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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Bullshit. I voted against my conscience because I knew orange would harm people I love. It wasn’t enough.

Dems didn’t offer anything compelling because they are a failed party that can only drive votes with threats of even worse. It’s pretty easy to not fund a genocide and lie and say it isn’t happening when it clearly is. Dems can blame only themselves for poor turnout.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

...I voted against my conscience because I knew orange would harm people I love. It wasn’t enough.

correct! because something like ~~30~~ 90 million Americans didn't vote because they were told:

  • both sides are the same
  • nothing will change
  • two party systems don't work

what's worse is that they believed the lies! so your vote lost impact because they couldn't be bothered to vote.

Dems didn’t offer anything compelling because they are a failed party that can only drive votes with threats of even worse.

the threats didn't come from the dems. they came from the magats. and guess what...they were credible threats! I guess those ~~30~~ 90 million voters wished they had got off their fat asses and voted now.

It’s pretty easy to not fund a genocide and lie and say it isn’t happening when it clearly is. Dems can blame only themselves for poor turnout.

you make it sound easy but agreements between nations are anything but that. last time I checked both the dems and repubs were running the government..how convenient of you to forget that.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago

yeah when the choice is between horrible and double super extra horrible, it’s hard to get really motivated to vote for horrible….

it’s pretty much the genocide version of the trolly problem. palestine genocide is on one track, on the other track, there’s the palestinian genocide, trans genocide, hispanic genocide, and entire planet ecocide…

the choice is obvious but not particularly inspiring… at least under harris there was some hope of lobbying her to stop… protest at the whitehouse now and trump will try to have you shot… hopefully they refuse next time.

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I voted blue, but I knew this was going to happen regardless of who won.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 hours ago

That’s why politics for ordinary people needs to go way beyond voting.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

At least with the blue team they're less likely to bend to protests...red team will just send the boots to step directly on you.