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Single-issue voters, when EVERYTHING was at stake, deserve all the hate they get, but are too stupid to understand. The worst kind of trumpers, ones that don't think they are.
Yup.
I see no difference between a Trump voter and those stupid enough to vote 3rd party or abstain from voting.
They are all scum, equally.
Everything was at stake, so Democrats brought out Dick Cheney, Mark Cuban & continued spewed anti-Palestinian messaging to help Trump win. Got it.
Yes, blame the voters. That will surely make them change and help win the next election for Democrats. /s
It isn't blame, it's observation. It is also not relivent to the second part of what you said.
The voters of the usa are the assholes who help a facist to win, voting for this asshole or not voting for any candidate and let a facist win, if you only have two options in an election, a shit politician vs a facist you always vote for the shit politician but i read a lot of shit excuses of US assholes that they be almost forced to vote for a facist, now you have a shit facist as president so yes, is your fault
I am not American. But putting that aside, US has a fascist president because the so called better choice decided it is better for a fascist to be elected president than to do what voters asked for, like not supporting fucking Genocide.
How much better are the Democrats really, if they themselves did not care about handing the presidency to Trump?
It's years of voters willing to vote for the "lesser evil" that allowed both parties to field shittier and shittier candidates. Because it's not as bad as the other guy and people will vote for lesser evil. So now you have two options that should have both been completely unacceptable in any civilized society and you still pretend to be morally superior, because your completely evil candidate is slightly less evil then the other one.
You are assuming supporting Gaza would have helped in some way. In reality Americans see the gazans as a bunch of terrorist squatters and any greater support of them would have clinched the rust belt harder and only won more support on net where it wasn't useful.
It would have been fantastic if team blue could have pissed off millions of white people to gain thousands of Muslims in Michigan for instance netting a bigger loss.
The problem is actually that Americans are stupid trash who have rotted what brain they had on TV and social media
Aaah, yes. Everyone's fault but your politicians.
I want to disagree, but the mental gymnastics people will do to shield their party/candidate from any responsibility is makes it difficult.
Im not from the usa, but i know if i need to choose between a facist an a piece of shit i prefer the piece of shit, you punch facist, fight agains them, do whatever to dont give then any kind of power but you came to give me excuses to support a facist, and please dont came to me to say about the evil of the usa because a know very well, their shit my country too, never support a facist or give then an opportunitty
If you are given a choice between two mouldy foods, most sane people would say "I don't want any of them." even if one is less mouldy than the other. We need to start saying no when given the option between two mouldy foods so we can have better foods,
Not how it works because this isn't like food we are now going to seriously risk even having a choice because we picked autocracy. Millions are going to die and we'll be impoverished for a generation whilst authoritarian China moves into a position of leadership.
Furthermore this is a critical period in deciding if we continue to exist as a species that is now largely going to be decided by fascists and morons
My point is that Democrats enabled a Fascist to have any chance of winning and seem to have no regrets about it. Any half competent candidate should have run laps around Trump, a convicted felon and known rapist. As long as they keep supporting the democratic party and making excuses for it despite that, stuff like this will keep happening. They need to find a way to hold their party accountable. Blaming the voter is the absolute opposite of that. I say this not to encourage anyone to vote for Trump, but to make people stop wasting time blaming the voters and start holding Democratic party accountable.
Just not true. America largely believes in Trump. We are just that stupid.
Who else would you blame when you lost a vote?
Something not directly involved?
Beep boop?
Who do you blame for climate change? The sun, chemistry or humans releasing chemicals to the atmosphere?
Arguably all 3 contribute to climate change, but only the last one is something you can change. So you blame humans, because it is the only productive option.
In an election, you can blame the party that lost or the voters. Blaming the voter is about as productive as blaming the sun, distracting from what changes have to happen in the Democratic party to guarantee a win in the next election.
Trump is the president of the United States and he has declared his intentions to ethnically cleanse and thus genocide the Gaza Strip. Americans who refused to vote for Kamala Harris are part of how we got here. American accelerationism harmed Palestinians.
edit: Ethnic cleansing and genocide are inseparable. I've updated my comment to reflect this as Trump's idea of a peaceful ethnic cleansing is completely and totally false.
so, are we only allowed to say 'genocide' when criticizing democrats? but when republicans do it "it's not a genocide, it's ethnic cleansing".
Biden is complicit in genocide.
Trump did call for ethnic cleansing. It's good people are calling him out on this, because that is what he did. The issue is that we should all be calling him out on genocide as well. There is no such thing as a peaceful ethnic cleansing. So when Trump called for ethnic cleansing it was also a call for genocide. I found this relevant quote on wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing
Peaceful ethnic cleansing is an oxymoron. Peace is mutually exclusive from forceful relocation.
I will update my above comment to reflect this.
Ethnic cleansing is as dirty a term its not an attempt to downplay it
It's important that we make it clear that there is no way to do an ethnic cleansing without genocide. I've updated my comment.