• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOP
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    18 hours ago

    I hope I’m not ever stupid enough to pick a Republican that has pushed for Palestinians to be removed from Gaza, that told Israel to do what they had to do to end the war during the election, and talked about harsh punishments for pro-Palestinian protestors into office.

    One can be critical about the one side support from the Biden administration, which I absolutely was and still am, yet realize that there are worse people out there and not be so stupid as to let that evil into power.

    Enjoy your protest vote, hope it works out for you guys.

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      Regardless of who won, the genocide was set to continue.

      The only leverage they had to get Biden to stop supporting a genocide was to threaten to withhold votes

      When Biden/Kamala refused to listen, some voters held their ground.

      Enjoy your protest vote, hope it works out for you guys.

      I held my nose and voted D like I always do.

      But I understand why others didn’t, and that a candidate who already agrees with their base has a better chance then one who the base disagrees with.

      So logically, we need to not keep trying to force a candidate on dem voters who is more conservative then Dem voters.

      If you want to yell at people who were chased away from the political process by Biden/Kamala’s policies…

      You’re going to have to go find them, they’re politically disengaged, they’re not going to be hanging out in political social media communities.

      You’re gonna have to leave the comfort of your couch and do it face to face, go get right up to them and taunt them about the generations of family who have been abused and killed.

      I won’t wait to hear back how it went, but I wish you the best of luck.

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        Oh, those people are absolutely here. I’ve had multiple arguments with them for the past week or so.

        They’re trying as hard as they can to justify letting fascism win. I guess it’s so they can sleep at night pretending their protest didn’t condemn millions to suffer and actively make the situation worse for the people they were protesting for.

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          You just replied to multiple of comments of mine across different threads in the span of minutes…

          Is this a coincidence thing or did I block your main account and you just noticed and desperately want to restart an old argument anywhere you can?

          I hate to ask, but unfortunately this wouldn’t be the first time.

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      Blaming the voters for the absense of an anti-genocide candidate seems really productive. Maybe if we keep re-litigating the election for the next four years the Democrats will run Hillary again. /s

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        Moderates:

        The problem with Republicans is their blind support of trump, they’ll always vote R!

        Also moderates, often in the same breath:

        The problem with Democrats is they want to hold politicians to a higher standard, instead of blindly voting D!

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        Blame the voters, for donvict being in office?

        Why yes, I think I will. Who else to blame? It’s not like candidates voted themselves into office.

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          Don’t vote? Don’t complain when things go to shit.

          Also, want change? Actually vote in the primaries, donate to a better candidate, volunteer for the better candidate, and fucking vote in the primaries.

          Jesus, everyone thinks that MAGA’s control came overnight, this shitshow took most of the 40+years of being on this earth to happen.

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            Their campaign to radically remake America has gone back even further than that. The reactionary mindset hates freedom of others and cannot stand being hemmed in even slightly by any kind of debt to society or being decent to others, etc…

            So the xtian loons, the white supremacists and the people that give themselves bullshit titles like “job creators” got together on this…

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          You ought to be blaming the Democrats for pushing another status quo candidate without even running a primary.

          The voters aren’t responsible for the uninspiring candidate they were offered, and the Democrats are too busy projecting their failure on their constituents to take responsibility and make changes to prevent it from happening again.