The old "look at how well the system works you just have to move to make a difference" story
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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I don't understand why these people who pretend to be supreme leftists are putting alt-right dogwhistles in the Democratic candidate's name. I guess you can just call everyone you don't like a Nazi when everyone who disagrees in your echo chamber gets banned.
I mean, they're in there praising nations that are state capitalist and producing hundreds of billionaires, so it clearly isn't the leftist economy part that they like.
They want Donald to win so that China and Russia can gain more global influence. I guess they are bad at propaganda and just forwarding what their MAGA allies invent or something. Makes sense, they all have the same goals this election.
Hexbear is legitimately filled with right wing trolls pretending to be leftists.
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These are just fascist nerds cosplaying as commies. Not a genuine Communist in the bunch
I just hate finding out how many people around me want fascism, and it appears to be for the reason "can't blame me for my own failures when the state is oppressing me"
What I find funny is that they idolise China as some form of left wing communist utopia. When in reality it's a very conservative and hyper capitalistic society, just with tonnes of authoritarianism and government control.
I wouldn't call them conservative. It is just plain authoritarian with communist like ideals. They lack a fair justice system and the entire economy bends down to the will of a single party controlled by an exclusive group. There are parts of China that aren't capitalist at all and are just for people who aren't young and able.
What ideals? In China if you're sick and cannot pay they just let you die. At least in America they cripple you with debt but still treat you
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It takes a lot of personal discontinuity to say that either the KKK or the SS would be voting for a black woman.
And yes, personal discontinuity is meant to be a nice way to say: you dumb.
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these people remind me of 4chan. idk if they're trolling, and there's definitely a chance that they're not. also yeah most seem like idiots or sadly really brainwashed
To be far some of them probably grew up in the USSR
Hexbear people go two ways. They either come up with an amazing take, or they decide to manifest all of the collective stupid into 1 post.
This one is the latter.
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Never understood the "throw your vote away" thing. Only one person will win. Almost 50% of people will not vote for them in any given election. Did they "throw their vote away" by not voting for the winner? That's just what voting is.
In the US, the statement only truly applies when voting for a 3rd party, due to how our absolutely fucked FPTP + gerrymandered + electoral college system works, which additionally gives rural (predominantly conservative) areas disproportionately more electoral power. The bar is very literally higher for liberal (in the American sense of the term, not the European/global sense) presidential candidates. So if you vote green or socialist or whatever, you are absolutely voting against your ostensible interests in a statistically-provable sense.
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