• SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The point was to pressure the Dems into giving up on genocide. You wanna talk about “pepperidge farm remembers”, I got one for ya

    Remember when the Dems thought they could win while actively telling people who were anti genocide to go fuck themselves?

    Hey, what’s weirder? Not voting for someone committing genocide, or being unwilling to stop committing a genocide even if it costs you the election?

    How does it feel that the only thing that Harris had to do was say “I will stop weapons to Israel” and she would of won?

    You can’t keep blaming the voters when the strategy was at fault. They knew they would lose votes. They thought they could court the centrists and liberal Republicans to make up for it. They were so fucking wrong. And somehow it’s not their own fault for having the worst campaign strategy known to man.

    Like, Christ. Y’all ain’t ever gonna stop trying to blame leftists. You’ll be up against the wall with leftists fighting for your life and you’ll still be like “can’t believe you didn’t vote Harris”. I can’t believe Harris threw away the election over the continued genocide of palastinians. That’s fucking crazy. Is that not crazy to you? You don’t find it fucking insane that the Dems would rather a fascist state than stop actively committing a genocide? Cause that’s the fucking Gambit they ran and look where we are.

    Look. I’m pissed. Your pissed. But we are just people with no power. Same with all those voters you wanna complain about. All we have is the ability to yell and vote. And while I voted for Harris out of fucking fear, I cannot blame the people who yelled “I will not vote for you if you keep committing genocide” and were fucking CALLED ON THAT SHIT. What kind of monster gambles with their own base over a fucking genocide?

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      Remember when the Dems thought they could win while actively telling people who were anti genocide to go fuck themselves?

      I do, and was downvoted for calling it out from my last account, and this one for remembering it.

      Are these people gaslit or are they doing it for their favorite political celebrities who don’t know they exist or care for them?

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          Democrats love losing because it gives them more money as Republicans enact evil policies. “We can’t stop them! …unless you give us what’s left of your paycheck! That’s how we can stop trump! Your money!”

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      As a fellow reluctant Harris voter, what upsets me the most is that the numbers people have run shows that no, actually, genocide was not the deciding factor in this election, which is kind of an indictment of America itself, but regardless, I’m sick of leftists being blamed when all the ones I know STILL voted Harris and the data shows that it wasn’t leftist that didn’t turn out, it was centrists. Harris didn’t have a voter base. Sure, some dems turned out, but she didn’t actually inspire people to vote, and that’s basically the only way dems win.

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        Why blame the politicians with data and statistics on how to run a campaign when you can blame the voters who showed up?

        How many times do we have to “swallow our pride” to vote for milquetoast candidates before we can have change? How many times do I have to vote for “nothing will fundamentally change” before I can call bullshit?

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          This exactly. Honestly, the thing I hate most about the republicans isn’t even who they are, it’s who they’ve made us. I’ve compromised on my morals more than I can count just to still be ruled by fascists. I wish I could at least have arrived here on a high horse lmaoooo.

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            Republicans are obviously fucking evil. They smile as they pass laws that enable the worst parts of the government to be even worse. And then say it’s because of the woke or some shit.

            And then democrats just… Allow it. They then go “our compromise was that we allowed 2% less people to die from this bill being passed. So only 500K will die from this, instead of 501K.”

            And it’s obviously better by numbers, but that’s all they want. Pure data. They don’t care about the optics of actually trying to stop republicans, they want the look of it.

            They don’t want to stop aiding genocide, pretending they care about BIPOC as they say to bipartisan applause “We need to fund the police!” as they kneel for a photo.

            But pass a law that says “Police should obey the laws they enforce” is impossible for them, somehow, no matter how many votes they get.

            I’ve been swindled too many times. Republicans are obvious in that they hate me. Democrats act like a friend and then ghost you.

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              Wish I had more to add, but you definitely covered it all. It’s just gross. I know fascists win when we disengage, but dems have been teeing this up for them to knock out of the park for decades. I just wish you and yours the best and I hope you’re safe and able to make it through.

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        It’s because she has no message. All she could promise voters was stuff like “I’ll give you a little bit of money to help you get a house.” She was all flash and no substance.

