Hot take: Withholding voting for either party is a valid form of protest when neither party is standing for its people.

If they want to win the support of their constituents, its high time to change how the party is going to operate going forward.

C’mon guys, can’t you spin up the “somehow, blame Russia” machine for this like last time?

Running around with pitchforks looking for minorities to blame is a really bad look, and it ultimately is just you showing your blue MAGA ass.

we’re busy doing the things we need to do since you twits couldn’t run a non-genocidal candidate.

There is a whole lot of Removed by mod here that might explain it.

Going deeper into the DNC echo chamber wont change anything though. Also i find it curious that people seeing the end of the world coming towards them leave their attempt at stopping it at “whelp i voted”. Almost as if you are consistently fed the gaslighting lie, that voting once every four years for the candidate, that the DNC designates you to vote for, should be all you ever do politically.

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Another day, another Lemmy post blaming leftists instead of Republicans, conservatives, racists, and their enablers.

Some of us have real lives to get on with and are willing to do the work behind the scenes, while we get on with that. My community has buried three since the since the end of October, two have recently been diagnosed with cancer and another two are in stage four. There are also considerations of paying bills. Just because we’re not wallowing in self-pity doesn’t make anyone anything other than busy. Mutual aid, direct action. Voting for the major parties isn’t the answer.

One of the candidates was against Palestinian genocide??

Jesus shut the fuck up. We lost because your moderate ass, milquetoast policies are fucking bad and tweaks around the margins without meaningful structural change aren’t going to be enough. “Vote harder” isn’t the answer you asshole, if you haven’t learned that then your head is buried in the sand.

Kamala would not have been much better than Trump. She was far right democrat with zero policy at best.

Or you could have just not supported a genocide so that people would vote for you. Stop blaming the electorate for your own failings. No one is obliged to vote for you. Especially when you have terrible policies like funding a genocide.

What’s this, a sudden influx of votes and comments that visibly oppose the votes and comments that came from the intended community, made apparent by older, lower-visibility comments such as those under folds having completely opposite positions and ratings? Why that almost sounds like a brigade! Surely not, we left those behind on Reddit, right?

They are certainly responsible for Trump doing what they will do. No amount of mental gymnastics can make that go away. You had a vote, it was what it was, you had to accept reality or live in a bubble roleplaying that your vote was something it was not.