wait a second... did ANYBODY seriously think Trump of all possible candidates would get his good buddy netanjahu to agree to a ceasefire?!?And i had always thougth the magats were the clowns here...
I mean, Republicans are the most pro-Israel bunch there is, so no surprise there, in fact, will not be surprised if the US sends troops to support Israel
Voters need to get it into their heads that there is never a good reason to vote Republican, NOT vote Democratic, or not vote period. Never. This is just the latest example of why that's true.
The "protesting my vote" thing has got to be one of, if not the most, dumbest thing I have seen/heard in my life. Vile. I will not make an excuse for it
Good. I had somebody today tell me we should stay on Twitter and fight, but I said no, I want Twitter to die, and that won't happen if we stay there. Sun Tsu said you should only fight when you can win, and that's not a fight we can win. Let the nuts eat each other alive until the whole thing collapses.
Agreed. Or rather, most all the BAD takes are still from Twitter. The more reasoned, decent takes are coming from Bluesky now. Which shouldn't be surprising; they added another 1 million users since the election results, and I'm sure almost all of them are last-gaspers leaving the fiery Musktastrophe.
As with all things, it eventually will, no doubt. But I have some hope for this one, at least for now.
Bluesky has a very robust attitude of "Block Early, Block Often, Do Not Engage" when it comes to Bad Actors and Trolls, to suck all the air out of their sails, so it's worked pretty well so far in keeping most of the more blatant shit-stirrers arriving from Twitter from gaining much traction. >
< Plus, the original point man behind the creation of Bluesky, Jack Dorsey, also abandoned BlueSky and returned to Musk when the early users basically successfully petitioned for a focus on safety and moderation rather than Musk's style "of anything goes, including Nazis."
As such, while the physical structure of Bluesky isn't that much different to Twitter from a frontend user experience standpoint, there is a significant difference in the communities it can foster.
Damn, can't we just have a mulligan instead? I know of quite a few Trump voters (or people who didn't vote) who already regret their mistakes and would like a do-over.
Yep. They have the quadfecta Republicans have been having wet dreams about for decades now—House, Senate, Presidency, AND a corrupt, compliant SCOTUS. They will move quickly to try and set up things so that they never have to worry about those pesky "voters" ever again.
If we're lucky, we MIGHT be able to stop them at the midterms before they have all their pieces in place. If we can't stop them then, I don't see any other possible way out aside from honest-to-god large-scale violence.
We've got 2 years to convince voters that what we really need is a show of strength in those who believe in our representative democracy. In spite of the terribly gerrymandered congressional/electoral college system that we're forced to overcome, it can be done. We just have to suffer a LOT first. Again. As if the first time wasn't enough to teach us a lesson in gullibility.
Yep. Currently, my only hope to avoid having to handle this with widespread violence (i.e., some sort of civil war) is that the alt-right's ineptitude means they won't have enough time to push past our interference and fully rig future elections by the midterms.
But to do that—as ghoulish as it might sound—the people who had a hand in putting Trump and his ilk in power have to also FINALLY be inconvenienced enough by then to gain a proper perspective on the importance of using that last chance.
There will also still be a presidential election in 2028, so keep an eye out for that. No matter how much the Republican party erodes democratic institutions, they'll still need to have one more big run to cement themselves -- be it through a third Trump term (as the Republican majority makes it easy to toss out that pesky 22nd Amendment) or a second Vance term (should Trump's declining health catch up with him).
Right, donOld tRump ALWAYS lies. Maybe when he said he "would fix things so we would never have to vote again" he was lying so we will get to vote again! A glimmer of hope.
a constitutional amendment requires a 2/3rds supermajority, which the republicans do not have. it will not happen unless the trump administration decides to actually not bother with the whole democracy thing, in which case the US will have much bigger problems than term limits being done away with.
Rubio is at least pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine. Well, personally, he is. We'll see if that lasts as a Trump cabinet member. Seriously though, Trump could have done worse on this front, as hard as that is to believe.
This tweet doesn't get it. It's mixing up two groups and misrepresenting their stances. There were a large group of leftists who voted for Harris but continually pointed out that Harris was losing votes with her prowar stance and Republican-lite campaign. And there was a smaller group that were refusing to vote for her because of her support for genocide, regardless of if the other guy was better or worse, while acknowledging that Trump would be worse. No one thought Trump would be better.
I voted for Harris. Biden and Harris weren't gonna do anything as Israel refused cease fire negotiation one after the other, and even swearing off ceasefire negotiations. Biden and Kamala were gonna let Israel do whatever the fuck they wanted, just as they have been this entire time. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/16/biden-israel-arms-aid-00184028 -- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-bi">84028">https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/16/biden-israel-arms-aid-00184028 -- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-biden-administration-once-again-bypasses-congress-on-an-emergency-weapons-sale-to-israel
Thank goodness Harris articulated a specific plan of action including demanding a ceasefire and didn’t just brush any discussion of the issue aside with snide remarks. Oh, wait.
You act like these types of negotiations are simple. She and Biden were working on it for an entire /year/! To speak about their plans would've weakened their position and power to negotiate. Not to mention, Trump interfered as a private citizen.
Campaigns aren't negotiations. She can clearly articulate her intentions without being contractually obligated to actually achieve them.
