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these folks sure are quiet these days (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

people not voting Democrat, to protest the genocide, are not a significant enough portion of the vote, to have tanked the election for the DNC

a) yeah people are saying this.

enough of the 15 million who sat out clearly did so due to the genocide

b) no one is saying this except people who are so misinformed that they would deny a) anyway. you’re attributing the words of two separate groups of people to everyone in that group.

edit: sorry for the false assertion, corrected

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    @kameecoding English6•

    My favorite lemmy bubble is the smug woke ( idiot leftists, who think they are smart but aren’t) who think Kamala lost because she didn’t take a stance on Gaza and people abstained in protest and not because of sexism and racism.

    and to this is the direct reply

    @SeattleRain English2•

    That is why she lost to though. 15 million blank ballots don’t lie.

    There are more people in that thread saying this in various different ways, and this is just the most recent one in my post history.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    yikes ok thanks for the correction. didn’t know people were that poorly informed.

    i’ll see what i can do to correct my comment in an edit, it’s obvious the user you quoted is way off base in saying the B portion of my comment. not sure if they would also say the A portion though.

    edit: for anyone curious, the “15 million” that user refers to is a purported number of democrats that didn’t show up to vote. and so has nothing to do with “blank ballots.” plus that number isn’t even real apparently and it’s less, see that fact check link for more.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It's cool, I see this a lot lately. Yeah, I am not siding with commenter one, this example was just the first in my history. No offense to you, I don't really think this conversation is worth more work than that. I have a number of examples hidden in there though, also consider I didn't bother commenting most of the times I saw this type of thing.

    Personally, while I listen to people, and can't but accept bigotry as part of the issue, it isn't THE issue. However, people like Seattle here, seem to be in a bubble. My personal friends care about this, I do, it is common in most of the online spaces I am in, but when I get out into an unfiltered space, it becomes clear gaza isn't a consideration, or is so far down the list, it might as well not be.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Personally, while I listen to people, and can’t but accept bigotry as part of the issue, it isn’t THE issue.

    Agree. I heard Hasanabi frame it as, the US is certainly sexist and racist, yes, but those hurdles could have been overcome (as with Obama) by employing messaging that is appealing to the majority public who feel alienated from their labor and neighbors. And that did not happen, not nearly enough or comparably to Obama, and so racism and sexism won out.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Yes, much of the labor here voted trump due to blindly reaching out to someone they thought was a political outsider. Now they are furious that their compensation is going to be cut, and their union (this is largely manufacturing) can't do anything, because their company can materially prove major losses in profit margins. Even the top brass, in a number of these companies, are having their contracts re-negotiated to reduce their compensation. Locally, they voted more progressive than in decades, because they saw those people as outsiders too. This goes right along with what AOC, and Bernie, are saying about people who voted for both them and trump.

    Much of the people, who voted biden, and then sat this out, are older white men. People seem to think just mentioning this means you are saying it was all hate due to woman of color. However, I also see the concerns of this demographic are way different than those who would be seriously concerned about palestine. Here people are saying things akin to "the destruction of our palestine (the train wreck that poisoned palestine OH) was just a news cycle, the one on the other side of the world has been on the news for months."

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Have you seen a clip of JD Vance talking about the east Palestine train wreck? It’s on muskrats shitter somewhere. He legit sounds like Bernie sanders when he talks about it.

    The parties are doing a really weird flip. Republicans are cosplaying being pro labor and are starting to say things that are going towards leftism, at least in the particular clip I’m referring to. He talks about the need for strong regulations against corporate America…

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Dumb smug liberals too addicted to identity politics as an excuse for everything under the sun completely ignoring TWO WARS and RECORD INFLATION that the biden administration gaslights the public over.

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