philip_cardella,
@philip_cardella@historians.social avatar

Things people say when they don't understand what fascism is. And this one I believe is actually honestly against fascism. They just don't know anything they didn't "learn" on social media or YouTube.

These people are the same ones that allowed the Brown Shirts and the Nazis to win in 1922 and 1932.

I cannot emphasize this enough.

philip_cardella,
@philip_cardella@historians.social avatar

And I'm a white, fairly wealthy guy. I'm one of the last they're coming for.

I'm not worried about me. I'm worried about my community.

I'm sick of Mastodon.

wobs,
@wobs@heads.social avatar

@philip_cardella I’m sorry you’re catching that flack. I just wanted to let you know I avidly read and learn a lot from your posts and would feel the loss of your absence .

philip_cardella,
@philip_cardella@historians.social avatar

@wobs 🥰 that's very sweet. I appreciate it. I really do.

mrcompletely,
@mrcompletely@heads.social avatar

@philip_cardella @wobs same for sure

philip_cardella,
@philip_cardella@historians.social avatar

I'm really on the verge of leaving. The only thing is decent for is news aggregation and there's a couple dozen of you I would love to meet IRL.

TonyStark,
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

@philip_cardella Same, same.

That account that replied to you has been complaining about Democrats since long before this is it’s doubtful they were planning on voting anyway. We’re not losing anything and apparently can’t gain them no matter what so 🤷🏻‍♂️

I mean, libertarians don’t want to government at all anyway.

TonyStark,
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

@philip_cardella
I’m in the same place you are. Biden, with all of his faults will do a better job of anything related to the Presidency than Trump would.

And like you, I’m in my 50s and secure financially and also have the benefit of living in a well-run state. My life under Trump will be not great due to the crap Republicans pull and the environmental problems, but many people will be fine. Joe Biden will be fine.

A lot of people won’t be fine and the attack accounts sure do not care.

mozz,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

@TonyStark

@philip_cardella

many people will be fine. Joe Biden will be fine.

Have you read "On Tyranny" and about Project 2025? It might be that most well-off people will be fine, and it'll only be the vulnerable that suffer, but I definitely don't think that that's certain.

TonyStark,
@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social avatar

@mozz @philip_cardella I have. There will still be people who will be fine in that scenario although hopefully you read the part where I say I don’t want that scenario.

At any rate, I’m sure you’ll agree with us then that voting for Joe Biden is important and throwing your vote away on something else is wrongheaded as always.

Nonya_Bidniss,
@Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to avatar

@philip_cardella I don't really have the context for whatever that person was griping about and I hate to be this way but have you considered just blocking them and forgetting about it? (cringes) Maybe it's just me but I don't get many of those, and when I do I just block and go about my day. To me it's just not a big deal you know? (Also I had a way worse frequency of those on Twitter back in the day so maybe that's why a few here don't bother me)

philip_cardella,
@philip_cardella@historians.social avatar

@Nonya_Bidniss oh we blocked each other. He thinks the police, who I agree with him are fascists, are controlled by Biden.

mozz,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

@philip_cardella @Nonya_Bidniss

There's a massive influx on Lemmy of fake accounts that are spreading the idea that as good leftists we shouldn't vote for Biden because he's terrible, and nothing bad can possibly happen from that, and they're pretty consistent and pretty obnoxious about spreading that message

I'm very sure that reasoning with them is a stressful and useless endeavor, but if it makes you feel any better, I'm pretty sure they're not actual humans; I think the real human population on Lemmy is mostly sensible and I would bet Masto is the same

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