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Oh look.
The thing we said would happen is gonna happen.
I wonder where all those people are now. Because they were REALLY active leading up to the election (and shortly after).
I wonder if they realize they were wrong.
EDIT: Oh, they're here, just had to scroll more.
At a glance, no, they don't seem to be taking responsibility, and even still seem to be taking the moral high ground.
Which suggests it wasn't even astroturfing...lol
Don't you think they're still in their offices in Russia? I think they might be following the German election
Harris and Biden prioritized continuing the genocide over beating Trump. They are to blame for this just as much as Trump
My stance was "Trump is going to make a lot of things worse, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza. You're either for Trump or against Trump, and if you're a single issue voter, you're either voting in favour of, or against, making the genocide worse".
Some people told me that the Democrats are definitely in favour of the genocide, but who knows what Trump would do! I told them everyone else knows. They told me it's impossible to know because there was no genocide during Trump's first term, but there was during Biden's first term. So Trump is a safer bet for single issue voters.
Regardless, single issue (non-)voters have succeeded in making life much worse for Americans and Palestinians.
By what measure is trump making it worse than it was under biden, biden supplied the weapons for a 15 month long genocidal carpet bombing campaign, has trump done something worse than that?
We would still be supporting Israel with Biden in place. The only difference is there would be a few "we are very concerned" statements from the White House press secretary instead of Trump's reality TV show statements. But in the background, the same number of MK84 2,000lb bombs are being transported by the same military vehicles and they blow up on top of the same people.
Democrats happily stated they would support this as well. If only they tried being different.
Well good news! You don't have to deal with Democrats anymore!
Have fun dealing with the Republicans on this now!
Thanks! Trump found out the same thing as Biden yesterday; Egypt and Jordan are not accepting the ethnic cleansing. Trump, like Biden, has walked back the plan.
Same shit. Different Nazi at the helm.
Yup no problem, glad you're happy with how things turn out! Hope future elections work out for you in the same way! Go team Ned Flanders parents!
Ned Flanders' parents are essentially the democratic party personified. You're trying to wash their hands of blame because "Have fun dealing with the Republicans on this now!" but democrats did absolutely nothing to court voters during the election. On the economy, the biggest issue of the election, they lectured people who were struggling to afford necessities with "well ackshully the stock market and GDP" which has nothing to do with the average American's finances. Even now democrats use "egg prices" as a shorthand to mock people who cannot afford groceries and who might've voted republican.
It's literally "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" as a platform. All they can do is point at republicans, like you are doing now, and shriek about how bad things are going to get while they allow it to happen. Remember how they shrieked about how bad trump was and how much we have to defeat trump during the 2020 election? They went on and on about how many illegal things trump did and then when they got into office, they put in the milquetoast merrick garland as attorney general who did NOTHING for four years. Now we have trump again.
You can't just dismiss this as "that's in the past" because democrats will continue being spineless losers until the end of time because that is their role in this puppet show that the rich put on for us to make us think we have a choice in the matter with this sham of a "democracy".
Man, we've had this discussion a time or two already here on lemmy after you've jumped in after these guys who make it clear they're proud of not voting and you never seem to get that one can hold the Democratic party overall as ineffective jackasses and yet still realize that Republicans are worse in every conceivable way and get all upset when you're both sides everything, acting like Oprah with "you're a genocider and you're a genocider", call everyone a Nazi when only one side is actually doing salute in pubic viewpoints gets shit on. If you're proud of your vote for Trump or not vote for Harris over the Gaza situation then fine, want to continue to teach Democrats a lesson sure, that's your prerogative but you also have to deal with the fall out that is reality now.
Also, you can say what you will about Democrats, they suck. Yeah they do. That they're ineffective. Yeah, I'm tired of Jefferies and Shumer talking about bipartisanship too. But if you actually think that Democrats are no better than MAGA and their polices are no different and you refuse to vote then your opinion holds no weight and you're not living in any type of reality here, all you have to look at is DOGE, his cabinet members.
You want the Democrats to change then fucking vote in the primaries and back a progressive but when you don't get your candidate, don't throw a kiddie tantrum and not vote and spout off both sides nonsense and sit out because your team didn't win. You've have and had people that are fighting for change of the democratic party, and yeah it sure seems slow but progressives such as Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Lee, Bush, Crockett and Pressley have made it into congress but again, change takes time and it 's been forty years of this so change isn't happening overnight. If you guys want to keep sitting out because of the sham of a "democracy", which again thanks to Americans not voting this election we won't have to deal with "democracy" ever again, then fine but don't expect change if you do and stop complaining when nothing does change.
And as for reality, you do have to deal with Trump and MAGA now on anything related to the middle east so good luck with that there isn't a single Democrat or Progressive that's in charge of that now.
keep trying to blame the dems for letting trump into the white house
you campaigned against harris trying to save gaza
you got trump
Pointing this little fact out on Reddit is hilarious as people go absolutely bananas.
I say people but they’re likely bots.