• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    OP, per Rule 4, for accessibility reasons, an image of text must either have alt text or a transcript in the post body.


    Edit: Counting this as a warning for future posts, OP, but since you might not be here to address this, a transcript in a comment as a lesser substitute:

    Bushra Shaikh (@Bushra1Shaikh): How TF did Americans vote the clown in, not once but TWICE.

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    This creator posted on Election Day 2024: "Punish the democrats for their passive response to the genocide in Palestine. If there ever was a party who should have stood firmly against it, we would’ve assumed the Dems. They proved otherwise. F Kamala Harris. Hope she loses.” [truncated URL to the post here]

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    6 months ago

    Typical “socialist” rhetoric.

    “I won’t vote for gEnOciDe sUpPoRtErS!”

    [TRUMP WINS]

    “REEEEEEEEE! It’s the democrats fault!!!”

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    I love how disenchanted voters complain about a 2 party system but fail to realize that in a democracy changing that is on them. It takes time, money, and lots hard work to build a viable 3rd alternative. Dems and GOP have zero incentive to help that process.

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    6 months ago

    The US is a nation of and for leopards, the sooner it’s humbled properly the better off the world will be

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    I mean, she’s right. Dems are supposed to represent the ideological opposite of Cons, both domestically and internationally.

    Of course, US foreign policy has always been uni-party, so there was never a chance that the Dems were going to concede. Despairingly so.

    I voted for Kamala, but she didn’t everything in her power to destroy the momentum she got after Biden dropped out.

  • Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    IMO it doesn’t matter if you do a 3rd party protest vote if you’re not in a swing state. The system is fundamentally broken by design

    There seems to be a ton of finger pointing from liberals (mostly outside of leemy). Trump won on promises to gullible fools on literally making cost of living cheaper (this includes fascist and non fascist talking points)

    The dems lost on not conveying their solutions to cost of living well and of course not taking a stand against the faction of war and genocide that many of them are actively working for or with.

    A lot of establishment dems are just mad it’s not their brand of authoritarianism

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    6 months ago

    Putin trolls are fueling dissent on both sides to create polarization in the West.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    The fall of democracies is filled with infighting between the people who oppose the regime.

    Americans are idiots and colonial terrorists so this is extra bad. They got played so obviously by the people they are now helping by shitting on the opposition

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    6 months ago

    she is right, anyone voting either democrat or republican is complicit in genocide

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    I’d understand or join with the lefty never-voting-anti-capitalist tankies if they had a plan, or a strategy, or a goal, or a coalition they were building towards. But there is nothing. No movement, no goals, no aims to achieve political power. It’s all virtue signaling. We have people from Syria and Palestine literally begging the lefties to cease their rhetoric because it’s causing more harm than good. But the reality is lefties aren’t interested in solutions. They want to feel good about their online social media activism and watch Hassan Piker stream from a luxury hotel in Cuba while 90% of the country goes without electricity. That is the peak american socialist movement.

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Okay, so:

    • Voting Democrat in the general election is the choice with (edited in: the) least horrible consequences and
    • Voting Democrat in the general election isn’t nearly enough to stop the ratchet-effecting into fascism, and a stand-for-nothing placeholder centrist Democrat president in 2028 will probably just lead to Trump-3/Vance/someone similarly horrible in 2032

    are unfortunately both true.

    Also, non-MAGA Americans - (EDIT: liberals, not the party leaders) and leftists alike - need better people skills. With infighting like this, Republicans hardly even need to lift a finger.