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This meme is almost a decade old now isn’t it?
Still one of my favorites
At which tax bracket do you get to enjoy life now?
If I remember right, things start to turn around somewhere north of 350k yearly.
Lol. So many dumb voters who think everything changes for the better overnight if they protest vote and don’t grasp that politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.
In the end, all they did was set us back X number of years/decades. Thanks stupids.
politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.
Every single time Dems have won since Carter, we have been baby stepping towards something worse. The victories for gay rights under Obama were a brief outlier in our country’s otherwise uninterrupted march towards fascism.
ah yes, unfortunately the alternative to literally hitler, was moderately worse than what i preferred, and therefore, literally worse than hitler, even though hitler literally genocided the jews.
your misuse of the word literally in this post figuratively gave me an aneurysm.
I’m on the couch, literally reading this comment laterally.
thats literally crazy
That’s literally figurative
thats literally why im here
Biden’s polling low, the voters want things do be different… huh, better campaign on doing nothing different! What? They’re saying we’re doing a genocide? Well, better point out that Trump is gonna do a worse genocide!
That’ll be a great message, exactly the sort of thing that makes people excited to vote…
Yeah, because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth … totally doesn’t devolve a democratic process into one of reactionary populisms fueled by false promises. If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park. If they have a shred of civil responsibility, they vote, specially when things were as bad as they were.
If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park.
Welcome to America!
If they have a shred of civil responsibility
lmao
because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth
What part of the genocide wasn’t true at the time of the elections?
reactionary populisms fueled by false promises
Like codifying Roe V Wade? Like closing Guantanamo?
If they have a shred of civil responsibility
Civil responsibility is voting for the party that pretends to care about Gazans while carrying out a genocide and funding Israel.
because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth
What part of the genocide wasn’t true at the time of the elections?
reactionary populisms fueled by false promises
Like codifying Roe V Wade? Like closing Guantanamo?
If they have a shred of civil responsibility
Civil responsibility is voting for the party that pretends to care about Gazans while carrying out a genocide and funding Israel.
Like not spamming the same comment multiple times and like realizing that the only but quite essential power you do have is choosing between the least worse candidate because the much worse candidate will go the complete autocrat route. I can’t believe how brainwashed some people continue to be to try to argue they have not just doomed Gaza, helped expand Guantanamo Bay, or have endangered people’s right while trying to use examples of how it could have been better as an “argument”.
Literally ALL the things you’ve mentioned could have been fixed by democrats, and 2/3 were actually electoral promises… I dont know how you expect people to keep voting for the lesser evil if the lesser evil is a deceptive and genocidal party
Because the alternative is much worse and arguments like yours are so far more deceptive that they are the Hail Mary of autocratic troll factories.
Just because you don’t get the choices you want or should have does not mean you should throw it away, and if what Trump isn’t proving that already, then you are either a dumbass or arguing in bad faith. People like you are far more responsible for Trump and as a consequence his actions than the voters you claim to hate.
It is perfectly possible to try to work to change a system from the outside that cannot be changed from the inside while trying to use whatever influence you have on the inside to prevent the worst aspects of it. Instead you choose play acting and then shaking off responsibility.
Well you clearly see it doesn’t work. Saying "there’s someone worse* CLEARLY doesn’t mobilise people to vote repeatedly against fascism. Almost as if, hear me out, fascism has never historically been beaten through electoralism. What we need is to organize in leftist communities and organisations, create dual power structures, protest hard and support labor rights, and struggle against fascism through direct action instead of voting once every four years.
Keep blaming the people who warned you that the democrat strategy of lesser-evilism wouldn’t work.
i mean, it’s also factually true. I still maintain that the dems ran a fairly good campaign. The problem was voter turnout, as it always is, except for 2020, when voting was easier.
Because democrats have an aversion to actually doing things for some reason (primarily age related)
“Democrats didn’t entertain me enough so I didn’t vote.”
OP mentions genocide
Response frames it as entertainment
Yes. The party needs to be enticing. They lost an election. Shaming voters for not embracing lesser evilism is another mistake the party is making and you’re reproducing here.
At least twice now the party has believed themselves to be assured of victory because Trump is on the ballot. Now they may never have a chance to run again.
Since the Democrats didn’t give every single thing on the bLuEmAGa screechers wishlist, ofc Trump was the perfect alternative!
Definitely not an example of letting perfection become the enemy of good or anything!
Edit: To whoever replied to me, but probably has me blocked since I can’t see it (only the reply counter) unblock me if you’re going to reply to me, coward!
Uh, that means you blocked them.
Thanks, I never block anybody but sure enough pancakes was on it lol
Letting perfection become the enemy of good? Good is funding a genocide?
