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[–] 90 points 2 years ago (20 children)

They still put forth the mutually exclusive arguments, simultaneously. "Our protest couldn't have had an effect, so we totally didn't sacrifice American LGBT folk for a chance at saving Gaza" + "If the Dems had just given in to our protest, we would've voted for them and they would have won"

Both arguments are stupid on their own merits, but together, they paint a picture of intellectual and moral bankruptcy.

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

    I mean, they didn't sacrifice American LGBT folks for a chance to save Gaza. They sacrificed us for absolutely nothing.

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

    Actually, they sacrificed us for an even faster genocide of Gaza. So now everyone loses!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But it's not their fault, and even if it was, America deserves genocide. /s

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yes. The naraccism prayer is on clear display with them:

    That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.

    They've cleared stage four and I await to see how they spin the last two.

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

    Based on news of Elon setting up fake pro-Trump liberal advocacy groups before the election do we know how much of these arguments are coming from legit leftists IRL vs manufactured consent? Just curious, when you say ‘they’ are these people you’ve talked to IRL or online?

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

    There are a good number right here on Lemmy.

    Others who scrubbed months of their comments immediately after the election.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lemmy users is really not a group that represents voters in any category other than lemmy users.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    If protest voters had voted for Harris, she still would have lost, because twenty million democrats stayed home. She didn’t lose because of protest votes, she lost because white middle class voters decided they didn’t want to bother, because the election won’t affect them anyway.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If 77 million people vote for Trump, and 75 million vote for Harris, that any single voter's vote is only one vote does not mean that if they vote for Trump, it's a morally neutral act. Not being the tipping point is not absolution for one's actions or inaction. And doing mental backflips to justify a vote for Trump because they were 'just one vote' instead of taking some time to fucking reflect if Trump winning was the outcome they wanted to support would make them an utter cretin.

    The core issue is that many Americans don't seem to care if fascism comes to America. This includes protest voters, but yes, protest voters are only a small percentage of that much-larger category.

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

    Those aren't mutually exclusive, you're not that stupid so why pretend?

    "There weren't enough of us to sway the election" and "had more people worked with us we would have one" are the same statement: both point out that not enough people did the thing you're so pissed about

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

    “There weren’t enough of us to sway the election” and “had more people worked with us we would have one”

    "Had more people agreed with us, we would have had more people who agreed with us" is not anything but a statement of obvious, if wishful, fact, and is not what is being said; not in my summary nor in the arguments of the people I'm referring to. Nor does it make any sense as an argument, explanation, or point of any kind. Utterly vacuous.

    The argument being put forth, and I suspect you're well-aware of this, is that if the Dems had taken up whatever position these protest-voters wanted, that would have convinced enough people to vote Dem who otherwise would not have done so.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    that if the Dems had taken up whatever position these protest-voters wanted, that would have convinced enough people to vote Dem who otherwise would not have done so.

    Yes, that is your strawman of their arguments

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yes, that is your strawman of their arguments

    And your claim is that they were actually saying "If more people agreed with us, we would have more people who agreed with us."

    Would you like to explain how that is, in context, anything resembling a salient point? Or is your argument that they were spewing empty phrases, and I was wrong to apply meaning to their words?

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

    We're probably making the classic mistake of homogenizing a heterogeneous group.

    I doubt any individual holds both opinions simultaneously.

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

    I doubt any individual holds both opinions simultaneously.

    They put forth both arguments simultaneously, regardless of whether they believe one or both. Or neither.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    Your supposed to vote for the candidate that represents your views. Doing so should never be considered sacrificing anyone unless you candidate is the bad guy.
    Decades of blaming third party voters is why we have two parties that don't represent the people today. There will be pain breaking that trend, but eventually it will pay off.

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