• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg sLeEpY jOe memes!
    Then I did nothing about it between presidential elections. Nothing. Did not lift a single goddamned finger. Four years later, I demand the party cater to me, Me, ME. An utterly useless deadweight. And smug about it.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe

      The Daddy Party comes home drunk from the party and beats you with his belt.

      The Mommy Party cries in the corner, telling you there’s nothing she can do because you didn’t support her enough.

      Then I did nothing about it between presidential elections.

      People blink in and out of existence between elections. Nobody actually exists when they aren’t voting.

      Nobody organized with their coworkers to form unions. Nobody carried for relatives that had lost work or gotten sick from the pandemic. Nobody provided care for young children or volunteered to help impoverished neighbors or mucked out homes after devastating hurricanes. Nobody went to school to get advanced degrees in fields necessary for building out green energy or modern transit or dense housing or criminal justice.

      Nobody. Did. Anything.

      Four years later, I demand the party cater to me, Me, ME.

      When you think about it, denouncing genocide is an entirely selfish act.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      Well, it would be happier if at least one side catered to voters as opposed to billionaires.

      That said, it’s not the fault of only Harris and her campaign, it’s the Democratic leadership from the past 20 years that allowed it to get this bad.

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      Smug is such a perfect word for all the morons that decided not to vote, because Harris wasn’t able to fix a 8 decade long problem from the vice president’s desk.

      Smug and stupid, because a lot of the Palestine crap posted was done by bots and saboteurs to fracture the left, and oh boy did it work.

      Have you noticed how no-one is screeching about Palestine since the election?..

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        I guess you don’t listen to Democracy Now. They’ve been reporting on Palestine every day since the election. The Ralph Nader Radio Hour has been talking about it since the election, too.

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        morons that decided not to vote

        The only people I see on this board are people who held their noses and voted while complaining nobody else voted but them.

        The non-voters aren’t on social media telling you they aren’t going to vote. They’re simply checking out entirely.

        The only people who hear you are the ones that did vote for the shitty compromise candidate and are now getting abuse from you because they didn’t vote hard enough.

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        No, people against genocide are not bots, and liberals have not ever been the left. You people love genocide until it might affect you, you’re not the left.

        And just because you were banned from spaces because you were pro genocide, doesn’t mean anyone has stopped talking about Palestine.

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          He is right about that, you just censored the people who pointed out the problems.

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        Yep. It was pretty wild that some people actually fell for the Palestine argument. That was only really an issue for a very small minority of the left. Most average Americans couldn’t find it on a map, much less a reason to give a shit about it.

        Ultimately, it wasn’t even necessary to try and fracture the left with the Palestine argument. It was already fractured enough that she never stood a chance.

        Even in a fairly normal race, it’s silly to think voters would care more about people half a world away, rather than the issues they’re dealing with themselves like the high cost of living, housing shortages, etc.