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    There’s so much Democrat bootlicking in here, the comment section smells of wet leather and shoe polish.

    If you can’t draw the line at genocide, you’re trash. No exceptions.

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    gotta say, I’m extremely glad .world defederated from Hexbear. viewing this thread over here is night and day from looking at it on .ml and seeing The Smartest People in The Room say "ahh, so you just support trump then, got it smuglord "

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    Dear Liberals,

    1. I am so glad I can’t see the bullshit from lemmy.world on my server

    2. Your economic system guarantees fascism. You can’t vote your way out of it. Capitalist modes of production inevitably concentrate power and lead to fascism. It is unavoidable.

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      actually this time it’ll be different, we just won’t have another crisis of capitalism that requires the stamping out of revolutionaries

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    This is a bit of an oversimplification. Actually, the Democrats deliberately run a weak campaign while Russian botfarms tell the left not to vote for the Democrats. And that’s how movement to the left is prevented.

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    The Democrats suck but there’s a huge difference between voting for boring corporatists and 100% concentrated evil. Don’t make me tap the chart.

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    Oh look, yet another post where traitors and cowards try to convince people not to vote

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    As said by a wise man, a silent majority does not exist in policy.

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    You can always count on @[email protected] to get most rabbid libs stirred up and face their own contradictions (without taking away any insights from the posts themselves anyway lol)…

    Literally every post that just puts the quiet part loud upsets them, lol. Please keep it up, love to see it.

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    I would still take blocking progress to the left over concentration camps every time

    So yeah, if you think bith sides are the same, then I guess it doesnt matter who won. We probably would be here with tarrifs and camps and a dictatorship, but just with Harris.

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    What a shit show. (Not an American, btw)

    I wonder, how many “both sides” Americans who didn’t vote (or voted third party) expected Democrats to win anyway. This way they could feel smug for not “voting for genocide” while still getting the clearly better option.

    Now they have to pretend they didn’t fuck up and act as if having a “protect the status quo” democrat wouldn’t have been any better.

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      90 million people didn’t vote at all. Trump won with 77 million votes. 13 million more people did nothing, than all of the people that voted for Trump.

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          There were 3 million fewer voters than in 2020. This was the most advertised election in US history, and more people sat out.

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            “Didn’t vote” always beats out the votes for either candidate, though. A small downward shift in the numbers is probably the fault of Democrats dividing their own base by endorsing genocide.

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              Yup. According to polls, the number one reason people abstained or voted third-party was Biden/Harris handling of Gaza. It’s either an ignorant or arrogant choice, depending on their awareness of Trump’s sociopathy and unwavering support of Netanyahu.

              It wasn’t a small downward shift though. It was greater than the amount Harris lost by, if you count the increase in third-party votes.

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                Only an American could describe opposition to genocide as “ignorant or arrogant”

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                  Hey now, that’s not fair.

                  Israelis and Boers would say that, too. And some Germans, still, believe it or not.

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                  There was no opposition to genocide. That would be the ignorant justification.

                  The choice was between genocide, and genocide with fascism. Knowing that, and choosing to do nothing so you feel better, is arrogant.

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                I agree. Whether it was ignorance or arrogance, the Democrats are entirely responsible for driving so many people away from the polls and squandering what could otherwise have been a shoe-in for Harris.

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                  Or dumbasses are responsible for the fascist takeover here.

                  Dems aren’t great but it you couldn’t be convinced to vote here it’s not on them.

                  But yeah, keep making excuses for lazy people not doing their civic duty. It’s working out great.

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      Clearly, the answer is to go the way of the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador and make voting compulsory on pain of death. I’m sure that if centrists, neoclassical liberals, and white moderates watched Oliver Stone’s Salvador, they’d think that that system is a great idea. If anything, they’d say that summarily executing people for lacking a voter permit is being too nice to them.

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    I’m not American but there’s so many socialists on here refusing to vote for the lesser evil because they don’t offer the right candidates and advocating revolution.

    why not take a page from the right’s clearly successful playbook and vote more in local politics and primaries. Maga managed to turn the republicans into exactly what they wanted this way, but the American left just sits there waiting for someone to start a revolution.

    well I understand it might be late now and elections might not do much going forward, but jesus it’s like the only option you guys saw is voting for whoever the parties put toward or revolution.