• McPoops@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Dem cheerleaders are blue maga. Nothing the Dems do are ever part of the problem; it’s always someone else’s fault.

    It wasn’t non-voters who forced the Dems and Biden to do the following:

    • For his first official act, Biden fought with his own party to prevent regular people from getting an already promised $600 check; completely ignoring the fact no one expected any PPP loans to be repaid.
    • Pulled a complete 180 on immigration, successfully building even more of the border wall and deporting more people than Trump.
    • Refusing to even entertain the idea of stopping Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even at the known expense of voters.
    • Declared the Covid-19 pandemic over by simply no longer testing for it, despite it continuing to overwhelm hospitals and kill people, all so that people could be forced back into work.
    • Ripped pandemic era support away from citizens that was responsible for nearly eliminating childhood poverty and food insecurity; forcing people back into $7.25 an hour minimum wage jobs with no benefits.
    • Refused to do anything about the increasing violence and state hostility towards queer people, especially in red states.
    • Scolded to constituents for not giving Biden enough credit because they insisted the economy was great (but only for the wealthy.) They ignored that inflation (caused solely by corporate price gouging they refused to challenge) grew more than wages. Sure, wages began to outpace inflation, but total inflation since the start of the pandemic is still higher than wage growth in the same period.
    • Made student loan forgiveness a means-tested application process that they then sat on for two months, instead of immediately clearing balances and destroying documents, as if begging SCOTUS to block them.
    • Doing absolutely nothing to restrict the unchecked presidential powers they worked with the GOP to expand for the last several decades, even as the threat of a second, even more overtly fascist Trump administration became more and more likely.
    • Dicked around for 2 years not taking the prosecution against Trump seriously and making this entire ordeal a possibility in the first place.

    This election was entirely the fault of the Democratic leadership. They failed. All blue maga does is try to deflect blame from them while they continue to screw all of us.

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    Maybe the political party should have conformed to the pressure of the people who vote in its party. Just saying.

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      It’s almost like the Israel/Palestine issue was completely irrelevant to the election since there were only two choices and both treated it the same. Yet only the Democrat candidate lost votes over it. Funny how they worked. It’s almost like someone engineered it

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    Democrats are mentally incapable of even considering the possibility that their losing to Trump two out of the three times they’ve ran the exact same campaign and candidate is their own responsibility. No, it must be the *checks notes* people who wanted them to be a little more critical of killing Arabs who are responsible. Wonder who you’ll blame when Trump inevitably runs for a third term and you decide to copy/paste your campaign strategy and candidate because you’ve learned abso-fucking-lutely nothing. I’m betting “people who don’t worship trillionaires enough”, because we’ll have some by then.

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    If only they’d put this much effort into getting one person to change her mind on the issue, instead of trying to get 10 million people to change their morals.

    It appears especially ghoulish now after it came out that even her campaign’s polling showed that it was a losing position.

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      Morals are morals, but they shouldn’t be completely uncompromising

      In this case we had the status quo on one side and on the other, someone who was itching to throw the dial to 11 across the board.

      At this point, any blood spilled as on their hands just as much as the DNC.

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        What status quo was there when Dems allow the rollback of everything even when they’re in power without even the suggestion of a fight? Unless you mean the status quo of everything continually getting worse under either party’s admin.

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    Coworker: “I hate trump, he should never be president!” Me: “So you’re voting Harris?” Coworker: “I don’t know if we’re ready for a WoMaN president”

    Asking for a friend, where is the nearest cliff? He would like to go jump off of it.

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    Why are you so concerned with “protest voters”? If every third party vote went to Democrats, Harris still would have lost.

    It’s way easier to blame a small amorphous group of people, but why don’t you focus on winning? Harris got 6 million fewer votes than Biden. Do you think all those people stayed home because of Palestine?

    Take this energy and put it towards something useful. Ignoring all the facts so you can punch left is pathetic.

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        Isn’t that just non-voters? Not voting is viewed by literally everyone as “don’t care”, not a protest.

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            Foreign policy simply doesn’t decide elections in the US. I’m sure there were some protests non-voters, but the idea that it was a significant majority of the 6 million is far fetched.

