• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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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.

    • DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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      Yes. For sure with Harris things would be much better here and there. Not voting is only makes things worse and we know GOP is very unpopular now the only strategy is to infiltrate Dems and manipulate people to not vote again and elect them again.

      Dems are so easily to manipulate this why things are bad. If you don’t vote it’s your fault how things are

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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.

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        But you can bet when they lose they’ll blame everyone else in the room but themselves. I don’t think the neo-liberals of the party realize how much bad blood they’ve been generating.

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          It’s getting hard to tell if they even want to win. Even a year ago it might be plausible to argue that centrism is a smart strategy, but at this point, with victories like Mamdani and Mejia, it’s just demonstrably wrong. Hell, Platner is still leading Mills in Maine even after the whole, “having a Nazi tattoo,” thing. If the Democrats are still pursuing centrism going into 2028, then they have to admit they would prefer losing to fascists than adding progressives to their tent.

    • 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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        16 hours ago

        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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        14 hours ago

        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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          In 2016. 2020 it was fair and he lost. I voted for him but supposedly all his other supporters didn’t. That’s democracy. You don’t count if you don’t show up.

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          14 hours ago

          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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              13 hours ago

              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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                    No, you infantilizing asshole. The fact that you’re still pushing this stupid game means you clearly don’t intend to argue in good faith. The fact that even after making me explain a very simple and straightforward statement you still think the vote results are relevant to a discussion about the corruption of the 2016 primaries means you’re just yet another liberal apologetic. If you’re unwilling to grapple with the fact that the DNC is a corrupt organization, we’re done here.

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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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        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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          14 hours ago

          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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      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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      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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      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.