Honestly, MLs tend to do this with a lot of convos, I feel.

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    Actually, they are not corrupt or backwards. They are more realistic and in touch than most other orgs.

    We do not and never have endorsed Democrats as well.

    We are also anti-Khruschv.

    We are also not opposed to revolution.

    👍

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      There is evidence to back up every single one of these claims? Why lie???

      One of the lines is literally “We have to defeat Trump by voting Hillary”

      https://www.cpusa.org/article/hillarys-hour/

      Leaders in the 50’s/60’s to the modern day continued to parrot Khrushchev “revelations” about Stalin.

      https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40403665.pdf

      Here they explicitly lay out that the movement will see victory against fascism and will lead the “Revolution”, through electoral means, and that with the ballot box they can strike blows against the right wing.

      https://www.cpusa.org/article/defeating-the-rightwing-on-the-road-to-socialism/

      This is all beyond idealist and completely devoid of theory or Marxist policy.

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        I mean yes both Dems and Republicans are capitalist imperialists who are never reformable and will forever be capitalist imperialists, however while the revolution hasn’t happened yet it is important to vote Dems which takes barely any effort.

        Conservatives straight up are threatening the lives of minority groups and LGBTQ on an entirely different scale than democrats and life for me as a minority living in the US has gotten significantly worse since trump.

        It is idealistic to just not vote or vote for some 3rd party that never wins while real shit has been ramping up for people like me from the republican side (and yes I know Dems do it too and are also bigoted racists but again Republicans do it on a whole nother scale).

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          If the left guarantees dems our votes then they will only move further right to get anti-trump right-wingers’ reluctant votes. They will only be pressured to not be as bad as republicans if we pressure them by not “voting blue no matter who.”

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            That’s purely speculation. I can also speculate that by letting Republicans win, the spineless Dems are just gonna join the winning side and swap over. Plenty have already done so or became libertarians who are just mini republicans. If popular support is on the side of the more extreme right then everyone moves further right. You can literally see this effect in CNN where they have increasingly worse narratives sliding towards the fascist right.

            By the way the same Republicans are portraying the LGBTQ community as associated with groomers and also happen to have the gun nuts on their side. At least democrats don’t actively do that. Republicans have been sliding real fast towards an even more extreme right ever since the trump presidency.

            But sure both are equal and let’s not vote and let Republicans win every seat. Definitely not gona have a worsening affect marginalized communities.

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                    You literally refuse to backoff of the point that voting doesn’t matter or that we shouldn’t vote dem over republican so by all means vote republican.

                    Since as you say in your argument it doesn’t matter and that Dems are just as bad. Explain to me how it matters based on your arguments so far.

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        Actually, none of these endorse a single Democrat.

        I have nothing to lie about. 😜