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things are definitely different
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This meme is almost a decade old now isn't it?
Still one of my favorites
It first appeared shortly after he was elected. It needs to be updated to the person burning their house down.
Lol. So many dumb voters who think everything changes for the better overnight if they protest vote and don't grasp that politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.
In the end, all they did was set us back X number of years/decades. Thanks stupids.
politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.
Every single time Dems have won since Carter, we have been baby stepping towards something worse. The victories for gay rights under Obama were a brief outlier in our country's otherwise uninterrupted march towards fascism.
ah yes, unfortunately the alternative to literally hitler, was moderately worse than what i preferred, and therefore, literally worse than hitler, even though hitler literally genocided the jews.
your misuse of the word literally in this post figuratively gave me an aneurysm.
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Looks to be on track to setting us back about 90 years and moving us about halfway around the globe.
I'm thinking 150 years, and staying right here....
Since the Democrats didn't give every single thing on the bLuEmAGa screechers wishlist, ofc Trump was the perfect alternative!
Definitely not an example of letting perfection become the enemy of good or anything!
Edit: To whoever replied to me, but probably has me blocked since I can't see it (only the reply counter) unblock me if you're going to reply to me, coward!
Uh, that means you blocked them.
Thanks, I never block anybody but sure enough pancakes was on it lol
Letting perfection become the enemy of good? Good is funding a genocide?
Also, I've never blocked anyone.
Now we’re funding a genocide and making life worse for everyone else. Huzzah!
Yup, it's pretty outstanding. We're a nation of gullible, hateful idiots it seems.
Now we're upping the funding for said genocide and actively cheering it on.
We protected the Palestinian children by letting a worse candidate win! Yay!
One of Biden's last acts this month was to approve another few billion for Israel, and Harris said repeatedly she wasn't gonna do anything different from Biden's admin. It wasn't gonna be better for those kids if she won.
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My b, you somehow got blocked on accident as I also never block anybody.
Anyways
Good is funding a genocide?
There was keeping the status quo at worse (Harris) and then there was throwing the dial to 11 and opening new potential genocide fronts right here in America! (Trump)
Oh no worries, I probably said something stupid at some point.
I completely agree with everything you're saying except that the Harris campaign was good. There were no good choices this election, there was just an objectively wrong one. I voted for Harris anyway because trump is obviously worse by far, I think I'm just still pissed at her milquetoast center right campaign.
As a fellow reluctant Harris voter, I wonder if people like them think that anyone who criticized Harris/the campaign didn't vote. I know A LOT of hardcore leftists that are left of even me and every one of them voted. Some would maybe not say it out loud in a group, but they all did just in case Trump had the votes lol. It's a shame they sacrificed their morals not only for Harris to lose, but now they're also being blamed for it. If people had anti lib energy the way they had anti leftist energy, we'd have M4A by now lol.
Fine, letting perfection be the enemy of not the worst, then.
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Protest voters did not impact the results
So… Harris lost by some 2.3 million votes. Collectively, third party spoilers netted over 3 million votes.
Now, we add in the just under 90 million people that chose not to vote at all- and assume that at least several million of those people folded their arms and pouted because something they don’t understand is going on in a place they didn’t know existed a bit over year ago because of reasons that even though has been explained to them ad-nauseam, they still refuse to acknowledge because if flies in the face of their edgy manufactured outrage…
… it’s safe to assume protest votes and non-voting was a tremendous lift in helping trump win the White House.
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I know for sure some people who didn't vote because of white "leftist" content creators who were working hard all 2024 to smear Kamala and BIPOC liberal content creators. There's not enough data to measure the damage they did, I don't see any reason they should be let off the hook either.
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Those idiots didn't know going into the election that their vote wouldn't affect the outcome, but they did it anyway.
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Protest voters could conceivably include people who protested by not voting, and they most certainly affected the outcome.
Protest voters were young people, who voted the exact same as every other election. They don't vote.
If you want to engage with reality and look at the data you would see that the groups that voted for Biden and not Harris were older white men/women, and older hispanic men. Most likely because of the instilled patriarchal values and machismo culture of these groups made it hard to stomach voting for a woman with the same policies as the white man they voted for.
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Biden's polling low, the voters want things do be different... huh, better campaign on doing nothing different! What? They're saying we're doing a genocide? Well, better point out that Trump is gonna do a worse genocide!
That'll be a great message, exactly the sort of thing that makes people excited to vote...
"Democrats didn't entertain me enough so I didn't vote."
OP mentions genocide
Response frames it as entertainment
Yes. The party needs to be enticing. They lost an election. Shaming voters for not embracing lesser evilism is another mistake the party is making and you're reproducing here.
At least twice now the party has believed themselves to be assured of victory because Trump is on the ballot. Now they may never have a chance to run again.
Yeah, because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth ... totally doesn't devolve a democratic process into one of reactionary populisms fueled by false promises. If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park. If they have a shred of civil responsibility, they vote, specially when things were as bad as they were.
If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park.
Welcome to America!
If they have a shred of civil responsibility
lmao
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because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth
What part of the genocide wasn't true at the time of the elections?
reactionary populisms fueled by false promises
Like codifying Roe V Wade? Like closing Guantanamo?
If they have a shred of civil responsibility
Civil responsibility is voting for the party that pretends to care about Gazans while carrying out a genocide and funding Israel.
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because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth
What part of the genocide wasn't true at the time of the elections?
reactionary populisms fueled by false promises
Like codifying Roe V Wade? Like closing Guantanamo?
If they have a shred of civil responsibility
Civil responsibility is voting for the party that pretends to care about Gazans while carrying out a genocide and funding Israel.
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i mean, it's also factually true. I still maintain that the dems ran a fairly good campaign. The problem was voter turnout, as it always is, except for 2020, when voting was easier.
Because democrats have an aversion to actually doing things for some reason (primarily age related)
At which tax bracket do you get to enjoy life now?
If I remember right, things start to turn around somewhere north of 350k yearly.
Oh neat. I'm only 320k away.....
Only one color on that map wanted things to be "different."
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