Biden's polling low, the voters want things do be different... huh, better campaign on doing nothing different! What? They're saying we're doing a genocide? Well, better point out that Trump is gonna do a worse genocide!
That'll be a great message, exactly the sort of thing that makes people excited to vote...
"Democrats didn't entertain me enough so I didn't vote."
OP mentions genocide
Response frames it as entertainment
Yes. The party needs to be enticing. They lost an election. Shaming voters for not embracing lesser evilism is another mistake the party is making and you're reproducing here.
At least twice now the party has believed themselves to be assured of victory because Trump is on the ballot. Now they may never have a chance to run again.
Yeah, because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth ... totally doesn't devolve a democratic process into one of reactionary populisms fueled by false promises. If people want to get excited, they should go to a theme park. If they have a shred of civil responsibility, they vote, specially when things were as bad as they were.
because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth
What part of the genocide wasn't true at the time of the elections?
reactionary populisms fueled by false promises
Like codifying Roe V Wade? Like closing Guantanamo?
If they have a shred of civil responsibility
Civil responsibility is voting for the party that pretends to care about Gazans while carrying out a genocide and funding Israel.
because people should vote on excitement and engagement, not truth
What part of the genocide wasn't true at the time of the elections?
reactionary populisms fueled by false promises
Like codifying Roe V Wade? Like closing Guantanamo?
If they have a shred of civil responsibility
Civil responsibility is voting for the party that pretends to care about Gazans while carrying out a genocide and funding Israel.
i mean, it's also factually true. I still maintain that the dems ran a fairly good campaign. The problem was voter turnout, as it always is, except for 2020, when voting was easier.
Because democrats have an aversion to actually doing things for some reason (primarily age related)
Lol. So many dumb voters who think everything changes for the better overnight if they protest vote and don't grasp that politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.
In the end, all they did was set us back X number of years/decades. Thanks stupids.
politics is a battle of voting for the less shitty option so you can take baby steps toward something better.
Every single time Dems have won since Carter, we have been baby stepping towards something worse. The victories for gay rights under Obama were a brief outlier in our country's otherwise uninterrupted march towards fascism.
Looks to be on track to setting us back about 90 years and moving us about halfway around the globe.
I'm thinking 150 years, and staying right here....
Only one color on that map wanted things to be "different."
This meme is almost a decade old now isn't it?
It first appeared shortly after he was elected. It needs to be updated to the person burning their house down.
Still one of my favorites
At which tax bracket do you get to enjoy life now?
If I remember right, things start to turn around somewhere north of 350k yearly.
Oh neat. I'm only 320k away.....
Since the Democrats didn't give every single thing on the bLuEmAGa screechers wishlist, ofc Trump was the perfect alternative!
Definitely not an example of letting perfection become the enemy of good or anything!
Edit: To whoever replied to me, but probably has me blocked since I can't see it (only the reply counter) unblock me if you're going to reply to me, coward!
Uh, that means you blocked them.
Thanks, I never block anybody but sure enough pancakes was on it lol
Protest voters did not impact the results
So… Harris lost by some 2.3 million votes. Collectively, third party spoilers netted over 3 million votes.
Now, we add in the just under 90 million people that chose not to vote at all- and assume that at least several million of those people folded their arms and pouted because something they don’t understand is going on in a place they didn’t know existed a bit over year ago because of reasons that even though has been explained to them ad-nauseam, they still refuse to acknowledge because if flies in the face of their edgy manufactured outrage…
… it’s safe to assume protest votes and non-voting was a tremendous lift in helping trump win the White House.
Letting perfection become the enemy of good? Good is funding a genocide?
Also, I've never blocked anyone.
Fine, letting perfection be the enemy of not the worst, then.
Good is funding a genocide?
Keeping your most important ally in the Middle East isn't about good or bad. It's simply necessary.
Now we have a worse "genocider".
You aren't just voting for the person to have power. You're voting for their party to have power. It wasn't just about Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
And in case you didn't notice, we've got some pretty serious issues here at home to be focusing on and taking into account when we vote. Palestinians are simply not at the top of my list.
Things would have been much worse with Harris though.
Clown comment.
Go back to reddit
Go back to xkcd.
If you want anyways I don't think I have the right to tell you what you should or shouldn't do.
