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This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
But don't you see how great things are in Gaza now? Surely the downfall of democracy was worth it.
Things in Gaza will be totally worth it when it is razed to the ground and a huge Trump resort is built on top of it. Gazans can work as waiters and masseuses where their houses used to be!
At least we stuck it to GeNoCiDe JoE, though
The Democrats went out of their way to spite to the left at every chance and played to the mythical swing voter. A strategy that has never worked more than a one-off. What do you call somebody that keeps doing the same thing expecting different results? Stupid.
I love how y'all love to blame Gaza as if the lack of voters was only to do with that. I mean there were voters who were pro Gaza and voted for fuckin Trump, so I think the Dems "give you nothing" platform was actually an issue.
Exactly. These people are exhausting. Like, have they not seen the current popularity figures of the Democrats? Their popularity is in the shitter because they STILL have no platform beyond "we're not Trump." And yet, this thread is still full of centrist muppets blindly parroting, "well, at least they're better than Trump." No shit. And that's why leftists almost universally did vote for Kamala. But then these smug assholes, equipped with a hose running directly from their anus to their nostrils, have the gall to come in here and parrot the same tired rhetoric that caused Kamala to lose in 2024, Hillary to lose in 2016, and would have caused Biden to lose in 2020 if not for Covid.
Just seriously. These dense motherfuckers. When will they realize that being simply better than the Republican isn't enough to actually win elections. It's enough to get the left to reluctantly vote for the candidate, but it won't actually drive out enough ordinary non-politically obsessed people to win an election. People need something to vote FOR. Not something merely to vote AGAINST.
Frankly, at this point, I assume anyone still bitching about leftists not voting for Harris is just a Republican. Non-affiliated and casual voters cost Kamala the election. The leftists almost universally held their nose and voted for Harris. But these Republicans like to foment division on the left, so they try to continually keep the narrative alive that Democrats just need to be a tiny iota better than Republicans, even though that strategy results in a Republican being elected again and again.
Look to the outcomes to understand motives. If following someone's message results in Republicans winning again and again, odds are good that they're simply a Republican.
Wanna know something crazy? You can not like the DNC, but still understand that it was fucking stupid to not vote for Harris (as we have all now seen).
I'm so sick of people equating any kind of push back against this bs as making you a shill for the Democratic party. There's just no room whatsoever for nuance. I'm a bootlicker because I didn't throw my vote away against literal fascism. Ok.
Most of us here that voted for Harris, did it while holding our noses. WE ARE NOT DNC SHILLS, WE'RE SIMPLY NOT IDIOTS.
The Dem's strategy doesn't work. It might have worked in 1984 but not now. It's their fault they keep losing. They can't act like leftist's concerns don't matter yet blame them for their own loss
It's on you... The tide is turning, and Israel is done, it's officially a pariah state and while the price we Palestinians paid is way too high, at least most of the world is awake now. You're still sleeping.
Democrats did nothing to stop Trump for four years when the fascist plan was in the open and he already attempted to overthrow democracy, they weren't gonna save this empire. Had they won, the genocide in Gaza would have continued just the same, but you'd be patting yourself on the back having voted for the "lesser evil."
Decent people rejected your nonviable genocidal candidate, and instead of admitting you were wrong, you're blaming people who opposed genocide on your dime. You deserve Trump, and you'll deserve him more when you campaign for Newsom in the future rigged election instead of revolting.
Tl;Dr. Palestine won't exist in 26' because of protest voters. Just take accountability for your fuck up and b done with it.
They can’t. It does not compute. Refusing to defeat trump was the only logical, well, moral choice you see.
I'm sorry, I seem to remember Biden endorsing blood libel against the Palestinians on obviously provable false allegations and never correcting himself.
I seem to recall him doing absolutely fucking nothing to slow down the israelis.
Also nothing in response to the Republicans trying to end the Republic in all but name, his reason for fucking being as president.
With your dog shit Democrats we were never going to keep the fascists out of power, this is your fault for parroting The Establishment Democrats' bullshit. Even now you won't admit a mistake.
We need new leadership,.
