• Whateley@lemm.ee
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    22 hours ago

    “The whole world is laughing at us.”

    No, they’re laughing at Trump voters. The rest of us they just feel sorry for.

    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Nah, we’re also laughing at the non-voters and third-party voters. Even some of the Democratic voters are worthy of ridicule.

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        10 hours ago

        There is a special kind of laugh for the useful idiots who blame non-voters for not voting rather than the party leadership of the party they wanted to win for refusing to do the bare minimum to turn those non-voters into voters.

        It’s the same kind of laugh reserved for people who, when their own team plays horribly and loses to a crap team, blame the referee.

        • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
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          6 hours ago

          I bet most of the people who didn’t vote didn’t even know the platforms of the parties beyond a few generic sound bites.

          Anyway, voting is a civic duty; it doesn’t matter if none of the parties’ platforms excite you, it’s your job as a citizen to vote for the good of your country. Most adults go to the dentist even if they don’t get a toy afterwards.

          • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            6 hours ago

            Well, I too think voting is a civic duty.

            My point being that judging by the levels of voting abstention all over the World, many (probably most) people, don’t think that.

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          9 hours ago

          there’s enough blame to go around for the non voters AND the dem leadership to be at fault for harris’s loss.

          Stopping trump should have been a good enough reason to get more people voting AND the dems should have done more to get those votes. Both are true.

          • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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            2 hours ago

            Do Americans not have any “protest” votes, either third party candidates, or “declining” your ballot? To me, that shows that you are politically engaged and willing to take a few minutes out of your day to do your civic duty, rather than being apathetic and/or lazy.

      • tym@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        I’m curious what qualifies a “democratic voter” as worthy of ridicule - can you give me some examples?

        Much like an outsider looking in at your country (whatever it is), there’s a ton of nuance to every culture. For example; I’m a decendant of a family that settled in New England in 1603 and I can’t fucking stand the 2 party system. I’ve always wanted to abolish lobbyism, set term limits on congress critters, and outlaw insider trading for both politicians and their immediate families - but my average neighbor gets exhausted if I talk about anything but the simple stupid pleasures. I identify as an adult with compassion and a vision for my kids’ future so that makes me a defacto dem because anything else is spoon-feeding the grand ole wizard party a victory.

        Tons of us have been trapped here our whole lives and have tried to organize over the years. I know it seems like all finger-pointing and inaction from afar, but it’s more nuanced than that.

        Edit: Not to mention that civil unrest is the whole point at this stage. Project 2025 has the penultimate goal of suspending the writ of habeus corpus by June 30th while simultaneously deploying the US Military as a civilian police force.

        https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/763

        • Saleh@feddit.org
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          6 hours ago

          Everybody who didn’t vote uncommitted in the primaries to protest against having Biden pushed down onto people by the DNC. Everybody who defended voting for Biden and lying about his mental state, when there has been plenty of videos where Biden clearly was not at the mental capacities needed to be president another 4 years.
          Everybody who immediately jumped on the Harris bandwagon, instead of demanding proper primaries, so the DNC and candidate can actually get in touch with the problems of normal people, instead of the interests of their billionaire donors.
          Everybody who didn’t demand the Democrats to stop the support for the genocide in Gaza immediately and tried to justify genocide with “well this is the less of two genocides, so it’s okay.”
          Everybody that celebrated billionaire celebrities like Taylor Swift coming out in favor of Harris, like these billionaires aren’t part of the same oligarchy that is fucking over normal people. Everybody that didn’t tell the fucking war criminal muss murder scumbags that are the Cheneys to fuck right off and get the people thrown out of Harris campaign, that had this ingenious idea.

          If you made a Venn-Diagram there would be a lot of overlap in the middle, but all of these aspects contributed to the Democrats consistently alienating voters.

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        I imagine you think you’re one of those special few that people aren’t laughing at huh?

        We’re all in some way or another part of the problem don’t try to paint yourself out.

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        18 hours ago

        No, we’re also laughing at the “yOu VoTe FeR tHe LeAsT aWfUl CaNdIDaTe” guys.