comrade Spood
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      -122 hours ago

      You mean the SPD that used the Freikorps to crush the communist Spartacus League? The Freikorps that went on to aid Hitler in his rise to power? The SPD who prevented a communist revolution that could have prevented the rise of fascism in the first place? That SPD?

      • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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        722 hours ago

        You mean the SPD that used the Freikorps to crush the communist Spartacus League?

        Ah yes, when the Spartacus League decided “Fuck democracy, we can pull a coup” and were surprised by the fact that the military, fresh from the front, was not fond of the idea.

        The Freikorps that went on to aid Hitler in his rise to power?

        The Freikorps were all-but-disbanded by '21, Einstein. Wanna remind me when Hitler came to power?

  • @EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    181 day ago

    Is the single issue voting against the person who praises Hitler, repeatedly has Nazi imagery in their ads, defends racists who “want to make America hate again”, and is supported by literal Nazis?

  • ceoofanarchism
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    -222 hours ago

    This argument by democrats targeting “single issue voters” who don’t exist is absurd. Like the democrats aren’t also terrible on environmental policies, they also support police and border violence and on and on.

    • @Scolding7300@lemmy.world
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      This is a messging problem, not underlying policies eaxh party makes, from what I gather. “Enemy within” vs a wider range of issues