Things in Gaza will be totally worth it when it is razed to the ground and a huge Trump resort is built on top of it. Gazans can work as waiters and masseuses where their houses used to be!
The Democrats went out of their way to spite to the left at every chance and played to the mythical swing voter. A strategy that has never worked more than a one-off. What do you call somebody that keeps doing the same thing expecting different results? Stupid.
Biden did not change anything. And the point here is that by not changing anything chill out the Republicans to promise to change things and get them elected. How do you not get this?
You’re right about all that. I just get tired of hearing people justify why they stood by and let the orange turd take power again whenever I see news stories like this.
I am not trying to be a dick either, but the same people are still in control of the opposition and fighting under them is doomed to fail. There might be a finality to elections now, we are now facing a pretty aggressive rigging. But since there is a succession battle we could still take it back with a muscular popular reform Party. I just do not want to see America get settled with a kakistocracy, rule of the worst, fixing elections.
Plus bringing the military into domestic affairs, which always ends the same way, the military sees the weakness of the political leaders and the levers of power and they subordinate the politicians and become the true rulers. Honestly the military would be an improvement over these malicious fucking clowns in politics, It could last decades.
When all we need is a new deal to usher in more prosperity for everybody, the grasping Rich included. They have no idea what they are supporting, the monster they’re supporting will destroy them which is the only silver lining here.
I agree with almost everything you said except sharing your optimism that your/our preferred ideology would necessarily win out in the aftermath of accelerating the entire country into flaming ruin.
I love how y’all love to blame Gaza as if the lack of voters was only to do with that. I mean there were voters who were pro Gaza and voted for fuckin Trump, so I think the Dems “give you nothing” platform was actually an issue.
The Dem’s strategy doesn’t work. It might have worked in 1984 but not now. It’s their fault they keep losing. They can’t act like leftist’s concerns don’t matter yet blame them for their own loss
Exactly. These people are exhausting. Like, have they not seen the current popularity figures of the Democrats? Their popularity is in the shitter because they STILL have no platform beyond “we’re not Trump.” And yet, this thread is still full of centrist muppets blindly parroting, “well, at least they’re better than Trump.” No shit. And that’s why leftists almost universally did vote for Kamala. But then these smug assholes, equipped with a hose running directly from their anus to their nostrils, have the gall to come in here and parrot the same tired rhetoric that caused Kamala to lose in 2024, Hillary to lose in 2016, and would have caused Biden to lose in 2020 if not for Covid.
Just seriously. These dense motherfuckers. When will they realize that being simply better than the Republican isn’t enough to actually win elections. It’s enough to get the left to reluctantly vote for the candidate, but it won’t actually drive out enough ordinary non-politically obsessed people to win an election. People need something to vote FOR. Not something merely to vote AGAINST.
Frankly, at this point, I assume anyone still bitching about leftists not voting for Harris is just a Republican. Non-affiliated and casual voters cost Kamala the election. The leftists almost universally held their nose and voted for Harris. But these Republicans like to foment division on the left, so they try to continually keep the narrative alive that Democrats just need to be a tiny iota better than Republicans, even though that strategy results in a Republican being elected again and again.
Look to the outcomes to understand motives. If following someone’s message results in Republicans winning again and again, odds are good that they’re simply a Republican.
Wanna know something crazy? You can not like the DNC, but still understand that it was fucking stupid to not vote for Harris (as we have all now seen).
I’m so sick of people equating any kind of push back against this bs as making you a shill for the Democratic party. There’s just no room whatsoever for nuance. I’m a bootlicker because I didn’t throw my vote away against literal fascism. Ok.
Most of us here that voted for Harris, did it while holding our noses. WE ARE NOT DNC SHILLS, WE’RE SIMPLY NOT IDIOTS.
it’s a big club and we’re not in it…the establishment DNC will refuse reality as long as Trump is alive. they still believe, they have to believe, that the political landscape of america “returns to normal” (code for…can go back to peacefully ratfucking government funds, with their good ol’ boys in the GOP) when trump finally croaks…when that doesn’t materialize is when shit gets real. lotta cope out there riding on that blessed day coming due…
this combination if WallStreet liquidity-parasites, MIC, and AIPAC has ran the USA as a puppet state atleast since the end of WW2, arguably reaches much further back but only after did they start coordinating…they are exceedingly entrenched and have spent the last 70 years building moat after moat built towards the singular purpose of keeping thems in power.
things are going to get even worse… then either much much worse, or alot better, depending on if all these greedy AIPAC motherfuckers see what the NATC party has in store for them vs. what progs have in mind (firing squad or slightly higher taxes…such a hard choice).
