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'Very troubling': Leader of 'Abandon Harris' movement now anxious about Trump appointees
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No no no,they saved Palestine, remember?
Now that the Dems aren't in control all those Palestinians are perfectly safe.
Right, tankies? That's all you were screeching about back in November. Now it's cricket chirps, like Palestine even mattered to you lot. Disgusting.
There has been a recurring argument (not mine, heaven forbid) both prior to and in the aftermath of the election that not voting for the dems would show them that they can't keep running away to the right and still expect to win. It would teach them a lesson.
It baffles me that they think a) the Dems would actually learn the lesson, b) the alternative wouldn't be that much worse and c) the alternative that quite explicitly aimed to abolish democracy entirely would willingly afford the dems a chance to learn that lesson. If they can't eliminate democracy itself, they'll try to neuter and bias it as heavily as possible until they've got the same kind of pseudo-democratic one-party fuckery that you see in other countries like... China, North Korea, Russia, Belarus...
Huh, that's funny, seems like all the countries whose boots they're so eager to lick. I'm sure that's coincidence, right?
Actually, that's a lie. I don't believe it's coincidence at all. I think it's part of a deceitful strategy to undermine democracy through spreading willful ignorance and channeling voter frustration and disillusionment into frustration with democracy itself. Hell, there are even people claiming that a dictatorship is a necessity of revolution, that you can't build a new and better system without placing someone in charge of building it - because that worked out so fucking well with the other communist revolutions, right?
Every single fucker who gargles dictator cock under the guise of "communism" and "leftism" is an authoritarian, a traitor against the people they feign class solidarity with. You don't save democracy by not participating. You don't hold politicians accountable by supporting their opponents.
And that's being charitable and assuming they're just misguided, not intentionally malicious foreign actors.
well said
I love how you are being downvoted without anyone actually providing a counter point. Because you are absolutely right.
Leading up to the election lemmy was flooded with Palestine bullshit and Genocide Joe, and people that suggested it's a war started by fucking Israel and you should be boycotting them were downvoted.
A lot of people here got swept up in the propaganda, and it was painful to see how dumb my side can be, but here we are.
Orange man is coming and suddenly no-one is posting about Palestine and every thread I'm in doesn't have people screeching genocide Joe.
I'm fully convinced lemmy was flooded with foreign assets spreading bullshit and hurting democratic turnout.
It's painful to see how effective it was, an an issue so ridiculous I couldn't have believed it if it was in a book. Country X, with president Y attacks Z, and idiots here are screaming at county U with president J......
It wasn't just Lemmy, I know otherwise reasonably intelligent people who became literally brainwashed from TikTok. We're talking far left, never Trumper's, knew he was an existential threat, but couldn't have their moral superiority tarnished and HAD to vote 3rd party. They bought into that propaganda hook, line and sinker.
I'm not from the US but I know that I would really struggle morally to cast a vote for either party.
Yes, voting for Trump because of Palestine is stupid, but I can easily see how voting for the party that keeps sending money and weapons, and supporting them in the UN, while pretending to ask them to "be more careful about killing civilians", would not be very desirable either.
The US electoral system is absolute dogshit, but in my opinion the Dems lost this election all by themselves.