• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Why would anyone waste their time studying something that’s blatantly obvious?

    Can someone conduct a study to confirm that hot is hot and cold is cold?

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    Wow! You mean that thing that a shitload of people were screaming warnings about has finally been heard? And only 18 months too late to do anything about it! At this rate, they might figure out that trump is a pedophile before he dies. I sure do have a lot of hope that future elections are gonna go well and totally not be ratfucked out in the open with no pushback of any actual consequence. I’m glad that there will be a stern letter threatening to file a lawsuit (that will never happen) due to armed CBP and ICE at the polls terrorizing BIPOC. Inspiring stuff, papa Schumer!

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    Uh duh? And also just one of many, many things that her campaign screwed up.

    Like backing away from going after price gouging corporation and ignoring the economic reality of the Average American and speaking of the recovery and inflation reduction in the academic abstract instead of to the average sixth grade reading level American.

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    The dissent was widely known and broadcast — they chose their line. And it will cost us decades if not generations.

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      yep, I think the centrists think of it as a single lost election that they can just have a do over on next cycle. Many of the dem base voters they imagine will come back are third party for life now. People take supporting genocide pretty personally. Many on here like finitebanjo and givesomefucks want to pretend the DNC dems never supported genocide. But they did, and still do. Theres no take backsies or do overs on that.

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    Huh. Maybe next time we tell them “supporting mass murder is bad even if the other side does it too” they’ll listen.

    They won’t. They would rather lose and be controlled opposition. But one can hope for change.

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    And I’ll never forgive those protest voters. I was sympathetic but now fuck Gaza. You clowns helped elect trump go Fk yourself

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    The report: everything we were screaming into the void from 2023 till 2024.

    The report is moot other than the fact they trying to bury it because anyone with two twigs to run together knows the answer, knew it before it happened, knew it while it was happening, and knows it now.

    Trump was easily beatable in 2024 and Dems blew it at every turn.

    You want to see the roadmap for beating Trump?

    Sort c/politics by controversial and read the top five threads of comments.

    It’s all there in black and white, in no uncertain terms. And the shitlibs who insisted we take the worst strategy turns possible (and advocating for them in those threads)…they mostly jumped ship (santanko and squid being notable examples).

    It’s also worth nothing how many voices who go their analysis at the time basically correct at the time it would have mattered, how many of them are banned from politics as a whole. There was a clear moderation effort made to cultivate a specific type of conversation here.

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      If genocide isn’t a red line then there are no red lines, every lib that voted for blue no matter who should be in the Hague along with the rest of the murderers

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        I guess the millions starving because USAID got cut isn’t a red line.

        Or all the undocumented immigrants in the US getting rounded up into camps, some whisked away to who knows where, also isn’t a red line.

        Or women losing their bodily autonomy on the first go around, due to SCOTUS being cemented as conservative for the rest of our lives.

        Or trans people fearing for their lives and being unable to flee the US because their passport will get scrutinized.

        Or virtually all environmental regulations in the US getting cut so now we contribute more intensely to our cooking planet.

        All of this is not only not a redline, its preferable. Because the shitlibs must be punished, right?

        I don’t think I will ever understand you. I don’t even know if you’re real. What are you trying to accomplish?

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          The sole purpose of USAID was for regime change and the illusion of aid needed caused by US actions

          Dems had 50 years and multiple opportunities to protect women’s rights and did nothing but raise money off that fear.

          The first 2 months of Bidens war in Gaza released the equivalent of 275k tons of burning coal, not so concerned about the environmental pact of that.

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            I’m sure now that USAID is shut down the regime change will stop. The millions of starving people clearly were a necessary sacrifice.

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            Oh you edited in some more.

            Dems had 50 years and multiple opportunities to protect women’s rights and did nothing but raise money off that fear.

            Yeah I hate the dems too.

            The first 2 months of Bidens was in Gaza released the equivalent of 275k tons of burning coal, not so concerned about the environmental pact of that.

            I promise you that the environmental impact of Gaza being turned into glass is dwarfed by the invasion of Ukraine and like, everything else going on globally. You live in a stupid bubble where everything bad that exists is because of zionism and Israel and their genocide of Palestinians. If cared enough I’d bet money.

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          Man… how many bricks to the side of y’all’s head do we have to take to get you to understand that a) an election isn’t about individual choice, and b) telling people what to do with their votes is counter productive.

          If you were doing in 2023/24 what you are doing now, with that comment: You’re why fascism won.

          You aren’t part of the collective that got it right. You’re being the shit lib who handed the world to the fascists.

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            Saying something over and over doesn’t mean its true.

            That said, I hate both the DNC and the non-voters. I can do both. If free will exists, then I can blame both. (I mean I don’t believe in free will, but on an emotional level fuck both anyway, I don’t owe either of them shit.)

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                I voted for them for tactical purposes. Both because at the time I cared about the well being of my fellow human beings and I care about my own well being. These days I’m not so sure I care about humans or even myself. I’m still grappling with the point of it all now that we’re doomed.

                I understand that tactics aren’t likely your strong suit, so let me make it clear: I do not have to love the democrats as a party to vote for them. I just have to have a basic grip on reality that it was either them or fascism. Because its first past the post we are dealing with.