If you actually paid attention to bidens secretary of state it's been painfully obvious they've been burying evidence against Israel and obstructing any effort to hold them accountable.
Biden did nothing to reach a ceasefire. He's made exactly 0 steps forward.
It just sounds like an excuse to me. How could anyone think Trumpo would be BETTER for the Middle East? Or anything at all? If it doesn't serve him directly, he won't do it.
Even if Trump would personally fire a nuke at Gaza, they would not admit that no, Dems are NOT the fucking same... The level of reality denial coming from "protest voters" is insane
Israel has announced the successful ethnic cleansing of northern gaza, saying there's no palestinian left and that they don't intend to let them back in...
I saw that as well, but what doesn't that ultimately mean for the southern portion of Gaza in the coming months? Reprieve from fire or no? Genuinely curious, I do not trust their government, but they said aid would flow into the southern portion.
The exact same thing as before, they'll continue to bombard them until there's no one left and they can have the entire region under their control, they're not exactly hiding their intent either, they want to extend beyond Palestine and have already begun with their attack on Liban.
This is the dumbest post yet. When are you dolts going to get it through your heads that protest votes were not what lost the election. And i love how this is said as if the EXACT same thing is not already happening under your precious democrat administration. And for the record you should oppose any candidate, BOTH CANDIDATES, for genocide. Hope YOURE happy compromising your own humanity.
I guess we finally have leftist maga. Though it's more like LDNAIAALTMUBPWLIFDOTCOOLEIA. Let's do nothing about it and act like that makes us better people while living in furious denial of the concequences of our lazy entitled inaction again.
Pretty sure you mean liberal blue maga. You guys apparently love to rep this current system and only insist on operating within it. We leftists arent allowed to want a better world according to you guys. "Lets do nothing about it" oh it must have been you getting your ass beat by protest crackdowns in major cities. Uselss, useless liberals just want to blame anyone else but their own gutless leadership.
I always used to get into arguments with a friend of mine, who used to say that you had to stand on principles, no matter what. I countered that principles without action to back them up are just hollow self-congratulations that benefit no one. Better to do WHAT you can, WHEN you can, than making the choice to ultimately not do anything to help, just to let you sleep better at night.
I've seen this happen a lot over the last decade. Leftist going so hard left, they come out on the others and are full on right Wing. Leftist maga sounds like my neighbors
I feel Harris was giving a lot of coded messages: "I feel very strongly about Palestinian self-determination and the need for a two-state solution" but was ultimately toeing the line to (you have to admit) her boss, the President who makes policy. People didn't listen closely, and I guess we'll never know now what she would have done if she had a free hand and the power to use it.
Honestly, I think I just don't understand the political situation re: Israel and the US. I think Biden is a genuinely good human being, and the things that Israel is doing are objectively horrific. I understand that we're allies, but I don't understand why we can't say "hey, bestie, cut the shit with the brutal genocide."
Clearly there's something more ostensibly more important at play, but I have no idea what it could be. (And don't trust that it *is*, in fact, more important.)
There's a lot of recrimination and navel-gazing going on but what I see is that a lot of people did not vote for Dems for a number of reasons, there's no 'one factor' why they lost. It does seem that those factors piled up into a massive GOP victory and, surprisingly, the campaign leads and pollsters had no idea what voters wanted and were going to do, so never changed track to win them over.
Polling is straight up broken. In the age of the internet, we simply haven't figured out how to poll people accurately.
Ultimately, I think the problem comes down to misinformation. Far right corporate interests own so much media that huge swaths of people get literally all their political information from them. They're not listening to anything else and don't even realize they're being lied to. It's damn near impossible to actually reach them. :(
I hate it here. First we get that idiot then we vote for his even dumber daughter plus every tax they mention we vote for. Then we complain about how much we're taxed. Bitch, you literally voted to be taxed over and over.
Instead of a fast moving genocide, they’ll get the fastest genocide and Israeli settlement into Gaza ever now. Real smart protest vote. What did they THINK I would happen ?
From a state stuck with his daughter for a governor, look out fraudulent spending ($18k podium anyone?) This is not good news for anyone. We already send israel so much $$$
How many have been killed so far, an estimated 50 000? How does 500 000 sound? 2 million? More? It can, and now thanks to idiot voters, probably will get worse. Much worse.
The biblical apocalypse would most likely be Israel getting a couple of dirty bombs and becoming largely uninhabitable. Luckily I’m sure that their neighbors would be willing to take them in as refugees, right? And historically other nations have been quick to provide shelter, right? This won’t play out like Mikey is hoping.
I cut contact with my niece who bragged that she didn't vote in this election and FU to anyone who has a problem with it. So I fucked off instead of giving her a lecture dripping with my disappointment.
They’re two aspects of the same fundamental flaw: a complete unwillingness to do anything that even slightly inconveniences them in any way, for the sake of other people. They are both the crystallization of the “fuck you get mine” mentality, distilled down to its essence. I’d argue trumpers are probably more actively and vocally hateful, but they are both equally selfish
I get that, but at the same time, turning the left against itself was the whole goddamn reason Russian trolls pushed the whole Palestine issue in the first place.
