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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 9 points 52 minutes ago

I don't wanna hear another damn word out of young, American leftists. They moralized, demanded, complained, and stayed home. Now shut the fuck up and enjoy the destruction of Gaza. Morons

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 55 points 2 hours ago

How fucking stupid are people Jesus Christ.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 40 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Trump got 2 million less votes than he did in 2020. I think this is more of a case where left-leaning people failed to show up in numbers that led for Biden's win in 2020.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 17 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Didn't Democrats raise a record amount of money this election cycle? And they were supposed to use it to get out the vote?

There is money pouring into these campaigns, and it doesn't make any difference at all. It's all just a corporate welfare project for local TV media in swing states.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Democrats seem to consistently get record breaking funding from running aganst Trump, many are probably ecstatic they have four more years of free money from people who hate Trump.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee -3 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

Money only gets you so far. The unfortunate truth is Harris didn't run a campaign that incentivized people to vote. "Better than Trump" doesn't bring people to polls.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 9 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago) (1 children)

I'm so sick of this; that wasn't her platform. People constantly saying that was her platform stopped people from actually looking at her platform. I'm so sick of Dems that think they can just not vote because they don't fall in love with their candidate. Politics is practical and the USA just shit the bed and it will have a real impact on the world. All of the Dems or left leaning people who didn't vote are complicit.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 1 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)

People need to feel incentivized to vote. The reality is Harris went too far in courting the right and ended up alienating a lot of progressives in the process. There were a lot of warning signs, people just didn't want to listen.

[–] qqq@lemmy.world 3 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago) (1 children)

No. https://kamalaharris.com/issues/ this is not too far right. People need to stop just listening to sound bites and talking points. All of the socialist voters think we're going to just randomly have a socialist state one presidential cycle? Come on. I don't buy it. The real fact here is that people who considered themselves unaffected by Trump couldn't get off their high horse and try to help. You know what drags us more right? Trump winning and Republicans owning Congress.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 2 points 21 minutes ago

Her platform and campaigning wasn't good enough. It's the unfortunate truth and people need to accept it. Trump got less votes than 2020, and he still won. Because Harris didn't inspire enough people to vote. She tried to work with the "progressive" Republicans and get their vote. Like I said above "Better than Trump" is not something that incentivizes people to vote for.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 60 points 2 hours ago

Showing just how gullible American voters are.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 24 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Thanks COVID. You took our family members, forced us to have to "save the economy" causing inflation and now gave us a dictator. The gift that keeps on giving.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

Turns out you can't just tell people their lives are better when there lived experience disagrees.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, I agree with you, but I fail to see how what Trump promises improves any of the things that people said they care about during this election. Yes, shit's expensive everywhere right now. But deporting all the foreigners and installing punitive tariffs isn't going to fix it.

And do we really think the corporate tax cuts that are ensure to be coming will end up raising wages?

Trump can get away without campaigning on specifics, somehow.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 22 minutes ago

This was a referendum on the status quo, and Harris ran on "more of the same".

You are trying to make this about Trump, but Trump wasn't in power over the previous four years.

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee -2 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

All the dems had to do was run a Midwest guy to relate to people in the swing states to easily win the election. Instead, they chose an extremely unlikable Bay Area black woman to capture the rural vote in Georgia and Pennsylvania. Even her own party didn’t like her when she ran for president in 2020 and gave her 0 delegate votes.

It’s so fucking simple but democrats can’t help but shoot themselves and by proxy everyone else in the foot.

I’m not pissed at the ignorant rural voter, I’m pissed at the delusional and out of touch leaders in the Democratic Party who waited too long to find a replacement for Biden then chose the worst candidate to capture votes to do so.