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i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out

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[–] agrantgreen@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 days ago (11 children)

One of the candidates was against Palestinian genocide??

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[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (27 children)

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

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I know plenty of leftist who live in reality, understood reality, and voted realistically for an ally in the fight over the next four years.

And then there's fantasy leftists who do zero work, yell into their echo chambers, guard their fragile worldview from exposure to reality, and pretend they're doing anything to further the cause. Oh and they get mad, stamp their feet, and stay home instead of vote. Or worse, they're so far up their own ass they honestly think voting for the leopard is a good idea.

The one saving grace is that there aren't enough of them here to sway a dog catcher election, let alone a national one.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The one saving grace is that there aren’t enough of them here to sway a dog catcher election, let alone a national one.

Right, so memes blaming them for the apocalypse is extra silly

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[–] uniquethrowagay 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well republicans, conservatives and racists are the minority. Had everybody left of them voted, the US wouldn't be on track to become a fascistoid autocracy.

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But everyone left of them didn't vote, and I think there are certainly more non-voting liberals than non-voting leftists, so focusing on an even smaller minority of Pro-Palestinian abstainers is silly.

Only 64% of the Voting Eligible Population turned out in 2024, what percentage of that 36% remaining do you really think is Pro-Palestinians that couldn't stomach Harris?

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Hey, can we please stop lumping all leftists together with the idiots who refused to vote, or chose to vote for Trump?

Some of us understand reason.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

The only people making noise are the centrists looking to blame everyone but themselves for a sweep of all the levers of government, and a gradual loss of the judiciary that will doom the republic. It was an epic asswipping of historic proportions with you lot leading and owning the losing strategy. You dont even have the diginity to be embarrassed about it.

You geniuses lost voters across every single demographic except college educated whites, flatly ignored the economic hardship of the lower and middle class and told people they were delusional to talk about it, and on top of that they enabled and participated in obvious far right war crimes. You lost minority and youth support and trust across the board. And you have no way of earning it back beyond your same tired playbook of being slightly better than Trump, on just a few issues.

Even if Harris had done the right, legal, moral thing and indicated she'd halt the shipments, she still would have lost on her idiotic low-polling economic policy that polled the same as Joe Bidens presidency. So you all supported war crimes and soiled the dem name for basically no gain at all. You doomed the republic, soiled the global understanding of "democracy", and showed the western world order to be a hollow shell of what it once was, where laws and justice dont really matter. All so the DNC elites could take some zionist bribes on a single election cycle, which you then lost. Heck of a job. Its hard to imagine screwing the globe any more thoroughly. Its breathtaking. You couldnt have done a more thorough job if you were maga republican fascists yourselves.

[–] klingity@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Another thankful comment for you. Expressing my frustrations at the liberal tantrums over the situation has been a thorough exercise in anger control and I appreciate the precision with which you hammered home the reality of it all. Look after yourself and your community <3

[–] PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who is this directed at? The democratic party? Or the voters? Because the you cant blame the voters for the DNC running as status quo, this is capitalism, nothing will ever change that. You either get capitalism extreme or capitalism extreme extra fascism edition. The country just simply cant be fixed with voting.

[–] mochisuki@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I was going to just block the author of this post and move on but your comment so beautifully and clearly expressed everything I was thinking about their asinine lack of self awareness, I had to just at least thank you for taking the time to patiently engage despite knowing full well they refuse to learn.

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you thought the people who were critical of the Democrats went quite after the election, you're saying more about the echo chamber you've built for yourself than anything else.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world bans all of the prominent voices

Libs: "Where's all of your criticism now, COMMIES?!????"

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, .world bans leftists when they call out that Harris is just doing Diet Fascism, then said "well since I don't see them anymore, they were clearly Russian assets!"

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (13 children)

So let me get this straight:

The Democratic Party snubs the left— even the progressives. They court the right wing, parading the Cheneys around.

The democrats lose.

The rightwing voters get riled up by the mask-off hatred, while their politicians straight up lie to Muslims and Latino people, winning some of their votes.

The democrats lose ground across the board. Their entire turnout was depressed. No matter how many times they learned their views were losing them votes, they refuse to budge on the issues they were undoubtedly wrong about. The fuckin meme says “we didn’t vote for genocide!!!” We can all agree voting…for genocide is…bad, right?

And you’re blaming the people who were ignored and told once again to go fuck themselves? Because they couldn’t stomach voting for people publicly and unflinchingly supporting the genocide.

Not the lying fascists, not the losing party for being told they were going to fail and still failing?

This is exactly how you continue to fail and lose to fascists.

And im telling you right now. History won’t look back and say “those fools! They didn’t vote because of a teensy little genocide!” They will say “all of those people stood by while a holocaust was happening.”

Not a doubt in my mind.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

This is your brain on the two party system. His team lost, but it can’t be his teams fault because it’s his team, you see?

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[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Throwing your vote in the trash is a vote for garbage, and garbage won by a landslide.

The garbage voters really hate to hear it.

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[–] Jamil@lemm.ee 49 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Blame the at most 2 million or so antigenocide protestors, instead of the 75 million who voted for Trump. Considering Harris was short 8 million votes, it didn't really matter.

Blame Trump voters first, but also blame Harris for running a dog shit campaign where she leaned right to pickup Republicans, and ended up picking up zero R voters while completely alienating the progressives and losing 14 million votes from Biden's 2020 performance.

The Dems don't seem too upset though. They would rather lose to the republicans than let progressives have any sort of power.

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[–] cook_pass_babtridge@sh.itjust.works 69 points 3 days ago (27 children)

Friendly reminder that Joe Biden is still the president and could stop sending weapons to Israel right now if he wanted to. But he doesn't.

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[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 144 points 3 days ago (116 children)

There sure are a lot of people trying to blame the left because their strategy of appealing to the middle failed.

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 89 points 3 days ago (79 children)

It's so weird. Gaza is extremely important and deserving of the attention. It's genocide, and it's horrific. But is no one else important? Because we can't save Gaza immediately, it's really better to set outselevs on fire so we can burn together? Like, real talk, Harris will be fine. Biden will be fine. It's our friends and neighbors who are going to be deported, harassed, laid off, homeless and scared for a minimum of four years.

I wouldn't say they're gone though. I've been down voted, told "my kind/type" are all talk, or that I'm okay with murder, I voted for genocide, the usual. But I couldn't sit and do nothing.

But I guess this is what they wanted. The dems have been taught a lesson, we're moving headfirst into a dictatorship, and Gaza is no safer, but their conscious is clear, somehow.

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