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    The fact of the matter is in an election where [ANYONE] vs FASCIST is the choices…

    YOU FUCKING VOTE FOR ANYONE.

    I honestly don’t believe this is still a conversation!! My god you people are not just determined to repeat the mistakes of the past- you’re running headlong right towards it!

    So fucking embarrassing.

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      It’s hard to blame the voters in the light of recent events.

      Voters just handed the Democrats and insane mandate. Ignoring the voters and caving in to the fascists a week later, sends a very clear message, “We don’t care about your vote.”

      Actions speak louder than words.

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      I’m gonna be devil’s advocate here for a moment. I followed Mamdani’s campaign closely and I think he nailed it on the spot. You had two politicians running whereas one lied that he’ll reduce prices and make America great again and the other… did nothing for the most part. From the eyes of the average voter Kamala promised nothing but the status quo, and they wanted change. That’s how Dem strongholds flipped red during this election and how a lot of them went back to blue for the mid term elections. If she told her donors to get stuffed and worked for the working class instead of exploiting the working class she would’ve won.

      What a mess we live in. Both options will fuck you over, only one of them will do it with lube.

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        It was a terrible campaign spoken to people who where/are hurting telling them they where actually in fact doing great.

        It was worse then doing nothing, saying it was mostly nothing is being kind. Once again they just assumed they would win and forgot that people looking for any help will swallow lies over the safer status quo choice. That is why when the big man gamble blew up in their face they vote blue again. The real issue is this is why the dems never have to change, they don’t even oppose the other side anymore, they just wait to have their turn.

        Watching this mess is just infuriating, seeing the endless exceptionalism and team based bullshit more so.

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      Of course there were many foolish voters out there but it’s not good enough for a candidate to be not Donald Trump. The reality is that many people will stay home when they see dirty corporate politicians running for office. And you can blame the people all you want, but that doesn’t change reality, and they’ll still stay home.

      I think what’s embarrassing is your approach. You saw 2016 and 2024 and you still haven’t learned from either of them. It turns out that people vote or don’t vote for a variety of reasons, and a simplistic approach like yours is a failed approach.

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        And you can blame the people all you want, but that doesn’t change reality, and they’ll still stay home.

        The problem with this logic, is that these are the options you have, and the DNC doesn’t care about this, so you, as not the DNC have 2 options. Support the democrats, or support trump.

        All of the whining in the world won’t change this.

        I think what’s embarrassing is your approach. You saw 2016 and 2024 and you still haven’t learned from either of them.

        Why are you talking to that other commenter as if they are the DNC? They’re not the ones responsible for their political strategy.

        and a simplistic approach like yours is a failed approach.

        They’re taking the only logical option within their locus of control, and you’re acting like somehow they should have done what exactly?

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      If you are in a nation that has only two choices and one is a FASCIST, you are in a fascist nation without real choice. You are once again embarrassing yourself to the rest of the world with this endless team based bullshit.

      IF THERE IS ONLY ONE “CORRECT” CHOICE THEN THERE IS NO CHOICE!

      This is what you all get when you turn your whole system into a fixed 2 headed hydra for years and years, but when you needed to stand up and change the system you all instead point fingers and blame instead of doing anything.

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        You are acting as if it was not trump the nominee you wouldn’t have the same rhetoric. The lesser of the two state evil logic didn’t start during Trump first compaign in 2016

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          I did not have the same rhetoric when Biden was in office, come now this is next level putting words in my past hypothetical mouth.

          We agree that the two party system is and has been a total joke of a democratic system however.

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          Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.

          Your nation is a joke and the rest of the world is done with your shit.

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            The rest of the world does the exact same shit. I don’t know why you types outside the US think you’re somehow immune to facism, bigotry, and economic exploitation. And i say this living outside the US

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              When did I state otherwise? I know every nation is not immune, that is why american exceptionalism is frustrating.

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            Your nation is a joke and the rest of the world is done with your shit.

            And what esteemed nation are YOU from?

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              Canada, what is your point? We have our issues but last I checked we where not trying to take over Greenland.

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              Perfect, just like your leaders, you would prefer living in a make believe world then live in reality.

              Clearly I have no “dog in this race” as if your shitstain of a nation is not in anyway involved with the world at all.

              Oh but wait you can’t see this and for some reason trying to make blocking someone some sort of slight.

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      The fact of the matter is in an election where [ANYONE] vs FASCIST is the choices…

      Sorry Blue Maga, you will never win just because you are Hitler (D) vs Hitler.

