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Ninety million people didn’t vote. Three million voted third party.
What was the difference Trump won by again?
The arrogance of assuming that anyone who didn't vote or who voted third party, just automatically owe your party their vote.
The entrenched two-party system has done more to cripple democracy in America than any other factor, and yet it's so pervasive that y'all whip each other into line trying to shame anyone who tries to break free of it.
I guess we’re all better off now having learned a valuable lesson, aren’t we? So… How exactly would you like your ‘thank you’ presented?
Arrogance indeed.
The only way the dems could have won in 2024 is if they did what is popular with their base. This applies to literally every election. You should be furious that they lost to Donald fucking Trump twice because they thought they could win while enacting policies they knew would decrease turnout.
They have their own polling, they know there's not a bunch of voters who just hate tiktok and will vote for tax credits to buy healthcare for first-generation college grads who run a small business in an under-served community for 3 years, but won't vote for free healthcare.
No messaging could have made genocide in gaza popular, it's not the people telling the democrats to stop giving Israel fucking bombs who made facilitating genocide unpopular. The only people who could have changed whether Palestine hurt the dems or helped them were the dems. They decided unlimited support for a genocidal settler colonial state was more important than winning.
Well it’s a good thing we dodged that bullet, isn’t it?
And yeah, I’m furious that ninety three million people were told what was going to happen and chose to not vote anyway.
Unpopular policy decreases turnout. That's just how democracy works. The narrative of blaming the voters just serves to distract from the only people who could have changed the outcome of the last election and will be the only ones who can change the outcome of future lessons.
If Trump runs for a third term, and the democrats run on building the wall and defunding the government, the same fucking thing will happen.
Again, you keep talking about how bad Kamala is, and side-step the disaster that we currently live under.
But whatever helps you cope, right?
So, this conversation got me thinking. I’ve been wanting to get in better shape lately, but I’m wondering if doing things like… exercising, is really the right way to go about it.
It seems the best advice from all the people that clearly know how everything works, is to do absolutely nothing at all. Because historically, we all know that great change comes from inaction, right? So why not try it? Let’s see if sitting on my ass and watching other people exercise will help me become more fit.
Wish me luck!
Enjoying things so far? Think Kamala would have ended DEI? Put Elon in charge? The Insurrection Act. Think Kamala had that in mind? Or what about the tariffs? I don’t recall Kamala saying anything about that. Or Canada becoming the 51st state. All the shit trump has done….
Think Kamala would have done this shit?
See? You spend so much time trying to justify the intention, while hoping you’ll be spared the responsibly you share in the result.
Take a look around.
If you seriously can say that things are the same as what Kamala would have done, then I suppose I can see what made you stay home and let others deal with it-
And that would be your entitlement.
You clearly have no dog in this race. And if that’s the case, then I suppose you’re exempt from any and all responsibility that a person with a properly functioning moral compass should feel.
I’m glad your conscious is clear. I hope losing our democracy was worth it.
Cool story. It’s all still happening despite your single-issue protest- only the destruction is going to be exponentially worse.
But you already knew that, didn’t you?
Naah.. I’d be more okay without because we wouldn’t have a convicted rapist and a Nazi violating constitutional law every day.
Your entitlement is showing.
We’re doing quotes now? Okay-
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
– Adolf Hitler
Considering the source, I assumed you would.
And I find you hilarious.
Not much of a democracy if "not doing a holocaust" wasn't an option. Doesn't seem like a big loss.
Again, your entitlement is showing. But don’t let that get in the way of an agenda.
You’re not the good guy you think you are.
My entitlement? I'm not the one saying genocide is ok so long as I'm comfortable.
And lol at "an agenda" as if being opposed to genocide is a bad thing
No, lots of people don't support genocide. You just don't realize it because you do support it, and you're too much of a narcissist to realize that you're not the default person.
Hourly reminder that BlueMAGA chuds don't consider Palestinians to be people.
Yes, God help us if people who value human life get control. Unsurprising that you prefer the genocide psychopaths who currently have real control.
"fascism is when you oppose genocide"
Lol, a very reasonable, and not at all hysterical and myopic comparison. I too remember the terrible crimes of the Nazis: reporting the Jews on social media
Lol
Deeply unserious
And I’m not the one misquoting people in order to manufacture an argument.
This is why it’s advised to never argue with children. Even when you win, you still lose.
No, you're just straight up lying. And I didn't misquote anyone.
Sorry, I didn't realise you were a child
The cringe is unbearable, so I’m going to walk away from this now. I never knew empathetic embarrassment via written word to be a thing before today.
Enjoy the last word, and be sure to bait the line with your best stuff. I’d like to see how easily I can resist.
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Yeah.. they’re a massive debate troll. I think they’re perma-banned in both communities I moderate but I’m not sure why they’re still allowed in others.