Crosspost test
Disabled people who survive on benefits one electoral loss from starving to death
And the immigrants who are literally being put in camps as we speak…
If it’s a real pogrom, the body has ways to shut that whole thing down.
Having the conversation with my kid that I need them to maintain the ability to pass and to remember to answer to their dead name in order to cross borders was a fuckin bummer, man.
I’m just sayin, it sucked real bad. I can’t think of more effective way to drive home to a kid that their country hates them.
There’s a myriad of reasons why people didn’t turn out for Harris. But the incredibly small demographic of internet communists are an easy scapegoat to target with memes I guess.
Let’s hope this kind of thing isn’t part of the Democrat campaign strategy leading up to 2028 or they’ll get absolutely hammered.
Shit, how can they possibly blame those who didn’t vote for the “lesser of two evils” for the fact that the significantly greater of two evils won? Those suffering under Trump don’t give one flying fuck as to your justification for not voting, nor should anyone else. Stand on your principles when there is no tangible harm as a result.
I don’t disagree with your point, but did you even read what they said? Because it had nothing to do with your point…
Everyone who wants Trump out of power should “give a flying fuck” about the reasons people didn’t vote. And they should address those reasons in the order of “most to least common”. So yeah, if the Dem’s campaign strat is to focus on an incredibly small group just because they are an easy target, instead of addressing the more common reasons, we are all gonna have a bad time… or more bad times.
But the incredibly small demographic of internet communists are an easy scapegoat to target with memes I guess.
It’s more broadly people who decided some bizarre form of personal left-purity was worth murdering Americans and a greater number of Gazans for.
Most people that didn’t vote for Harris ARE NOT lefties practising some purity contest… That would require a much larger leftist community in the US, one that actually organizes.
Their ENTIRE POINT is focusing on one insignificant reason why people didn’t turn out for Harris instead of the many reasons Harris didn’t appeal to leftists will only produce terrible results.
Why do you want to help people produce a worse result by supporting some vapid, baseless accusation like it was the leftists who lost Harris the presidency and not the Democrats failing to appeal against a fucking fascist? It’s almost like you do not understand at all how liberals help fascists gain power…
Most people that didn’t vote for Harris ARE NOT lefties practising some purity contest…
This is true.
At the same time, the percentage of the electorate that didn’t vote for Harris for left-purity reasons was significantly larger than her margin of loss, and, for that matter, is continually denied as a problem here on Lemmy.
No one on fucking Lemmy needs to be told about the larger issue - that some 75 million fuckwits in America are far-right fascists. Lemmy, of all fucking places, knows that. But a significant contingent on Lemmy still denies that left-purism is a problem when it was quite literally one of the key failures which led directly to fascism being elected in the US.
It was not the top key failure. There were half-a-dozen larger failure points that damned us. But any one of those key failures, left-purists included, not screwing the pooch would have prevented fascism - the way that some leftists on Lemmy refuse to acknowledge the seriousness of this in favor of chest-beating over how moral it is to welcome in fascism to teach ‘the libs’ a lesson is something that should be emphatically condemned.
If you’re condemning it over those other several significant causes, causes of which some have MUCH easier avenues to success than getting EVERY leftist to vote for a still shitty candidate, then you are being just as fucking stupid as the Democrats.
Focusing on topics that will make the left exacerbate wedge issues and in-fighting is EXACTLY why many didn’t vote for Harris. No matter what the “correct” choice is, only a fucking moron would think telling millions of people to, “shut up and vote” would actually work.
Why do you want to practice ineffectual infighting instead of creating more attractive choices?
If you’re condemning it over those other several significant causes, causes of which some have MUCH easier avenues to success than getting EVERY leftist to vote for a still shitty candidate, then you are being just as fucking stupid as the Democrats.
Wouldn’t even have taken half of those who voted in 2020 but abstained for left-purity reasons in 2024. But sure, tell me more about how Lemmy is the avenue through which one should convince the DNC to be less stupid. It’s much easier to convince the DNC, whose members are very prominent on Lemmy, to be less stupid than leftists, who are barely on Lemmy at all.
Focusing on topics that will make the left exacerbate wedge issues and in-fighting is EXACTLY why many didn’t vote for Harris.
“Please oppose the fascist” is the REAL wedge issue which causes left in-fighting, of course. Nothing quite divides leftists like the concept of opposing literal fucking fascists. Unironically, it would seem, since you seem determined to asspat everyone involved in giving fascists a free pass to the levers of power in the government.
Why do you want to practice ineffectual infighting instead of creating more attractive choices?
“Maybe infighting while a literal fascist is about to win is bad?”
“I SEE YOU’RE THE REAL PROPONENT OF INFIGHTING”
Peak intellect, exactly what I expect from Lemmy anymore tbqh.
I voted and campaigned for Bernie twice. I support progressives locally and in my state. I want and work for more attractive choices - but when push comes to shove, if you’re willing to maximize the number of marginalized groups to be murdered by fascists, or play apologist for those who do so, you aren’t an ally. You’re playing masturbatory games with your circlejerk over how self-righteous you can be.
