"genocide is good"

That's the problem with incrementalism. It only marches to the right.

One tiny one?

They couldn’t even give up their slaves, give black people rights without blood, you think they’ll allow their power to be taken peacefully?

Do you think we have no blood now? That homeless aren’t dying in the winter, that CEOs aren’t denying 90 percent of claims?

Something's gotta give. The liberal approach doesn't work. All they do is collude with Republicans.

False dichotomies are stupid

You do know OP doesn't have power to delete other people's comments, right?

This is a socialist community, not one for welfare capitalism. This isn't about purity testing, it's about adhering to definitions.

What you call purity test the rest of the civilized world call accountability. You support a party of fascists and they need to be held accountable. Oh, and this comment is getting deleted as well as your others since you can't read.

I think the struggle is that while the party and establishment dems that run it are basically republican lite. A lot of people still in the party, who don't fit or agree with the establishment, haven't come, for whatever reason, to the realization that that is what the democratic party has become.

I think for some it's a laziness issue. For others it's not having enough resources to understand. And for some it's probably a hesitancy to no longer ally with a party they have long been a part of. In the US, parties tend to be like factions that people dedicate to instead of a means to a political end.

Also most Americans still think left and liberal are the same thing. So there's that hurdle too.

I'm not talking about democrats. You're hitting more stray targets than intended ones

There is no division because Democrats are not left wing, they are right wing fascists.

I wouldn't say that it's universal, but there are an enormous number of exceedingly exclusionary people here. People who'd rather be right than advance their goals. Once again, it's far from universal. I met my first few anonymous people who were actually interested in self reflection on lemmy. It's a place that's open to ideas, which is why I hate these posts. They close people down. It's the paradox of tolerance, in reverse

Virtue signaling used to be called principles

My comment had NOTHING whatsoever to do with either Democrats or Liberalism. I criticized Lemmy’s fractured Leftist culture, exemplified by OP in every post of his I’ve seen.

Is this… moderator abuse?

This and my previous comment can always be read at https://infosec.pub/u/Septimaeus and this mod can’t delete that evidence from my profile, because he was banned instance-wide years ago.

Smh

There is no divide because Democrats are not left wing.

Or establishing legal frameworks that promote (or require) worker cooperatives/socialist enterprises where shares/decisions are redistributed amongst the workers comprising the enterprise (but not the whole of society).

No, the evil people are taking all that money and giving it to the stinking rich to empower fascists and do even more imperialism, you impregnated shoe pebble.

Then where's an example of "real" socialism to you?

Next you'll tell me Robert Owen is not a socialist, or that reform can not happen with socialism.

It's a flavour of if. But I'm not against it, I think people are ignorant enough they need a little kick in the ass from time to time, myself included.