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And I call bullshit on this entire line of reasoning. Everyone right of you is not Fascist, and calling everyone who is right of you a Fascist is a really shitty thing to do to people, and is a good part of why this country is so paralysed.
Bullshit equating Clinton with Harris but par for the course for these people.
Well, here's this poster's problem in a nutshell. If we don't give these particular type of posters EXACTLY what they want, they're gonna lump us in with the Christofascists that are currently taking over the GOP.
Why would I subject myself to such a bullshit factory. Little echo-chambers where nonsense like "Kamala Harris is a Fascist that murders Palestinian babies" is the same kind of bullshit factory that produces nonsense like "Kamala Harris is a Far-Leftist that murders and fucks babies for her Master, Satan," just on the Left instead of the right.
And no. I don't find .world's politics intolerable. If I did, I wouldn't be here. I find the brigade from .ml and other instances, coming here to push their bullshit that Harris is a secret Fascist who is just going to implement Project 2025 for Trump, to be intolerable, as much as the shitheads from the other side that pop in to say Harris is going to sell us off to the Mexicans and the Muslims, while being a baby-eating, baby-fucking Satan worshipper that plans global domination from the basement of a pizza parlour that doesn't have a basement...
I'd suggest this poster and its fellow spreaders of left-wing conspiracy theory bullshit might fuck off back to a "Leftist" instance of Lemmy and circlejerk with each other about how EVIL the Democratic Party is and how UNLEFT it is, but that would be mean and censoring their opinion as another purveyor of this kind of bullshit I'm calling out here put it. So, instead, I'll just call out the bullshit as I can, and call this stupidity that Harris is a secret Fascist as exactly what it is...stupid bullshit.
Well, this is the Internet, but I'll say I've only had comments banned. That's why I am not engaging with this ... person directly, because if I said what I want to say to this person, it would get removed, and I might get banned. I'd also point out that if you keep acting like "russian" trolls, you'll keep getting called Russian trolls, just not by me, because we're not allowed to do that here, DESPITE the fact that there was a troll operation discovered and exposed doing the exact same things that are being done here, today. That's my only beef with the mods. But since I can't call a spade a spade, I'll just keep debunking the bullshit being pushed by.... people I disagree with (see, I didn't call 'em Russian Trolls, mods! I are good catboy!) This isn't a fight we can give up because Russia DEFINITELY wants Trump running the show here regardless of the motivations of a given poster.
For a member of a faction who really screams loudly about being censored by other factions on the Left side of the spectrum here in the USA, this poster really likes to try to censor those other factions.
That's OK. I'm touched that this poster is concerned about my health. I had a nice relaxing bike ride, that included lots of grassy areas. My health's good. But I think I'll stick around and keep pushing against this frankly offensive bullshit being pushed that Harris is somehow Fascist. I don't care if this particular poster is motivated by a paycheque from Putin, one from Trump (but I repeat myself), one from Stein (but I repeat myself), or because it's a True Believer (tm), this bullshit serves Putin's and Trump's purpose, so I'm not gonna stop calling it out. I hope that doesn't inconvenience this poster too much! :)