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          For what it’s worth, she did have some good policy proposals, but she had some good policy proposals for a neoliberal. The US has had enough of neo liberal politics, and it’s extremely unfortunate that it meant a turn to fascism. She was going to be a JoeBiden 2.0, if not even less effective. Joe Biden’s seminal piece of legislation with build back better couldn’t even make it through. Easy to point to things that you want to do, even if they are liberal, but neo liberals have been failing to enact even their absolutely minimal policy desires. It’s so pathetic and so sad that we are all suffering because the owning class is the way that it is

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          *for first time homebuyers who have rented for at least 2 years without a late payment

          Because there’s nothing that makes a proposal more popular than adding means-testing.

          She had a message, it was “more of the same”; when asked what she would do differently from Biden her response wasn’t “Fuck this guy who spent the last 4 years doing fuckall, I would have defended abortion rights, appointed an AG who would have put Trump in prison and gone after Manchin and Sinoma, and any republican, a head of the DEA who would have unscheduled cannabis, etc”, she said the difference was that she would appoint a republican to the cabinet.

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            100%

            She could have read a laundry list of her First Week, Month intended actions and won over huge swaths of voters- if that was her strategy to win.

            Instead she chose fuckall, which is exactly what Biden did for 4 years.

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          That promise for housing gets misquoted as well as what she actually offered was:
          First generation homebuyers who no one in their family has ever owned a house, after paying rent in a government approved rental firm for 2 years could get up to $25,000. And stated starter homes would cost between $300,000 and $800,000 dollars depending on location.

          She did have a point to ask Congress to pass legislation to slow people buying more than 50 single family homes.

          This was lost to her wealthy advisors telling her to not go through with these plans as they would impact the investment opportunities of housing.

          She barely even got to flash before the DNC tried to reign in anything that might change things.

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            Yea, I see a lot of quotes online about how her brother-in-law or whatever had her rein in some policies and how she had a bunch of advisors that further reined in her policies, but if anything that kind of proves their point. She had no substance of her own and was willing to campaign on literally nothing believing that was the way to get elected. Kinda a devastating indictment of both her and the dems and the political industrial complex.

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              Agreed. Absolutely agreed.

              She offered so little in the first place that the fact that she was told to offer even less with expectations that it would make her win the more desperate masses because it wasn’t anything “bad™” at least… It’s a huge statement on what they want to offer and what they expect in return:

              The answer to both is simply, nothing.
              Give nothing and expect nothing in return so that things hopefully stay the same. It’s a massive failing of politics right now.

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      voting is power, hell not voting is power. is it a fair system?

      fuck no, but not voting did help get us here

      disclaimer: gerrymandering and voter suppression also played a huge role

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      You know who committed genocide?

      Stalin killed thousands of Poles. The USA had lynchings going on all through WW2. I’m not even going to start on the UK.

      And they were all better alternatives than Hitler.

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        Greatest defence in the world. Vote for lynchings, better than extermination camps.

        Or. Hear me out. Put a fucking bullet in both of them some bitches and stop accepting the lesser evil.

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        Stalin killed thousands of Poles.

        Won’t anybody think of those poor innocent Germans Stalin killed?

        The USSR was at war with right-wing insurgents. If you want to go down a rabbithole, do some research on any “polish resistance”, 50% chance you’ll come across nazi collaboration, warcrimes directed at jews, or both.

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          So, you’re saying Stalin should have turned down help from the Brits and Americans?

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            What are we talking about? I’m just saying one of those leaders was not like the other.

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              I’m talking about getting allies.

              If you’re saying Stalin was perfect, okay. He still got in bed with the US and England.

              Are you saying he shouldn’t have done that?

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                lol Stalin wasn’t perfect, he did some awful things such as the internment or relocation of minorities in preparation for WWII and various advice/demands he gave to the CPC that was catastrophic.

                But to address your point, your enemy giving you equipment to help you fight another enemy doesn’t track to telling anyone telling the democrats that genocide is unpopular to shut up.

                If yall had helped us, the democrats might have listened and not have driven the bus off the cliff. If we had shut up, they absolutely would have driven off the cliff.