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[–] Lucidlethargy 4 points 3 hours ago

Only one color on that map wanted things to be "different."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Biden's polling low, the voters want things do be different... huh, better campaign on doing nothing different! What? They're saying we're doing a genocide? Well, better point out that Trump is gonna do a worse genocide!

That'll be a great message, exactly the sort of thing that makes people excited to vote...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

"Democrats didn't entertain me enough so I didn't vote."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

i mean, it's also factually true. I still maintain that the dems ran a fairly good campaign. The problem was voter turnout, as it always is, except for 2020, when voting was easier.

Because democrats have an aversion to actually doing things for some reason (primarily age related)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth ... totally doesn't devolve a democratic process into one of reactionary populisms fueled by false promises. If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park. If they have a shred of civil responsibility, they vote, specially when things were as bad as they were.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park.

Welcome to America!

If they have a shred of civil responsibility

lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

That's the thing, when most of society laughs at that, the chances of having any sort of democratic process work drop to nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Americans have the most individualist "fuck you I got mine" ladder-pulling-upist culture in the entire world. Maybe someday we'll have a cultural revolution and come out the other side less anti-social, but in the meantime if you want anything done in this country you've got to convince people that there's something in it for them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

its as simple as this, if you don't respect democracy, you don't deserve democracy.

Go vote, or shut the fuck up and accept your fate, those are your two options. Don't come crying to me when you realized you voted for a fucking loser. Make a better choice next time.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Lol. So many dumb voters who think everything changes for the better overnight if they protest vote and don't grasp that politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.

In the end, all they did was set us back X number of years/decades. Thanks stupids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.

Every single time Dems have won since Carter, we have been baby stepping towards something worse. The victories for gay rights under Obama were a brief outlier in our country's otherwise uninterrupted march towards fascism.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

ah yes, unfortunately the alternative to literally hitler, was moderately worse than what i preferred, and therefore, literally worse than hitler, even though hitler literally genocided the jews.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

your misuse of the word literally in this post figuratively gave me an aneurysm.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago
[–] InEnduringGrowStrong 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm on the couch, literally reading this comment laterally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

That's literally figurative

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Looks to be on track to setting us back about 90 years and moving us about halfway around the globe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I'm thinking 150 years, and staying right here....

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