This is the TradCath Weirdo published by the NYT telling you not to vote

https://lemmy.world/post/17228963

This is the TradCath Weirdo published by the NYT telling you not to vote - Lemmy.World

That pedophile moustache is not doing him any favors…
Pedo projection by Democrats. Is this our way to show we are better than Republicans?
I didn’t call anyone a pedophile, I just said he has a pedophile moustache. What would you call it?
A moustache.

Well that’s not very descriptive! “A moustache” could mean almost anything lol

Guess you didn’t see the Epstein logs

The information that was re-released was already known. Anyone can file a court case. I hate Trump. Trump was never convicted and the cases were dropped. There is no victim coming forward right now to detail with evidence that Trump is a child molester. Biden also has accusations against him. During 2020 and 2016, many bad actors claimed Hillary and Biden molested them. Why did people not “believe” them just because they made an accusation?

Trump has 34 felony convictions. Claiming that Epstein files proves something where there is no conviction or victim with evidence in the public does not help. It makes Democrats look like they are grasping at straws. There is already plenty of reasons to not vote for Trump. Conservatives have Ashley Biden’s diary which does state Biden took showers with his daughter indicating she found it inappropriate. Should we use that against Biden?

Get -and I can’t possibly stress this enough - the fuck out of here with that shit.
With what shit? That Democrats can also attack the wrong people and act like fascists?
Dudes got hitler bangs
Really glad I’m not the only one that saw it
Kind of a Hitleriam 'stache, too, being completely honest.
Just narrow that stache up about half an inch on each side…
He’s even doing the facial expressions. Definitely based his entire personality around it.
His face really is stuck perfectly between “I’m not poopin’” & “I’m the master race I’m the master race I’m the master race….”
He’s about 45 seconds with an electric razor away from being a Hitler cosplay in this picture
Ah yes. Advocating for arson & terrorism. Democrats new way to counter Trump’s fascism.
Because asking nicely stopped fascism the first time
So you’ll now kill people if they don’t vote for who you think they should vote for, or if they don’t vote?
You’re clearly struggling to identify fascism.
What’s the guy’s name in the OP? Do you have any links to the writing referenced in the screenshot?

www.nytimes.com/2024/…/not-voting-elections.html

Matthew Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer.

NYT had to change the headline to “Why I Won’t Vote” after social media caught him voting

Opinion | Why I Won’t Vote

If casting a ballot is merely expressive, then the same is true of not casting one.

The New York Times
You realize that Trump’s supreme Court Justices are the ones who legalized exactly that, right?
The USA was founded by treason and terrorism
Violence against fascists is always cool and good, hope that helps op
The way you unashamedly prefer fascism over violence against fascists, with your whole chest.
Not voting is not fascism.
Not voting is equivalent to sticking a fork up your ass & expecting it not to hurt…
It still isn’t fascism. Advocating to murder people for not voting is more fascist than someone publishing an article suggesting to not vote.

…and your point is?

No one here appears to be advocating violence, just that dude looks like a bit like Hitler & is spouting off awful advice.

Fucking vote folks, it’s the only response you have left.

The post literally says:

“Shove his ass in a locker and burn the entire campus containing said locker to the ground. (The campus is Hillsdale).”

If you’re not advocating for murdering him, why would people be upvoting this response which says to murder him and burn the campus to the ground?

These types of responses only promote Trump’s chances as it makes Democrats out to be domestic terrorists.

When you sat down and watched Inglourious Basterds, the message you captured was “no one would have to die if they didn’t oppose Hitler,” which is very wrong on many levels.

Fascists are afraid of one thing and one thing only.

That thing, because you’re confused, is incredible violence.

The movie ended with your precious Hitler getting many, many more bullets than strictly necessary, while he and all his fascist buddies died in a burning movie theater.

This is the proper way to deal with fascism.

Maybe because hyperbolic ranting is cathartic? Stop being so obtuse.
Literally 3 out of 4 posts here are advocating for direct violence, arson, murder.
And that’s a reason not to vote?

Literally one of the most famous poems ever written is about exactly this.

You know, First They Came?

First they came ... - Wikipedia

So they came… and Jewish people learned to become the Nazis? Like, what is your point here? It is okay to be a Nazi so that we can stop the Nazis first?