I hate the democratic party that funded and supported the destruction of Gaza for an entire year a lot more than some people that didn't vote. Especially since those protest voters wouldn't exist if the Democratic party did something that people liked instead of bitching about the republicans and wringing their hands
No, Trump doesn't make sense. In any way. He's the most transparently awful human being. He's a convicted felon, he does nothing but lie, a court determined he raped somebody, he tried to overthrow democracy, and he's honestly just straight up too stupid and narcissistic to disguise himself. It takes an *unbelievably* stupid population to vote him over a perfectly good and reasonable person to lead the country and its foreign policy.
A politician is a fulcrum, a coalition is the stick (lever), you are the person at the end of that stick, and the rock you want to move is the change you want to make. Not voting/voting for a third party removes yourself from any real effort to impact the world positively. All it does is tell the people that would otherwise be your allies in the coalition, and the politicians that you are unreliable & you've made yourself irrelevant.
Sure. But apparently the politician running for office must check every box perfectly and pass a purity test in order for the far left voter to even consider voting. Voters who can’t be bothered with going to the polls will never see their desired policies enacted.
And also the right candidate is somehow Jill Stein, who lunches at the same table as Putin and Michael Flynn, and whose campaign funds materialize out of thin air
Look, it sucks that we became a two-party system, but it is the reality. Anybody voting third party has to know they are throwing their vote away. When the difference between the Dems and the Republicans is democracy or fascism, and you voted third party?! GTFO, you voted for Trump.
I don't hate them MORE... but I hear you. We were in a huge tug of war, and some people decided to drop the rope. Even worse... some people wasted their time pulling a rope that wasn't even connected to anything.
It's an interesting thing but put it this way. Who would you hate more: the person beating you to death or someone standing nearby just watching as you scream for help and they refuse to help you? I'd probably hate the bystander more for doing NOTHING and not even trying, knowing I'm going to die.
The bystander is deplorable, but the other guy is the one ACTUALLY KILLING ME. Simply and realistically, doing harm is worse than doing nothing. When we imagine or say that people who do nothing are "worse" than the people who do harm, I think we're playing a political game. I think we are sneakily trying to guilt / motivate the people who do nothing, because we think we have a chance of motivating them to proper action, where as the attacker is a lost cause.
I'm not "imagining" or "saying" they're worse. I am literally saying I would hate them more viciously than the person trying to kill me. That is how my emotions would work out. Because they represent the hope that I could get out and live if they would HELP ME. To see someone standing watching you die and do nothing? To see your hope of survival and escape fade to nothing because they care not a thing to do the bare minimum? They're the one I'd be cursing out.
Then our wiring is just different. I hate the person hurting me more viciously than the person doing nothing. I happen to also think this arrangement of emotions makes more sense, but I understand emotional wiring does not have to make sense.
More commonly they've been beguiled by propaganda, that tells them that withholding their vote will make politicians pay more attention to them. It's an easy trap to fall for because it's emotionally satisfying even though its politically pointless.
I am curious do you honestly feel like shitlibs is a great insult? Because I'll be honest it sounds like someone who has a room temperature IQ would think is a good insult.
I already know they're incompetent. I just now also know that millions of voters are so far up their own ass that they don't know how to strategically vote for the Better option unless it is a Perfect option. It's either The Best Most Awesomest Option Possible or No Vote From Me.
Congrats. Now we've got Fascism. Hope that's what you wanted, because it's what you worked towards and what you earned.
I voted for Harris. I had literally no choice. I do not buy the assumption that there were enough people willing to *not* vote to actually matter until evidence is presented that that's true.
But telling people to be oh so concerned about fascism with one hand while we're literally funneling money and weapons to a fascist state engaged in genocide with the other is laughable.
Having to deal with a problematic ally is a very different matter from having someone in charge who is going to not only tell that problematic ally to go hog-wild, but will also do the same and worse here.
15 million fewer people voted this time than last time. Whatever the reason, they're a major part of why we won't be having an election in 2028.
That glass house of "Harris lost, now blame everyone else yet again!" isn't a very safe place to throw stones from. Arrogant shitlibs learned nothing from 2016, and you're handily demonstrating why they will learn nothing from 2024.
But they did learn something, they learned 2 very important lessons from 2016 and 2024. They learned that left wing voters are unreliable and can not be counted on to win an election so they will shift further right. Then dumbasses on the internet will bemoan how the shitlibs do not give a flying fuck about the left wing of the party and constantly whine about how the DNC needs to learn a lesson .. to bad they already did, just not the one left wing voters were wanting.
Then they didn't learn anything, you'll never out-right the far right, nobody will vote for the moderate right when they can vote for the full thing, that's literally the lesson of these election. The lesson to be learnt is that if you want votes, shift further left, not right, focus on policies that affect the workers life, not maintaining the status quo, the voters literally told them out right what to focus on. You guys in the US are fucked if you accept that from the dems.
Unreliable because they did nothing to appeal to them, so they didn't get their vote. Appeal to right wing assholes, and they will vote for the guy they already have doing that better than them. Way to demonstrate you also learned nothing. Can you admit the Dems ever fuck up? Trump is clown shoe stupid and should be the easiest person to beat, why is is a nail biter every time?
yeah hopefully the rest of them will finally learn to completely ignore right-wing populist dipshits pretending to be leftists like you instead of just mostly ignoring you
Nah, they'll just invite more right-wing populist dipshits up on stage with them to desperately plea for right-wing populist votes instead of doing literally anything to distinguish themselves from the Republican party.
