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The argument was made in social media areas that are tailored specifically for you. This is going to sound snarky, but I sincerely don't mean it that way. Even a 5 years ago, algorithms were tailoring your feeds.
For me personally, trump was a huge threat and he's turning out to be worse than I imagined. I wasn't seeing any Gaza stuff, because I kind of thought we would be more concerned about not having nazis in the white house.
Clearly one of the two of us had the correct ability to take in and process information to develop the understanding that with Harris' position on Gaza, they were going to lose the election. You didn't see it as a priority or a major component of their electability. I did. So you got this wrong. And that signal was clear as early as November of 23, when it was clear that Israel was going to conduct a campaign of extermination. Like you said, you didn't think this was a priority.
If you saw getting Harris as elected as being the top priority for stopping fascism, and missed this critical signal, you might consider that it is you yourself who is living in a social media blinkered reality. It sounds like you missed the most important signal of the election. And like, come on. We know this isn't true. We know how much you were on lemmy at that time. We can go read your comments and posts from November 23 to November 24. I know you saw the signal. Its not that you didn't see the signal, its that you chose to ignore it.
And that signal wasn't only present journalism and social media. It was also present in polling data. Biden had been drowning among Democrats on the issue of Gaza for the end of 23/ 24. And beyond polling data, but there were quite literally political movement who got these data into election results. Did you miss the entire "undecided" movement? And I know you didn't. You are a politics and news junky. You see and read everything.
You weren't seeing any Gaza stuff? And you think that makes you a more responsible form of voter?? There was an international genocide case and regular reporting about domestic political groups lobbying Biden/the campaign/DNC to acknowledge it.
Also, you were literally here. Where Gaza material and it's threat to the election were being posted about.
Because the CIA instances mods were censoring.