• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Citation needed.

    God, reading comprehension has really gone downhill in the schools.

    What? No. How did you read those words and come to that conclusion?

    Your assigning the intent on what they preferred. Maybe some of them chose to stay home in protest.

    If them staying at home in protest isn’t meant as some kind of justification, then what is its relevance? The answer would be that it has fucking none. So are you backtracking, throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks, or deliberately making shite arguments to gum up the conversation?

    You want to say, “well, they should have been motivated to vote for Harris to defeat fascism,” when that wasn’t what even Harris’s pitch to voters.

    Ah, so we’re back to “Harris didn’t say fascism, therefore, it can’t possibly be the fault of voters who stayed home!” What an utterly servile position on civic participation. Nothing exists except what the elite put forward, huh?

    Here I thought self-proclaimed leftists might recognize fascism when it clearly and loudly presents itself, but apparently you think that progressives have the approximate political understanding of a toddler.

    No matter how many times you try to put this on the voters, it was Harris job to get voters out. She picked moderates over progressives, and that’s on her, not the progressives that didn’t come out.

    Again, you just clearly state the argument I’ve been REPEATEDLY assigning to you. Your argument is that Harris not being sufficiently appealing to progressives was justification for them supposedly sitting out the election and handing the victory over to fascists. My response is that that in no way absolves them of their duty to oppose fascism, and any so-called progressive who refuses to oppose fascism because the milquetoast Dem doesn’t appeal to them enough is a fucking fascist enabler.

    But hey, play apologist for enabling fascists all night long if you like. Clearly I can’t stop you.