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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 8 months ago

What’s happening is that people are pointing out the bitter irony of having been told Kamala would somehow be worse than Trump, only to end up with this gestures around broadly at the country.

First, I'm not aware of "Harris will be worse than Trump" being a popular position anywhere on Lemmy. Second, nothing about this circlejerk is bitter, but even if it was: "I told you so" is fine for the first few times—I don't agree with that characterization, but that's just politics—but when we're more than five months into this shit and people's suffering is still being used to smugly make the exact same point, we've already passed the point where anything about this is productive. The election is over and at this rate American democracy is going to be dead by the next election.

Trite implies the idea is overused and devoid of meaning.

Again, there is no meaning being conveyed here. Nobody who wasn't convinced the first 100 times is going to be convinced the 101th—I am certainly not any more convinced now than when I opened this thread—so what you're left with is a circlejerk more about making oneself feel good than causing any positive change.

If that makes you uncomfortable, maybe ask why.

Because I don't like to circlejerk with the suffering of people.

Nobody’s “rubbing it in your face.”

We're going to rub this shit in your face until the US has universal health care.

-The guy I was responding to.

They’re just not letting you memory-hole the consequences of your own choices.

What a coincidence, because I think this is the consequences of your actions, but again that's not the point. We can argue whose fault Trump 2 was without the circlejerking.

something else we are sorely lacking in our government right now, thanks to idiots who abstained from voting for ’moral’ reasons.

Uh... you do realize that people who didn't vote were overwhelmingly moderates, right? The pro-Palestine left did turn out for Harris, and it did them exactly zero good.