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[–] pjwestin -3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (5 children)

Lots of great voter outreach in the comments here! Keep telling them they deserve to see the genocide of their people! If you alienate them enough, they'll definitely vote for you next time!

Edit: I wanted to thank everyone for all the great ideas for Muslim outreach in future elections! I can tell by the downvotes that not all of you liked what I had to say, but if I learned one thing from the Harris campaign, it's that you can't care what a community thinks of you, no matter how many votes it costs you!

[–] YouAreLiterallyAnNPC 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not sure anyone here works for the DNC. We're not trying to get ourselves elected. People are absolutely allowed to criticize others for the intended consequences of their actions when they get exactly what's expected. In this case, they've alienated themselves.

[–] LovableSidekick 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

"It's my way of sticking it to The Man."

"Sir, you are The Man."

"That's right."

"So... aren't you sticking it to yourself?"

"... Maybe."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yes that's right! Be nice to the idiots who vote against their own interests because hurting their feefees is why this happened in the first place!

[–] pjwestin -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Woah, infantilizing the population of a majority Muslim town for having their, "feefees," hurt, even though they're the ones most likely to personally know someone who is a victim of the violence in Gaza? That's the boldest outreach strategy yet!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 15 hours ago

Was I not clear enough the first time? I

If the logical conclusion that voting for, or not voting against, the obvious worse option for their situation didn't stop them, then I don't think calling them out on it is going to make much of a difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Put on your oxygen mask before trying to help others, that is the moral here.

[–] pjwestin -4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, boil it down to trite moral lesson! That's perfect!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

If your rights and safety at home are curtailed as a result of your vote in a vain attempt to punish Biden's apparent strategic powerlessness, what good was it, if on top of that you now get a ghoul over whom you have ~~zero~~ negative leverage?

[–] pjwestin -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Focusing only on the outcomes of the actions, while not examining the circumstances that led to the actions? Yes! That will make sure this never happens again!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Well, in these circumstances, your single-issue mindset helped reward bibi's war crimes with trump's carte blanche. Good job.

[–] Dkarma 2 points 17 hours ago

They don't realize they shit all over themselves and then blame Dems

[–] pjwestin 0 points 17 hours ago

That's a good point! Don't ask if people voted for Harris. Assume they didn't! It's important to attack anyone who might even just empathize with these voters, otherwise that empathy might lead then to question the DNC's decisions!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, isn't that your move here in every one of the dozen+ comments you've left us?

[–] pjwestin 1 points 16 hours ago

What do you mean? I'm brainstorming for the next election!

[–] Fedizen 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

The reality is both parties hate everybody but the corporate managerial class and want to kill everyone for infinite growth. The idea that voting is somehow an endorsement is idiocy.

You pick the party least enthusiastic about killing you or you're a moron. Bernie sanders is an anomoly. The democrats never once treated trump as an existential thing - they see the next election as an opportunity to finally capture the right as voters which is their only plan.

If the realization that democrats want us all dead upsets you, you don't understand how this oligarchy works. They still fear being out of power because it means disfavor of the oligarchs, but they would never attempt winning an election by disregarding the oligarchs.

So the choice isn't which one you endorse (as only a crazy person would endorse this system) its which one is gonna fuck you up the least.

[–] pjwestin -4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ooh, I like this one! Using cynicism to mask a, "lesser of two evils," argument, while still ignoring how emotionally devastating it would be to vote for someone who is materially supporting the slaughter of your people? This one could be the 2028 platform!

[–] Fedizen 1 points 16 hours ago

This is the literal lesser of two evils argument served on the rocks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Is anyone still campaigning now that the election is over?

[–] pjwestin 2 points 16 hours ago

Hey, it's never too early to start alienating voters for 2028!