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Well, we have the fucking camps opening. Luckily, plenty of terminally online leftists are ready to tell us how noble and moral not voting was! (europe.pub)
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[–] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I feel like takes like this come from people with no long term memory. Do you remember the pro-palestinian crowd begging Kamala Harris to even pretend like she'd do something to help? And she basically told them to vote for Trump? Blame the Democratic party for choosing to be fascism-light instead of actual resistance.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Multiple people are at fault

    • Republicans for being literal Nazis
    • Democrats for selling their souls to AIPAC and ignoring their constituents
    • Protest voters for not seeing Trump as enough of a threat
    • The two party system for allowing this to happen in the first place
    • Billionaires for funding a literal Nazi
    • The Israeli government for waves hands

    As someone who had to leave behind everything and flee the US for safety (2025 was lining up to be a damn good year dammit), I am furious at all of the above

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's mostly fair, but "protest voters" still didn't throw the election. If you added all third party votes to Democrats instead, you'd still have a trump presidency. This is after Harris ran a very right-wing campaign. They bet hard on Zionism, "border security" and military strength and they lost, partly because Trump can do all those things "better"(worse).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    We might not have lost the House and Senate though, in addition to other smaller local races. Stop trying to absolve them.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Feel free to do the math yourself then. But I don't mind absolving them. They didn't vote for Trump, and they exist in a terrible two party system that makes them choose between fascists. They literally did not cause this. So shut the fuck up. I don't want to hear criticism of third party voters from anyone who hasn't given 10x that criticism of everyone else on your list.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Firstly, you assume I don't criticize others when my original post straight up does. That is a very false assumption. Secondly, you are only absolving them because you are in a position of privilege to do so. Until you've also had to uproot your life, tell your loved ones goodbye, and flee your home because of an existential threat, you have absolutely ZERO right to police my voice on this. With all due respect, fuck off.

    I will not be responding further

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago*

    Ya again, I need 10x the smoke for Republicans and Democrat politicians. Not just a mention. People voting for a better candidate are not the issue. I'm glad you won't be responding cause this level of stupidity is draining.

    And you still haven't backed up your claim that third party voters had a significant sway on the election.

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  • [+] [S] -15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I feel like takes like this come from people with no long term memory.

    Christ. How ironic.

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