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i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

"Their votes alone didn't swing the election" and "Their actions were the opposite of helpful in preventing genocide" can both be true.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The people that was the opposite of helping prevent genocide were Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That is the truth.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well now you have Trump who will commit additional genocides within our domestic borders on top of all the complete eradication he will directly fund outside of our borders. you definitely showed them libs!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good. Have a taste of your own medecine, fucker. You wanted to throw foreigners under the bus in exchange for YOUR safety, now you get neither. Fucking loser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Question: do you do anything besides voting? Did you phonebank? Canvas? Do you work in your community: volunteer at a soup kitchen, community garden, etc?

You're looking for someone to blame, but arguing on the internet isn't going to solve anything. We have four years to organize, protect, and uplift each other. There are people that need our help.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can it?

If their votes didn't swing the election, how were they harmful? Or whatever you mean by "the opposite of helpful"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is like saying "my vote doesn't matter, it's not like the candidate I would have voted for lost by a single vote"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Notice how you didn't answer the question?

We have the benefit of hindsight and they were correct. You just want to pretend that they weren't.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

When a better outcome is possible, but fails to happen, everyone who would have preferred it but did nothing to contribute to the effort is at fault. Had Kamala Harris won, a peaceful solution would not yet be achieved, but would still be possible. Now that Donald Trump has won, a peaceful solution is no longer possible. Is that what the people who stayed home or voted Green want?

Edit: the other stuff I said was kind of mean, so I took it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Had Kamala Harris won, a peaceful solution would not yet be achieved, but would still be possible.

I can't really prove what would have happened... but that was never going to happen. She was going to keep signing off on weapons shipments and refused to call it genocide.

She wouldn't have supported it as much as Trump. But no way was she in favor of a peaceful solution; she was offering a slower genocide.

We can both do better and expect better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Liberals are pretending the electoral college doesn't exist because it destroys your point. In most states, your vote has no chance of affecting the outcome. If California is ever in play, that means Texas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida are Red and the Republican has already won.

Swing states voters have a much tougher decision to make, but it still boils down to the same thing: You're telling voters to vote the way you want them to. If a candidate wants people to vote for them, they have to support issues that they care about.

The buck stops with Kamala. The number of people who voted blue down the ticket but otherwise at the top shows that. We ran a terrible race, that got going way too late because Biden prevented us from having a real primary. Blaming voters is not a winning strategy. The Dems need to learn their lesson and earn back trust from the working class.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Their actions were the opposite of helpful in preventing genocide

This is true for people who voted for Harris, not third party

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah... that amazingly helpful 0.7%

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I guess kudos for staying on your sinking ship long after the rats have left. You're at least consistent

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

Yeah unlike voting for the litteral genociders.

No cap, americans are genociders and if they do genocide at home, well at least they might leave the rest of the world alone.