• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I understand the DNC made a number of mistakes this year but in my personal opinion all of those mistakes combined did not warrant ten million people skipping the vote to allow a fascist to win and they are squarely to blame for this.

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    Republicans could have wheeled out a mannequin and it would have won, because republicans vote republican no matter what. Trump didn’t beat Kamala. She lost with an impotent campaign built on gaslighting her own voter base.

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    It’s going to turn into an epic self-own and the libs will spend the next four years laughing as they bleat, “I didn’t think it would hurt me personally!” and rubbing it in.

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      No, it won’t turn into an epic self-own. Because all of those selfsame morons who voted for Trump will convince themselves that it’s the liberals/Jews/deepstate who are behind all of the failures.

      And the non-fascists in the US will continue to refuse to work together, as is tradition.

    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.worldOP
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      No, they won’t. They will show up in 2028 to vote again for this madness. Are you brain dead? There was no vote lost from 2020 to 2024 on trumps side. He gained ground. You’re absolutely insane.

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            Now’s the time to start working on alternatives, then. We’ve got four years, or it defaults back to the morons in the DNC.

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              For sure. Thanks for hearing me out. In reality this is a decades long fight. We will never wrest away the federal government from the fascists by voting. The faster we exit from the fantasy the better chance we have.

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                Fascists are never defeated by just voting. Voting is a great method of preventing fascists from getting into power in the first place - something many voters seem to have forgotten this past month.

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    Trump’s political success can be attributed to the Republican party ceding to the will of the people while the Democrats didn’t.

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      Correct. The will to be racist or bully trans people. It cannot be clearer that this is what the bottom 52% of thinkers in this country wants.

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      Don’t make excuses for the Democrats. They fucking failed. Principles that cannot prevent authoritianism aren’t principles we can aspire to. We need to be absolute here in that autocracy is a mistake and must be prevented at all cost.