this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
1030 points (91.3% liked)
Political Memes
5501 readers
1889 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
(I wasn't sure whether to edit my comment or reply to your first post, so I'm putting this here)
As for people voting on feels: I think that's always been the case for most people. Most people are of average intelligence, with an average education and average interest in politics. They're gonna vote based on vibes, so you have to get the vibes right or the average person won't vote for you.
And you can't fake vibes by having a bunch of celebrities around.
Clinton 1 and Obama were our last successful Dem candidates. You need a charismatic candidate with a consistent message that speaks to everyone if you want to win the popularity contest. Gore, Clinton 2 and Harris failed on both of those counts. Biden won only because of pandemic and government abuse/mismanagement backlash, he would have lost to Trump in other circumstances.
In the immortal words of Bowling for Soup: "High school never ends."
Would be helpful if they had more than 3 months to convey it too.
So why'd they vote for a rapist who is in pictures with goddamn Epstein? That's the part I don't understand. Are we seriously saying the average (American) is okay with a rapist being president because they like his vibes?
As far as I can tell, it's not that people who would have otherwise voted for Kamala instead voted for Donald. It's that people who would have otherwise voted for Kamala, including many of those who did vote for Biden, just stayed home. "We've got policy plans and whatever" yeah that would never make it to implementation through a gridlocked congress and a hostile supreme court.
I honestly think you're giving them more credit than they deserve. My point is that a _rapist, fascist, cruel, racist, misogynist who has said aloud all the horrible things he will do was running for office and a lot of people just shrugged their shoulders and refused to vote. I can't imagine that kind of apathy when a fascist is taking over. "Sure Hitler and the Nazi's are bad, but what am I going to do, vote socialist?"
(Also this because people need to remember he was anti-capitalist as well.)
Apathy or exhaustion?
Maybe. If so, Slipknot was right and people really do = shit. I cannot imagine saying to my women friends and family "okay so you're losing bodily autonomy, but I'm super exhausted about this whole voting thing."
I voted. Most of the women in my family didn't. Most of the women in my family are not and never have been registered to vote.
And this is the sound thundering through my soul for the last few days.
They’re fucking weirdos with weird vibes.
I’m much more interested in the folks who didn’t vote.