Trump really was the perfect spoiler candidate looking back…extensive ties to Epstein (and by extension, all rotten establishment US politicians), dumb as shit with an ego to match…absolutely perfect combination to shine a light on this disfunction we call our government (not to mention making it more clear than ever, how compromised our media-landscape is), on the optimistic outlook that we continue to have elections…trump has single-handedly done more to galvinize the US Left-proper than any other president in living memory
“Surely those people willing to sacrifice another group’s very existence will fight to stand up for MY civil rights!”
This is just the left version of Leopards Eating Faces. No one who supports a genocide will lift a finger to protect your civil rights when they are threatened. The only people they care about are themselves. You are not one of the people that someone like Kamala or Biden consider worthy of respect or even consideration. You are beneath them just like the Gazans. If you support a genocide, you clearly view people as expendable and worthy of giving away at the political bargaining table.
You learned nothing from the “first they came for…” poem.
Seems like a lot of copium to ignore the fact y’all bent over and gaped to let fascism ass fuck all of us and actually make things significantly worse in Palestine and the Middle-East as a whole.
This dipshitery of 'Kamala and Joe wouldn’t have protected your rights either" is a pathetic cope. They had 4 years to spearhead their own fascist takeover. They didn’t. Trump and his party of cronies are speed running it.
All the extra blood in Palestine, here in the US and from all other people MAGA is killing is partially on y’alls hands too. And all for a stupid fucking virtue signal. Pathetic.
It’s on you… The tide is turning, and Israel is done, it’s officially a pariah state and while the price we Palestinians paid is way too high, at least most of the world is awake now. You’re still sleeping.
Democrats did nothing to stop Trump for four years when the fascist plan was in the open and he already attempted to overthrow democracy, they weren’t gonna save this empire. Had they won, the genocide in Gaza would have continued just the same, but you’d be patting yourself on the back having voted for the “lesser evil.”
Decent people rejected your nonviable genocidal candidate, and instead of admitting you were wrong, you’re blaming people who opposed genocide on your dime. You deserve Trump, and you’ll deserve him more when you campaign for Newsom in the future rigged election instead of revolting.
Take some responsibility. The “we’re an iota better than Trump” strategy lost miserably in 2016, 2024, and would have lost in 2020 if not for covid. And here you are, still spreading blood libel about leftists. Leftists almost universally held their nose and voted for the shitty lesser evil candidate, just like they do every fucking time. But it didn’t matter at all, because nonaffiliated and more casual voters don’t show up unless they have someone to vote FOR not someone to vote AGAINST. Not enough ordinary people, not the people hanging out on lemmy politics subs, but just normal working people, were convinced that Kamala would make any meaningful improvement in their lives. Meanwhile, Trump was making an immoral, but very clear and direct case of “I will raise your wages and lower housing costs by deporting millions of immigrants.” Trump made a direct case for how he was going to improve the lives of some portion of the population. Kamala didn’t. And that’s why she lost.
And no, screaming about democracy doesn’t work. It’s a piss poor election strategy. The vast majority of the population doesn’t feel that we actually live in an effective democracy anyway. People don’t feel the need to protect a system that isn’t serving their interests.
I’m sorry, I seem to remember Biden endorsing blood libel against the Palestinians on obviously provable false allegations and never correcting himself.
I seem to recall him doing absolutely fucking nothing to slow down the israelis.
Also nothing in response to the Republicans trying to end the Republic in all but name, his reason for fucking being as president.
With your dog shit Democrats we were never going to keep the fascists out of power, this is your fault for parroting The Establishment Democrats’ bullshit. Even now you won’t admit a mistake.
But don’t you see how great things are in Gaza now? Surely the downfall of democracy was worth it.
Nobody ever said Gaza would be better. We said that Democrats didn’t deserve our vote because they offered no meaningful alternative
Things in Gaza will be totally worth it when it is razed to the ground and a huge Trump resort is built on top of it. Gazans can work as waiters and masseuses where their houses used to be!
At least we stuck it to GeNoCiDe JoE, though
The Democrats went out of their way to spite to the left at every chance and played to the mythical swing voter. A strategy that has never worked more than a one-off. What do you call somebody that keeps doing the same thing expecting different results? Stupid.
Yes, and none of this shit would be happening right now if anyone but trump would have won.
