• Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    The Protest Vote Paradox™

    As we’ve all read time after time in the months leading up to the election, the Protest Vote™ simply states states that:

    “We refuse to vote against a Tyrant-Felon in order to send a clear and concise message that we will not stand for [roll D20 for random popular single issue], and alongside our refusal to vote against the Tyrant-Felon, is a collective hope that the aforementioned clear and concise message- if ignored, is received under unmitigated duress!”

    -Cut to Tyrant-Felon’s win, and the aftermath:

    Wether observed or not, the behavior of the Protest Voter will attempt to achieve the following:
    • Obnoxiously tell everyone “We told you all what would happen!”
    • Claim there is “No way protest voting could cause trump to win.”

    As both of these options cannot simultaneously be true in the same reality without breaking important time-space things that we would probably prefer not be broken- we are left with only a few logical conclusions:

    1. Protest voters have no idea what they’re talking about.
    2. Protest voters don’t understand the concept of hypocrisy.
    3. Protest voters have somehow learned to defy reality and become exempt from the concept of paradoxes, thus creating an entirely new study of theoretical science, known as Bulletproof Symbiotic Hypocrisy Theory, or BLsHt.

    Something, something, something Ted Talk.

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    14 hours ago

    If we don’t give the nation of Israel full control of the region, then we can’t fulfill the prophecy to bring end times!

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    Reminder that the West Bank is the one that’s not even ruled by Hamas and hasn’t attacked Israel. If Israel tried to do this under Harris, no doubt weapons would’ve been cut off and the US might have even favored sanctions.

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    14 hours ago

    Except…

    The same thing would have happened with Harris… Harris fully supported Israel’s genocide.

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    Coworker: “I hate trump, he should never be president!” Me: “So you’re voting Harris?” Coworker: “I don’t know if we’re ready for a WoMaN president”

    Asking for a friend, where is the nearest cliff? He would like to go jump off of it.

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    Maybe the political party should have conformed to the pressure of the people who vote in its party. Just saying.

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    FAFO! Big time. Bunch of idiots. They do not understand that Israel has the USA by the balls and this has been going on since the USS Liberty.

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    If only they’d put this much effort into getting one person to change her mind on the issue, instead of trying to get 10 million people to change their morals.

    It appears especially ghoulish now after it came out that even her campaign’s polling showed that it was a losing position.

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    Finally I can stop wondering how the protest voters handle aiding and completing a genocide while claiming to have any sense of morality at all.

    They ignore it because they never cared, that’s IT! NOTHING ELSE. ITS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSES FAULT BECAUSE OF THEIR NARCISSISM.

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    Dem cheerleaders are blue maga. Nothing the Dems do are ever part of the problem; it’s always someone else’s fault.

    It wasn’t non-voters who forced the Dems and Biden to do the following:

    • For his first official act, Biden fought with his own party to prevent regular people from getting an already promised $600 check; completely ignoring the fact no one expected any PPP loans to be repaid.
    • Pulled a complete 180 on immigration, successfully building even more of the border wall and deporting more people than Trump.
    • Refusing to even entertain the idea of stopping Israel’s genocide in Gaza, even at the known expense of voters.
    • Declared the Covid-19 pandemic over by simply no longer testing for it, despite it continuing to overwhelm hospitals and kill people, all so that people could be forced back into work.
    • Ripped pandemic era support away from citizens that was responsible for nearly eliminating childhood poverty and food insecurity; forcing people back into $7.25 an hour minimum wage jobs with no benefits.
    • Refused to do anything about the increasing violence and state hostility towards queer people, especially in red states.
    • Scolded to constituents for not giving Biden enough credit because they insisted the economy was great (but only for the wealthy.) They ignored that inflation (caused solely by corporate price gouging they refused to challenge) grew more than wages. Sure, wages began to outpace inflation, but total inflation since the start of the pandemic is still higher than wage growth in the same period.
    • Made student loan forgiveness a means-tested application process that they then sat on for two months, instead of immediately clearing balances and destroying documents, as if begging SCOTUS to block them.
    • Doing absolutely nothing to restrict the unchecked presidential powers they worked with the GOP to expand for the last several decades, even as the threat of a second, even more overtly fascist Trump administration became more and more likely.
    • Dicked around for 2 years not taking the prosecution against Trump seriously and making this entire ordeal a possibility in the first place.

    This election was entirely the fault of the Democratic leadership. They failed. All blue maga does is try to deflect blame from them while they continue to screw all of us.