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Ah, yes. Because that's the most objectionable part of that opinion, not 'We should jail people for their voting behavior'. Can you get any more authoritarian?
Edit: But sure, if that's where we're going, I'll bite:
It was a two party race. There were no other viable candidates. You didn't vote against Trump in any meaningful way; you did nothing to prevent our current situation, and that's a pretty wild stance to be defending.
Biden or Harris obviously clearly weren't viable candidates either. Turns out you cant run on war crimes from the left.
They lost by 1% so that makes them non-viable? As opposed to who? How does this blatantly stupid garbage get upvotes?
Cool and all but the popular vote is NOT how US elections are tallied. Harris lost all 7 battleground states. 312 electoral votes to 226. thats 42% Harris to 58% Trump in the tally. Harris trailed an openly fascist clown by 16 percentage points. It wasnt even close.
At the time of the election 75% of US voters polled thought the country was going in the wrong direction, and Harris had said she "wouldnt change a thing". Including US support of a genocide. You think running on policies that have a 75% disapproval and are being condemned by the entire world = viable candidate?
Its flatly amazing the Dem candidate did as well as they did with those horrific campaign choices Harris made. But even that miracle couldnt stand against Dem's open support for Israeli genocide.
But there were other candidates that I actually like. Claudia de la Cruz, for instance.
All your candidate would do is kick the can down the road for a few years before "the most important election of OUR ENTIRE LIVES" happens again. I'd like to vote for someone I actually support before I inevitably get my throat slit by some SS whackjob, you know?
Tell that to all the people IN FUCKING CAMPS right now. I bet they would've loved a few more years of freedom. You talk in hypotheticals about what might happen to you, meanwhile it is not hypothetical for many of us.
Fuck your detached academic bullshit. You don't give a flying fuck about anyone but yourself and your little ego.
Shouldn't you be organizing so your people don't get easily abducted by some psycho cops? Or if you're not planning to do that, getting your asses out of the country so the psycho cops can't find you?
I was proud when I saw that the people of Minneapolis could call in some people to come help if ICE was spotted on the prowl. Those guys know how to take care of business.
But then we've got the Blue No Matter Who folks who think the feds will put a stop to the madness if they just vote a little bit harder. It's like you could have a family member of yours be dragged into a black van right in front of you by ICE and all you would say is, "Oh, I'll call my congressman to secure your release! Yeah!". Compared to doing everything in your power to rescue your family member, even if the cops execute you for it.
Who?
Socialist candidate in 2024.
She wasn't "my" candidate, any more than Donald Trump was "your" candidate. I voted against Donald Trump. Folks who voted third party didn't do that. They may not have voted for him, but they didn't vote against him.
If Kamala Harris wasn't against the genocide, a vote for Kamala wasn't a vote against Trump, or fascism, or genocide or anything else.
Kamala wasn't going to win while supporting the genocide. Period. It's not a debate. Voting for her wasn't a vote against Trump because with her holding that stance, she couldn't beat Trump (which is objective reality:she didn't beat Trump).
So, instead of 'not voting for genocide' you voted for 'genocide and the complete destruction of your own country, too, as well as international destabilization, giving foreign actors free reign to your country's classified information, and removing healthcare and vaccine mandates so that millions more will suffer and die.'
Damn, you saved the world
You have a mental disorder. There's no other words for it at this point.
We're talking about structural issues with how elections work and what it takes to win them, and you keep trying to insist its about the individual choices of individual commenters on an obscure social media platform. Its literally fucking maddening.
But thankfully, no one is taking you or your side seriously anymore.
Higher up in this thread:
No, you're right that there are horrific issues with the way the electoral college is set up and how the voting system works. First Past the Post is a joke.
What makes you insufferable and an obvious moron is acting like not voting or voting third party in the last election was some moral highground and made everything better when in reality: no it didn't. There need to be sweeping changes in the electoral systems, absolutely, but not voting for Harris was just giving Hitler2 a better chance of winning and if you can't comprehend that, you've damaged your brain by huffing your own farts too much
You are literally projecting shit I've never said and arguing against it. You are litterally arguing against shit that has only happened in your imagination. That's a mental disorder.
I'm making a narrow, positivist case for what Harris needed to do to win the election. Democrats DID NOT NEED TO LOSE THE ELECTION!! That's the entire fucking point, and that blaming voters contributed to Democratic defeat, and continues to undermine Democrats ability to win elections.
I don't give a FUCK that you find the fact that you are fundamentally wrong in your understanding of what elections are insufferable. If you are blaming voters, you are the fucking problem.
Wrong.