Biden did not change anything. And the point here is that by not changing anything chill out the Republicans to promise to change things and get them elected. How do you not get this?
You’re right about all that. I just get tired of hearing people justify why they stood by and let the orange turd take power again whenever I see news stories like this.
I am not trying to be a dick either, but the same people are still in control of the opposition and fighting under them is doomed to fail. There might be a finality to elections now, we are now facing a pretty aggressive rigging. But since there is a succession battle we could still take it back with a muscular popular reform Party. I just do not want to see America get settled with a kakistocracy, rule of the worst, fixing elections.
Plus bringing the military into domestic affairs, which always ends the same way, the military sees the weakness of the political leaders and the levers of power and they subordinate the politicians and become the true rulers. Honestly the military would be an improvement over these malicious fucking clowns in politics, It could last decades.
When all we need is a new deal to usher in more prosperity for everybody, the grasping Rich included. They have no idea what they are supporting, the monster they’re supporting will destroy them which is the only silver lining here.
I agree with almost everything you said except sharing your optimism that your/our preferred ideology would necessarily win out in the aftermath of accelerating the entire country into flaming ruin.
I love how y’all love to blame Gaza as if the lack of voters was only to do with that. I mean there were voters who were pro Gaza and voted for fuckin Trump, so I think the Dems “give you nothing” platform was actually an issue.
The Dem’s strategy doesn’t work. It might have worked in 1984 but not now. It’s their fault they keep losing. They can’t act like leftist’s concerns don’t matter yet blame them for their own loss
Exactly. These people are exhausting. Like, have they not seen the current popularity figures of the Democrats? Their popularity is in the shitter because they STILL have no platform beyond “we’re not Trump.” And yet, this thread is still full of centrist muppets blindly parroting, “well, at least they’re better than Trump.” No shit. And that’s why leftists almost universally did vote for Kamala. But then these smug assholes, equipped with a hose running directly from their anus to their nostrils, have the gall to come in here and parrot the same tired rhetoric that caused Kamala to lose in 2024, Hillary to lose in 2016, and would have caused Biden to lose in 2020 if not for Covid.
Just seriously. These dense motherfuckers. When will they realize that being simply better than the Republican isn’t enough to actually win elections. It’s enough to get the left to reluctantly vote for the candidate, but it won’t actually drive out enough ordinary non-politically obsessed people to win an election. People need something to vote FOR. Not something merely to vote AGAINST.
Frankly, at this point, I assume anyone still bitching about leftists not voting for Harris is just a Republican. Non-affiliated and casual voters cost Kamala the election. The leftists almost universally held their nose and voted for Harris. But these Republicans like to foment division on the left, so they try to continually keep the narrative alive that Democrats just need to be a tiny iota better than Republicans, even though that strategy results in a Republican being elected again and again.
Look to the outcomes to understand motives. If following someone’s message results in Republicans winning again and again, odds are good that they’re simply a Republican.
Wanna know something crazy? You can not like the DNC, but still understand that it was fucking stupid to not vote for Harris (as we have all now seen).
I’m so sick of people equating any kind of push back against this bs as making you a shill for the Democratic party. There’s just no room whatsoever for nuance. I’m a bootlicker because I didn’t throw my vote away against literal fascism. Ok.
Most of us here that voted for Harris, did it while holding our noses. WE ARE NOT DNC SHILLS, WE’RE SIMPLY NOT IDIOTS.
it’s a big club and we’re not in it…the establishment DNC will refuse reality as long as Trump is alive. they still believe, they have to believe, that the political landscape of america “returns to normal” (code for…can go back to peacefully ratfucking government funds, with their good ol’ boys in the GOP) when trump finally croaks…when that doesn’t materialize is when shit gets real. lotta cope out there riding on that blessed day coming due…
this combination if WallStreet liquidity-parasites, MIC, and AIPAC has ran the USA as a puppet state atleast since the end of WW2, arguably reaches much further back but only after did they start coordinating…they are exceedingly entrenched and have spent the last 70 years building moat after moat built towards the singular purpose of keeping thems in power.
things are going to get even worse… then either much much worse, or alot better, depending on if all these greedy AIPAC motherfuckers see what the NATC party has in store for them vs. what progs have in mind (firing squad or slightly higher taxes…such a hard choice).
