They’re useful tools, as is the Lincoln Project, for example. Once the existential threat in Trump is gone it’ll be back to business as usual and their MO will be “oppose meaningful change without enabling a monster to take advantage of us again” again in no time. Trump is such a unique and unhinged threat that they resent what they’ve created, and in an equally unique moment of self reflection, created the Never Trump movement. But longtime allies to leftists, or even liberals for that matter, they absolutely are not. There’s no ambiguity around it.

You can spare Lemmy the whataboutisms with this one. Everyone is taking a little money from everyone else, but:

Neo-fascists absolutely prefer giving to the Republican Party above all other major parties and vice versa. It’s an open-and-shut case. Hardliners in the party routinely echo anything and everything that gets them brownie points from dictators and the country’s most degenerate billionaires.

The Democratic Party is not perfect (Israel being the elephant in the room, but make no mistake, Bibi 100% wants Trump back in office). But if anyone is pushing back against the return of fascism the most it’s the Dems. And you can see that in hostilities from Republicans and authoritarian governments alike.

The Green Party’s main candidate accepted gifts from the Russian Federation through their news network RT, which is basically a propaganda machine for the government which owns them. Stein’s ads openly said in 2016 that the Greens wanted Hillary to lose, fearmongering nuclear war with Russia. And this year it’s the same old shit with her: just make the Dems lose.

(Side note, Sputnik hired PSL’s Eugene Puryear as a long-time host. Also, PSL also has absolutely insane foreign positions. Like I’ll be the first to say the West is absolutely an imperfect cultural entity, but you don’t gotta just hand it to Putin or Kim Jong Un because they also have a problem with the hegemony.)

“Anything to beat the ‘duopoly’ of political parties, even if the party is tainted by neo-fascist dark money!”

Absolutely wild mental gymnastics lol

For everyone else reading, this is the mask off moment of this poster’s true intentions with the incessant propaganda.

Posting to Lemmy is always optional, if you find an article you’re apathetic about you don’t actually have to post or crosspost it. Try again.

If you care so little about the performance of the 2 major parties of the US electoral system, why did you even bother to post the original article?

You know all of Lemmy can see right through you, right? Just say you want Trump to win and we can all move on.

Translation: “I’m too privileged to care about who wins this election.”

“Today we commemorate a year since the beginning of a genocide, so sad. Vote for me so the person who’s been illegally trying to sabotage peace deals can indirectly get elected and just glass Gaza already! Heard there’s great real estate opportunities coming up!”

You can’t predict the weather. Saying for sure that the election is going to go in any particular direction in a public forum is highly irresponsible. Just because you don’t want to take an election seriously doesn’t mean no one should.

P.S.: The statement at the end is highly pompous, sounds like an AI wrote it, and fails to contribute to the conversation at hand.

Screaming hot take, apparently: If you know about Project 2025 and are fine that it might actually happen if Trump wins because it won’t affect you, then you just might be a horrible person.