The relationship of the revolutionary workers’ party to the petty-bourgeois democrats is this: it cooperates with them against the party which they aim to overthrow; it opposes them wherever they wish to secure their own position.

What that means in the American system is we vote against liberals in the primaries, and we vote for them against the fascists. America doesn't have ranked choice voting, but voting socialist in the primaries and left (out of the two candidates presented) in the generals is the closest approximation. This is the Karl Marx approved strategy, as you can see from his speech to the Communist League.

Now let's talk about this meme. It's fake news. There was no Alligator Auschwitz under the Democrats. Guantanamo Bay wasn't a concentration camp for immigrants under the Democrats. I submit that the Democrats are at least 1% better than the Republicans, and that this proves the meme is fake news. And if anyone replies to this comment and says well 1% isn't good enough, I'm going to accuse you of moving the goalposts, because this meme says colour is the only difference. The meme doesn't say 1% less people get run over by the trolley, and I think there are at least 1% fewer state caused deaths under the Democrats.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What that means in the American system is we vote against liberals in the primaries, and we vote for them against the fascists.

The democrats are also funding this genocide:

There was no Alligator Auschwitz under the Democrats.

The democrats expanded these immigrant prison camps. Some stats from the Obama era:

Deported over 3M immigrants during his presidency, 2 Deported over 400k people in 2012 alone. Helped grow ICE, and the US mass immigrant detention system.
- In the present day, ICE (U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement), the police tasked with immigration enforcement, operates over 500 prison camps, holding over 34,000 undocumented people deemed "aliens", 20,000 of which have no criminal convictions, in the US system of immigration detention. The camps include forced labor (often with contracts from private companies), poor conditions, lack of rights (since the undocumented aren't considered citizens), and forced deportations, often splitting up families. Detainees are often held for a year without trial, with antiquated court procedures pushing back court dates for months, encouraging many to accept immediate deportation in the hopes of being able to return faster than the court can reach a decision, but forfeiting legal status, in a cruel system of coercion. After the creation of DHS and ICE, the budget for immigration enforcement doubled from $6.2 billion in 2002 to $12.5 billion in 2006 under Obama. 1, 2,3

Guantanamo Bay wasn't a concentration camp for immigrants under the Democrats.

The democrats didn't close their torture camp in Cuba either.

[–] SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I submit that the Democrats are at least 1% better than the Republicans, and that this proves the meme is fake news.

You can't just state something as fact and not show your work. You are making a claim it's up to you to support it. You can't just go around saying "I'm right unless you prove the negative".

You have not placed any goalposts to begin with, what is your definition of "better"? By what metric are you using? What do you mean by "under the Democrats"?

How about we define "better" as "death rate per capita within immigration detention centers"? And "under the Democrats/Republicans" as "who holds the executive branch"? We should see an increase during the Bush years, when ICE was first created, a decrease during the Obama years, followed by an increase during Trump's first term, decrease during Biden, and increase under Trump's second term right?

Is that what happened?

If you don't like my attempt at making your claim falsifiable, which I suspect you won't; especially when you see the results, feel free to redefine your lose language into something else rigid and falsifiable. Set those goalposts.