Most legacy media is controlled by oligarchs and often is only mouth pieces for them.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Alright new atrocity from Israel just dropped, who should we blame:
- ~~The fascists running Israel~~
- ~~the fascists running the US~~
- ~~the democratic party who teed up the atrocity~~
- a couple hundred leftists on lemmy who didn't vote
All of the above, plus:
- Reddit for turning their platform into a partisan shithole
- Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg for allowing right wing propaganda and disinformation to proliferate on their platforms.
- Joe Rogan for political bias (inviting Donald Trump and not Kamala Harris onto his podcast)
How about the lemmy people who actively campaigned for trump and attacked anyone for Biden because Biden was anti Palestine. Those people can go fuck themselves. Its a guarantee they swayed votes to trump based on lies.
I keep seeing this sentiment here lately, yet no evidence that it happened on a meaningful scale is ever presented.
Uh, well, I’m not the commenter you’re replying to but I personally saw it all over the place. You didn’t? There was at least one in what felt like every thread for months.
There were a few
Which Lemmy voter actively campaigned for Trump?
They mean people who didn't campaign for Harris hard enough. It's the obvious next step from "if you didn't vote for Harris you voted for Trump"; "if you didn't actively campaign for Harris you actively campaigned for Trump".
That’s disingenuous. It was active campaigning against Harris, saying she and Biden were complicit in genocide and that a vote for either was a vote for genocide. Actively campaigning against one candidate is effectively (if not outrightly) campaigning for that candidate’s rival.
lemmy people who actively campaigned for trump
Liar.
Clearly it's the leftists, they personally didn't vote or voted third party or voted for Trump or whatever we need to say to deflect blame, and they did it in every swing state! It's their fault, not the candidate!
This is sort of strawmanning some of the criticism. Leftists who held up nonvoting as some kind of magic bullet for gaza definitely seem like they are dumber than rocks for thinking nonvoting is the same as strategic voting.
However, There's a bunch of like consultants and dem strategists that have clung to this to scapegoat these people as though there wasn't a long chain of massive errors dems and their braindead consultants weren't heavily involved in.
At the end of the day just stop listening to "not voting is a moral stance" people and put fires under the real culprits: lying republican media and apathetic democrat politicians
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It's the Palestinian Muslim Leftists who have completely overrun our beloved liberal institutions and undermined them. These tankies are the fifth column that brought Harris's glorious march to office down from the inside.
We clearly need to purge our companies, our schools, and our political organizations of anyone who resembles, aligns with, or appears to look like a Palestinian or a Leftist sympathizer.
We absolutely must do this in order to Beat Trump. You do want to Beat Trump, don't you?
I sure do! So we must:
- Keep COVID-19 away from the public eye as trump wanted
- Keep Mexicans in cages like Trump wanted
- Build the wall using federal funding despite several federal laws saying we can't, like Trump wanted
- Allow the erosion of rights for BIPOC like Trump wanted
- Allow for the removal of rights for women, like Trump wanted
- Allow for the removal of rights for trans people in red states, like Trump wanted
- Fund genocide because it's good for my 3000 year old book, like Trump wanted
- Boast about how we'll have the biggest military, like Trump wanted.
- And do nothing to help the population with inflated prices of housing, rent, medical needs, groceries, and say we did all we could and you should be thankful the economy is doing great, like Trump wanted!
Anything else is Dreamland! Why wouldn't I want what Trump stans want? I want to court them so much I'll vote for anyone who's on the blue team, no matter how much they hate me!
- Vote in support of unqualified and fascist Cabinet members even when your vote doesn't matter one bit to signal that you have absolutely no qualms with playing on Team Destroy What Little Democracy America Has
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Leftists, regardless of how they voted.
Its good to mock those couple hundred people anyway, but to blame them for it is scapegoating. They're obviously kind of dumb but yeah like Joe Biden running for re-election is like probably the #1 dick that Democrats tripped over. Campaigning with abysmally unpopular Cheneys, buying ads on republican media instead of knocking on doors or spending money on dem neutral media, focusing too much on trump instead of on strengths, moving right on immigration all contributed.
2024 was nothing less than a strategic clusterfuck.
Dems should run primaries even when they're running for re-election. Its free coverage and right wing media has to address it.
They stopped running primaries because they almost lost control of the party to Bernie Sanders in 2016.
The DNC will never make that mistake again. It made their doners very upset.
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(sheer insanity has just been described in detail)
BBC Presenter (nods thoughtfully, shifts some papers)
"Alright, thanks. That was Charles Manson there, live from Narnia."
BBC Presenter (split-second later, brightly)
"And now an endangered frog species sees a new life on Mars! Our nature correspondent Jethro Tull with the latest.."
Meanwhile 🦗🦗🦗🦗 from the genocide Joe caucus.
Hey, me here from the Genocide Joe caucus, I voted for Harris, Trump is a despicable pathetic genocidal idiot...and Genocide Joe disgustingly facilitated the conditions for a genocide to be expanded upon by Trump.
Also while saying all those things I was chewing gum and walking, heap praise on me for doing the impossible.
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