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[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Fairly successful strategy I've been using lately is to out-crazy the red team and feed em their own medicine. No one here needs to be told the libertarian party is just Far Right Lite™, but do you know their selling points? Cuz there is no chance in HELL I'll be able to convince a Trumpanzee to vote for Biden, but I have been able to steer a handful of votes away from Trump and toward Chase Oliver - usually goes down like this: MAGAt will open the conversation by bitching about someone on the blue team - such as Hillary and her emails. I'll AGREE with them, but lump her and Trump into the same category... "Idk how they get away with sending classified data on a private email server or printing it out and hauling boxes of it to their private residence. If I did hundredth of the crime Trump or Hillary committed, I'd spend the rest of my life in jail!". Bitch about how both parties are doing the bare minimum just to stay in power etc; then start pitching 3rd as an alternative option.

'Both sides' em, and change their vote to "not trump" by pitching whichever 3rd most closely aligns with their impressionability (which is pretty much always the LP). Put the spoiler effect to good use.

And be weary of folks doing the same to you, especially here on Lemmy with all the 'genocide Joe' shit or encouraging apathy because of the shit debate.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And be weary of folks doing the same to you, especially here on Lemmy with all the 'genocide Joe' shit or encouraging apathy because of the shit debate.

I'm already quite weary of that!

("Weary" means tired; you probably meant "wary" which means cautious)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm weary and wary of all this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Came in to say this lol. Previous poster is right on my intent and correction, but god damn am I tired of this Nazi shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

What else do you call someone complicit in the genocide of a sovereign nation for the sole purpose of furthering a blatantly-supremacist regime? Other than Amerikan, I mean?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And be weary of folks doing the same to you, especially here on Lemmy with all the ‘genocide Joe’ shit

You've seen the broken, burnt, limbless and decapitated bodies of twenty-thousand plus dead children, live-tweeted into your living room for nine months and it isn’t enough for you to stop supporting the man principally responsible for it.

You’re not "defeating fascism", you are a fascist.