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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Nope. Because I do blame the third party / uncommitted crowd for sowing division, doubt, and getting in the way. We were in a burning building, and those groups were blocking the fire exits.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

You're a sucker, blame anyone except the billionaires who have bought democrats and repubs alike to get us here. If you can look at the fact that we produce enough to feed 10 billion people yet people still starve, or that there is £36 TRILLION in offshore tax havens as of 2016 but can't afford basic needs for people, but it's people who voted against genocide is the problem?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Because I do blame the third party / uncommitted crowd

Blame the people who actually did something or scare away anyone from bothering at all with you guys next time?

Trump won this time by less than he lost last time

Let's stop pretending the Dems didn't run a dog shit campaign and lose a fuck ton of votes, yeah? Voting isn't obligatory, the Dems failed to get people voting for them and the reasons are multiple and have been explained in detail many times already and likely many more times in future. Blaming the people who objectively didn't cause this just shows inability to actually criticize the people they're putting up and is a dog shit deflection of blame

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Right, cause without them there would have been no doubt in the democrats, surely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

If everyone of them voted for Harris, she would have still lost. The only "voting bloc" if you can call it that matters was the non-voters, and you get them interested by offering policies that voters find good.

Harris wasn't doing that. She said "I won't pivot from Biden" and talked about having Republicans in her cabinet. Harris was showing off how she got the Cheney family on her side, the political family who helped orchestrate the war on terror.

If you're unsure, you see a Democrat trying to be a Republican, and you see a Republican. One is clearly better than the other in that Harris wasn't going to instantly install autocrats like Musk.

That was my default answer, "I dont like Harris in everything, but I hate Trump. She can be talked to and reasoned with. Trump only listens to ass-kissers and money. I value my tongue more than I have money."

But for people who are focused on just trying to survive paycheck the paycheck, they don't have time to see that. Especially since voting days aren't time off for most Americans. You have to work to put food on the table, or spend time waiting in line to vote.

I'm thankful I can get mail in ballots a month before the election. I can look at my local elections, my statewide referendums, and check if I agree and who's paid for the advertising. Most states don't have that "luxury".

I do blame them for not voting if they had an easy way of voting. Mail in, early voting on a weekend, requesting time off to vote. I don't blame them for seeing that one party is trying to act like the other party from 2004 that became the fascist party in 2016.