Organize, Vote, Resist
Organize, Vote, Resist
Organize, Vote, Resist
Well, the one to the right (probably) isn't a tankie though, but I approve their actions
Yet I get called Tankie all the time .... interesting.
See that makes it sound like you're getting called out on much more anti-voting sounding commentary than the above stated point of view
An image that isn't helped by the fact that the post makes it seem that you are completely oblivious to how often tankies try to start fights defending the choice to abandon the most vulnerable for the sake of some bougie kid socialism accelerationist shit.
Pretty much all Marxists are called tankies at this point, and Grayox is a Marxist. I've even seen Anarchists called tankie.
Lol the post you made this as a response to literally has tankies calling themselves tankies and stating that they will not vote for Biden.
Seethe harder.
As a South American who had to choose between right and extreme right, being a leftist, I completely understand the frustration about voting Biden. And what's more, agree completely he does not deserve to be voted. But, in order to defeat fascism and with all other cards now played, Biden is the lesser of two evils and taking the moral high ground could result on fascism taking over the USA. I suggest voting for Biden. My two cents...
He's not the lesser of two evils. Cut this horseshit rhetoric. Biden has done a good job. No-one is perfect but calling him evil is just right wing propaganda both sides bullshit.
Trump is evil. If you want to see evil, vote Trump.
I understand where are you coming from. But you honestly believe that a person that enables genocide abroad isn't evil?
Biden is presiding over the most progressive/liberal administration in U.S. history. That doesn't mean it's liberal enough but it sure as hell beats any previous administration by a mile.
several hundred years ago we had the choice between electing a slaveowner that fucked his slaves vs a slaveowner that didn't fuck his slaves. Now we get to pick between a genocidal warmonger bent on keeping us all in debt servitude that is pro trans rights vs a genocidal dictatorship that is against trans rights.
Biden sucks ass, stop gaslighting us if you want us to vote for your shithead
He’s not the lesser of two evils.
I wish Americans had enough of a heart to give your average Palestinian the same benefit of the doubt as Strom Thurmond's best friend.
Gotta say, I'm confused as to why Dale Earnhardt is in this meme...
Raise hell praise Dale
He was very left leaning. He would vote for Biden to defeat Trump
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I actually love this model:
Biden supporters: "Unite around candidate Biden or prepare to watch Democracy die!"
Biden detractors: "You guys are nuts! That old bastard can barely put 3 sentences together. I will argue we should have a younger more vibrant candidate like Big Gretch who would wipe the floor with Trump all the way until I vote for Biden's senile ass on November 5th!"
Biden supporter: "You dumb fucks, Whitmer herself says she isn't interested and is all-in for Biden! But she'd be a great candidate and I would fully support her if Biden steps down and she was the nominee. But he won't, so pull your heads out of your asses and support him!"
Like, if we gotta argue, let's have fun with it and just vote 100% for dems top to bottom on November 5th.
Who is Big Gretch?
Biden isn't a "neo-liberal shill" he's a boring, middle of the road corporatist.
Republicans and Democrats have been moving steadily to the right for the last 40 years. So now, the Democrats are where the Republicans used to be in the 1980s: friends of banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies. And the Republicans have moved all the way into an insane asylum.
No, Ronald Reagan closed the asylums so they had to stay in office
While true, I can still be pissed off that Dems force me to vote for someone I don’t want instead of offering someone about whom I can be enthused.
When there are people that are still voting, even if it’s not for Biden, I disagree with it, but only politely. It’s still your right as American.
But that isn’t the message going out in so many of these memes. Barely any content encourages any specific candidate, and evokes ridiculous concepts like “A vote for Biden is a vote for genocide” - without putting forward an alt candidate that has a genuine plan to prevent genocide (obviously, Trump is not one).
The reason I’m fine with generally just ensuring people vote, whoever it’s for, is because statistically Democrats win elections that more people vote for. I have faith that genuine, fair popularity contests will go my way.
For Trump supporters it's more like "Organize, Vote, Racist".
I'm a green voter. I have voted green in the past three presidential elections, and intend to do so again this year. If you have an argument as to why that's a bad idea that isn't one that I've heard before, get in touch!
you've probably heard this before, but you've been voting republican for three elections. the fact that you've heard it before doesn't make it untrue, it just makes you vote republican on purpose.
I heard that argument in 2016 and it hadn't become any less false than it was then.
