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minus-squaredistantsounds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down12·16 hours agoThat sounds like some extortion. Not exactly something I would want to champion or believe to be a viable political platform
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down7·15 hours agoBlinks That… is nothing the fuck like extortion. “Vote for me or I’ll release these pictures of you fucking your dog” is extortion. “Vote for me because my opponent will make this issue you claim to care about worse” is not.
minus-squareTheOubliette@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·46 minutes ago“Vote for me or my friend here will kill your dog” is the alleged scenario. Though really the person making that threat is also saying they will kill your dog.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down5·9 hours ago That sounds like some extortion. Life gives us hard choices. Whining that they don’t perfectly suit your pristine moral absolutism doesn’t change that.
minus-squareTheOubliette@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·44 minutes agoNormalizing genocide is not a hard choice, it just confronted boilerplate Dem propaganda and any pretense of being a good person. If you are intetested in doing real political work it will not be something as minor as a single vote for 99% Hitler vs. 98% Hitler.
minus-squareHamartia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·6 hours agoThat reads like exactly how republicans describe democrats. Can you not see how far to the right you have strayed?
That sounds like some extortion. Not exactly something I would want to champion or believe to be a viable political platform
Blinks
That… is nothing the fuck like extortion.
“Vote for me or I’ll release these pictures of you fucking your dog” is extortion.
“Vote for me because my opponent will make this issue you claim to care about worse” is not.
“Vote for me or my friend here will kill your dog” is the alleged scenario.
Though really the person making that threat is also saying they will kill your dog.
Life gives us hard choices. Whining that they don’t perfectly suit your pristine moral absolutism doesn’t change that.
Normalizing genocide is not a hard choice, it just confronted boilerplate Dem propaganda and any pretense of being a good person.
If you are intetested in doing real political work it will not be something as minor as a single vote for 99% Hitler vs. 98% Hitler.
That reads like exactly how republicans describe democrats. Can you not see how far to the right you have strayed?