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submitted 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes
 

i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out

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[–] Alwaysnownevernotme 111 points 16 hours ago (20 children)

There sure are a lot of people trying to blame the left because their strategy of appealing to the middle failed.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well yeah, otherwise they’d have to consider actually changing their shit strategy

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago

Even after all this the DNC are already bowing down to the fascist position because they lost because they were “too woke”.

This is when the democrats were already running a far right platform of “we want to fund the police, not defund them”, following Trump’s border policy, “most lethal army”, “Israel must expand its borders”, “I’ll have a Republican in my cabinet”. And they weren’t “woke” at all. Kamala threw trans people in the trash saying “we’ll follow the law” when it comes to trans issues. It was the Republicans who were running hundreds of millions of dollars worth of attack ads on trans people and democrats weren’t saying shit.

The DNC have once again failed to learn and are looking for a “centrist” chair, doing exactly the same thing of shutting down leftist voices and trying to appeal to and compromise with the fascists instead of listening to people like Bernie and AOC.

You’d think after they utterly failed and managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and get an out and proud fascist elected they would finally learn that they need to address the real issues that affect all working class people.

The ratchet effect is real.

The Republican critique of the democrats is kind of right in a way in that they are just the same rich people not doing anything about the cost of living and only using identity politics to “virtue signal”. They’re right wingers with rainbow flags. That doesn’t do much for oppressed minorities except make us the target of attacks. What would benefit queer and other oppressed minorities more is build a society in which we can afford homes to live in, food to eat, access to healthcare. But they want to make it all about pronouns because that is easy for them to look like they’re someone “on the left”, when economically they’re not on the left at all.

There’s really no hope with the DNC. We just need to organize in our own communities because the democrats certainly aren’t coming to save anyone.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 16 hours ago

Idk. I’m sure the cheneys endorsement brought out dozens of voters.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

I wasn't super fond of the democrat's platform either man, but I definitely wanted Not Fascism and Some Semblance of Human Rights to win.

Now we have nothing, and I have to make plans to figure out how to get my girlfriend out of the country if she ever needs reproductive care. Great job!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour ago

Well hopefully blaming progressives instead of the people who actually voted for trump makes you feel better at least?

[–] MellowYellow13 -4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

News flash, neoliberals are already fascist, they are just better at hiding it. They even endorsed Dick fucking Cheney.

[–] hark -2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

A party that insists we have to support genocide is already fascist and has no regard for human rights except to use as bargaining chips to get votes. Sorry.

[–] Lightor 2 points 1 hour ago

There is more than one topic to consider. If they both are truly the same in your mind on that topic maybe look at other factors that heavily impact people? Voting for a 3rd party who has no chance of winning literally does nothing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Yeah so Republicans. Great job.

[–] Rhoeri 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There sure are a lot of people that didn’t do jack shit and think they have a place to blame anyone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Canadian, voted for left wing party that had the best chance of winning despite the leader being a gilded spoon brat who couldn't lead his way out of a wet paper bag.

I did my fucking part. All you wannabe progressives in the US had to do was vote to keep the Nazi out of office and you couldn't even do that.

[–] Rhoeri 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

American. Voted for Harris. I think you responded to the wrong person.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

That was in general to the people who "held back their vote" to "teach the Democrats a lesson". The kind of people who don't realize that the luxuries the west has were hard fought and think they will always be there.

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

Then you weren't continuing the conversation and was grandstanding to the choir to feel better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

They were continuing the conversational thread about the people who didn't do shit

[–] Rhoeri 13 points 14 hours ago

Ahh. Gotcha. Well said, friend from the not too distant north!

[–] hark 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And what has the liberal party done with your vote? Next year is going to be a fucking disaster. The strategy of voting for the least bad option doesn't work when the least bad option keeps getting worse. You can bleat at people to vote for the one party over and over again, but eventually enough people just give up or get desperate for any chance at change and think that voting for the other party will at least shake things up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I voted for the NDP.

Federally the Liberals are the centrists led by the gilded spoon spoiled brat who couldn't lead his way out of a wet paper bag. But he is fantastic at speeches.

[–] timewarp 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Couldn't have said it better. This post is pure cringe but the op is a perfect example of why Democrats lost.

[–] Rhoeri 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

Naaah. What’s cringe are the smug pseudo-intellectual “trolley problem” gEnOciDe accusers that didn’t do shit but sit on their thumbs while the rest of us tried to save democracy.

Now they all get to blame the people that acted while smugly admitting that they chose not to?

An estimated 90 million people chose not to vote. Of those 90 million were third party supporting clowns that chose not to vote because they knew their candidate didn’t stand a chance. Also among those 90 million were protest-voting clowns that chose not to vote because their last two remaining brain cells were too busy fighting over third place.

There is ZERO logic or intelligence in accusing the people that actually tried and did something to avoid a shitty outcome while arrogantly having not done jack shit about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I thought the people analyzing the election as a single-iteration trolley problem were primarily Harris supporters? [Pull lever] = Harris, [don't pull] = Trump, right?

[–] MellowYellow13 2 points 2 hours ago

You aren't saving democracy dude lmao

[–] someguy3 -4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I say she relied on the left coming out for abortion rights and democracy. They couldn't even come out for that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Abortion rights initiatives won in 7 out of 10 states where they were on the ballot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

And got 57% in FL, but needed 60% to pass

[–] someguy3 -3 points 13 hours ago

Fuck national rights amiright.

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