• Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Let’s be honest. It wasn’t because of any leftist that she lost. It’s because she is a woman of color. Racism and misogyny is very well alive and has power in the USA. If they put another white man with the exact some politics then trump would have lost. Everyone wants to argue over silly points missing the clear truth of how backwards and messed up the USA still is.

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      Just like the musk/trump split was visible miles away, any figure running for president after trump will inevetably be shit on by trump and his media aparatus because of his narcissitic insecurities.

      The best thing that could happen for republicans right now is trump dying because its only going to get more costly to not lick those dress shoes.

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      They haven’t dared. If they manage to convince Trump to follow the Constitution for a change, whoever his successor is will have to have his blessing.

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    Also you guys are fucking idiots.

    “If you don’t pick a better candidate then I’ll just let the one who wants concentration camps and to erase all of Palestine win”

    Like, seriously, look at the big picture. Do you think Kamala who would have still supported Israel would have been worse for Gaza? It’s literally not possible. You guys fucked up the entire planet in your pride.

    Now I’m not saying the DNC isn’t wrong, they’re fucking morons. But you guys just gave up on global warming, gay rights, trans rights, Gaza, any sembles of the environment, public health, the entire “justice” system, the courts, your immigrant neighbours, all people of colour in the US, and women’s rights.

    I cannot express how much I fucking hate people like you right now.

    Go ahead and downvote me. “But it’s not right”. Yeah? We’ll choosing to let this happen is leagues worse. You guaranteed the genecide in Gaza would be the worst it ever could be you fucking morons.

    Go out and pressure the DNC to not be shit, but don’t fucking say there’s no difference between Kamala and Trump.

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      This continues to be the stupidest, least productive way to think about elections. The lesser of two evils argument may be true, but it failed to motivate people to vote for Kamala in 2024 (or Hillary in 2016, for that matter). You can bitch about protest votes or an apathetic electorate all you want, but at the end of the day, you don’t win elections if you don’t get votes, and, “yEaH, bUt TrUmP iS wOrSe,” didn’t get votes. If the Democrats once again run a candidate who doesn’t reflect their base and once again lose the election, it will once again be their fault for repeating a losing strategy that produces losing candidates.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      But you guys just gave up on global warming, gay rights, trans rights, Gaza, any sembles of the environment, public health, the entire “justice” system, the courts, your immigrant neighbours, all people of colour in the US, and women’s rights.

      You forgot to include USAID.

      Anyone who keeps clutching to Gaza and says Kamala would have been as bad as Trump can suck my dick.

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        I forgot a ton of things.

        AI, your data privacy, your parents retirement, NATO, electric cars, green energy, antitrust, the chip shortage.

        There’s a huge list.

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      Wanna know how to pressure the DNC to pick a candidate you like? Go fucking vote for them in the primary!

      Typically, the primaries get 1/10th the turnout of the general election. That means that a very small number of people can sway the primary. Go stump for your candidate. Make phone calls, talk to your family and friends and community, explain why your candidate is the better choice.

      The lack of a primary in 2024 was fucking awful, but guess what? Chances are, there is a primary going on for your state right now, get to work!

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        did bernie lose because people didn’t vote for him? or did he lose because the democrats establishment push him out?

        for what you said to be true, the democrats need to abolish the superdelegates, which they won’t do.

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          Same thing applies to you.

          Before I consider this complaint, I need you to go back, and get the primary results from the 2016 DNC primary and post them here.

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        Try telling that to someone who supported Bernie, but before you do that you might want to go back and refresh youself on what happened. The DNC is a diseased carcass, change isn’t possible.

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          Before I consider this complaint, I need you to go back, and get the primary results from the 2016 DNC primary and post them here.

          I know what the results are, but I need to know that you know before we discuss further.

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            Do you really think the vote results of a corrupt election somehow make that election not corrupt? How are we still having this stupid ass argument in 2026?

            I guess Putin really does have 88% support in Russia. That’s what the vote says after all, so it must be true.

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              Are you saying that Bernie got more votes in the primary than Hillary, and the DNC manipulated the votes to make Hillary win?

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                No, I’m saying the election itself was corrupted in order to feed the victory to Hillary. Superdelegates, DNC-run smear campaigns, election rigging by limiting debates to reduce the visibility of the outsider. Accusations of sexism simply for not supporting the candidate with a vagina.

                Manipulating votes is not the only way to rig an election, you can do a lot just by manipulating the voters themselves. The DNC admitted to this, they didn’t have to run a fair election. So stop pretending the end result of a blatantly corrupt process justifies the process.