Andawari
wait a second... did ANYBODY seriously think Trump of all possible candidates would get his good buddy netanjahu to agree to a ceasefire?!?And i had always thougth the magats were the clowns here...
VibratingNipples
Hope your non vote was worth it
0xBADA55
I mean, Republicans are the most pro-Israel bunch there is, so no surprise there, in fact, will not be surprised if the US sends troops to support Israel
ssjalhazred
Gaza did not cost her the election. This issue did not cause 12 million voters from the last election to stay home for this one.
TeChingo
But… that’s what they want. They WANT the genocide to continue.
In short… Gaza now belongs to Israel, and Ukraine belongs to Russia.
China will likely get Taiwan.
That’s what Trump sold us all out for. The morons on the right just don’t realize it (or don’t care)
Goatfer
They really think Trump hates war. Trump likes money. As long as war is profitable, there's no way he will try to stop it.
Everyonesfavorite
Our military is our #1 export, he wants it to sell high again
EllisHobbs
Voters need to get it into their heads that there is never a good reason to vote Republican, NOT vote Democratic, or not vote period. Never. This is just the latest example of why that's true.
psstuphere
Yeah, those voters voting the other way would have made Trump win with a slightly smaller margin
q34tw4
The "protesting my vote" thing has got to be one of, if not the most, dumbest thing I have seen/heard in my life. Vile. I will not make an excuse for it
TheGhostofElizabethShue
This is besides the point but I love how we're not doing twitter screenshots anymore.
TurdBurglar3000
About fucking time.
GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
Good. I had somebody today tell me we should stay on Twitter and fight, but I said no, I want Twitter to die, and that won't happen if we stay there. Sun Tsu said you should only fight when you can win, and that's not a fight we can win. Let the nuts eat each other alive until the whole thing collapses.
SteveMND
Agreed. Or rather, most all the BAD takes are still from Twitter. The more reasoned, decent takes are coming from Bluesky now. Which shouldn't be surprising; they added another 1 million users since the election results, and I'm sure almost all of them are last-gaspers leaving the fiery Musktastrophe.
JustAPileOfCats
I wonder how long it'll be until Bluesky gets enshittified. Hopefully a long ass time.
SteveMND
As with all things, it eventually will, no doubt. But I have some hope for this one, at least for now.
Bluesky has a very robust attitude of "Block Early, Block Often, Do Not Engage" when it comes to Bad Actors and Trolls, to suck all the air out of their sails, so it's worked pretty well so far in keeping most of the more blatant shit-stirrers arriving from Twitter from gaining much traction. >
SteveMND
< Plus, the original point man behind the creation of Bluesky, Jack Dorsey, also abandoned BlueSky and returned to Musk when the early users basically successfully petitioned for a focus on safety and moderation rather than Musk's style "of anything goes, including Nazis."
As such, while the physical structure of Bluesky isn't that much different to Twitter from a frontend user experience standpoint, there is a significant difference in the communities it can foster.
YesWeCan
you guys are as fanatics as those trumpers, blame the party, blame poor choices, dont blame the voters. thats why the democrats never change
yeahhedugit
annoyingpeoplewithmyheathencomments
I'm sure her being a woman also played a major part in their decision
DamnedIfYouDo
Are we still referring to it as "Gaza"? I thought we had to call it by it's new name: Kushner Heights.
jayman0123
FierceAndAdorable
His name is Walz, not Walsh; unless you’re really drunk
relsky
Yoink! Saving that one for future arguments. Thanks!
Hurch
Damn, can't we just have a mulligan instead? I know of quite a few Trump voters (or people who didn't vote) who already regret their mistakes and would like a do-over.
SteveMND
Yep. They have the quadfecta Republicans have been having wet dreams about for decades now—House, Senate, Presidency, AND a corrupt, compliant SCOTUS. They will move quickly to try and set up things so that they never have to worry about those pesky "voters" ever again.
If we're lucky, we MIGHT be able to stop them at the midterms before they have all their pieces in place. If we can't stop them then, I don't see any other possible way out aside from honest-to-god large-scale violence.
Everyonesfavorite
I will find time for call bank volunteering to call other states!
Hurch
We've got 2 years to convince voters that what we really need is a show of strength in those who believe in our representative democracy. In spite of the terribly gerrymandered congressional/electoral college system that we're forced to overcome, it can be done. We just have to suffer a LOT first. Again. As if the first time wasn't enough to teach us a lesson in gullibility.
SteveMND
Yep. Currently, my only hope to avoid having to handle this with widespread violence (i.e., some sort of civil war) is that the alt-right's ineptitude means they won't have enough time to push past our interference and fully rig future elections by the midterms.
But to do that—as ghoulish as it might sound—the people who had a hand in putting Trump and his ilk in power have to also FINALLY be inconvenienced enough by then to gain a proper perspective on the importance of using that last chance.
