• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    Yes, stop thinking and just follow the herd! That’s surely the solution! \s

    Thankfully I live in a state where my vote doesn’t matter at all. jfc.

    How many years can the libs keep this up?

  • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
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    10 months ago

    This is definitely a liberal take. I don’t agree with those who didn’t vote for Kamala, but removing responsibility from people running her campaign when there are obvious glaring issues such as retracting all populist messaging and appealing to non-existent right wingers voting against Trump was a real stinker to say the least. It’s okay to blame politicians who didn’t win for not winning.

  • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    God Americans are insufferable. You pillage and murder the world and blame anyone but yourselves. Why don’t you actually do something useful?

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    10 months ago

    Honestly would still respect them more if they voted 3rd party over not voting.

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      10 months ago

      Those really aren’t any different than voting for Trump or not voting.

      If people really want to break the two party system it needs to start local and work it’s way up. But everyone wants a solution tomorrow or not bother at all.

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        10 months ago

        If you voted for Harris / Clinton then you’re just giving the DNC more power to push ineffective candidates we didn’t ask for, which is an even greater vote for Trump.

        See? It works both ways.

        If you didn’t vote for Trump, you didn’t vote for Trump.

        The strategy to stop a lot of people from voting for Trump should be campaigning / education. It should not be to push people to vote for someone they don’t want to.

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          10 months ago

          Any Democrat is better than Any Republican. When Public Option healthcare came to vote, every Democrat for and every Republican against. The DNC wants to tax the rich, the DNC passed laws to remove money from politics and Republican nominated judges struck it down in Citizens United.

          These aren’t half-assed “not good enough” candidates. These are the progressives, and assholes like you would rather support actual fucking fascism.

  • spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    10 months ago

    Non-contributing rage bait. The Democrats were wrong. The Democrats still are wrong. And the Democratic presidential candidate was infinitely better than her opposition.

    Nuance motherfucker do you speak it.

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    10 months ago

    The democrats objectively were wrong.

    They lost the election.

    That’s the only measure of right or wrong that actually matters.

    They literally had only one job and they fucked it up again.

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      10 months ago

      They literally had only one job and they fucked it up again.

      American voters had one job. To responsibly inform themselves and make the best choice for the welfare of their nation. They failed to do so, again.

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        We can’t control the American voters so complaining about them doesn’t actually accomplish anything.

        We can, however, change the Democratic party to better align with the voters.

        That should be everyone’s focus.

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          Your comment is both reasonable and reflective.

          The DNC bots have came to lemmy. Like on reddit how they post some BS blaming others for not supporting a candidate that didn’t represent them in the primary and likely wouldn’t have in their office. Then they downvote reasonable criticism to guide the conversation to make it seem like their opinion is the only correct one.

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            10 months ago

            blaming others for not supporting a candidate that didn’t represent them in the primary and likely wouldn’t have in their office.

            This is irrelevant. On election day you get two options and you have to pick whichever one comes CLOSEST to representing you. A ton of whiny little bitches stayed home or voted 3rd party (pointless) because Democrats didn’t align PERFECTLY with them. That shit ain’t happening in reality. You grow up and pick whoever is CLOSEST.

            • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              because Democrats didn’t align PERFECTLY very well at all with them

              That shit ain’t happening in reality. You grow up and pick whoever is CLOSEST.

              Interesting, because it looks like people chose a different option here in reality. Maybe you’re wrong and just wanting your ideal to be the case?

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    Yeah that is the level of self awareness that created this bullshit. Fuck the Democrats. To be clear I voted for Harris but t Still think the Democrats suck

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      10 months ago

      You guys deserve trump.

      Like “the democrats weren’t cool and sexy enough, and they didn’t serenade me long enough, they didn’t even have my favorite ice cream flavor”.

      This thread is full of it.

      There’s no campaign bad enough to justify electing the injecting bleach criminal.

      They just should have needed to come out, point at trump and say “if you don’t vote for me you’ll get him”, turn 180 and go to sleep. And should have won like 80-20.

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      10 months ago

      Same.

      And I’ll keep voting blue no matter who.

      BECAUSE LOOK AT THE ALTERNATIVE.

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    10 months ago

    I voted for Kamala. My parents and grandparents did as well. I do not feel that the democrats were/are doing jack shit to court new voters. The party itself expects to just be the status quo and have people vote for it. Whether people want to admit it or not, the point of being a progressive party is to be… how do I put this… PROGRESSIVE.

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      10 months ago

      Oh yeah, make no mistake, the Dems are fucked.

      It’s just that in '24 we had an option between “continue having a flawed democracy” and “put a literal fascist in power”, and a lot of us are still sore over folks who insisted that choosing the latter was some form of leftism. They weren’t a major force in the general electorate, but here on Lemmy, they were certainly loud, so a lot of bad feeling remains.

      • 野麦さん@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        You clearly don’t understand leftist thought. Voting for a cop, a warmonger and a complicit child-kidnapper is incompatible with many leftists’ beliefs and values. Continued aversion to actually listening to criticisms of the Dems and DNC from the left is why your beloved party is crashing and burning.

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          You clearly don’t understand leftist thought.

          No, I absolutely do. They preferred the fascist to working with the dreaded ‘shitlibs’, just like Thalmann.

          Nazi punks fuck off.

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            Call me a Nazi all you like, it doesn’t make me a Nazi. In fact, you moralists should take that log out of your eye and actually look at the world your status-quoism has generated

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              Call me a Nazi all you like, it doesn’t make me a Nazi.

              No? You just welcomed in fascism because it pleased your prejudices and preconceptions. Sounds pretty indistinguishable from most Nazis to me.

              In fact, you moralists should take that log out of your eye and actually look at the world your status-quoism has generated

              “Wow, the world is bad. We should make it worse.”

              Brilliant plan. Millions of LGBT Americans and tens of millions of Ukrainians thank you for your ardent support of fascists taking power. I’m sure those dying for lack of supplies from USAID are thrilled as well, as well as poor Americans who can’t afford the massive increases in costs of living and are already living paycheck-to-paycheck, and the crackdown on unions.

              What a brave leftist world you’ve helped create. Maybe if you lick fascist boots a little more, it’ll become even better.

              I also find it amusing that I’m getting called a ‘moralist’ because I advocated the utilitarian option. What fucking insanity.

              • 野麦さん@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                Millions of LGBT Americans

                You’re talking to one, and no, the Democrats have backstabbed us at every opportunity. Especially at trans issues, which they love to capitulate on as a bargaining chip for getting their capitalist donors more money.

                Maybe if you lick fascist boots a little more, it’ll become even better.

                If you walk outside and throw a brick in the face of a cop, you can talk to me about what it means to be a bootlicker.

                I also find it amusing that I’m getting called a ‘moralist’ because I advocated the utilitarian option.

                You advocate for action based upon a spook? Sorry, that makes you a moralist. You decided that “maximizing utility” was the moral choice, and that again makes you a moralist. Perhaps you should write a sternly worded lever-pulling manifesto to send to your congressman?

  • Tja@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    ITT:

    • cake or death?

    • vanilla cake? Are you a moron?
      - some dude who chose not cake

  • Bigfoot@lemm.ee
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    Reddit Lemmy users love their internet slacktivism. These mfers will type out a 10,000 word comment on a five year old post before they will vote.

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        We agree that spending one’s time typing internet comments is less effective than voting.

  • TheObviousSolution@kbin.melroy.org
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    10 months ago

    The biggest problem with the US is lack of proportional representation. Winner-takes-all elections have led to the inevitable outcome. It’s also why in Europe the propagandists are trying to push for the same system whenever they can.