Also, I’ve never blocked anyone.
Now we’re funding a genocide and making life worse for everyone else. Huzzah!
Yup, it’s pretty outstanding. We’re a nation of gullible, hateful idiots it seems.
My b, you somehow got blocked on accident as I also never block anybody.
Anyways
Good is funding a genocide?
There was keeping the status quo at worse (Harris) and then there was throwing the dial to 11 and opening new potential genocide fronts right here in America! (Trump)
Oh no worries, I probably said something stupid at some point.
I completely agree with everything you’re saying except that the Harris campaign was good. There were no good choices this election, there was just an objectively wrong one. I voted for Harris anyway because trump is obviously worse by far, I think I’m just still pissed at her milquetoast center right campaign.
As a fellow reluctant Harris voter, I wonder if people like them think that anyone who criticized Harris/the campaign didn’t vote. I know A LOT of hardcore leftists that are left of even me and every one of them voted. Some would maybe not say it out loud in a group, but they all did just in case Trump had the votes lol. It’s a shame they sacrificed their morals not only for Harris to lose, but now they’re also being blamed for it. If people had anti lib energy the way they had anti leftist energy, we’d have M4A by now lol.
Protest voters did not impact the results
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Those idiots didn’t know going into the election that their vote wouldn’t affect the outcome, but they did it anyway.
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Protest voters could conceivably include people who protested by not voting, and they most certainly affected the outcome.
Protest voters were young people, who voted the exact same as every other election. They don’t vote.
If you want to engage with reality and look at the data you would see that the groups that voted for Biden and not Harris were older white men/women, and older hispanic men. Most likely because of the instilled patriarchal values and machismo culture of these groups made it hard to stomach voting for a woman with the same policies as the white man they voted for.
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Things would have been much worse with Harris though.
Go back to reddit
Go back to xkcd.
If you want anyways I don’t think I have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do.
I am not Randall Munroe.
My apologies you’re a splitting image.
My apologies you’re a splitting image.
Wrong again. It’s spitting image
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/spitting-image-origin-meaning
You linked spitting image but I wrote splitting image as in if the image was splitten.
I understand it’s an easy mistake to make!
You linked spitting image but I wrote splitting image as in if the image was splitten.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_Image
The comic book?
You know it’s completely reasonable and rational to accept you were wrong about a thing even if you hold true to other concepts that may not have a singular answer?
Trying to change reality completely to entertain yourself just makes you the fool and not a person many will bend an ear to, or take with any credibility.
Even as someone who didn’t vote Harris, this opinion is objectively wrong
Wow that was almost self-aware.
Then why did not vote for her?
Supported Claudia de la Cruz, I didn’t agree with everything she campaigned on, but she pushed for big ideas I’m interested in: https://votesocialist2024.com/our-program
I’m sure you’ve heard this before but doing that under a first past the post voting system was painfully stupid.
And before you say I’m rude or causing a break down in leftist unity by calling you stupid: I’m not going to dance around my honest thoughts anymore. I don’t care what happens anymore. My political tact has left my body because the world is probably fucking doomed now anyway so who cares.
Why u think so?
Well I was told she was a genocide enabling agent of the status quo and if we withhold our votes she’d come crawling back over to us with universal basic income and single payer healthcare.
Why do you never use the /s? lol changed to updoot
I respect the intelligence of my target audience.
Maybe you should be running these kind of posts through a SpongeBob mock generator
Fam you should frequent [email protected]
They kind of seem like an asshole.
Understandable, unfortunately a lot of the bLuEmAGa folk say the same things unironically lmao though I should have known since it wasn’t a 3 paragraph essay on it lol
If you subscribe to my YouTube channel I have twelve hour interviews with people like Jordan Peterson about these topics.
lmao
Go burn in hell.
It’s SatansMaggotyCumFart. He’s being sarcastic as always
is this guy supposed to be some lemmy celebrity like flyingsquid?
So we have this weirdo being just completely wrong on purpose and then FlyingSquid who is going around right now saying everyone’s telling them to commit suicide and that they are a moron to be listened to.
Lemmy sure does have such heroes to look up to.
They’re well-known regulars. How individual people think of them is another matter.
Maybe the issue here is that you’re assuming that these people are considered heroes by anyone to begin with. Just because they post a lot, doesn’t mean anyone looks to them as anything more than what they are.
Content contributors.
A celebrity is someone who is celebrated. Generally positive connotation there.
I think we just then need a different word for someone who gives a lot of people something to talk about whether it is good or bad.
“Celebrity” just means “a famous person,” regardless of the origin of the word. It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re actually celebrated by anyone.
Copy that.
