it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior
it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior
I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?
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This push to demonize the strawman protest voters is an ongoing propaganda campaign to cause poor people to infight.
Strawman?
6.27 Million more people voted for Biden in 2020 than Harris in 2024. That's not strawmanning, those fuckers stayed home and that is exactly why we are in the current situation.
Cool. Neither party was palatable for a huge amount of people, wonder why.
If I'm offered a plate of tomatoes, which I hate, and a pile of shit as choices to eat, both are not palatable to me. But that doesn't make them the same.
Yes but if the person handing you the tomatoes had been handing you tomatoes your entire life while promising chocolate cake you'd be a lot less happy about it. Especially if they also said "We're not going to change anything and if you have a problem with tomatoes you need to take Econ 203 to understand why you're wrong for being upset."
Democrats need to get people enthusiastic to vote. Not getting shit on a plate is not enough to get people to vote.
I voted. But for a lot of people it was like this,
You hear about a restaurant that only serves shit and tomatoes. So you don't go. I understand that that isn't really how that works but that is how so many felt about this.
I don't wanna beat the analogy into the ground so I'll let it go. But the point is, ones of them was going to be president. You will HAVE to deal with one of them. Refusing to vote is making the statement that you're ok with the worst outcome, because of you weren't ok with it you would have taken action to prevent that worst outcome. This is the general "you", not you specifically obviously, since you voted.
I feel like a lot of people thought "I don't like either, so I won't vote" ignoring that they will be impacted either way, so it's not a matter of who you like, it's a matter of effecting the outcome to get the best result possible. Even if that isn't perfect for you.
I agree with you. A lot of apathetic voters will only vote for something that will benefit them not to prevent something that may harm them in my experience.
I voted and I'm still impacted. It was a fruitless effort.
Let’s say you’re completely right. How does insulting people’s poor choices 4 months ago help us in the present? We can’t create resistance and solidarity if we hold grievances from the past.
Because some people, mostly just tankies and anarchists pretending to be moral abstainers, are unapologetic about helping elect fascism. By exposing and shaming them, onlookers will reconsider their own stance.
There are actual Nazis in this administration, and you’re worried about “tankies?” Get it together man.
Because the people who enable to problem are part of the problem.
I'm a war you will cut off supply lines for the same reason, errode support. The commander doesn't say "people are dying on the front line and you're worried about stopping trucks transport bread? Get it together man."
God forbid the tankies should fight the Nazis again, right?
One’s enemies can exist on two fronts. It’s happened before.
“We are fighting the wrong enemy.” Allen Dulles expressed this sentiment in 1942, while serving as the Swiss director of the OSS. He had reevaluated the ongoing war with Nazi Germany and decided that the Communist threat was far graver than the National Socialist one.
You’re in good company
The Tankies are promoting abstaining to help elect the actual Nazis and it fucking worked, so yes I'm worried about the fucking Tankies.
Tankies want 1 thing: "the end of US Imperialism" which is to say for us to all off ourselves so that NATO stops getting in China's way.
Are the tankies in the room with us now?
Take a look around.
Yes.
Are the Tankies in office? Prioritize and Organize.
Well...
2018
"He's now president for life, president for life. And he's great," Trump said, according to audio of excerpts of Trump's remarks at a closed-door fundraiser in Florida aired by CNN. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday," Trump said to cheers and applause from supporters.
2020
Our relationship with China has now probably never, ever been better," Trump said, adding that he gets on well with President Xi Jinping. "He's for China, I'm for the U.S., but other than that, we love each other."
2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has “always had a great relationship” with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that he looks forward to “getting along with China.”
Yeah, fucking looks like it.
JDPON Don strikes again.
Maybe if some of them would accept responsibility, it would go a long way towards creating that resistance.
I’d actually have a lot of respect for someone someone that could admit they made a huge mistake, because it means they are self aware enough to know that their own behavior has consequences also.
And I can get behind people humble enough to own their mistakes.
But most of these people have the gall to blame people who voted for Harris, or blame Harris herself for not being perfect in every way.
So unless they find some humility, there won’t be any solidarity and I would even go so far as to urge others to refuse to find solidarity with anyone that does not have enough strength of character to own their mistakes.
Guess we should give up then, since things didn’t go our way. Right?
If that’s what you’re taking from what I said, then maybe your should read it again a few times.
Unless you mean to say that you’d rather suffer divided than own your part in the reason for it.
Or worse, to exacerbate racial tensions, is one possibility I fear.
If you agree with them, then why did you post this?
it's generating productive discussion
also there's nothing really to "agree" with or not; it's a question only and I have been doing my best not to come down with immediate judgement toward those answering the question
Gives some serious "just asking questions" vibes.
The image definitely provides a pretty clear perspective. People seem to be reacting to either agreeing or disagreeing with that perspective. Why is the main focus on those that abstained rather than on those that voted Trump? I don't really see any productive conversations happening. Just the same people reiterating the same talking points. The data makes it clear that Gaza was not a big issue for voters, and no one is really going to change their mind on either side of that even if it WAS the deciding factor in the election. This seems like a distraction and a great way to sow division.
Yeah. I thought this sort of shit would've been cut down after those CIA layoffs trump did or whatever, or, that's what everyone's been jokingly saying, at least. Probably it's more along the lines that social media companies keep selectively propagating this shit because they're a revolving door with those three letter agencies anyways. Saw a LOT of black liberals posting with starbucks cups and mcdonald's after the election, and talking about how they want to buy beachfront property in gaza, because the michigan vote didn't come through for Kamala. Most of those people probably weren't conforming to the boycott in the first place, and more broadly didn't give a shit at all, but still, incredibly harrowing stuff, there.
Anyways yeah I agree with the other guy, if you wanted to spurn discussion, you probably would've been better off posting some shit that's not like, immediately just blaming the protest votes? Is in better faith more generally? Probably wouldn't gain as much traction exclusively because of that, as is the case with the site, but you'd at least not be contributing to that sort of bad faith discussion as much, which I think the initial post is doing.
It isn't a straw man, it is observation .
Well, no, because I've been asking myself the same question for a while now. And I don't have that agenda. Lol