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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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[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

However you cut it it's one parent or two. One parent is always better than two.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except it didn't work. Polled the entire American population and was found that it don't work. Would you like to try that again next election or do something different this time? Cause right now you seem like you reeeeeeally wanna try the same thing again next time. Hell, throw some extra bacon on the grill. You gonna sacrifice trans people next? Gay marriage? Cmon bubby. What's the next sacrifice and I am curious when you pick one that includes you

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You guys have sacrificed trans people and probably gay marriage by electing Trump. Its a stupid argument when those things are literally already under attack by the guy you let win.

You guys already have picked one that includes all of you. An anti vaccer in charge of your health.

Things are 100% going to be worse for Gaza under Trump. You didn't win anything by electing him.

You guys fucked it so bad it's literally unbelievable. You got tricked by the don't vote against trump propaganda campaign and can't even see it.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Assuming things is bad for conversation like this so let me be clear that I voted Kamala

So take all your insults and pack it back up and try again. My argument is that it is ultimately kamalas fault for not giving the left anything to vote for. I wish we could have lesser eviled here but ultimately it's the Dems fault for choosing to be a little evil when they could of easily of chosen no evil and won.

I blame the organization and organizers of the campaign for thinking they could gamble on this by remaining pro genocide and failing.

I blame the organization who was told clearer than any election that people will not vote for them on this one issue, concede or lose, and they as the decision makers chose lose

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

please consider editing the personal attacks out of this comment so the mods don’t remove it. :) your perspective is important and i don’t want it silenced for breaking rule 1

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I felt against it when writing it and I appreciate you being the voice to back me off the angry ledge. I will remove it.

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

I don't disagree with that. And they were absolute shit. But blame who you want the world now has 4 years of trump to deal with.

My argument is if the left didn't want her electing Trump is an absolutely ridiculous response.

You vote now and protest later.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

However you cut it it’s one parent or two. One parent is always better than two.

I thought you were joking but from the pattern of your other comments I see you actually beleive this. How about a third option, when someone threatens to kill your parents, you kill them instead of making a deal with them on who they murder? Did you even think about that possibility?

Seems like you choose to put yourself in a trolley problem, rather than life actually putting you in one.

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There was no third option. If you missed it this was an analogy for the election.

[–] neobunch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are correct that it was an analogy for the election, but the point the analogy is trying to illustrate is precisely that if you actually and for real were faced with this situation and decision (assuming you love your parents, if not please substitute for the 2 living beings you love the most), that you would reject the decision and take any number of alternative actions that are available to you before allowing a loved one to be killed. Hell, a bunch of people would fight to the death in a situation like this.

The previous realization would then illustrate the hypocrisy behind expecting people to behave in a strictly utilitarian sense when you yourself would not when it involves your loved ones.

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Except there were literally only two outcomes in the election. There were literally no alternative outcomes.

This was completely bound and a gun to your head. Absolutely no other possible outcome. Choose one option or both die anyway.

America chose both dying anyway.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I know you see it as saving a parent, because for whatever contrived reason you cant save both, but letting one of your parents die instead of fighting for whats right is actually a pretty decent metaphor for voting for Harris.

Where your metaphor falls apart though is that Harris could have chosen to break with bad policies and forge her own way forward on the genocide and the economy, and she just didnt bother. No one ever had to die, and she didnt need to lose. All she had to do was try to do the right thing and be worthy of the office, and she didnt do that. So here we all are.

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's literally the analogy put forward by someone else that I was responding to.

Moving the goal posts and changing the question to invalidate my answer is pointless.

However you look at it she was better than trump. You've cut off your nose to spite your face and indeed here we all are.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You’ve cut off your nose to spite your face and indeed here we all are.

Except its not a game of winning the popular vote is it. And I'm in a bright blue state, so my vote basically didnt matter at all. It was a contest of winning the swing states.

And was it the voters who owned the campaign choices or was it harris? There should be accountability for making campaign choices. Are you claiming Harris had no choices in how she ran her campaign?

Seems to me your are using abuser logic.