VinchVolt
There will also still be a presidential election in 2028, so keep an eye out for that. No matter how much the Republican party erodes democratic institutions, they'll still need to have one more big run to cement themselves -- be it through a third Trump term (as the Republican majority makes it easy to toss out that pesky 22nd Amendment) or a second Vance term (should Trump's declining health catch up with him).
amb1021
I mean, maybe, maybe not.
itwasababyox
There is absolutely no reason to think we're guaranteed another actual election.
YoureWaifuAShit
what makes you say that? this is supposition with no supporting reasoning
Everyonesfavorite
Right, donOld tRump ALWAYS lies. Maybe when he said he "would fix things so we would never have to vote again" he was lying so we will get to vote again! A glimmer of hope.
AntennaDibb
a constitutional amendment requires a 2/3rds supermajority, which the republicans do not have. it will not happen unless the trump administration decides to actually not bother with the whole democracy thing, in which case the US will have much bigger problems than term limits being done away with.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
hogninja
jamesx
Boy, They sure showed Israel /s
mrthewhitee
Was Harris gonna do any different? Seemed like her stance was the same as bidens, blah blah, right to defend itself, blah blah hostages etc.
OnomatopoeicOnanisma
I think she was going to but her subtle messaging was missed. https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/07/kamala-harris-could-bring-shift-gaza-war-policy
mrthewhitee
Seems like her mistake for trying to be subtle in an election that required grand and decisive plans.
Seanspeed
Rubio is at least pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine. Well, personally, he is. We'll see if that lasts as a Trump cabinet member. Seriously though, Trump could have done worse on this front, as hard as that is to believe.
Ryyyyyyyan
This tweet doesn't get it. It's mixing up two groups and misrepresenting their stances. There were a large group of leftists who voted for Harris but continually pointed out that Harris was losing votes with her prowar stance and Republican-lite campaign. And there was a smaller group that were refusing to vote for her because of her support for genocide, regardless of if the other guy was better or worse, while acknowledging that Trump would be worse. No one thought Trump would be better.
OlofBorrbrottsson
Refusing to vote (for Harris) ment helping Trump win, and by extension supporting his plans for Gaza. That’s a weird way of supporting Gaza.
BojackHorsemeat
Can't vote for genocide, sorry.
OlofBorrbrottsson
If you didn’t vote for Harris, you voted for genocide.
Decitron
I voted for Harris. Biden and Harris weren't gonna do anything as Israel refused cease fire negotiation one after the other, and even swearing off ceasefire negotiations. Biden and Kamala were gonna let Israel do whatever the fuck they wanted, just as they have been this entire time. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/16/biden-israel-arms-aid-00184028 -- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-bi">84028">https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/16/biden-israel-arms-aid-00184028 -- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-biden-administration-once-again-bypasses-congress-on-an-emergency-weapons-sale-to-israel
MarkSoupial
If only there had been someway to bring about a ceasefire earlier than 2025
medimr
"You don't think Israel has the right to defend itself?!!!"
Jarjarthejedi
You mean like Biden's multiple attempts that were blocked because Netanyahu was hoping Trump would be elected and allow him free reign? https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/us-israel-trump-phone-call-netanyahu-gaza-cease-fire-2024-election.html
MarkSoupial
Something like that, yes, but with a little more not sending weapons directly to Israel with the signatures of our celebrities and legislators on them
archon325
The protest vote didn't make that much of a difference, they weren't the reason we lost. They didn't help. But we came up REALLY short
shadyproject
Thank goodness Harris articulated a specific plan of action including demanding a ceasefire and didn’t just brush any discussion of the issue aside with snide remarks. Oh, wait.
TheLiteraryMachine
You act like these types of negotiations are simple. She and Biden were working on it for an entire /year/! To speak about their plans would've weakened their position and power to negotiate. Not to mention, Trump interfered as a private citizen.
mrthewhitee
Campaigns aren't negotiations. She can clearly articulate her intentions without being contractually obligated to actually achieve them.
If you actually paid attention to bidens secretary of state it's been painfully obvious they've been burying evidence against Israel and obstructing any effort to hold them accountable.
Biden did nothing to reach a ceasefire. He's made exactly 0 steps forward.
OlofBorrbrottsson
Hope your support for Trump’s plan leaves you satisfied.
richardstinks
It just sounds like an excuse to me. How could anyone think Trumpo would be BETTER for the Middle East? Or anything at all? If it doesn't serve him directly, he won't do it.
gruntabulousbeans
I heard one protest voter say that they preferred that the bandaid got ripped off quicker and that they were all going to die anyways.
Seanspeed
"It sent a message to Democrats, though". Yes, to forever ignore your demographic.
Chereazi
Even if Trump would personally fire a nuke at Gaza, they would not admit that no, Dems are NOT the fucking same... The level of reality denial coming from "protest voters" is insane
ImNotRacistBut
There was a denial of reality during the Harris campaign, but it wasn't coming from voters
Chereazi
And then they voted for the guy saying he'll glass it himself.
weird that...
KPodol
Israel has announced the successful ethnic cleansing of northern gaza, saying there's no palestinian left and that they don't intend to let them back in...
Sonicschilidogs
I saw that as well, but what doesn't that ultimately mean for the southern portion of Gaza in the coming months? Reprieve from fire or no? Genuinely curious, I do not trust their government, but they said aid would flow into the southern portion.