You cannot be so media illiterate.
You think that fighting a Nazi makes you a Nazi? That’s the lesson you got from the poem? That is either a mind boggling amount of illiteracy, or, more likely, you’re a Nazi apologist.

People who are in a position to stand up to evil and fail to do so bear some responsibility for the deeds of the evil.

Never mind that this post is clearly hyperbolic, you’re clearly making bad-faith arguments in support of fascism. If you’re a fascist or not, you gotta take a good long look in the mirror, because that’s fucked up

Maybe thinking it’s okay to murder someone and burn down a school for telling people not to vote is a very fascist position.

I’m not American and have no dog in this fight but it’s fascinating to see it unfold and how blindly fanatical and willfully ignorant both sides can be.

If a Rep punches a Dem they’ll justify it as self defense or something. If a Dem punches a Rep it’s “okay to punch a Nazi”. Even seeing how both sides interpreted the presidential debate was ridiculous. Reps ignoring all of Trump’s lies and inability to give a direct answer to a question and a lot of the more fanatical Dems willfully ignoring Biden’s obviously declining mental state.

Reps caught up in a cult of personality and Dems willing to vote for anybody that isn’t Trump. It’s quite scary to see how easily each side can dehumanise the other while thinking they’re correct and morally superior.

The way both sides pardon their own calls to violence can’t lead to anything good. If ‘the other’ said or did something you consider to be completely heinous and you’d justify it or praise it were the roles reversed then maybe introspection is in order.

Of course violence is sometimes necessary but there seems to be growing bloodthirstiness from the extremes of the Left and the Right and I fear what might happen in November.

I’m sure I’ll be downvoted to fuck but that’s just an apolitical outsider’s perspective.

You’re simply making more bad faith arguments. The post was clearly hyperbole, but using violence is probably a reasonable response to actual fascism.

You can’t “both sides” this. Both sides are evil, but one side is an existential threat to democracy. One side has demonstrated its not going to play by the rules and is fine breaking the norms that many checks and balances relied on.
On one side some voters are extreme. On the other side, some politicians are extreme.
One side has already tried to undermine democracy and actually met with some success and no repercussions.

It’s not the same, and to call it the same is done in bad faith.

the didn’t say they’re the same

Then they shouldn’t try to both-sides the argument.

Nobody is defending Biden. He is just less evil than Trump, and far less of a risk to what little democracy remains. The bar is on the floor.

I might actually agree with ballot spoiling if one of the candidates wasn’t actively trying to replace democracy, and also teaching other populist extremist leaders around the world how to do the same there.

Got it, call anything we don’t like Fascist so violence can be approved.
It’s literally the language used in the comment I’m responding to. I’m not the one who originally called it fascist lol
God y’all so pressed, it’s pathetic 🤣
Sir i am afraid you may have overdosed copium
Vote suppression is a tried and true Republican tactic because low engagement and turnout favors Republicans. A nonvote is a vote for Trump. Biden needs to move aside, but I’d vote for anyone not Trump.
Vote for Vermin supreme
Vermin Supreme - Wikipedia

Vermin endorsed Biden. He doesn’t want to be a spoiler, so STFU.
Sorry, didn’t know that, i am not into american politics so for me vermin is the guy who promised everyone a pony
This is why people voting for the Green party candidate (I’m not even going to bother looking up his name) piss me off so much. The core of the republican strategy is disenfranchisement and voting Green is literally self-disenfranchisement. You’re doing the Republicans’ work for them.

A vote for Biden, who according to all polling and public sentiment will clearly lose to Trump in November, is throwing away your vote.

Educate yourself to at least not mis-gender those who would better represent you, and it may be the first step towards our country recovering from the neoliberal mess we’re presently trapped within.

He looks like a.maybe 60s or 70s version of an American Hitler, not gonna lie.
He looks like the type of person who really is offended by what’s going on in YOUR bedroom…
Yeah it’s the hair.
Gonna assume this is on purpose
Maybe let’s not joke about bringing harm to campuses.
Dude looks like Adolf Hitler and Matt Lucas at the same time
came to point out the Hitler likeness…