33.1% of eligible voters didn't vote in 2020, 40.8% didn't vote in 2016. Your priorities are misplaced. You should be more concerned about these nonvoters, they outnumber third party voters seventeenfold and are far less stubborn.
You haven't changed my mind.
Because of the nature of FPTP voting it only matters if you're in a swing state. If you're voting green from a solidly blue state, keep at it, but if you're in i.e. Michigan or Nevada, please reconsider.
I mean I was green but I left it after the party nominees were all garbage rich fucks who mostly just seem to like being popular and having money.
Plus after the hissy fit of blaming other parties for not getting their own paperwork in order and demanding the party members not vote in protest which doesn't respect the importance of voting.
But hey you do you.
I don't know much about US presidential candidates, but maybe all of you can vote for this Brandon person if the other side doesn't like Biden?
I understand your stance and respect your freedom to do that. I myself have held my nose and voted for the lesser evil many times in my life.
But now that the lesser evil is literally evil, I can’t do it anymore. I can’t back Trump or Biden. I won’t vote for a genocide.
If a genocide happens, it won’t be by my vote. And if this country collapses under Trump, it’s only the inevitable happening a little sooner.
I don't think a vote is an endorsement. Sometimes it's an end of a bus to stand in as it's teetering over the edge of a cliff. You might be shoulder to shoulder with a murderer, and you might be there for a while ,it might also be for nothing - but there's a chance it doesn't fall off. It isn't inevitable. It's very evitable.
Ah, so you plan on no longer paying taxes?
I wonder if people who use tankie (and similar) unironically would like a Fischer Price See n Say for politics. It would produce random quotes out of context and people can have fun putting them into arbitrary categories.
Finally, a tankie with some sense.
It's either Biden winning or violence at this point. The American political system is slow to adept to change... at least until a constitutional convention is held. The founding fathers being rich white land owning slavers isn't what is relevant here. It is that they lived in a time that didn't have the telegraph & trains, let alone stuff like nuclear weapons, nerve agents, space travel, and the internet.
Well I lean further left than a guy who's left leg has been blown off and I've never heard of 'Action T4' . I'm also staunchly opposed to holocausting all disabled people.
Every sane person should oppose euthanasia. It's not going to stay consensual and it will lead to people killing themselves because they think that they're a burden.
Am I the only one who read the right side in the voice of Scruffy from Futurma?
Hey, if tankies were gonna vote for Biden to thwart trump, we wouldn’t have a problem. It’s that most that I’ve seen explicitly say they won’t. And they advocate that people shouldn’t. So - i don’t get it.
Youre right .If you vote for genocide, dont call yourself a communist. This meme is pure BS
At this point, I'm pretty sure this rhetoric is a result of deliberate ignorance about FPTP.
There's only so many times we can explain elementary math to you people.
Communism isn't about identity and moral superiority. It is about making strategic decisions that enable the ultimate revolution of the working class to do away with capitalism, that includes tactical, cynical decisions at times. Some communists tried to do the whole "never voting on principle" or "only voting for the perfect fringe candidate" bit already, so we know how that turns out - sectarianism removed from class, and underestimating the enemy. Think of how some communists thought if Hitler got elected, Germany would finally have a revolution - turns out, no, it just led to the last bit of the mask of humanity to fall off capital and them being killed in the most brutal fashion. That mask of humanity may be a lie and indeed just a mask, but it has real effects, and the inhumanity can always get worse.
The big project in these times of reactionary drift globally is to build as much organised proletarian power as is possible - catch and organise those that fall from the middle class, learn how to use guns and fly drones, learn how to coordinate as a movement, learn how to support each other in day-to-day life, gain some class consciousness. While those that lack consciousness and still hold dreams of escaping their proletarisation within capitalism enable fascism, as long as they can cling to the ideological dream of the wealth of the past without realising the very system that enabled the old wealth already had the crises of today within it.
Thinking its the same to organise all that under a senile proto-fascist like Biden compared to a full-blown fascist like Trump and his allies is genuinely foolish. It reads like an utopian socialist dream about moral fortitude and self-serving identity instead of trying everything that can materially advance the working class and its consciousness.
You're right which is why we should not vote and let the current genocide continue and add several more to the list when trump gets elected. Genocide for everyone!
Ok I'll bite. What would you have people do instead and how do you think that would go if they did?
But communists are notoriously genocidal
You can choose between the genocide abroad, or at home. You lot read to me like you weigh Palestinian lives as more important than mine