• @jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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    2143 months ago

    Hey does Pepperidge farms remember all the fucking morons on Lemmy urging not to vote for Harris because she was allegedly complicit in genocide? I sure as shit do.

    Know what’s gonna be objectively worse, 100% regardless of the veracity those allegations? The reality that they helped forge instead.

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      3 months ago

      Cool, we remember - now what? What do we materially do now to resist that isn’t just blaming non-voters online?

      • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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        103 months ago

        Blaming other people and feeling superior is how Democrats win! Aren’t you paying attention? Hey, where are they taking us??!

      • @knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de
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        53 months ago

        Go protest, resist being part of that genocide by laying down work. Call or write your local representatives voice your opinion and ask how you can help to stop that.

      • @MJKee9@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        There aren’t many options… Which is probably why op is blaming non-voters, who are complicit in creating our current situation.

        • Psychadelligoat
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          153 months ago

          Which is probably why op is blaming non-voters

          Should probably blame the people who actually voted for the guy and not an unrelated third party

          Bunch of butthurt authoritarians whining about people they failed to engage and saying “but that’s the system we’re in” like that doesn’t apply equally to having to convince people to vote FOR you

          • @MJKee9@lemmy.world
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            -93 months ago

            Blaming both camps is the best way to go. But why spend efforts blaming the Trump voters? Presumably, they aren’t subject to appeals of logic or compassion or they wouldn’t have voted for him in the first place. So we know they’re pieces of shit. But the jury is still out on the protest non-voters. Did they fail to vote because they disagreed with kamala on a minority of her positions, or did they just not want to elect a brown woman? Assuming that they understood the choices of outcomes between candidates, they voluntarily chose to ignore the greater good for their own personal disagreement. Additionally, there’s evidence that if those protest voters had voted for Kamala she would have won. Therefore, they are to blame. To ignore that is to be an apologist for those at fault.

    • @AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      ‘allegedly’

      The mental gymnastics will only intensify as these fucking crypto-nazis get to distance themselves from their beliefs and actions of just a few months ago.

    • @SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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      203 months ago

      The point was to pressure the Dems into giving up on genocide. You wanna talk about “pepperidge farm remembers”, I got one for ya

      Remember when the Dems thought they could win while actively telling people who were anti genocide to go fuck themselves?

      Hey, what’s weirder? Not voting for someone committing genocide, or being unwilling to stop committing a genocide even if it costs you the election?

      How does it feel that the only thing that Harris had to do was say “I will stop weapons to Israel” and she would of won?

      You can’t keep blaming the voters when the strategy was at fault. They knew they would lose votes. They thought they could court the centrists and liberal Republicans to make up for it. They were so fucking wrong. And somehow it’s not their own fault for having the worst campaign strategy known to man.

      Like, Christ. Y’all ain’t ever gonna stop trying to blame leftists. You’ll be up against the wall with leftists fighting for your life and you’ll still be like “can’t believe you didn’t vote Harris”. I can’t believe Harris threw away the election over the continued genocide of palastinians. That’s fucking crazy. Is that not crazy to you? You don’t find it fucking insane that the Dems would rather a fascist state than stop actively committing a genocide? Cause that’s the fucking Gambit they ran and look where we are.

      Look. I’m pissed. Your pissed. But we are just people with no power. Same with all those voters you wanna complain about. All we have is the ability to yell and vote. And while I voted for Harris out of fucking fear, I cannot blame the people who yelled “I will not vote for you if you keep committing genocide” and were fucking CALLED ON THAT SHIT. What kind of monster gambles with their own base over a fucking genocide?

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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        73 months ago

        Remember when the Dems thought they could win while actively telling people who were anti genocide to go fuck themselves?

        I do, and was downvoted for calling it out from my last account, and this one for remembering it.

        Are these people gaslit or are they doing it for their favorite political celebrities who don’t know they exist or care for them?

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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            43 months ago

            Democrats love losing because it gives them more money as Republicans enact evil policies. “We can’t stop them! …unless you give us what’s left of your paycheck! That’s how we can stop trump! Your money!”

      • Franklin
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        13 months ago

        voting is power, hell not voting is power. is it a fair system?

        fuck no, but not voting did help get us here

        disclaimer: gerrymandering and voter suppression also played a huge role

      • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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        You know who committed genocide?

        Stalin killed thousands of Poles. The USA had lynchings going on all through WW2. I’m not even going to start on the UK.

        And they were all better alternatives than Hitler.

        • @SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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          83 months ago

          Greatest defence in the world. Vote for lynchings, better than extermination camps.

          Or. Hear me out. Put a fucking bullet in both of them some bitches and stop accepting the lesser evil.

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                -13 months ago

                I’m talking about getting allies.

                If you’re saying Stalin was perfect, okay. He still got in bed with the US and England.

                Are you saying he shouldn’t have done that?

                • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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                  lol Stalin wasn’t perfect, he did some awful things such as the internment or relocation of minorities in preparation for WWII and various advice/demands he gave to the CPC that was catastrophic.

                  But to address your point, your enemy giving you equipment to help you fight another enemy doesn’t track to telling anyone telling the democrats that genocide is unpopular to shut up.

                  If yall had helped us, the democrats might have listened and not have driven the bus off the cliff. If we had shut up, they absolutely would have driven off the cliff.

    • @Bosht@lemmy.world
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      173 months ago

      Honestly not sure why it hasn’t been suggested that the ‘no vote’ bullshit was a tactic to get Repubs the win. Sure as hell worked and didn’t do anything to solve the issue, as we can blatantly see now.

