• N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    There probably won’t be midterm elections. If there are, it will be with armed ICE agents accosting people in line to vote and making arrests.

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      Time to play dress-up and vote in your best MAGA outfit. But I’ll warn you–you can’t out MAGA me, I’m Latino, after all. 😂

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      I like how they’ll get away with it because if you say to arm up and use direct action against violent Nazis on this site you get banned and a mod sends you a message telling you to get help.

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      There probably won’t be midterm elections.

      Talk to me when Trump cancels the gubernatorial elections in NJ and VA. Then we can worry about cancelling the midterms.

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    No way the party incapable of doing anything defeated by the party capable of only evil, never would have seen this coming

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      But but but…there “sounding the alarm”. You don’t understand it’s sooooo hard to run candidates someone would really vote for. (sarcasm)

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    6 months ago

    Don’t WORRY! Democrats ALREADY have the Fundraising text WRITTEN and READY TO GO for when the NEXT Democrat Politician gets Assassinated!

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    *This is just year 1/3. There will be eleven times more of this before Trump’s term is (theoretically) over.

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    Let’s not forget all the Bad Things™ the Republicans have dealt with this year! They have:

    A Republican-funding billionaire throwing a tantrum at Daddy Donny.

    A Republican senator arrested for CSAM.

    Good American patriots are being targeted and singled out! Woe is them, it’s not fair! /s

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      Hey but the cities around me had protests that went till 2pm, only on a non-work day and family friendly so everyone could get their photo ops and be home in time to watch the game. That’s surley going to change things right? … right?

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          I understand a bit deeper than that actually. These things aren’t happening with a two hour march on the weekend. This reeks of the BLM protests, where people just wanted to return to the status quo and go back to brunch. And people did go back to brunch and things just continued getting worse, with no systemic changes.

          We need more than a two hour photo-op.

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            I take it you weren’t at these protests. At the one in my city, the end of the protest march had tables and tables full of resistance organizations signing people up to get involved, handing out fliers on ways to do more than wave cardboard signs, etc.

            In many ways, protests like these are onboarding for the resistance.

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              I went to table myself, and saw none or even lingering crowds, but granted it seems like it may have been a local phenomenom for me.

              I was just expecting more out of San Francisco

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                  Nah thats kinda my point actually. It was a two hour photo-op, after which everyone dispersed to go shopping. No real demands, no shutting down of anything, state sanctioned, and directed by the police. That’s not a protest, it’s a parade. Offers no real contention, and no real threat to the powers that be. Often just serves to placate people into thinking they’ve “done their part” and go back to their normal lives as everything gets worse, and curbs people from real organizing.

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        I don’t know. I think it took at LEAST four “peaceful protests” to stop the Nazis, so you still have a way to go.

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    Fuck all the assholes that voted Jill Stein over Palestine or some stupid reason like that. It never was about Palestinians, and these assholes got us here: Hell

    You brought all of us here, you deserve nothing

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      If anti-genocide Americans weren’t significant enough to listen to, they’re not significant enough to blame.

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      Yeah all those third party voters who if they all voted for Kamala wouldn’t have changed the results of any state are to blame. Not picking unpopular polices, or breaking away from Biden who was a deeply unpopular candidate. It’s the people who had zero impact state and federal level.

      Not worth listening to, but big enough to blame. The enemy is weak and strong.

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      fuck the people that never even bothered to vote at all even though it’s literally the most important thing you can do as a citizen in a democracy

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        fuck the people that never even bothered to vote at all

        Funny, because so much of Trump’s support came from people who were totally checked out of the process under Romney and McCain.

        If you look at his gross turnout, he’s presided over an enormous surge in GOP participation.

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        You know there’s more to vote for than president right, and more things that effect you directly. Not even dwelling on the fact that politicians earning your vote is the cornerstone of democracy, not candidates that have your vote no matter what because how awful the other guy is.

