UnderpantsWeevilThis is the TradCath Weirdo published by the NYT telling you not to vote
John RichardAh yes. Advocating for arson & terrorism. Democrats new way to counter Trump’s fascism.
IrremarkableBecause 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?
Manifish_DestinyYou’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
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?
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 🤣
God y’all so pressed, it’s pathetic 🤣
Sir i am afraid you may have overdosed copium