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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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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Imagine believing that Trump's genocidal policy is somehow different from genocide joe and kamalacaust. It's a continuation that they actively enabled and now support.

Do y'all understand how watching these creeps support a genocide for more than a year might have caused them to lose?

And you're still crying about it and blaming voters instead of opposing genocide. Pathetic and gross.

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Imagine believing that Trump's genocidal policy is somehow different from genocide joe and kamalacaust

Why did Bibi want Trump to win so badly?

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months 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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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Considering this group you're pointing out wasn't big enough to make Harris win maybe Democrats should focus inward on their own failures instead of playing stupid ass finger pointing games with people left of them. Y'all lost despite your stance on genocide, not because of it unfortunately.

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[-] butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Sure, the material consequences if you, specifically, live in a swing state. I do, so I voted for Kamala. But this take, applied outside of states that were up for grabs, is asinine. But hey, nuance is for people who don't want to just keep trying the same failed approach to presidential elections every 4 years and would rather bitch about anyone less moderate than them.

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[-] sakodak@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

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

I didn't abstain. I voted for a candidate that didn't support genocide while living in a solidly oligarch controlled state. What you would probably call "throwing my vote away."

But no voter had a say in this past election. It was a struggle between the corporatist and oligarch branches of the capitalist class, and the oligarchs threw more money at buying the election.

That's it. No need to vote shame, regardless of if someone did or did not vote. It should be blatantly obvious by now that the Office of the President is (well, was) a rental. Now the oligarchs bought it from the corporatist landlords and plan to remodel and reside in it forever.

There is no war but class war. Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Organize. Let's make voting useful again.

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[-] bouh@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months 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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[-] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Kamala supporters should look in the mirror and ask themselves why they're ok with their candidate enabling genocide

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 19 points 8 months ago

why they’re ok with their candidate enabling genocide

I don't think this is a fair analysis of any real person's position.

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[-] Juice@midwest.social 12 points 8 months ago

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

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