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        Those aren’t “protest voters”, are they?

        Again, Harris got 6 *million" fewer votes than Biden and lost by 2 million votes. If you really believe that’s because of Palestine, then you should be asking Harris why she didn’t support Palestine.

        But no reasonable person could think that Harris lost because of Palestine. So why is this such a big focus for liberals, instead of something that matters?

        If winning in 2026 and 2028 doesn’t involve punching left, are you even interested?

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          Let me amend to say, I guess it depends on what your goal is. If your goal is to feel better about yourself & your political participation, then carry on. But if you want to get a Democrat elected, you need to stop acting like this.

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    Good to see in memes that the devide an conquer stategy works even after the election. /s

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    So Israel is continuing what they are already started under Biden just as unopposed as under Biden? The length these types of bitter democrats will go to do their genocide apologetiks is amazing.

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      That is literally what people tried to tell you and others before election day. Israel would be supported no matter who was in power so don’t base your vote on that.

      Are you even a little upset about everything else Trump is doing right now? Like finding every way he can to oppress queer people with executive orders in less than a week? When they start getting loaded into boxcars, will you just stand there and say you told them to vote third party and this is what Harris would have done to them as well?

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        No, you told us it would be worse, but so far it’s obviously not in Gaza. Would it be nice if Biden put his foot down in May?

        They came for the Palestinians… Politicians in democracies responds to the demands of there constituency and you said that you did not care.

        At the end of the day, the point is mute anyways. Gaza did’t swing the vote. The loss of the democratic was so complete and multifaceted that this sort of post is just mindless scapegoating with little attachment in reality.

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          Fucking clown, it hasn’t even been a week.

          At the end of the day, the point is mute anyways.

          LOL. Right.

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          First of all, they have started operations in the West Bank with Trump’s blessing. You do know there are Palestinians in the West Bank as well, yes?

          Secondly, it’s been a fucking week.

          Thirdly, the word is moot.

          Fourthly, if it didn’t swing the vote, I guess there was no reason for you to bring it up in the first place. So why did you?

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            1. What sort of goldfish brain is needed to not grasp that the slaughter in the West bank was already happening under Biden? It was mentioned in the very comment you fist replied to. Remember?

            2. It must be awful to cope with seeing Trump, a genuine crazy fascist managing to do what Biden did not. And he probably just did it for something as petty as not to look bad. But that is the power America had all along.

            3. Thank you for the correction.

            4. You don’t think there is a reason to bring up that the atrocities allowed by Trump are the same as under Biden? No possible reason? It’s not all to complex, not only are wrong in your obsessive scapegoating of protest voters and 3’rd parties. You are also disingenuous under your own absurd premises.

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              Thanks for confirming for me that it’s not worth the time to engage.

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              When did you bring up the atrocities allowed by Trump? Please show me what you have said about his trying to start a genocide of queer people domestically. I bet you won’t even admit that’s what he wants.

              As far as my coping with Trump, that’s exactly why I’m in the United Kingdom right now without a job- to save my queer daughter’s life. And it’s the fault of people like you that I had to do it.

              But I’m sure queer people don’t matter like Palestinians do, right? It’s not like they’re humans.

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                I am happy that you’re daughter is safe. But that is no excuse for this excessive vilification of largely ineffectual voting block, that you only met online, that where demanding the same human rights as your daughter should have.

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                  Bullshit you’re happy. You were just fucking gloating about Trump winning. If you cared about the human rights of my daughter or any other queer person in America, you wouldn’t have had this attitude to begin with because you and everyone else were warned about Trump’s genocidal plans for queer people and pretended it did not matter because “Genocide Joe.”

                  You don’t get to suddenly pretend you care and expect anyone to buy that nonsense.

                  You and the others let your actual feelings about queer people be known regularly and repeatedly and your gloating just proved it again.

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      Thank you so much for sacrificing those Palestinians so you could feel morally superior here in this thread.

      Such a great way of being a fucking liberal cuckwit.

      You have blood on your hands, at least as much as Biden 🫡

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      I would have liked Biden to have vetoed less UN resolutions. We could have simply got out of the way and let the rest of the worlds diplomatic community push for progress.