• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Now hang on. If you pretend the two teams are the same and refuse to pick a side because neither is perfect so it doesn’t matter, you are an enabler of fascism.

      You can support a team while acknowledging their flaws. Refusing to play because the better team isn’t perfect is either naive or malicious.

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        1 year ago

        Once you talk about “both teams”, you imply there are only two instead of supporting those who to this day resist all states

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          If you’re talking about a presidential election, there are two teams. The rest of the time, you should work on your own team, but when the big race is happening, there are only two viable contenders.

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            1 year ago

            The meme is about US imperialism versus (supposedly) Chinese imperialism. And the election is over, not every meme is about that anymore.

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    The US is the biggest source of imperialism in the world. We don’t have to always follow that up with “butwhatabout” to distract from that, which is what the US media machine does by running stories all the time to manufacture consent for its own imperialism.

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      Whataboutusm is a russian invention and is 9 times out of ten usad to excuse russia agressions.