KPodol
The exact same thing as before, they'll continue to bombard them until there's no one left and they can have the entire region under their control, they're not exactly hiding their intent either, they want to extend beyond Palestine and have already begun with their attack on Liban.
ComradeBinch
This is the dumbest post yet. When are you dolts going to get it through your heads that protest votes were not what lost the election. And i love how this is said as if the EXACT same thing is not already happening under your precious democrat administration. And for the record you should oppose any candidate, BOTH CANDIDATES, for genocide. Hope YOURE happy compromising your own humanity.
Chereazi
Congratulations to supporting unimaginable suffering. I hope you one day take some drugs, experience empathy and see the errors in your ways.
TiredBanana
I guess we finally have leftist maga. Though it's more like LDNAIAALTMUBPWLIFDOTCOOLEIA. Let's do nothing about it and act like that makes us better people while living in furious denial of the concequences of our lazy entitled inaction again.
ComradeBinch
Pretty sure you mean liberal blue maga. You guys apparently love to rep this current system and only insist on operating within it. We leftists arent allowed to want a better world according to you guys. "Lets do nothing about it" oh it must have been you getting your ass beat by protest crackdowns in major cities. Uselss, useless liberals just want to blame anyone else but their own gutless leadership.
TiredBanana
SteveMND
I always used to get into arguments with a friend of mine, who used to say that you had to stand on principles, no matter what. I countered that principles without action to back them up are just hollow self-congratulations that benefit no one. Better to do WHAT you can, WHEN you can, than making the choice to ultimately not do anything to help, just to let you sleep better at night.
WorkSnakes
I've seen this happen a lot over the last decade. Leftist going so hard left, they come out on the others and are full on right Wing. Leftist maga sounds like my neighbors
randomthingsonthenet
What specific actions do you suggest that would be meaningful and significantly impactful to change what MAGA does or wants to do?
dundeeisdrunk
I think the point was it was better to vote for the not perfect dems, than to not vote and allow the orange cunt in
randomthingsonthenet
thanks bud. My head hasn't been the most clear the past week.
amb1021
Man, fucking same.
DocTanner
Neither candidate was going to do anything to stop what's happening in Gaza, or even remove our involvement from it.
And yet people decided not to vote for the one that wouldn't _also_ cause genocide in Ukraine and probably even here at home.
A lot of people just failed the Trolley Problem.
Voxius
They did that thing where the train drifts and takes out EVERYONE.
jamesx
Dem at least wants humanitarian aid and a 2 state solution. Trump wants Israel to wipe out everyone in Gaza.
OnomatopoeicOnanisma
I feel Harris was giving a lot of coded messages: "I feel very strongly about Palestinian self-determination and the need for a two-state solution" but was ultimately toeing the line to (you have to admit) her boss, the President who makes policy. People didn't listen closely, and I guess we'll never know now what she would have done if she had a free hand and the power to use it.
DocTanner
Honestly, I think I just don't understand the political situation re: Israel and the US. I think Biden is a genuinely good human being, and the things that Israel is doing are objectively horrific. I understand that we're allies, but I don't understand why we can't say "hey, bestie, cut the shit with the brutal genocide."
Clearly there's something more ostensibly more important at play, but I have no idea what it could be. (And don't trust that it *is*, in fact, more important.)
OnomatopoeicOnanisma
There's a lot of recrimination and navel-gazing going on but what I see is that a lot of people did not vote for Dems for a number of reasons, there's no 'one factor' why they lost. It does seem that those factors piled up into a massive GOP victory and, surprisingly, the campaign leads and pollsters had no idea what voters wanted and were going to do, so never changed track to win them over.
DocTanner
Polling is straight up broken. In the age of the internet, we simply haven't figured out how to poll people accurately.
Ultimately, I think the problem comes down to misinformation. Far right corporate interests own so much media that huge swaths of people get literally all their political information from them. They're not listening to anything else and don't even realize they're being lied to. It's damn near impossible to actually reach them. :(
BosunMark
And now they got Mike Huckabee as a freaking Ambassador to Israel! This will not end well..
DocWino
My Jewish friend is elated. He picking out his beach home now.
GCRust
Fast tracking the End Times by sending the Grand Inquisitor.
Squirrelpicnic1971
Richter12x2
Maybe he'll get a cool podium
Everyonesfavorite
Foe $18,000 that doesn't come with a blow job, but likely a trip to France for two.
malbec
But he loves Hamas!! On pita bread
fozymandias
Jesus Christ it’s a fucking clown show.
giraffytaffy
Oh yikes
Gibleteousjack
I hate it here. First we get that idiot then we vote for his even dumber daughter plus every tax they mention we vote for. Then we complain about how much we're taxed. Bitch, you literally voted to be taxed over and over.
thinkybrainpains
Instead of a fast moving genocide, they’ll get the fastest genocide and Israeli settlement into Gaza ever now. Real smart protest vote. What did they THINK I would happen ?
livingonagiantfireball
The average population is not very intelligent, this is why we are where we are.
Richter12x2
Well yes. That's what that means. Half the population is dumber than average.
Acquiredtaste
Half the population doesn't know the difference between average and median. That doesn't mean they are dumb per se, just poorly educated.
