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Bushra Shaikh (@Bushra1Shaikh): How TF did Americans vote the clown in, not once but TWICE.

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This creator posted on Election Day 2024: "Punish the democrats for their passive response to the genocide in Palestine. If there ever was a party who should have stood firmly against it, we would've assumed the Dems. They proved otherwise. F Kamala Harris. Hope she loses.” [truncated URL to the post here]

I remember arguing for days, in 2024, that the whole "Democrats are bad because Palestine" thing was clearly a psyop by Russian bots trying to mess with the election. I really need to improve my persuasion skills. Like by a lot.

Both can be true. How TF we have 4 years to produce a candidate against trump, and the best we got was walking corpse Biden 2.0 and then Kamala "I'm speaking while your homeland is genocided" Harris.

The English language has an nice expression for that: "cut off your nose to spite your face"

I voted for her but if they put Gavin newsom, I don't know if I can care anymore.

This was all over Lemmy, too, along with all the other social media platforms.

It pretty much disappeared everywhere the instant trump won, as well as the complaints about grocery prices and the lies about gas prices.

The exception was lemmy, prob thanks to hex, grad, and ml, where people still find the time to randomly inject democrat hate.

It's easy to critique and play both sides when you don't live here

This is what will keep happening if the Dems election strategy remains "if you don't vote for us you get that asshole". And use them as an excuse not to do anything.

Okay, so:

• Voting Democrat in the general election is the choice with (edited in: the) least horrible consequences and
• Voting Democrat in the general election isn't nearly enough to stop the ratchet-effecting into fascism, and a stand-for-nothing placeholder centrist Democrat president in 2028 will probably just lead to Trump-3/Vance/someone similarly horrible in 2032

are unfortunately both true.

Also, non-MAGA Americans - (EDIT: liberals, not the party leaders) and leftists alike - need better people skills. With infighting like this, Republicans hardly even need to lift a finger.

This person is an idiot. The american public gave up on their one chance to influence the outcome of the presidency and fucked it up for everyone beyond comprehension, and are now still trying to push the blame on the establishment. Fuck every one of the sitouts and republican voters. You enabled the orange buffoon and couldnt see the threat he represented. Sometimes, when life gives you a choice between lemons and your way of life being destroyed in a childish tantrum, you swallow the fucking lemon.

Gaza and the world thanks you. Fuckers.

Yeah, in glorious free America, there are only ever two choices. Ain't democracy great?

I mean, she's right. Dems are supposed to represent the ideological opposite of Cons, both domestically and internationally.

Of course, US foreign policy has always been uni-party, so there was never a chance that the Dems were going to concede. Despairingly so.

I voted for Kamala, but she didn't everything in her power to destroy the momentum she got after Biden dropped out.

Arguing over who would have genocided people the nicest is fucked up on soooooooo many levels.

IMO it doesn't matter if you do a 3rd party protest vote if you're not in a swing state. The system is fundamentally broken by design

There seems to be a ton of finger pointing from liberals (mostly outside of leemy). Trump won on promises to gullible fools on literally making cost of living cheaper (this includes fascist and non fascist talking points)

The dems lost on not conveying their solutions to cost of living well and of course not taking a stand against the faction of war and genocide that many of them are actively working for or with.

A lot of establishment dems are just mad it's not their brand of authoritarianism