• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Okay, so I would be equally justified in saying:

      Liberals, this is what you get when you assume people must vote for you.

      See? Everyone’s at fault and equally awful.

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        3 hours ago

        Okay, so I would be equally justified in saying: Liberals, this is what you get when you assume people must vote for you.

        THANK YOU. This far down the road and they’re still ignoring this aspect.

        Yes protest voters choosing to make things worse for Palestine and everyone in the US is stupid.

        AND liberals and especially the party leadership made a huge miscalculation in assuming everyone would vote for “not Trump.”

        Both contributed to the loss. Which is more to blame? There’s a discussion to be had there but imo the overall electoral strategy is a much bigger issue than a handful of stupid people who didn’t vote or voted Trump over this one particular issue

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          The party leadership isn’t here. Some of the protest voters are. Any statement posted on Lemmy is directed at the voters, not the leadership, and assuming otherwise is arguing in bad faith.

          The voters had the opportunity to stop Trump. They didn’t. Many people on Lemmy actively encouraged people to let Trump win. He won. Those are the facts.

          • OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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            1 hour ago

            What I saw a lot of on Lemmy was democrat supporters and voters insisting that people will just hold their nose and vote for Harris and accusing anybody angry about the ongoing genocide of either supporting Trump or playing into the hands of Russia.

            Any statement posted on Lemmy is directed at the voters, not the leadership, and assuming otherwise is arguing in bad faith.

            Did I do that? Very confused.

            The voters had the opportunity to stop Trump. They didn’t.

            Ah yes, it’s all the voters’ fault.

            If only the DNC had any power at all in this situation or ability to influence the actions of voters…

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            22 hours ago

            Those who voted for Dems voted against this. Those that protest-non-voted voted for this. Frankly it’s funny watching your mental gymnastics to get away from this.

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                21 hours ago

                Who’s yelling*? I am informing protest-non-voters what they voted for.

                (*You slipped that in with plausible deniability that you were referring to me, but I think it’s clear. More gymnastics.)

                • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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                  21 hours ago

                  Plenty of people were yelling about it last fall. Just like they yelled in the fall of 2016. And just like they yelled back in 2000.

                  And don’t be so self centered.

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                    21 hours ago

                    And we see the conclusion of the plausible deniability, so you can lash out at me. All to duck that all I’m doing is informing protest-non-voters what they voted for. The gymnastics are really something to behold.

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            22 hours ago

            No, Liberals aren’t responsible for this, they could have sucked, but in the end you stood by and let the genocidal fascists take over.

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        21 hours ago

        Those supporting The Establishment Democrats are responsible for all of this. So naturally they accuse everybody else and blame the voters for their own mistakes. They knew running is the status quo with dog shit unpopular candidates was not enough to win and they did it anyway. Forced it on us.