OlofBorrbrottsson
People who protest vote do know better.
Rovylern
Genocide 2 Fast 2 Furious
Everyonesfavorite
From a state stuck with his daughter for a governor, look out fraudulent spending ($18k podium anyone?) This is not good news for anyone. We already send israel so much $$$
bippityboppitybuttsex
He is going to give them a license to genocide
MadamPuddifoot
TRUMP SAID HE WOULD DO THAT YEARS AGO. HE FLAT OUT SAID HE WOULD LET THEM COMPLETELY OBLITERATE IT
bippityboppitybuttsex
Apparently his son has been advocating for beachfront property in Gaza for awhile now.
fbutaric
What? Murdering babies in hospitals can get worse?
OlofBorrbrottsson
How many have been killed so far, an estimated 50 000? How does 500 000 sound? 2 million? More? It can, and now thanks to idiot voters, probably will get worse. Much worse.
ProperWeirdo
Yes - so far they have been murdering babies that were "near hamas leaders". Now they can just murder them without having to do a press release
bippityboppitybuttsex
Yep, as soon as they move into the West Bank, which they have announced they will do.
ilikepot8os
Well at least they'll have a license now. I hate that they've been doing an unlicensed genocide all this time.
ButtersTheCat
He's trying to start the biblical apocalypse.
Chalybos
The biblical apocalypse would most likely be Israel getting a couple of dirty bombs and becoming largely uninhabitable. Luckily I’m sure that their neighbors would be willing to take them in as refugees, right?
And historically other nations have been quick to provide shelter, right?
This won’t play out like Mikey is hoping.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Uh huh, so he is a deranged lunatic.
ButtersTheCat
Yes.
PrincessLeliana
I hate protest voters more than trumpers
TapiocaMartini
WeTheI
Same but prostest voters I LOATHE
StrangePaegan
I cut contact with my niece who bragged that she didn't vote in this election and FU to anyone who has a problem with it. So I fucked off instead of giving her a lecture dripping with my disappointment.
Totallynottheguy
Oh no... any way...
Rathan5
They’re two aspects of the same fundamental flaw: a complete unwillingness to do anything that even slightly inconveniences them in any way, for the sake of other people. They are both the crystallization of the “fuck you get mine” mentality, distilled down to its essence. I’d argue trumpers are probably more actively and vocally hateful, but they are both equally selfish
ComradeBinch
We found the fascist! ⬆️
Trolly2134
Liberals truly are dumb fucks.
expectnothingstillletdown
I get that, but at the same time, turning the left against itself was the whole goddamn reason Russian trolls pushed the whole Palestine issue in the first place.
ComradeBinch
Wait we only care about palestine because russia said so?
ToSisPoS
They proved they are stupider than MAGAs that’s for sure.
Lionskull
I hate the democratic party that funded and supported the destruction of Gaza for an entire year a lot more than some people that didn't vote. Especially since those protest voters wouldn't exist if the Democratic party did something that people liked instead of bitching about the republicans and wringing their hands
bigdinger81
How about single issue voters? A lot of them voted third party this year
ParryLost
Yeah, Trump makes sense. He's just a disgusting con-man, such have always existed and always will. It's ordinary people that gave him power.
Seanspeed
No, Trump doesn't make sense. In any way. He's the most transparently awful human being. He's a convicted felon, he does nothing but lie, a court determined he raped somebody, he tried to overthrow democracy, and he's honestly just straight up too stupid and narcissistic to disguise himself. It takes an *unbelievably* stupid population to vote him over a perfectly good and reasonable person to lead the country and its foreign policy.
ParryLost
yup
HeywouldJablowme
What the fuck were they thinking? Trump was going to be better? He literally tried to ban Muslims from entering the country.
throwawaygizmo
A politician is a fulcrum, a coalition is the stick (lever), you are the person at the end of that stick, and the rock you want to move is the change you want to make. Not voting/voting for a third party removes yourself from any real effort to impact the world positively. All it does is tell the people that would otherwise be your allies in the coalition, and the politicians that you are unreliable & you've made yourself irrelevant.
Thornaxe
But if we just ran the RIGHT far left candidate the support would materialize and it would be overwhelming. /s
Hereagain
Well, the "far left" policies are pretty popular.
https://www.dataforprogress.org/polling-the-left-agenda
Thornaxe
Sure. But apparently the politician running for office must check every box perfectly and pass a purity test in order for the far left voter to even consider voting. Voters who can’t be bothered with going to the polls will never see their desired policies enacted.
tentacularfleshscape
And also the right candidate is somehow Jill Stein, who lunches at the same table as Putin and Michael Flynn, and whose campaign funds materialize out of thin air
bigdinger81
Look, it sucks that we became a two-party system, but it is the reality. Anybody voting third party has to know they are throwing their vote away. When the difference between the Dems and the Republicans is democracy or fascism, and you voted third party?! GTFO, you voted for Trump.
angelyric
"Sometimes a vote is a chess move, not a love letter."
natabus
I don't hate them MORE... but I hear you. We were in a huge tug of war, and some people decided to drop the rope. Even worse... some people wasted their time pulling a rope that wasn't even connected to anything.
