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Most just abstained, voters who actually switched sides don't exist imo. If you voted trump last election, you never would have voted kamala even if she actually tried to win.
That being said, I can't really blame people for drawing the line at genocide of all things. The dems thought they had an easy win so they decided to represent genocide instead of us, the voters. I still voted for them regardless but it felt altogether gross. It shouldn't feel that way, they are supposed to be the good ones.
I don't think we should condone the behavior by pivoting the blame to voters, who are just trying to be heard since clearly the democratic party has stopped listening.
An abstain from voting is a vote that says "I'm fine with anyone or everyone". An abstain is a vote that says "I am complacent to the outcome".
If you want to protest, if nothing else, write in.
They didn't draw the line at genocide. If you stand and watch and do nothing you are complicit in the genocide.
I'll quote another comment of mine in this same thread.
The continuing refusal of liberals to have any empathy for Palestinians is entirely emblematic of the failures of the democratic party. Over and over and over again you will compromise on genocide, compromise on human rights itself, to defend the disgusting political decisions of the democratic establishment. It's never the fault of the democratic establishment for funding and arming a genocide, it's always the fault of the minorities who wouldn't vote for a party support the killing of their families and razing of their communities. How in god's name do you plan to fight against fascism if you can't even stand against racist colonialist ideology in the political party you support?
Yeah, no. We don't have that many Palestinians here.
Expand it a bit and there are enough Palestinians, Muslims, and sympathizers in the country to swing the vote. Harris should have been better, but they all saw her for who she was, a cop who kissed the wall.
And how many people do you think did not vote for specifically because of her continued support of Israel? How many people are you imagining here?
This ain't an insurance claim. Multiple parties can be, and are, in the wrong.
The democratic party leadership should resign effective 10 years ago. It's obviously entirely corrupted by corporate interests. The citizens who decided that was an excuse to sit on the sidelines to enable a full-blown fascist takeover are fascist enablers - which is not mutually exclusive with being victims. And they share the blame.
Anyway none of that fucking matters anymore because america had its last free federal election. You'll excuse the rest of the world for being bitter about it because, and I cannot stress enough how deadly serious I am writing these words, we'll be insanely lucky if the Palestinian Genocide ends up being the worst humanitarian disaster to come out of Trump's electoral win. This motherfucker has fully and irreversibly upended 80 years of Pax Americana and now after decades of relative standstill Nuclear Proliferation is once again underway as american allies can no longer rely on the nuclear umbrella and enemies are no longer betting on a coherent and predictable foreign policy. Canada, Poland, South Korea, and probably more are now seriously contemplating or already working on a nuclear weapons program, not to mention that he expedited Iran's own nuclear program in his first term in case you forgot. The genuine threat of Nuclear War is once again looming on the horizon, even if most people are too dense or too wrapped up in culture wars to notice.
So yeah, I'm real fucking mad at any fucking idiot American who ate the lies and astroturfing about Palestine, who refused to participate in harm reduction and subsequently enabled Trump and potentially doomed the whole of Humanity to a nuclear war in the medium term. From the bottom of my heart, fuck them.
It's like you didn't read my post at all, maybe you accidentally replied to the wrong post.
I didn't tell anyone to vote Kamala or DNC, I said a write-in vote is a protest vote. For the love of God you can write in "anti-genocide" or "I stand with Palestine" as your vote, that is a protest.
Keeping this short because I hope you actually read this.
If you're going to protest, cast a blank vote, if you abstain you're just going to end up mixed with the "too lazy to vote" crowd.
Also, having maned voting booths in my own country a couple of times (I expect it's not all that different in the US) writting stuff in the your ballot paper will just make a vote invalid and nobody will record or even care about you wrote there - maybe 2 or 3 people will see your words there while counting votes, but that's it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-in_candidate
It's not exclusive to the US but it's mostly a US practice.
In the US they're aggrigated so, if someone really cared, they could see how many people wrote in. It won't be counted until the votes that actually matter in the election are done being counted though, but it can be used to give insight to political strategists.
You're supposed to agree with me when I say my stupid shit! It's literally the only correct way to think!
My giant brain still somehow can't comprehend someone reading what I have to say and dismissing it..!
It's about a coherent trail of ideas. If I'm talking about write-in's, and you act like I'm telling you to vote for Kamala, when she's on the ticket and there would be no sense in writing Kamala in when she's already on the ticket, the conversation is not following a rational line of discussion.
What about all of the AOC/Trump voters? People are really fucking stupid here.