Trump really was the perfect spoiler candidate looking back…extensive ties to Epstein (and by extension, all rotten establishment US politicians), dumb as shit with an ego to match…absolutely perfect combination to shine a light on this disfunction we call our government (not to mention making it more clear than ever, how compromised our media-landscape is), on the optimistic outlook that we continue to have elections…trump has single-handedly done more to galvinize the US Left-proper than any other president in living memory
You’re holding up a giant sign that says,
“Surely those people willing to sacrifice another group’s very existence will fight to stand up for MY civil rights!”
This is just the left version of Leopards Eating Faces. No one who supports a genocide will lift a finger to protect your civil rights when they are threatened. The only people they care about are themselves. You are not one of the people that someone like Kamala or Biden consider worthy of respect or even consideration. You are beneath them just like the Gazans. If you support a genocide, you clearly view people as expendable and worthy of giving away at the political bargaining table.
You learned nothing from the “first they came for…” poem.
Seems like a lot of copium to ignore the fact y’all bent over and gaped to let fascism ass fuck all of us and actually make things significantly worse in Palestine and the Middle-East as a whole.
This dipshitery of 'Kamala and Joe wouldn’t have protected your rights either" is a pathetic cope. They had 4 years to spearhead their own fascist takeover. They didn’t. Trump and his party of cronies are speed running it.
All the extra blood in Palestine, here in the US and from all other people MAGA is killing is partially on y’alls hands too. And all for a stupid fucking virtue signal. Pathetic.
That should be the chapter title in the history books a century from now. If we still have books.
If these people actually gave a shit about Palestine or minorities and women over here, they’d have voted for Kamala.
Instead their support is entirely hollow theatrics, so they let Trump win and now the Palestinian genocide has been exacerbated beyond comprehension.
It’s on you… The tide is turning, and Israel is done, it’s officially a pariah state and while the price we Palestinians paid is way too high, at least most of the world is awake now. You’re still sleeping.
Democrats did nothing to stop Trump for four years when the fascist plan was in the open and he already attempted to overthrow democracy, they weren’t gonna save this empire. Had they won, the genocide in Gaza would have continued just the same, but you’d be patting yourself on the back having voted for the “lesser evil.”
Decent people rejected your nonviable genocidal candidate, and instead of admitting you were wrong, you’re blaming people who opposed genocide on your dime. You deserve Trump, and you’ll deserve him more when you campaign for Newsom in the future rigged election instead of revolting.
Tl;Dr. Palestine won’t exist in 26’ because of protest voters. Just take accountability for your fuck up and b done with it.
It wont remain existing, immaterial of who would have been in the White House.
Biggest sponsor of Israel is US. No more US, no Israeli holocaust.
They can’t. It does not compute. Refusing to defeat trump was the only logical, well, moral choice you see.
That’s not true. Biden would have done the same thing. He drove voters away, not us
Take some responsibility. The “we’re an iota better than Trump” strategy lost miserably in 2016, 2024, and would have lost in 2020 if not for covid. And here you are, still spreading blood libel about leftists. Leftists almost universally held their nose and voted for the shitty lesser evil candidate, just like they do every fucking time. But it didn’t matter at all, because nonaffiliated and more casual voters don’t show up unless they have someone to vote FOR not someone to vote AGAINST. Not enough ordinary people, not the people hanging out on lemmy politics subs, but just normal working people, were convinced that Kamala would make any meaningful improvement in their lives. Meanwhile, Trump was making an immoral, but very clear and direct case of “I will raise your wages and lower housing costs by deporting millions of immigrants.” Trump made a direct case for how he was going to improve the lives of some portion of the population. Kamala didn’t. And that’s why she lost.
And no, screaming about democracy doesn’t work. It’s a piss poor election strategy. The vast majority of the population doesn’t feel that we actually live in an effective democracy anyway. People don’t feel the need to protect a system that isn’t serving their interests.
OK tankie.
Yeah, go ahead and name call. That really helped you win last time.
If I’m a tankie, you’re a quisling.
I’m sorry, I seem to remember Biden endorsing blood libel against the Palestinians on obviously provable false allegations and never correcting himself.
I seem to recall him doing absolutely fucking nothing to slow down the israelis.
Also nothing in response to the Republicans trying to end the Republic in all but name, his reason for fucking being as president.
With your dog shit Democrats we were never going to keep the fascists out of power, this is your fault for parroting The Establishment Democrats’ bullshit. Even now you won’t admit a mistake.
We need new leadership,.
OK tankie.
Username checks out.
At least we won’t have survivor’s guilt
Weird