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                  Alright, you pretty much posted the same argument I was expecting from the other two, but just taking a little detour through the possibility that you thought the votes were altered.

                  Before I consider this complaint, I need you to go back, and get the primary results from the 2016 DNC primary and post them here.

                  I need to know that you know before we can discuss further.

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          but before you do that you might want to go back and refresh youself on what happened.

          He lost? Yeah, fuck primaries forever!

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      I’m a leftist who absolutely voted Harris, because the other option was horrific. I was not in love with Kamala but I did feel that she was a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar better option. But I will not lie, I know several people who were basically exactly like the people you are talking about. It’s disheartening.

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        Please shut the fuck up.

        Youre spreading the propaganda that helped them justify their actions.

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            I CaNT bElIevE PeOpLE wOuLD dO ThiS!!!

            Meanwhile, you’re pulling provably false both sides bullshit. What a tool you must be.

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      I’m just pissed off we let America have so much power over the world as it is. They’re one country, for fuck sake, not the World Police.

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      Go out and pressure the DNC to not be shit

      How about you go out and draw the rest of the owl there? The main power we have is our right to vote, and you’re saying we shouldn’t use that to pressure the DNC to put forth a pro-worker anti-war candidate.

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    Imagine a group thinking Palestine swung the needle at all on US elections. ROFL…

    That is getting close to “flat earth” level of denial.

    Kamela ran a horrible, lame, corporate platform.

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      Most importantly she committed the worst crime against the swing voters in the US by not being a man and not being white on top of that.

      I think every other explanation is wishful thinking about just how sexist and racist the average US voter is.

      You can blame lame platform or stance on Palestine, but I have a hard time believing that the explanation isn’t simply sexism + racism.

      I don’t recall Biden having an inspiring campaign, he was simply a white male that wasn’t trump and he beat him.

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      Kamela ran a horrible, lame, corporate platform.

      And in a reasonable world this wouldn’t have mattered. People are unreasonable.

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    The meme is unironically true though. I hate the candidates that the dnc puts forward, but I hate the opposition more. 2016 and 2024 kinda shows how the meme is unfortunately rather accurate, and I heard plenty of people advocating for not voting for Kamala because of stances that trump was objectively worse on.

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      The problem is that the DNC neo-liberal establishment has been playing games with the left for a long time now. They have blamed them for defeats, neglected them for victories, and say “Vote Blue No Matter Who” even while they’re literally considering a guy not much better than the incumbent fascists. I for one am sick of it and they have shown to be not much better than the opposition in terms of policies, candidates, and ideology.

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      Trump can be long dead and buried, yet I feel like he’s still going to be running in every US election for the next few decades. The majority of his supporters have only doubled down on his brand of politics, so there will always be another Trump.

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        My concern is that if he were to drop dead tomorrow that a large portion of his followers will just say something dumb like he’s gone undercover in an attempt to take over the deep state. And then proceed to add him in as a write in ballot for the next several decades.

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          Those votes would just get thrown out in that case, so if that’s what they want to do, they are welcome to do so.

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    DNC: You have 2 years to run for office and win a primary

    Leftists: Can’t I just post memes and act smugly morally superior instead?

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    Every fascist regime in history has gained power in part because the left was too busy infighting to resist.

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    You don’t win elections by convincing the far left/ right to vote for you. They will vote for/against you no matter what (or abstain from voting because they see you as equally too far left/right as your opponent).

    You win by convincing the undecided voters in the middle. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent lose.

    Convince them you’ll give them better living standards and they won’t care what you do with foregin policy and minority rights.

    Convince them that your priorities is minorities and foregin policy and they will tell you that it’s all good and well but they are about to lose their job and the cost of living is going up so they are just going to vote for the other guy that promises to fix that.

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      Exactly! Which is why moving right every cycle has proved to be such a winning strategy for the democrats! Finally someone talks sense.

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    Damn, americans are pathetic. Pweease, generate a candidate for me so I can find enough motivation to send a letter.
    Fucking idiots, you lost your country to fascist without any resistance, and brought problems to the whole world

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    Elections are not the time and place for democracy, that’s some tankie shit. If you want to make your voice heard, do it any other time. Not during elections. It’s just not right.

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      Ahh yes, now is not the time to discuss about school shootings. Let’s wait until things calm down. Then things never calm down and it’s the next one. Oh sorry, I got your argument confused withe another, my bad.

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      Wow. I never knew it was possible to be this wrong. Thank you for this unique experience.