• piefood@feddit.online
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    4 days ago

    No, I didn’t vote for either. It was pretty easy to vote against Harris, while also voting against this. Maybe next time the Dems should run a candidate that at least pretends to care about what the voters want. That tends to help in elections.

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      I would accept that in 2016. This time around you dipshits knew what the result of your apathy would be and did it anyway.

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          If there is a next time, I will absolutely say to vote lesser evil again. Without a workable alternative, that is the option. I still see no workable alternative. Longshot third parties with ~1% polling are not a workable alternative. Vague revolution composed of ~1% of the population is not a workable alternative. When you have a plan, with reasonable chances of success, we can talk.

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      Maybe next time the Dems should run a candidate that at least pretends to care about what the voters want. That tends to help in elections.

      All of this I agree with. Unfortunately it won’t happen until all the neolibs are run out of the party.

      But trying to pretend like you didn’t directly elect a dictator by “abstaining” is not only absurd, but ethically reprehensible. Much of life is about choosing between lesser evils and lesser pains. Letting the worst options win because a perfect one doesn’t (and cannot) exist makes you a deliberate, willing accomplice.

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        3 days ago

        But trying to pretend like you didn’t directly elect a dictator by “abstaining” is not only absurd, but ethically reprehensible

        I’d say painting all third party or non-voters to be more absurd and ethically reprehensible, as would most people with a brain

        Or are you gonna claim the millions of votes in California that went up cast helped trump win? Elections in the US aren’t simple, people need to stop oversimplifying them

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      The replies here are either bots or braindead.

      People want to blame someone else because they haven’t realized the democrats own them without any real reason to deliver for their voters. That’s why democrats are fine with losing. They’ll blame 3rd party and non-voters instead of the democrats and their only position being “Me not Trump.”

      They had 4 years and the project 2025 playbook and sat on their hands while out to brunch.

      If you the voter could feel the urgency and impending doom, why didn’t they use every possible tactic to win? The more you look at it it seems like they lost on purpose so that they could go out and give meaningless speech performances instead of actually delivering for people.