• Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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    2 days ago

    Keep blaming a 1% of internet leftists for not voting a genocide supporter out of principle instead of the establishment for running Ms. “We will build the deadliest armed forces in the world during an ongoing genocide that I support”.

    Bernie was the compromise, and the dem establishment essentially antidemocratically couped him out. Now the dems deal with the consequences: they’d rather see Trump in office than a progressive (look at the collabbing between dems and reps in derailing Mamdani).

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        9 hours ago

        Margin was such that if every third party voter voted for Harris, she would have at least won the popular vote, but barely even then. That means every last Libertarian and RFK Jr vote would have had to vote for Harris.

        Keep in mind that the 1.5% between them had both left and right leanings.

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      Keep blaming a 1% of internet leftists for not voting a genocide supporter out of principle instead of the establishment for running Ms. “We will build the deadliest armed forces in the world during an ongoing genocide that I support”.

      TRUMP IS ACTIVELY COMMITTING MORE GENOCIDE AND ON US SOIL.

      BOYCOTTNG VOTING BLUE OBJECTIVELY ENABLED MORE FUCKING GENOCIDE

      Get it through your thick fucking skull that you people chose the PRO-GENOCIDE option.

      No one should ever take you people seriously ever again. We have MORE GENOCIDE NOW because KAMALA LOST AND TRUMP WON.

      Wanna know how we’d have ended up with less genocide?

      LEFTIST COULD’VE VOTED FOR KAMALA AND MADE HER WIN.

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        I get the perspective, though I will say I’m not sure the numbers support that they made a difference.

        More passively short sighted stuff made the difference “I don’t think I’m doing as well as I should be, so I’m going to vote against the incumbent”. It’s frankly also the only reason Trump lost in 2020, people just saying “stuff sucks right now, I’ll take any change I can”.

        The hard core leftism you see on Lemmy where they bemoan that the democrats are not at all any better than Trump may be very loud, but they are a tiny pittance of people.

        If every single third party candidate voter rallied behind Kamala Harris, she still would have lost. I think the hard core ‘by definition no candidate that has a chance isn’t good enough’ would be usually inclined to vote for some third party, just to be able to point and say “see, if you would have courted us it would have made all the difference”. I’m skeptical that some overwhelming majority of non-voters were too far to the left to bother to participate.

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        2 days ago

        You have more police violence in the US, not more genocide. There is no genocide in the US going on unless you count 20% of black males going to prison at some point in their lives, which is happening since many administrations ago and hasn’t really changed that much since Trump. You had the highest number of deportations during Obama, didn’t you?

        Not everything we dislike about the US political system is genocide, I want to abolish the USA to be clear, but again: the fault of dems not being elected is Democratic elites who refuse to bring anything remotely palatable to the table. It was not “sabotage” that ruined the Dems chances of winning unless by sabotage you mean the internal one destroying every progressive candidate.

        I didn’t choose shit and I didn’t sabotage shit, I’m a Spaniard in Spain without desire or right to vote in your country, that’s why it’s flagrantly obvious to me that choosing the least appealing possible candidate will result in elections being lost.

        Leftists couldn’t have voted for Kamala because they didn’t vote for Kamala, it is the dems who lost the elections lmao