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Who in the world said servers are authorized to demand such a thing?
She apparently was a self-appointed bathroom gender-inspector. Transphobes feeling bold these days.
They've got the iron fist of a dictatorship behind them.
They've got the tiny fist of a wanna-be dictator behind them.
We're not there yet. Not quite...
They need an iron fist in the face.
Username checks out
They don't have anything to fear in amerikkka
Are there any repricussions to them behaving this way?
We don't even know if the server is a transphobe, maybe it was just an excuse for them to demand to see a child's genitals.
Yeah, the pedophiles are pretty empowered right now. It's absolutely insane what's going on.
republican nazis and democrat asskissers and pushover cosplaying liberals let all this happen.
Still pretending like you leftists didn't directly help lead the country to a shit hole by your Jill Stein votes or your non-votes?
Leftists? How's Gaza looking? Your inaction is why they will be starved to death.
But whatever helps you sleep at night.
You know who's to blame for Trump? Trump voters.
What we're seeing here is multiple layers of cowardice. Too cowardly to vote for what you actually believe in, and then too cowardly to go engage with actual Trump voters, so instead you hang around here trying to bully progressives into toeing the party line of a party that doesn't represent them.
Incidentally,
I've started noticing a pattern with these "don't blame me, I voted for Kodos" posts, where they almost always finish with a stock guilt-trip phrase like this, or "I hope you're happy" or similar, and not just on Lemmy. And I don't mean every now and then, I mean like, I see these posts formatted the same way regularly, often in threads that are barely relevant to it. Basically, I'm pretty sure that there's a bot farm posting these messages on behalf of someone trying to maintain the two-party system.
Exactly. At this point, anyone still bitching about anti-genocide voters in the 2024 election should be assumed to be a conservative or Russian bot.
I'm not sure it necessarily stands to reason that they'd be a conservative or Russian specifically, unless they ran the numbers and concluded that all this "I hope you're happy with what you did, you Nazi" vitriol would turn people away from the Democratic Party far more than it would whip them into line.
Do you realize how small a percentage this actually is?
Only 33% of the pop lives in swing states, only about half of those are Democrats, only about 2% are defectors. You are bitching about 1/3 of 1% of the pop.
I voted for Kamala. Do I get to criticize the republican nazis and democrat asskissers and pushover cosplaying liberals letting all this happen? Or is this the part where you tell me that any criticism of Democrats is evil and wrong and I need to commit to supporting Gavin Newsom three years in advance or I'm exactly as bad as MAGA?
I dunno a single leftist irl who didn't vote for Kamala
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
Maybe check your facts and stop spreading disinformation to cover for the abject failures of the DNC leadership and their chosen candidates. It's not like we didn't have two presidential elections prior to 2024 where the Dems lost or nearly lost to learn from yet they decided to lean into these failed strategies even harder in 2024 with very predictable results. It's almost as if they wanted Trump to win.
Politicians are not entitled to votes, they earn votes. This is completely on the DNC for nominating another loser candidate with a platform of "I'm not Trump." If we keep holding our nose and voting for the lesser evil they have no reason to change. Our votes are our only leverage.
what is it about losing that makes you so upset? if harris wanted to win she’d have stopped SUPPORTING A GENOCIDE.
I did not vote for anyone who supported genocide.
Why the fuck are you ok with it? there is no such thing as a thrown away vote, only recalcitrance from people who won’t admit they’re ok voting for someone who fucking supports genocide. Go fuck yourself.
Lol. You didn't vote period. So you don't deserve a say in anything going forward.
Once again, tankie. How's Gaza looking? Because of people like you, I'd say pretty fucked. Especially since you are still using the Biden genocide excuse to not take responsibility for Trump's ACTUAL genocide.
But whatever helps you cope.
I find it very telling that you blame the person who couldn't stomach to vote for genocide, instead of blaming your polticians for being pro-genocide.
? I voted but not for harris and not for trump. I don’t vote for genocide. try again.
It's always amazing to me how people will blame those that couldn't stomach voting for a pro-genocide candidate, instead of blaming the candidate for being pro-genocide.
I don't blame those who didn't vote for Kamala for her stance on Israel, I get it. I'm just tired of people who didn't vote specifically against Trump then act really surprised that the Democrats are putting up an anemic defense of our rights, because in theory they should have expected it, given how they voted. Asking why Democrats aren't stopping fascism when you ostensibly did not support them because you felt they would not do enough to stop fascism should be readily apparent.
I am not using "you" here as in you, piefood, just as a general you
I get what your saying, and to some extent I agree. But I also don't think that they would be fighting fascism if they had more power. When they were the majority, they spent their time building up the systems that the fascists are using. They built up the surveillance state, immigration control, torture programs and the police/military powers. They should have spent their time dismantling it, but the Democratics have the mindset of "It's OK when the Blue Team does these things. Surely the Red Team won't use that against us!"
it’s all decades of manufactured consent
As it turned out, the people who withheld their vote for Kamala over the genocide didn't actually matter in the election. Had every one of them voted for Kamala, I'm not aware of a single state that would've flipped. Not even Michigan
It pisses off both sides of the rift, but the genocide didn't matter in terms of the election. Those not voting for Kamala over Gaza don't get any credit/blame for Trump winning. ETA: I'd say they get to claim a moral victory for whatever that's worth.
On the other hand, those who withheld their vote and are hoping the consequences of the election are going to teach the DNC or anyone a lesson are going to be sorely disappointed. No matter how passionate individuals are about the issue, the electorate gave it a collective shrug to absolutely no one's surprise. Nothing is going to change about our Israel policy as a result of Trump's victory.
Some day, our acceptance of the genocide is going to be seen as just as shameful as Clinton's opposition to gay marriage and support of DA/DT. But not today. Fighting about it is just arguing with each other over scraps while the real enemy runs the kitchen.
So, I was alive when DA/DT went into effect, not sure how many people here were. The interesting thing is that as much as it was a cruel and unnecessary policy and in hindsight is completely indefensible, it actually was a step forward for gay rights. Before that the policy was you absolutely would be asked, and if you didn’t tell, you could be charged with a crime. People lost their pensions and got discharged with no benefits just for being gay. Moreover, I honestly don’t think it would have been possible at the time to get a more sensible policy through, because all the usual suspects were absolutely losing their minds about the baby step that it was.
I’m not a Bill Clinton apologist, but I kind of think he deserves a pass on that one. It’s really hard to explain how quickly the ground shifted on that issue from the 90s to the 2010s. Clinton kind of stuck his neck out for progress, as imperfect as it was.
I agree with you. Maybe that came across as anti-Clinton. In my defense, I've always detested the Clintons and have little interest in spending words making him look better.
I do appreciate you pointing that out. It's a valuable lens to look back with. Still, from our perspective today, shameful, even if necessary.
you should really read up on who voted for rfk jr and jill stein it was all conservatives,.
That wasn’t leftists, that was just narcissists enjoying the smell of their own feces.
Republicans