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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 107 points 2 days ago

Also leftists who refused to vote at all because Harris didn't solve the Middle East conflicts from the Vice President's desk.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  • Party has a President who supports modern day Nazis commiting Genocide with weapons, including some the US Military refuses to use because of "excessive collateral damage"
  • Party put forward presidential candidate who openly thinks that support of those modern day Nazis is the right thing to do.
  • Whilst actively supporting Nazi-level Fascists in their commiting of a Genocide, Party deploys Propaganda strategy of claiming that the real Fascist is the opposing condidate.
  • Strategy only ever convinces the Party faithful, fails miserably and Party loses the election
  • SurprisedPikachu.PNG
  • Party faithful blame "lefties" for that massive fuckup.

Lessons Learned: Zero

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Congrats, you got to feel good while making everyone in the world's life worse. We'll see if it was worth it in 4 years 🙄 good job protecting your feelings over people's lives

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I'm not American and don't get to vote in US Presidential elections.

On the other hand I easily find the detachment to analyze US Politics because I have no emotional stake on that race.

Frankly, you guys are fucked no mater what you do because the voting system in the US is undemocratic, but at least have the decency of not being willful bitches to one set of Fascist-supporting assholes with the lame excuse that doing otherwise would be being a bitch to a different set of Fascist assholes.

As I see it, in the absence of any choice who was not as Fascist-lover, the vote in these last US Elections wasn't about choosing somebody who is not a Fascist, it was about sending a message to the party which can move away from Fascism more easily to do so for the next elections.

In that sense, all the useful idiots here now trying to dilute that message by blaming lefties for the outcome of that vote, rather than the DNC, are just making sure the DNC doesn't move away from it's current trend of "ever more love for violent Fascists", hence keep on offering a smooth-talking-Fascism-lover candidate to face the opposition's loudmouth-Fascist one and hence things keep on getting worse in the US because both "options" keep getting worse.

It's funny all the criticism I see here of Republican voters for being stupid all the while many if not most of members of the Democrat tribe doing and upvoting those very memes repeatedly display the strategical-thinking ability of a goldfish.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

First three dots apply to both parties. Israel was doing a slower genocide when Trump was in office the first time because they didn't have an excuse to dial it ip, and he was supportive then.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, there is profound love of Fascism on both sides of the aisle in the US at the moment.

Which is why, IMHO (and FYI, I'm not American hence have no emotional stake on it) the only option for American voters who don't want Fascist-lovers running their country to make things better (rather than merely slow the worsening of things) was to send a message to the leadership of the party that can more easily move away from the whole Fascism-loving business, so that in the next elections they field a candidate which is not a Fascist lover.

The US is so ridiculous undemocratic that the only possible way to chose improvement with one's vote is for traditional Democrat voters to refuse to vote so that the Fascist-loving Democrat candidate barely wins or even loses - which means enduring 4 years of Trump - to try and scare the DNC to field a less Fascist candidate next time around. All this is a stupidly long shot because there are so many ways the DNC can react to it that don't really move the party leftwards.

That's it. That's the only way one's presidential vote in the US can be used to improve things. A ridiculous long shot with 4 years of pain until things might get better. The useful idiots getting the DNC of the hook for its electoral defeat by blaming "lefties" sure aren't helping the DNC get the message from the electorate and fielding a candidate who is not a Fascist-lover.

By the way, all this is entirely consistent with the view that Democrats are closer to not being Fascists than Republicans are. I'm not at all disputing that Trump is worse, I'm saying that if the Democrats aren't turned around from the current trend in the "evolution" of their politics, it's pretty much guaranteed that there will be US Presidents in the future who are even worse than Trump and hence that it is logic (though risky) to use one's vote now to punish the Democrat leadership in order to change the type of candidate they field in future elections.

PS: I dispute that Israel has only sped up their genocide after Trump won the election - it seems to me the speeding up predates that, having happened still well in the period of the Biden Presidency and before the next president was known. It's hard to pinpoint it, but might even have happened when Kamala Harris made clear her unwavering support for Israel, hence the Zionists knew that no matter who ended up as POTOS they were unwaveringly suppported by future POTOS. Then again, maybe it happened when enough hospitals were destroyed by Israel that the dead in Gaza stopped getting counted properly hence the numbers published in the International Press stopped going up significantly. That said, all that is irrelevant for the point I'm making as I accept that Republicans are slightly more Fascist-loving than Democrats.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, we could pass state level electoral reform so we could be free to vote outside the 2 party system with no spoiler effect.