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                  it was either them or fascism

                  Who do you think helped prop up and build the foundations for fascism? That’s what your tactics resulted in.

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              Saying something over and over doesn’t mean its true.

              Denying reality over and over again doesn’t make you right and the perspective you are espousing was the dominant narrative up until the elective. That individually voters just needed to “do better”. You want to blame voters; you need them to win elections. Explain to me how you plan on getting back the 6% of Democratic voters you lost using your approach? You blamed them for failure before the contest was even run and they didn’t show up for you. Now what? How does your analysis change their minds into showing up?

              What you are doing is the same thing petroleum companies did around recycling in the 90s. By believing this is some negotiation of individual choice, you are obscuring the fact that the Democrats structurally undermined their own ability to stop fascism. Blaming the individual is why fascism won.

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                You want to blame voters; you need them to win elections. Explain to me how you plan on getting back the 6% of Democratic voters you lost using your approach?

                I don’t need to win shit anymore. I don’t care, its obviously a fool’s errand to give a shit. The 2024 US election taught me that. All worrying about politics does is hurt me and waste my time with fools.

                You blamed them for failure before the contest was even run and they didn’t show up for you. Now what? How does your analysis change their minds into showing up?

                All that’s left is rot, so I’m going to pick through the garbage and hope to find some gems before we all drown in shit. My analysis is just based on brutal reality. They did not show up “for themselves” as well. Its not just me they’ve hurt. Leopards are eating faces, and not all the owners of those faces are “shitlibs” and MAGA, some of them are protestors who didn’t vote.

                There is no means for me to change people’s minds on voting so you don’t need worry about me trying. I just want people to understand that the very virtue obsessed moral framework they are using to make their decision to not vote has hurt them. Its doomed them. I want them to feel bad about it because in so far that someone can deserve to feel bad about it, they definitely should.

                What you are doing is the same thing petroleum companies did around recycling in the 90s. By believing this is some negotiation of individual choice, you are obscuring the fact that the Democrats structurally undermined their own ability to stop fascism. Blaming the individual is why fascism won.

                No its not. In a purely rational sense, I don’t really blame anyone. Free will doesn’t actually exist.

                But within the context of people I can like, dislike, or hate as the emotional creature that I am: I definitely can fucking loathe multiple groups at the same time and feel catharsis at their suffering.

                I think you are still operating under the delusion that this second Trump term is something we will escape from, but the thing is, bad times don’t create good times. They create more bad times. We are in the gravity well of a metaphorical political and environmental black hole, and you are in denial.

                The dems will win in 2028, and it wont matter much, other than we’ll get some sweet painkillers as we pass into oblivion. Because the GOP will win in 2032. Or society will completely collapse. Or the globe will roast all of our food and we’ll all starve. There are not much in the way of good things to look forward to.

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                  I don’t need to win shit anymore. I don’t care,

                  Great. Then just keep it all to yourself then. All bottled up deep inside so you don’t hand the fascists another victory.

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        And every non-voter who’s “high road” they dichtomously make fun of Obama for has allowed more genocide is what, better? The choices were some genocide or more genocide, avoiding the choice is just a choice for more genocide. Trolley on way to kill 5 people do you pull the lever to kill 1 or don’t pull the lever and let it kill 5. Unsurprising that people will blame you for not pulling the lever and you’re upset that people did try and pull the lever.

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          You are litterally doing the thing that handed the country to fascists: you are a fascist enabler.

          If you continue to blame voters instead of those in power, you are supporting fascism, and we should ALL collectively recognize you as a fascist.

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            Yeah, fuck me for thinking vote for the lesser evil and work towards better rather than let the greater evil win and then??? How dare I desire not to worry about gestapo throwing me in a hole for my skin color while I fight for better. Instead of fighting for better im just fighting to survive. Fucks sake.

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              Lesser evil never leads towards better, it leads to worse. A small acceptable amount of evil allows for a larger evil the next time. 50+ years if that shit and here we are

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              Yeah, fuck me for thinking vote for the lesser evil and work towards better

              Yeah. Fuck you for that. Thinking like that blew the fucking election and handed the country to fascists. Thats what we’re saying. Accepting or advocating for lesser evil loses elections time and again. If you were advocating for that approach in 2023/4, the fascism is on you.

              Its the entire point we’ve been making since 2023.

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              Reminder that there are more then two choices on every ballot in every county. If you don’t bother using them because you really think “your team” should win, then you don’t really have any business participating in democracy.

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          I disagree. I don’t think we should support genocide at all, full stop, period. But I guess some folks are okay with a little genocide, as a treat

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          Yes but they should probably blame the guy that tied people to the track in the first place. I think most see it as scapegoating. Politicians dictate their own policies and you have to be very vocal about the ones that suck to be heard over the corporate money. Blaming voters gets you zilch in terms of change.

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            Ah, yes. Because that’s the most objectionable part of that opinion, not ‘We should jail people for their voting behavior’. Can you get any more authoritarian?

            Edit: But sure, if that’s where we’re going, I’ll bite:

            It was a two party race. There were no other viable candidates. You didn’t vote against Trump in any meaningful way; you did nothing to prevent our current situation, and that’s a pretty wild stance to be defending.

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              Biden or Harris obviously clearly weren’t viable candidates either. Turns out you cant run on war crimes from the left.