Happens about February-March of every election year (the, ahem, independent media goes out of its way to induce it). Get ready for the next lib wave, and a bunch of iterations of the following script, which they’ve been practicing since like 1999:

    1. “Eh, I disagree with [Democrat candidate] on a lot of things, but to pretend he’s not better than [Republican candidate] is just delusional.”
    1. “Yeah, I know [Democratic candidate] is a war criminal and complicit in a genocide, but have you considered that [Republican candidate] is a war criminal as well, plus he said rude things about [minority group]? In the interest of harm reduction for Americans only, I have a duty to vote Democrat.”
    1. “Your vote actually does matter.”
    1. “The only reason the Democrats aren’t Wholesome Progressive Scandinavian Model Chungus is because they have to play politics with the Republicans. You have to recognize the reality of a two-party system.”
    1. “We can push the Democrats left.”
    1. “Such-and-such Democratic policy (usually the Affordable Care Act) was actually really progressive.”
    1. “My [minority group] partner, whom I’ve never mentioned up to this point and very possibly just made up, is voting Democrat.” (This tactic also gets used by libs defending porn and/or prostitution, e.g. “my totally-real girlfriend loves it when I post videos of us having sex online”).
    1. “If even one less person dies because [Democratic candidate] is in office, it’s my moral duty to vote for [Democratic candidate]. I am a mature, compassionate person who absolutely understands socialism.”
  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    8 months ago

    So you don’t wanna support a genocide? Well that’s cute sweetie, but the alternative is Orange Man, so perhaps when the alternative is not a LITERAL FASCIST we can talk then ok kiddo? maybe-later-kiddo

    • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
      9·
      8 months ago

      And then you get to watch them sputter and turn every color of the rainbow when you (correctly) tell them Biden’s just as much of a fascist, referencing the still-open border camps, the fact that he oversaw the single largest RICO prosecution in Amerikan history over the Cop City protestors being locked up, and the fact that he’s reneged on every progressive platform plank he had to cozy up to genocidal Israelis.