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      Truly, the amount of people on this website who will bend over backwards to push third party/protest votes despite all evidence that that is insanely naive and the equivalent to shooting their own legs off is insane.

      Somehow, these people, after decades of it not working, think that the democrats losing will magically bring in progressive Valhalla, because they literally refuse to acknowledge that the very obvious solution, that is equivalent to eating your veggies and doing exercise, is that the democrats have to keep winning, and they have to keep voting in progressives through primaries, state and local politics.

      Its extremely obvious to anyone who understand the 2 party supporting winner takes all/first past the post system they have.

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        Oh cool. Another Liberal completely blind to the internal workings of their chosen party. What pearls of wisdom do you have for us?

        I voted for Kamala. This was the first time in 20 years that I’ve cast my vote Alone.

        I rally everyone I can. And every time I had a rhetorical lever to remind my friends and family about the importance of this casual action, Kamala herself would rush to a camera to undermine everything I tried to say.

        “End the genocide!” Well shit, she came out as a full throated Zionist. Her and her party did anything and everything to alienate everyone who views Palestinians as human.

        “One genocide is better than two” well fuck, she promised to be harder on the border than a fucking Nazi.

        “Trans survival rests on this” aaaand I watched her stand agast at any suggestion that she assert the reality that Trans Women are Women.

        “We should codify Roe V Wade” and… Crickets from her.

        People were hurting and the economy was in the toilet? All she could do was talk up Biden’s effort, sans evidence.

        Her backers, her sponsors, her consultants, her party infrastructure all made sure she refused to stand for anything. Ever.

        And I blame you Lemmings for allowing this shit for actual decades. You haven’t had a real Primary since 2008, and you call this Democracy?

        Have the day you voted for - A half step up from the Maga reality of today, but with more concessions for Maga than even your own base or agenda.

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          The fact this is the type of shit that gets upvotes here is why you’re never pulling out.

          You rant about democrats as if you choosing to lop your own legs off will make them so angry they’re suddenly going to do what you want.

          You act like children, and ignore the obvious because it feels good to be angry at someone, and the democrats are the closest thing to being an org that will listen.

          Instead though, you, as you admitted, in the most important election in your life, choose to stop caring.

          Look at how childish all of your retorts are about all of the various things that she absolutely would not have specifically hurt if she had won.

          You think she would actively be encouraging israel to flaten palestine?

          You think she would be making ICE the actual gestapo?

          As for Roe v Wade, how exactly do you expect democrats to do such a thing without a senate super majority?

          You literally expect the impossible, and then give up and cry when you don’t get that.

          Her backers, her sponsors, her consultants, her party infrastructure all made sure she refused to stand for anything. Ever.

          Yet that was clearly the better option that shooting your own legs off.

          How do you not realize that the DNC literally is incentivised to offer less and less if the country keeps flipping back and forth? Then, all they have to do is correctly assert that they are the non insane option, and offer to undo some of the damage done.

          This is what they’ve done. This is what Biden has done, and somehow to you, you think that throwing a tantrum and literally getting marginalized people killed really got one over on the rich conservatives at the head of the DNC who will never see the inside of a grocery store.

          And I blame you Lemmings for allowing this shit for actual decades.

          What does this even mean exactly. You are clearly angry at some group you can’t actually specify.

          This comment really reinforces how much you misunderstand your own system.

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            You think she would actively be encouraging israel to flaten palestine?

            Of course , you sound very ignorant or just use palestinians for political reasons. Gaza is flatened because of the billions of dollars you give to israel and all the weapons they get which every single goddamn US war criminal presidents did since the creation of the terrorist state of israel so how the hell do you think Harris would stop doing that?

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              Of course , you sound very ignorant or just use palestinians for political reasons.

              Its this type of insane take which makes it impossible to have useful discourse.

              There are literally 2 options, and you would rather choose the one with the worse outcome because they both suck. Thats simply immature and self harming in nature.

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        Its extremely obvious to anyone who understand the 2 party supporting winner takes all/first past the post system they have

        Keep voting for the lesser of the two evils till there is nothing left to be saved. Trump won to begin with because the majority of americans though he was the lesser of the two evil

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          Keep voting for the lesser of the two evils till there is nothing left to be saved.

          If you actually kept doing that you’d have not only much to be saved, but you’d eventually have a good option if following the rest of what I advise.

          You types literally never have workable solutions. Your suggestions are all impractical hail marys because you refuse to acknoledge the actual solution is slow, and uncomfortable.