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Yeah, but Kamala would have been just as bad because of gAzA. Kamala would be the same on Gaza as donvict, so all of this is just fine and it's what Americans deserve because bOtHsIdEs.
The protest voters did not meaningfully impact the election.
White men and women, and hispanic men were the demographics that stay3d home last year after voting for Biden
Aww you made a meme just for me!
Young people were the protest voters, and young people didn't effect this election any more then they ever have in my life.
Young people just don't vote in the US, and no amount of infighting or rage memes changes that.
I voted for Harris btw
Aww you made a meme just for me!
So you found propaganda and refurgitated it like a food dog,
And here I thought it was a custom meme because it is so insanely specific to figure out a way to spin this to make poor people hate each other.
Probably made by a troll farm like most of the Gaza spam
Still loving that there are so many so-called leftists out there who refuse to show even the least bit of remorse for their "protest" votes.
I voted for Harris in attempted harm reduction.
But if those people are the focus of your ire and not the administration or those that voted for him, your giving the actual villains a hell of a pass.
People will turn out for Democrats when they abandon neoliberalism. If they'd rather support big corpo to the world's end, then we'll never get a vote in the right direction until collapse.
"Freedom"
Oh, most of my bile is reserved for donvict and the redhatters, make no mistake. But the Enlightened Centrists (TM) and the maximalist so-called "leftists" surely didn't help matters.
Claiming that Kamala and donvict would have been the same on Gaza, so sitting out or making a protest vote, or worse, just outright voting for donvict because they think - on that one issue only - that they'd be the same is just mind boggling in its absurdity. They are quite obviously not the same on nearly every other issue, several of which will cause real, lasting damage to millions of Americans now that donvict was able to slither back into office.
Kamala certainly wasn't going to empower and enable militias looking to do actual violence, as a for instance. But yeah, these people bleating about how they are the same, and hey, I didn't want to vote for genocide are just insufferable.
Honestly, I think a lot of that was a Russian psy op. We all know Russian trolls have been stirring up the far right to stir up unrest, it stands to reason they'd do the same on the far left too (like the soviets funding both neo-nazis and communists in the 60s).
Plus, "vote for the guy who wants to genocide harder as a protest against genocide" was always a questionable line of reasoning.
Oh, I 100% agree. And maybe not just Russia, but other foreign enemies (and so-called "allies" like Israel) would benefit a lot from sowing division and installing a complete dipshit like donvict.
That would be a questionable line of reasoning. Which is why it's so puzzling that Blue Maga chose that as their main accusation against genocide protestors.
I’ve yet to see even ONE of them own their mistake.
Because they don't exist.
You're being convinced to hate other poor people.
Good job for falling for it
I haven’t fallen for shit. And it’s weird that you say they don’t exist when the comment section of this post, and pretty much any political post or meme has chummed the water well enough to cause a frenzy.
Read the room.
Yeah man like 3 people on Lemmy are the reason Donald trump won the election
I don’t think we are having the same conversation here bud. Maybe take a step back, collect your thoughts and come back when you think you can swing within the wheelhouse, cool?
Same. All I see is weak copium and "told you so" type of nonsense that makes zero sense given the consequences of donvict getting into office and their irresponsible and reckless bOtHsIdEs take on it. Lecturing the Democratic Party and the DNC, calling everyone that understands the stakes a "shill", and whining about blaming voters (which I very much do, sorry, not sorry) is not going to make their case at all.
We had two choices. Those were the only realistic choices. Wishcasting about a viable third party when it comes down to the general election is a fool's errand.
It’s because they live in a bubble where perfect is the only recourse to fix broken. I’ve been saying it since I’ve had the unfortunate experience in dealing with them-
These people NEED to understand nuance. And their refusal to even try will cost a some their freedoms, and others- their lives.
But you cannot humble children. And sadly, we have to share their folly.
The thing about their attitude is that I vividly remember my early teens as well and can sort of identify with their head canon for a moment.
But then reality sets in and I remember how the world really works: stomping your foot and wishcasting into existence some perfectly progressive third party that everyone will vote for instead of the Democrats and Republicans sounds really great, but just is not going to happen, at least not in the months right after a primary and before the general.
Also, putting someone like donvict into power will not "teach a lesson" to everyone else. I really do think that these people imagine the world is just standing buy, pencil and notebook in hand, waiting to be instructed by the Democrats losing and the so-called "leftist" that is running around lecturing everyone about it. Lastly, when they lose and some of them then declare that the world should just burn because they didn't get their way and the DNC wasn't taking instruction from them, I find out what kind of pathology we are really dealing with...
They’re incredibly entitled and think that everyone else should believe in their single issue protest and that it is worth sacrificing systemically marginalized people and giving up the freedoms of others- all to protect people in a country most of them weren’t even aware existed two years ago.
They fucked up. BADLY. And just like those they blindly helped usher into power, they are too stubborn to ever admit it.
Ignorance and Cowardice: the perfect one-two combination to erase the two most stubborn side-effects of being a human being: shame and humility.
Yeah, in some ways they are worse than donvict voters - at least right now some of those people seem to be waking up and whining "I didn't vote for this" as the leopards eat their faces because they are extremely low-info about how things work and lack systems-style thinking. And it may be that at least some of them will have learned something from voting for the likes of donvict.
Meanwhile, on the faux leftist side of things, they generally are more aware of the consequences of what donvict actually ran on (and the goblins around him will actually do), and yet, they suffer from just enough Dunning-Kruger in the morality department to still be proud that they "didn't vote for genocide" (JFC) and are actually taunting others for being "shills" and other silly claims.
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Another [executive order] Trump signed this week proclaims that our sex identity begins at “fertilization” when, in fact, sexual development doesn’t begin to start until at least the sixth week after fertilization.
It also declares everyone is female.
For those not aware, this is because Dumbfuck’s executive order defines a person’s sexual identity “at conception”. At conception, human zygotes are all female.
...that's not how that works.
Early stages of development are bipotential, which means they could develop either way, they're not initially female.
Around 6-7 weeks, if carrying a Y chromosome carrying the gene SRY, they develop into testes. If there are two X chromosomes, then ovaries develop.
We may as well be. He's fucking us all.
Wow you were a virgin the previous 4 years? Talk about privilege
Nobody fucking cares though about your "lol technicality" shit. They will do what they were going to do with it regardless of the words that they used.
Damm this comment section quickly turned into this:
A lot of those around him are about MAXWA (Make America Xtian and White Again) more so than anything. And then others are about raining more privilege and cash on the already-obscenely-wealthy.
Buy guns, buy ammo. Have the guillotine ready.
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