Republicans are passing laws in their states to protect First Past the Post voting. Why do the democrats want to use the voting system republicans prefer? Don't democrats support democracy?

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

There aren't as many leftists in America as there are liberals who voted in 2020 but not in 2024.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't say leftists were the only ones who didn't show up to vote.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 33 points 2 days ago

Wait wait wait... So you're saying the vice president isn't the same as the queen and can't just do whatever she wants?

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I voted for Harris, because I believe in trying to be practical and try to reduce harm, but I also won't even think of speaking ill of those who refused to endorse genocide just because the other guy might do genocide without the pathetic finger-wagging the Biden administration did as they handed over more and more and more bombs. It was a hard choice, and I chose pragmatics and harm reduction, but I also know that some fucking dweeb in the DNC is going to read that number as an endorsement signal for the platform of "genocide is okay as long as we tut at them while we hand them bombs".

[-] Ledivin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago
[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

And? Do you think Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken saved even one drop of blood by giving Nettanyahu very stern disapproving looks as they handed him more and more bombs? If Biden tacitly approved of the genocide in Gaza, do you think there'd be a meaningful distinction between what things look like now?

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

No, but they probably did by not explicitly telling them to finish the job and giving them free reign to destroy every Palestinian.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Do you really believe that? Nettanyahu has showed at every turn that he respects Biden about as much as some dog shit he stepped in. The Biden administration got rug pulled on peace/ceasefire talks by Israel, what, five times that we know of? And they just kept coming back, like Charlie Brown, convinced they surely wouldn't yank the football away this time. I think that Nettanyahu doesn't even consider Biden at all.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Yes. Trump, during his previous term, moved the US Israel embassy to Jerusalem, which implies Israel owns it, rather than the shared control its supposed to have. That's just one example of how Trump had already moved the US towards full support of Israel's goals over Palestine.

Do I think Biden or Harris would stop them? No. Do I think Trump is going to do everything he can to empower them? Yes. He's already done some of this and I'm sure it will continue now, as he's indicated it would. You'd really have to shive your head in the sand to not see it coming.

[-] techt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I think the distinction here is a Harris presidency would at least pretend to if not actually put effort toward resolving the conflict with less bloodshed because some of the Democrat base wants that, even if it's only symbolic and maintains the status quo and of Israel as a "strategic partner/asset". Blinken was just on NPR explaining where their efforts have been directed (surrounded by non-answers, take it as you will), not taking into account how effective they were. We can fully expect a Trump admin to encourage Bibi's efforts at rejecting a two-state solution or any kind of Palestinian sovereignty, and make it even harder to end the conflict in the future because Bibi wants to drag out the suffering as long as possible because that's a key reason he's in power. This is how I interpret it, and I believe any kind of equivalency between the two is overly cynical, which you can feel free to disagree with. If Trump's admin somehow has a part in ending the conflict, I'd be surprised if any Palestinians make it out on the other side, and they'll tout that as a win.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cool now what trump does or doesn't do well be on them. And now they can look back at all the violence in Gaza under trump and saynorodulyni did that. I'm responsible for it and feel good about themselves.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

I disagree that it's on them. This and '16 should have been easy elections. Instead of running their best and brightest against a man they've framed as an existential threat to the state, they decided it was a good opportunity to push (and don't you fucking tell me they don't have a thumb on the scales in the primaries) the most unelectable candidates in living memory. I think Kamala could have won, but as I recall it, a lot of the excitement around her began to fizzle out around the time it became clear that she endorsed such exciting policies as addressing climate change with more fracking, shrugging helplessly as we hand Nettanyahu more bombs, making some minor adjustments to healthcare, and offering some tax rebates to people who want to start businesses.

People are fucking drowning. They know shit's broke and we're in desperate need of change. The democrats misread the room and decided both in '16 and '24 that not really trying to do anything meaningful was fine, since what are voters going to do, vote for that guy? And now they've got the gall to blame the voters, which I guess just means that in 2027, we're going to have cyberTrump vs Hillary Clinton (it's really her turn this time you guys). When you start blaming and finger wagging the voters, that's always a recipe for success. It's cool, learn nothing, change nothing, just shuffle a little more to the right, tell us with words and not actions that cyberTrump is an existential threat, and everything will definitely work out this time.

[-] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

talk about a revisionist take. the ask was to promise to enforce american laws regarding arm sales to isreal. but you do you mate. enjoy your trump presidency you certainly earned it.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

Americans have definitely earned this second Trump presidency, even the ones who think themselves above having to pay for it.

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