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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.
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.
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.
Not much of a democracy if "not doing a holocaust" wasn't an option. Doesn't seem like a big loss.
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, you're just straight up lying. And I didn't misquote anyone.
Sorry, I didn't realise you were a child
"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
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