"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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I predicted this months ago, I knew Kamala would loose. Did I vote for her? Yes. Did she deserve to loose? Also yes. Her political campaign couldn't stand up to even the smallest bit of criticism. Thats why world and twitter users were busy calling anyone who critiqued her or even questioned her a "russian bot" or "tankie". She made absolutely no attempt to gain votes and promised nothing to the voters, instead she basically said "Im not orange man, vote for me". Now shes lost the NeoLibs are desperately trying to find a scapegoat, some blame protest voters and non voters, some blame the working class, some blame Muslims, some blame Jews, some blame Trans people, and furthermore some blame POC or any other minority that they can think of. This is exactly why Kamala lost, her campaign couldn't stand up to scrutiny and now yall are coping to distract yourself from the fact that the slightly better corporate puppet lost.
Cope and seethe ShitLibs
Ok so attacking the people who are on your side does what exactly?
Ok so attacking the people who are on your side
Are they?
So Israel is continuing what they are already started under Biden just as unopposed as under Biden? The length these types of bitter democrats will go to do their genocide apologetiks is amazing.
I would have liked Biden to have vetoed less UN resolutions. We could have simply got out of the way and let the rest of the worlds diplomatic community push for progress.
Trump claiming credit for ceasefire and then destroying the region was always Bibi's plan. The propalestine protestors were against the administration for refusing to acknowledge that the israeli's were not negotiating in good faith. Had they played hard ball things might have been different.
Oh look at that, exactly what literally every sane person predicted would happen is happening.
Yep all those idiot protest voters getting exactly what trump said he would do.
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.
...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.
What the fuck are you saying?
both sides are the same
That I didn't vote because I knew trump was worse? I voted.
the threats didn’t come from the dems. they came from the magats.
"We're fighting fascism," or whatever they were saying. They didn't convince enough people to vote for them.
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.
Regan called the head (premiere, president, I don't know) of Israel to tell them to calm down and the did. I'm not forgetting things. You don't know history.
Again:
agreements between nations are anything but that
Wait did I forget how he took us out of the Iran deal to limit their nuclear program?
Grow up.
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.
... you know that's really an apt comparison. Never thought about it that way but really it's like a trolley problem except it is their job to shout for people to come up and pull the lever.
It's no surprise they had trouble finding volunteers.
Yeah, I voted blue, but I knew this was going to happen regardless of who won.
That’s why politics for ordinary people needs to go way beyond voting.
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.
I would be curious to see the numbers but I don't think the pro Palestine protest voters cost the Democrats the election. It definitely didn't help, but the Dems shat the bed in way more ways than just the Palestine situation.
Pretty much. They didn't offer anything their constituents wanted except for escape from DJT.
Unfortunately "We aren't Donald Trump" wasn't a winning strategy two of the three times they tried it.
I wonder what two terrible choices we are gonna have in 2028. Watch it be like fuckin Nancy Pelosi with an exoskeleton holding her up vs Dan Crenshaw who will have replaced his eye patch with a gun by then.
If they did, then all the neolibs were wrong that voters don't care about Palestine...
Which logically means the party needs to move to the left at least enough so that genocide isn't acceptable.
Instead, they act like fucking trump supporters and brag that a genocide is still happening.
There's zero logic or empathy with them, which is why some people call them "blue maga".
They're the ones that didn't stop watching CNN even after the new buyers blatantly and publicly said their goal was to become the fox news if he left.
You are aware that people can hold two beliefs at once, right?
- Democrats are not doing enough and were actively allowing a genocide under their watch.
- Inside our current system, the most powerful act a citizen can perform is voting.
So, not voting and encouraging others not to vote because "blue MAGA" is actively helping the people who are currently enacting genocide+.
See, this is where communication always breaks down...
If a progressive is politically active right now it's safe to assume that they held their nose and voted D.
Which I've done just like I've always done.
But we tried to warn people trump was going to win if Dems kept moving right...
Dems kept moving right, and we were right. Then when we try to talk about how to win next time and how to gain back all the votes moving right cost us...
We get people trying to say we're the problem because we want to fucking win.
So, not voting and encouraging others not to vote because “blue MAGA” is actively helping the people who are currently enacting genocide+.
I got a big post history, plenty of opportunities for you to find a single comment where I've ever advocated for not voting for the least evil candidate in the general.
But if you got a little faith you can take my word it's not in here.
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In general, let’s gently redirect anger away from protest voters.
First, I haven’t seen any evidence suggesting that the volume of protest votes would have impacted the Electoral College. Harris would have likely won Michigan, but that seems to be the extent of what would have happened if all protest votes had flipped to blue. (Please feel free to correct me with evidence if this is inaccurate.)
Second, you’re directing your frustration at the wrong group. The Democratic Party ran a campaign that was basically center right and fostered mass apathy at the polls. That’s the real issue. You can continue to direct anger at non-voters, but all this infighting does little to hold the Democratic Party accountable for running a campaign that encouraged people to literally stay home.
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Wow if only there were something the candidate could have done to attract those voters. Guess we'll never know.
Yes, keep blaming the voters and not the democratic party and candidate who repeatedly refused to give them a reason to vote for them. Blaming the voters will definitely win us the next election.
By not voting for genocide, they cost us the election! /s
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