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You can't berate people into voting the way you want. That is the lesson the DNC needs to learn if they actually want to win.
Social media trolls could do to realize that too.
Yeah. Obviously not all of America voted, and many of Biden's voters didn't show up for Harris. But of those who did vote, Trump fucking won. Trump didn't more votes, Democrats got less. Maybe they could learn a lesson about actually caring or even fucking pretending to care about people struggling to get by.
I think it's a little disingenuous to describe the mood as "berating people into voting the way you want".
The US, the leader of the free world, is now a fascist dictatorship.
I'm very frustrated, worried, and angry. When discussing it with people who did not take action to avoid this outcome, it's very difficult for that frustration not to leak out.
They literally did that though. See the Obamas shitting on black people who dont immediately have the impulse to vote for kamala.
I didn't see that myself but I'll take your word for it.
Personally I wouldn't know how else to react to a black person who wasn't planning to vote for Kamala.
People throw this terminology around too lightly. If you truly lived in a fascist dictatorship you wouldn't say a word about it as you and those around you would be taken off at gunpoint never to be seen again. Either deleted or placed in some labor camp until you expired.
That's subjective.
As I recall, there were fuck-tons of blowhard tankie trolls berating everyone and accusing anyone voting democrat of being “gEnoCiDe sUpPoRtErS” and that everyone should either vote for dipshit unknown, untested, 3rd party clowns, or not vote at all.
So… I took a look around and yeah… there’s no high road for you here.
I don't know why you went out of your way to use the mocking "gEnoCiDe sUpPoRtErS" while, when, an actual genocide was being committed. You can disagree with the strategy of not voting for genocide supporters in elections, and there may even be compelling reasons when the alternative is trump, but mocking the people who prioritise not supporting genocide isn't a very high moral ground in my opinion.
More than attempting for third parties to win, the whole "conditioning the vote on an end to genocide" was attempted at forcing the democrat administration to end the genocide under threat of losing the elections, not "let's make sure that X third person gets elected". The democratic party was clear: we will not compromise in our support of genocide even if it costs us the elections. So they lost.
I mock it because before the genocide in Gaza, there was another genocide that NONE of you gave a shit about. Also, people to the conflict in Palestine, NONE of you face a shit that there was shit going on here for decades. Is even go so far as to wager that most of you couldn’t have pointed to Palestine on a map prior to last October, and some of you probably STILL can’t.
So, forgive me for recognizing crocodiles tears when I see them. Because I’m not buying the bullshit. You for sold on a propaganda campaign.
I don’t speak to unprovable anecdotal claims.
Care to elaborate?
Even if you were right, what's the point of that argument? "Increased sensibility to genocide as a consequence of people being able to learn from it from non-US-controlled outlets and social media because of the new availability of smartphones all over the world" negates being able to care about genocide? People 10 years ago couldn't open their smartphones and see live footage of children being bombed to death by Israel, and being able to see that despite the mass media apparatus in the US being entirely pro-Israel is a new thing. Surely more people finding out about the genocide isn't a bad thing?
The fact that you even had to ask illustrates my point.
Finding out about genocide, and using as leverage in an election where the collapse of democracy is on the table are not even remotely similar.
Again. Most of you didn’t give two shits about what was happening over there- and then suddenly you all cared so much that it was worth sacrificing your own country to save another that, as mentioned- most of you hardly gave a shit that it even existed a year ago.
Shameful and pathetic.
There is more than one ongoing genocide, it's just that the one in Palestine is the one the US is most obviously funding and supporting, which makes it relevant to USian politics.
Finding out about genocide and being able to tell your representatives that you won't vote them if they go on genociding people because that doesn't represent you, seems pretty coherent and moral to me.
I'm not USian btw, I'm not sacrificing my own country. Arguably the ones sacrificing the country are the ones putting only unelectable candidates who run a campaign of genocide against literal fascists. If the Trump administration was so patently fascist and the Democrats, with full presidential power (and immunity as proven by Trump), did nothing to stop them, the fault is every bit as much in the Democrat camp as in the Republican.
Refuse to act against fascists while in government -> run a campaign on genocide and the "most lethal armed forces in the world" with a non-electable candidate changed 3 months before the election -> lose elections to fascists -> blame the voters
If you’re not from here, then you’re not who I’m talking about and are just here to play contrarian.
I don’t entertain contrarians.
"Untested" reads like a major endorsement compared to establishment Dems.
I’m not surprised you don’t know what it means
This is correct, the right is already blinded by anger; telling them how stupid they are only makes them dig the hole deeper. If people want to change the way those people vote the only solution is redirecting their anger.
The entire dnc seems to be blind or dumb with their approach in the last 3 elections. It's all algorithmic, the Dems appeal to intellectuals but their message is too old school to get those uneducated voters who cling to a single issue to even listen. Get fucking angry, show some humanity, entertain, drive views, algorithm pushes your content, you brainwash the idiots instead of letting your opposition. Sure it's grimy, but it's better than spreading your cheeks and saying "they wouldn't because of decorum!"
i dont necessarily agree with this, it's going to make things worse, sure abuse the environment while you can, the kamala campaign literally did that, and it worked great. It just didn't provide turnout.