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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

They can't answer since they were bots

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[-] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago

You give them something real to vote for. Give them a reason to turn out. And there's a reliable way to do that. Hard policy. Universal Healthcare. Free education. Raising wages. Stuff that actually improves people's living conditions in their daily lives.

Because believe it or not, The World's Most Powerful Military and genocide do not excite any democrats that aren't members of the DNC Services Corp.

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Everyone is so focused on the genocide angle, but governments left and right throughout the world who were in power during the post COVID inflation spike got the boot. Most economist with froth at the mouth about "deflationary spirals" wherein people who have been waiting 15 years to buy a new pair of pants will wait a couple more years to buy it when prices start going down and thus cause an economic downturn. However, the general public believed that "getting inflation under control" meant going back to the original prices, something the (independent of Biden) federal reserve would never let happen because deflation = bad. Once the inflation spike occurred, Biden could have had 0% inflation from Nov 2022 to the election, and people still would have voted him out due to prices being too high.

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[-] bouh@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Hey look! The liberals are still blaming the left! What compromises were you doing in order to win the leftists votes btw? Maybe that is the question you should ask yourself.

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[-] djsoren19 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Y'know what this thread has made me realize? All the dumb memes of "the left fighting the left" are bullshit. I can respectfully debate other people on the left with me. I can change their minds about some things, they can change my mind on some things, we can come to compromises. I don't agree with the communist 100%, but I agree with them at least 70-80%, and would happily work alongside them to accomplish that 70-80%.

You know who loves infighting though? Centrists who have deluded themselves into thinking they are leftists. You can find comment after comment in this thread from right-leaning centrists, gleefully demanding that they were "right all along" and how everything is our fault for just not being as smart as them. There is no political group that loves infighting as much as them, even more than the fascists. They want to spend the next four years trying to find out all the ways they can assign blame to the left, instead of organizing and doing anything.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago

Liberals thinking they are leftists refusing to realize they are actually conservatives in everything but brandng, but never having the dawn of enlightenment on that they are wrong, not the people who have been using the terms for centuries.

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[-] AliSaket@mander.xyz 35 points 2 days ago

Democracy is being dismantled as we speak. Agency by agency, loyalist by loyalist, executive order by executive order. And instead of building community, helping each other and organizing with those around you, I see people, who supposedly care about democracy, about human rights, about those they accuse; and what are they doing? They are blaming people who are powerless and desparing. Thereby further dividing the populace and making the takeover easier for the fascists in power. Be careful: You are telling on yourselves and your values. And we can see you.

They are blaming people who are powerless and desparing.

you reap what you sow, these are the same people that were proclaiming EXACTLY what you're proclaiming now, just a few months before the election, 6 months prior, a year prior, two years prior. We've been saying this the entire time, nobody listened, nobody has started listening, and nobody will continue to listen, what are we to do if not watch the world burn?

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[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 9 points 2 days ago

Honestly? What is the actual difference?

Harris would stand by and allow a genocide while Trump cheers on a genocide? And you think Harris deserved my vote because she wouldn't be so gauche while being complicit in genocide?

You're welcome to that opinion, I guess, but spare me the smugness.

My honest question: Why are liberals so caught up about how Leftists voted instead of any issue that might have changed the outcome? Why aren't there daily posts about Biden waiting until July to drop out? Democrats are more obsessed with blaming the left for their failures than winning against the right.

[-] prole 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Honestly? What is the actual difference?

Well, as of now, at least tens of thousands of dead Palestinians and their families. You people claim to care about Palestinians, and yet you say shit like this.

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[-] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

As a leftist, I'm hoping the never-kamala types can rejoin the rest of the leftists in opposing outright fascism, thanks.

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[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

I find it funny how everyone blames everyone except for the Republicans who voted for Trump.

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[-] Juice@midwest.social 12 points 2 days ago

Whenever I look in the mirror, it reminds me of how others are to blame

[-] GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago

We had a choice between voting in a system that allows us some power to dissent and have a voice versus... this. The frustrating thing is this situation was just as advertised in Project 25, and then some.

We did not have an ideal choice, but we still had one. Now, here we find ourselves.

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[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Looks like the tankie instances have invaded with their downvotes. Lol. It was pleasant to see the conversation being at least somewhat rational for a while before they discovered this thread.

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