    • @callouscomic@lemm.ee
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      Interesting that such a fucked system exists that could allow the 50/50 chance that who wins an election could singlehandedly decide if everything is fascism and genocide or not, with what appears to be no real checks of power in place.

      And you choose to blame those who have nearly no control over said system.

      Lemmy is also a tiny community relative to other similar communities online. Lenmy is also not even just people in the US. You also don’t know how many of those posts were trolls or bots.

      It sure seems to me that the larger system and set of choices are completely fucked to begin with and gives the “people” next to no options or say in much of anything.

      But yes. If Lemmy people had not slammed Harris… then… something might have been… different?

      • @qarbone@lemmy.world
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        That’s the thing American citizens/voters need to remember if/when we get past this term: Trump didn’t do this by himself. He was enabled and empowered by Republican (and a significant number of Democrat) members of legislation, as well as crooked judges across every level from state to Supreme. Trump will be kicked out and Republicans will say “Phew, that guy was a disaster! Right, guys? Good thing we all worked together and survived it.” And we can’t just let them do it; everyone currently serving in office from the GOP and 60% (if I’m being very generous to the remainder) of the Democrats should be barred from holding office again. Extend that to the judges too.

        The GOP has worked hard to sew shite into every strand of the fabric that binds the nation together. And so insiduously that many idiots will stare at a shite-brown rag and say it’s still the same, ol’ Red, White, and Blue they remember.

      • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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        03 months ago

        So, yes, if you were in front of the trolley lever, you’d remark “Wow, this system is fucked. Why do we even have trolleys? Shouldn’t they have brakes?”

        …and then not pull the lever.

        • @callouscomic@lemm.ee
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          13 months ago

          If? None of us are remotely close to any trolley lever. Grow up and get real. Your idealism is a garbage pile you treat as a high horse.

        • @AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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          None of you crypto-nazis can be honest about this discussion. You keep lying and presenting the choice as between two unequally bad options. If anything the democrats have been objectively worse in hindsight. There would have been no ceasefire if you had your way.

          Now that Trump is in office you want to put on your resistance hats again like we didn’t all just watch you rabidly support the genocide yourselves.

          • @WraithGear@lemmy.world
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            23 months ago

            It was the same cease fire that was on the table months ago, the only difference was that Isreal was going to continue the genocide until it looked good for their choice of president. And they didn’t even honor it.

            • @AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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              23 months ago

              The idea that the zionists were conditionally doing genocide for a year just to make your political opponent look good is fucking insane. You’re extremely stupid for not recognizing the relationship between the US and israel gave Biden the ability to stop it any day he wanted as well.

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                I didn’t say that. I said they were going to SAY they were going to honor a cease fire to favor a certain President. They fully intended to continue the genocide unabated either way.

                That cease fire was put forth under Biden’s watch and was “agreed to” right before the transition with the caveat that it was trumps team that succeeded. Do you not remember Biden getting raked over the coals for this when he was announcing it?

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                  Real fucking annoying how you both completely sidestepped my point and doubled down on the shit you began your comment lying about not saying. So I’m just going to repeat myself. Maybe this time it will sink in.

                  You’re extremely stupid for not recognizing the relationship between the US and israel gave Biden the ability to stop it any day he wanted.

                  • @WraithGear@lemmy.world
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                    03 months ago

                    In no way did i argue that Biden was not complicit in genocide, he could have just not given Israel weapons. He was, and trump is guilty of that. My only interjection was to point out that attributing the cease fire to trump is wrong not only because they were colluding to make trump look good, but they didn’t even honor the cease fire anyway so it’s a moot point. They both suck, trump sucks way harder.

    • @LotrOrc@lemmy.world
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      113 months ago

      I mean she entirely was.

      And considering the US blocked every ceasefire under her and Biden, and people pointed out even a year ago that the US and Israel want an alternative to the Suez canal, and people pointed out that Israel was moving Palestinians out with the US’s help in order to do this, all that happened. Pretty sure it was going exactly the same way. If you haven’t noticed, democrats aren’t exactly sitting up and saying this is ethnic cleansing or genocide even now. Or trying to fight it.

      • @slurpinderpin@lemmy.world
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        -133 months ago

        You’re an idiot and the reason Trump won and is ruining the country. Congrats you enlightened centrist. Stupid fuck

        • @LotrOrc@lemmy.world
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          113 months ago

          My guy I’m exceptionally left wing in my politics I’m not even close to centrist. I’m not sure how you got that from my response.

        • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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          43 months ago

          Hey, everybody, we need to ignore trolls like this. They’re trying to divide the left. Instead, we have to unite to fight Trump.

      • @Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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        And that’s all you care about- being right. Seems by your own admission, you are completely fine with what’s happening in Palestine either way,

        All you want is for everyone to agree with you that your opinion was the right one.

    • @dx1@lemmy.world
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      So, every hypothetical situation besides Trump winning, in the end, did not play out, due to the failure of the American population to mount a united opposition to Trump. Harris didn’t win, De la Cruz didn’t win, Stein didn’t win, West didn’t win, etc.

      Now let’s focus on this question for two seconds, because I don’t think you all have ever actually addressed it. Putting aside the supposed “viability” as a reason for to vote for them - since that’s circular logic before the election has even happened. Putting that ASIDE. Of all the non-Trump candidates, who, in the seat of the Presidency, would have been the best candidate for the job? Who, sitting in that office, would have produced the best outcome for Americans, or the world as a whole?