• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    You guys don’t deserve it. This election proved to me that you’re leftists can be every bit as hateful as your right

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      It’s easy to paint a huge group of people with a broad brush, but that’s exactly the mindset that got us here.

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        That’s rich from a group calling everyone a Nazi in the last few months unless they fully agree with you on Gaza, and I’m a leftist and one that’s been at this a while, and you Americans are toxic as fuck. You don’t perceive that we around the world who are actually leftists are aghast at the stupidity of your country.

        The right was always toxic, but the left really went with it this election too. Nobody was good enough for anyone and nobody was leftist enough for everyone. And if you saw someone you thought was less left, you shouted “Nazi” at them. Not just at the right wingers, but your own allies on the left.

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          what’s a little genocide for a seasoned leftist? cultures come and go. it’s just genocide.

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          Nobody was good enough for anyone and nobody was leftist enough for everyone

          Very true. Everybody is concerned about how right they are through highlighting how wrong whoever else is. This era of profilicity will exterminate left thought

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          You have every right to be frustrated and angry, and if it helps you to direct that anger at me, then go for it. I want you to know that even though it feels like there are so many people against you, there are people around the world you’ve never met that are pulling for you. I sincerely wish you the best, and I hope that you’re able to find happiness.

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          Nailed it. The Dems didn’t fail the voters, the voters failed themselves. Some fell in love with a con man and some sat on their purity pedestals and refused to help. America is full of all kinds of idiots.

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            oh so sanctimonious “purity pedestals” like, Stop abetting an exterminationist campaign

            It was only broadly popular with most of the country and polled well in swing states; thank goodness party leadership had the stones to stick to their values and loose on this issue. Nobody to blame here but people who didn’t make campaign choices and do not have access to the levers of power!

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      Leftists can definitely be as stupid as rightists, and we’re seeing it in full technicolor in this thread. “Waaaahhh, there weren’t any good options. I should be able to click on something perfect!”

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        I think you’re confused. we said ‘not genocidal.’ if that makes a candidate perfect dear fucking god how low the bar has fallen.

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          news flash: he, like many other leftists are welcome to say whatever they want. doesnt mean we give a shit what he says. we often agree with him on things and support them. but ‘bernie says blah’ only gets your foot in the door for about 3 seconds until we look into what he said. if the reasoning behind it is wanting we reject it.

          If you think bernie represents the left, hell if you think anyone represents the left you’re sorely mistaken.

          that being said: many leftists told you exactly what you needed to hear the entire year you needed to hear it.

          • the genocide is not okay.
          • it will impact our votes.
          • a few of us have literally been screaming it for the last 2 months in the public sphere as you’re all aware.

          if you think we needed to shift our position. you were very sadly mistaken. both morally and strategically. as you’re now witnessing. We didn’t go out and pressure our friends for harris, why? because harris didn’t budge and you spent more time telling us how your grand ‘lesser evil’ strategy was the optimal behavior, even more than tell harris to fuck off on genocide!

          guess it wasnt so optimal since you know, people tuned you out and you lost. oops. You see the thing is a lot of leftists are actually very quiet. they spend their time with their friends enjoying life and as a network we signal to each other when its important to vote. we did that in 2020 for biden and we conditioned it on him having a single term.

          Biden, as we expected, went counter to his promises on a number of factors. so we didn’t quietly send our signals to our group. My roommate and I for example were talking last week about the election and they were like ‘looks like another 4 years of trump, and I was like ‘yup, gonna suck’’. we both still voted. but we didn’t do what we often would do and be like ‘yeah harris is worth getting the gang together and disrupting our shit to get our networks of apathetic voting friend out’

          why? hand waves the last 4 years and the last 6 months in particular. genocide is not a stance you shift on.

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      6 hours ago

      You’re from El Salvador. Should I suggest that El Salvadorians deserve MS-13 because you’re stupid brown people who can’t get away from drugs?

      No, you bigoted piece of shit.

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        That suggestion would only be as bigoted as calling criticism from an El Salvadoran bigoted. I’m a white male American and I say America is full of idiots. That was how Trump got into the White House to begin with, and it’s why he’s going back. It’s not either party’s fault, it’s that the majority of Americans are just stupid.

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          Am I saying that criticism from the outside world is a bad thing? No. What I’m saying is that I could very easily point at bad things about any country - it solves absolutely nothing.

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          Lets say you have a neighbor and every time you invite them over for tea they shit on your carpet.

          Do you continue inviting them over? if your answer is no, well now you understand why a large portion of the american electorate didn’t show up to vote again. the democrats need to stop shitting on our carpet. for the record we don’t invite the republicans over either. they shit everywhere.

          You havent sent signals strong enough to demonstrate you wouldn’t shit on the carpet again. Trump, well, when he gets close to burning the house down again we’ll probably show up with the firetrucks. probably. depends on how much hes threatening our local communities. if hes smart he wont

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      Why do liberals have to get in the way and make enemies of us? We’ll have to go through you all then.

      Leftism isn’t a stranger to being attacked on all sides and being pushed to the margins, but we’re still here generation after generation even as the most rich and powerful nations organize their militaries and media against us.

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        Because here the person talks about their frustration and you’re blaming them. Don’t be like that. Empathize!

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          I think you need to reread the thread, where did the blame begin? I’m getting tired of the high road.

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          4 hours ago

          Keep chasing that center as your country descends into fascism. It’s easier than thinking for yourself

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            psst you don’t need to remind them they’re assholes that explicitly. they know. they’re happy to discuss the shades of supporting a genocide and why its okay to shove the few under the bus to save the many. Never mind that saving the few would have saved more of the many in the long run.

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      Yeah the people advocating for the end of a genocide and social healthcare are the hateful ones 💀

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        They’re not hateful, just too stupid to face the reality that one of the two viable choices they had was clearly much better than the other.

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        When they want to end it with bloodshed, yes. Yes they are.

        Welcome to reality

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      The DNC isn’t entitled to Americans votes. They lost us and lost folks to the Republicans because they promised to fix the economy and are actually talking to people directly. The DNC is fucking dead to me.

      I voted Kamala but I knew she didn’t stand a chance. I knew we were cooked when it was Biden/Kamala

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        Thank you for choosing Kamala even though you didn’t want to. We’re in this mess because too many people were the cartoon character somebody posted above.

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      That’s a solid take.

      Far left and far right are just “far”.

      Far from truth, reality or the burden of existing in a social system with people they don’t agree with.

      This makes them mad and they traded their honor and honesty to pwn the libs.

      The only difference between tankies and the magats is a red hat made in a Chinese sweatshop.

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          What failed was millions of people deciding that walking across broken glass barefoot was better than wearing shoes they didn’t like.

          This country is full of fucking idiots.