Take some responsibility. The "we're an iota better than Trump" strategy lost miserably in 2016, 2024, and would have lost in 2020 if not for covid. And here you are, still spreading blood libel about leftists. Leftists almost universally held their nose and voted for the shitty lesser evil candidate, just like they do every fucking time. But it didn't matter at all, because nonaffiliated and more casual voters don't show up unless they have someone to vote FOR not someone to vote AGAINST. Not enough ordinary people, not the people hanging out on lemmy politics subs, but just normal working people, were convinced that Kamala would make any meaningful improvement in their lives. Meanwhile, Trump was making an immoral, but very clear and direct case of "I will raise your wages and lower housing costs by deporting millions of immigrants." Trump made a direct case for how he was going to improve the lives of some portion of the population. Kamala didn't. And that's why she lost.
And no, screaming about democracy doesn't work. It's a piss poor election strategy. The vast majority of the population doesn't feel that we actually live in an effective democracy anyway. People don't feel the need to protect a system that isn't serving their interests.
You're holding up a giant sign that says,
"Surely those people willing to sacrifice another group's very existence will fight to stand up for MY civil rights!"
This is just the left version of Leopards Eating Faces. No one who supports a genocide will lift a finger to protect your civil rights when they are threatened. The only people they care about are themselves. You are not one of the people that someone like Kamala or Biden consider worthy of respect or even consideration. You are beneath them just like the Gazans. If you support a genocide, you clearly view people as expendable and worthy of giving away at the political bargaining table.
You learned nothing from the "first they came for..." poem.
Seems like a lot of copium to ignore the fact y'all bent over and gaped to let fascism ass fuck all of us and actually make things significantly worse in Palestine and the Middle-East as a whole.
This dipshitery of 'Kamala and Joe wouldn't have protected your rights either" is a pathetic cope. They had 4 years to spearhead their own fascist takeover. They didn't. Trump and his party of cronies are speed running it.
All the extra blood in Palestine, here in the US and from all other people MAGA is killing is partially on y'alls hands too. And all for a stupid fucking virtue signal. Pathetic.
But Harris had a shrill laugh.
... Psst....
The real reason she lost was that she has a vagina. But they know they can't say that out loud. So, "shrill laugh" it is
what?
you're totally ignoring that she’s….
‘checks notes’
black
Harris was an unpopular sold out corporatist that ran as the status quo and offered zero reform and zero fight against anyone increasingly screwing us, what the fuck did you expect to happen?
People not to vote in Trump.
You have far too high an opinion of humanity.
You're right. What is happening now is much better /s
Not nearly enough protest voters to account for the massive losses of supporters Kamala suffered for her pro-war, pro-genocide, neocon friendly campaign. It was easily one of the worst run campaigns in my lifetime, and despite how abhorrent Trump is, you shouldn’t be surprised at this loss. And you should be ashamed for continuing to blame voters, instead of the failures that are DNC leadership. Who else do we know of who routinely blames the powerless victims for their failures, rather than hold themselves accountable? Be better.
All the Dems had to do was hold a primary in good faith to show they gave a damn about democracy. Couldn’t even do that. Losers.
Guess it was more important to make sure children kept getting massacred than winning the Muslim vote in Michigan.
Dude you SOOO! RIGHT, now we can put the damned muzzis into AMERICAN CAMPS. I mean we sure showed those DemoRATS with GEnoCiDE JOE! Now American Muslims can experience genocide as well!
You did it jonne, we have peace in Gaza!
What did i do?
Sorry, wrong number
Stop blaming the voters, this is all the Democrats' fault.
They made it clear they were not going to stop them and all anyone was doing was putting their neck out to be later chopped off.
They already knew being better than the other guy was not enough to win elections yet they kept the same strategy of being more sold out and more worthless every election, offered no reform, offered no fight against anybody screwing us, and ran as the status quo against a Republican party running as reform, knowing full well the voters do not know any better.
And here you are parroting The Establishment Democrats' bullshit to justify staying in power to fail us again in perhaps our last chance to take the country back in 2028 during the succession fight before elections are fixed completely.
Read: I didn’t read the article
Real leftists have moved on from the election, while.fake "centrists" are still scapegoating leftists for their own defeat. You didn't let us make any choices, you can't blame us for the results
Let's forget a neolib Democrat was president and let an insurrection, election rigging, a child raping conspiracy, and more slide into the background.
You can literally vote blue and shit gets worse and then you're an asshole for not voting blue. Fucking maga shits of another color.
Everything republicans do is the progressives’ collective fault, and liberals never do anything wrong ever.
Nice strawman. Also, I am informing protest non-voters what they voted for.
This is the part where this conversation goes off the rails. Removing everything under this. It's not productive.
Yes, not voting is a vote for whoever won, it's the same reason being "apolitical" doesn't exist.