"Progressives should not make the same mistake that Ernst Thälmann made in 1932. The leader of the German Communist Party, Thälmann saw mainstream liberals as his enemies, and so the center and left never joined forces against the Nazis. Thälmann famously said that ‘some Nazi trees must not be allowed to overshadow a forest’ of social democrats, whom he sneeringly called ‘social fascists.’

After Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933, Thälmann was arrested. He was shot on Hitler’s orders in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944."

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    do not worry, I was assured by very confident libs that the Dems could win this election without my vote :)

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      Probably it is more what you wanted to hear, or coaxed out of them after being insufferable to them. Like you are being now.

      I wish blocking an instance would also block all its users for me.

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        On connect, if you block an instance, all messages from users from that instance are blocked out by a kind of spoiler tag. ‘this post was hidden due to a ban of instance x’.

        You can click to open the message if you feel up to it (eg non political topics)

        Very useful feature

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        Yeah for this it’s not one instance. Lot’s of us are pissed. Democrats fucked up.

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          Being pissed off is fine though. And holding your party brass to account is good in politics… required even.

          It’s the little fascists like the user I responded to that make it impossible to unify the left. If you have little wannabe Castro’s, Zedongs and Khameini’s in your ranks, the cure may be as bad as the ailment.

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            Holding to account was two decades ago. We are almost at hanging. They are killing American citizens. I don’t give a shit about anything else. That has consequences either for foreign officials or US politicians.

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              Yeah… keep going… read the article again and keep going. It’s almost as if your goal is chaos and decent.

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                Keep going. US citizens are dying. This is non-polity. Biden is responsible now. Whoever wins gets the shit. They have all supported Israel through the plow.

                This was framed as Trans vs Religion, but it was religion vs all, and Religion won. A religion killed a population and you facilitated it.

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                    Yeah push that. That will be fun. An LLM is antagonizing Israel, Texas, and the democratic party to fool an idiot on Lemmy. You have some ridiculous hubris at this remove.

                    Mate noone gives a shit at the fourth step except those involved.

                    Guess what this is an actual person who thinks that Harris and Bidin are kinda shit cause they signed off on an Israelli killing an American citizen.

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          Why? These .ml left wing nut jobs do the same as what the article is about. Sow division and see centrists and moderate left as the enemy… if you are not with us… The article spells it out… Keep infighting at your own peril… And what did the user do… Apparently he’s not afraid of the consequences Thalmann faced, that’s probably because the chaos is what his boss wants.

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            The German history it gives is a massive distortion of the reality of liberals giving Hitler power. I can copy one of the explanations for you if it is required.