        Always curious to hear when people lash out at other voters who have clear concise demands and a non-cursory grasp of politics if they spent the time to research and vote for the different props in their area, or if they just read the ads each side puts forth and just pick one. Or worse yet, skips them or randomly bubbles.

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          If you’re voting or not voting for one soul reason and only one soul reason then you are both a victim and enabler of The Southern Strategy. You did everything the GOP asked of you. You got played.

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            First of all, the fuck you think I didn’t have more than one reason?

            Second, the southern strategy is about otherizing minorities to keep the working class fighting amongst ourselves, not about “single issue voting” as you seem to imply.

            Third, a line in the sand is not the same thing as single issue voting. And (talking about the Gaza Genocide as you’re implying) genocide is a pretty hard fucking line in the sand. Your privledge is showing

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              Your lack of situational understanding is showing.

              Edit: and the southern strategy used race as a single issue vote strategy during the Nixon Goldwater era, the core of it is single issue voting. Get people to vote, or not vote, for a singular issue and everything else is on the table. Hence the chorus of “I didn’t vote for this.”

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      Fuck all the assholes that voted Jill Stein over Palestine

      Point to the state Harris wins with the Green Party vote.

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      You are scapegoating a tiny minority of people, of only about 0.5%. You are no different than the conservatives, maybe you should consider joining them instead?

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        With how things are shifting, if they stick with them in 2028, they’ll be 2016 Republicans. They’re already doing a lot of the policies and voting for it.

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    So you can see where this is going? What are you going to do about it? What are even realistic options? Perhaps a strongly worded post on X?

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      Instead of bitching in the same public manner they are informing people on, what’s YOUR resolution…or do you just complain about others

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        Not from the USA, very simple for me. I would go outside and talk to people what they think. If they are pro Trump, see why that is. Then show them how he is absolutely not doing anything for them, based on quotes of him directly, if possible.

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          God if only it were that easy. People aren’t joking when they say trump could shit on a republican’s face and they’d still blame Biden/Obama/Minorities

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          In all seriousness, they are cult. They did not logic themselves into their views, so showing proof does nothing. You pushing back (in ANY way) simply make you one of the “others” they are warned about. Doesn’t matter if you were previously considered family, friend, or stranger. Like literally nothing will get through to the peoples who are still stanning DJT until they themselves get hurt to such a high degree AND have no one else to blame (because if there is anyone else they even think they can blame instead, they absolutely will).

          They are conditioned to excuse his behavior at turn even when it makes zero sense and completely verifiable. They do not believe what they can see with their own eyes. Fox and now the mainstream media puts out a ton of propaganda which also contributes. Finally, they truly don’t know how to do scientific research because they don’t respect science (see vaccine deniers, handling of COVID, bird flu, Measels, etc.).

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          I appreciate the thought and desire to improve things and a rational response. Unfortumately, we’re not dealing with rational individuals. They will not accept any views contrary to their own no matter how much factual, verifiable evidence you put in front of them.

          They will excuse any behavior someone on their side exhibits and will deflect to immidiately talk about something dems did. If they provide a valid example, and you say, “Yes, and that person should also be investigated and punished,” they still won’t admit that their guy did anything wrong.

          This is a cult and we aren’t just saying that. So you can’t just talk them out of it. While some of their views may be valid, they often seek extreme measures to enact their views. Even their good ideas are soiled.

          I’m totally willing to sit down and have a conversation with a conservative, but I draw the line at blind idolatry.

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    But hey, at least people are gathering in the streets! If there’s one thing that fascists hate it’s groups of people walking together.

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      I love how American’s are all proud of their “No Kings” turnout but are too stupid to realize at the end of the day it means nothing. It changes nothing. Trump and his Christian Nationalist handlers don’t give a shit and don’t even have to pay attention to it. The county is still falling down.

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        Read this if you’re having difficulty understanding the purpose of the recent protests.

        Spoiler: It’s not to convince Trump of anything.