deadlyJumper
It's an interesting thing but put it this way. Who would you hate more: the person beating you to death or someone standing nearby just watching as you scream for help and they refuse to help you? I'd probably hate the bystander more for doing NOTHING and not even trying, knowing I'm going to die.
natabus
The bystander is deplorable, but the other guy is the one ACTUALLY KILLING ME. Simply and realistically, doing harm is worse than doing nothing. When we imagine or say that people who do nothing are "worse" than the people who do harm, I think we're playing a political game. I think we are sneakily trying to guilt / motivate the people who do nothing, because we think we have a chance of motivating them to proper action, where as the attacker is a lost cause.
deadlyJumper
I'm not "imagining" or "saying" they're worse. I am literally saying I would hate them more viciously than the person trying to kill me. That is how my emotions would work out. Because they represent the hope that I could get out and live if they would HELP ME. To see someone standing watching you die and do nothing? To see your hope of survival and escape fade to nothing because they care not a thing to do the bare minimum? They're the one I'd be cursing out.
natabus
Then our wiring is just different. I hate the person hurting me more viciously than the person doing nothing. I happen to also think this arrangement of emotions makes more sense, but I understand emotional wiring does not have to make sense.
gruntabulousbeans
I do. They were aware of the risks and the danger he posed and didn't think doing anything about it was worthwhile.
natabus
More commonly they've been beguiled by propaganda, that tells them that withholding their vote will make politicians pay more attention to them. It's an easy trap to fall for because it's emotionally satisfying even though its politically pointless.
Keru
It's easier to hate them more because, for most of us, they're closer to us than Trumpers. I wouldn't be surprised if ww2 resistance members
Keru
hated the people who actively collaberate with the nazis more than they did the wehrmacht/nazi occupiers.
Keru
Not by a huge mile or anything, but you reserve a lot more anger and vitriol for people who SHOULD be on your side, don't you?
medimr
Indeed. That's exactly how shitlibs what you to feel. To cover for their own incompetence and failure.
FearsAndMadness
Idk why they’re downvoting you since you know what they usually celebrate.
DocBenny
who did you vote for, and why?
rk57957
I am curious do you honestly feel like shitlibs is a great insult? Because I'll be honest it sounds like someone who has a room temperature IQ would think is a good insult.
PrincessLeliana
lmao
TrueNorthernLights
Aww sweetheart, you're up WAY past your bedtime. Go grab your teddy and head on to bed now, the adults are taking.
maninaboat
I already know they're incompetent. I just now also know that millions of voters are so far up their own ass that they don't know how to strategically vote for the Better option unless it is a Perfect option. It's either The Best Most Awesomest Option Possible or No Vote From Me.
Congrats. Now we've got Fascism. Hope that's what you wanted, because it's what you worked towards and what you earned.
medimr
I voted for Harris. I had literally no choice. I do not buy the assumption that there were enough people willing to *not* vote to actually matter until evidence is presented that that's true.
But telling people to be oh so concerned about fascism with one hand while we're literally funneling money and weapons to a fascist state engaged in genocide with the other is laughable.
maninaboat
Having to deal with a problematic ally is a very different matter from having someone in charge who is going to not only tell that problematic ally to go hog-wild, but will also do the same and worse here.
15 million fewer people voted this time than last time.
Whatever the reason, they're a major part of why we won't be having an election in 2028.
TrueNorthernLights
There are a lot of people panicking because they honestly thought that tariffs were paid for by the country they were against, NOT America.
SaveitforQueenDoppelpoppolus
hey i have an idea everyone let's listen to a guy who says "shitlibs" lecture other people about being incompetent failures that'll be a fun time.
medimr
That glass house of "Harris lost, now blame everyone else yet again!" isn't a very safe place to throw stones from. Arrogant shitlibs learned nothing from 2016, and you're handily demonstrating why they will learn nothing from 2024.
rk57957
But they did learn something, they learned 2 very important lessons from 2016 and 2024. They learned that left wing voters are unreliable and can not be counted on to win an election so they will shift further right. Then dumbasses on the internet will bemoan how the shitlibs do not give a flying fuck about the left wing of the party and constantly whine about how the DNC needs to learn a lesson .. to bad they already did, just not the one left wing voters were wanting.
KPodol
Then they didn't learn anything, you'll never out-right the far right, nobody will vote for the moderate right when they can vote for the full thing, that's literally the lesson of these election. The lesson to be learnt is that if you want votes, shift further left, not right, focus on policies that affect the workers life, not maintaining the status quo, the voters literally told them out right what to focus on. You guys in the US are fucked if you accept that from the dems.
Queenbeeknocksmeonmyknees
Unreliable because they did nothing to appeal to them, so they didn't get their vote. Appeal to right wing assholes, and they will vote for the guy they already have doing that better than them. Way to demonstrate you also learned nothing. Can you admit the Dems ever fuck up? Trump is clown shoe stupid and should be the easiest person to beat, why is is a nail biter every time?
SaveitforQueenDoppelpoppolus
yeah hopefully the rest of them will finally learn to completely ignore right-wing populist dipshits pretending to be leftists like you instead of just mostly ignoring you
medimr
Nah, they'll just invite more right-wing populist dipshits up on stage with them to desperately plea for right-wing populist votes instead of doing literally anything to distinguish themselves from the Republican party.