Don’t worry, they have plenty like the above commenter who are willing to give them plenty of asspats and play apologist about how they opted to kill more of the people they supposedly want to save AND massacre American minorities.

I am happy that Democratic voters did not learn that they can support genocide and still win elections.

Unlike every other time we’ve supported the ongoing Israeli genocide and still won elections.

Good thing the anti-genocide party w-

Oh, what’s that?

The message sent is actually “More genocide is a winning position to the electorate”?

Huh. Almost like this was a stupid idea from the start by privileged types who won’t suffer the consequences of their actions.

Right, I don’t deny that Harris was less evil on other issues, but I do not subscribe to the ideology of lesser-evilism.

Yeah, fuck the lives of American minorities, you have to make yourself feel good when you’re in the voting booth! 😊

Harris and Biden are unconditionally supportive of everything Israel does. Short of direct involvement of the US military, it’s not really possible for Trump to be meaningfully worse than that.

Remind me of this genocide-downplaying take in three months or so, please.

MLs about to become free trade advocates.

[email protected] material!

Fascist cunt doing fascist cunt things. Fuck him.

If there’s anything good that could come out of this, Europe becoming a more equal partner in response to American instability would be nice.

Voting alone won’t do it. But please remember, Pinochet was voted out.

We need to support local organization and action, because without that, the vote is powerless under a fascist regime. But the vote, combined with strong popular institutions, remains powerful in all but the most withered of fascist states.

Biden did, but a big controversy is that the moderates all dropped out around the same time to rally around Biden, while Warren, the other major progressive in the race, stayed in just long enough to fuck Bernie’s chances. There’s definitely some… ill feeling still there.

Holy fucking shit, people are dumber than I thought. And I already thought they were pretty fucking dumb.

My friends used to say that if I was ever murdered, it would be weeks before anyone realized I was missing.

Not mine, just a pic I found online

Yeah, and they’re not gonna stop there. Like, they’ve openly announced as much since Trump became president-elect.

Don’t worry, just like how it was only fair that Ukraine and American minorities get genocided if Gaza was going to get genocided, abstaining voters have likewise decided it’s only fair for the West Bank to suffer genocide if Gaza is going to suffer genocide.

“Half of Gaza”

“Ceasefire”

Christ. You really aren’t paying attention, are you?

All those people who tried to save Palestinians must really regret not voting.

Tried to save Palestinians by ensuring the ethnic cleansing of all of Palestine. What a wonderful lot you are.

Yes, it’s definitely Palestinians we’ve been criticizing, well-known for their ability to vote in American elections.

And you were trying to do that by throwing a whole other demographic under the bus.

Yes, of course, that’s what I was trying to do by advocating for the less bad of two options. /s

Like, this wasn’t “I’m sacrificing the Palestinian people for my own safety”, it was “This is literally the least bad option for Palestine as well.” People in Palestine understood this. But apparently it’s too emotionally charged for some online ‘leftists’.

We will never go forward if we continue on in this manner instead of having solidarity, but that can never happen if you guys keep interpreting warnings and advice as Russian bots **and use that as an opportunity to tear down others, plug your ears, and prop up a genocide. **

This is quite hilarious considering the same people you’re defending.

And ya, I voted for Harris, they had some good policies, but it was a messaging thing.

See, every time a Dem loses, I’m told it’s messaging, but every time it’s pointed out what messages the Dem actually put out, it’s drowned out by the fact that both left and right do nothing but beat the drum on whatever they see as the Dem candidate’s weakness regardless of what their strengths are.

There was also stuff they could’ve said to appease the Muslim voters while still being vague for the pro-genocide people, like “We will uphold the law with regards to selling weapons to allies.” It’s not a 100% yes on the arms embargo but it gives hope to people looking for any lifeline on the Gaza issue. It’s like what she about the trans thing.

I don’t know, maybe something like saying the Palestinian people must be helped to “realize their right to dignity, security, freedom and self-determination” while calling for a ceasefire and saying she “will not be silent” on Gazan suffering?

Oh, wait, that’s right, the selfsame people who said “Calling for a ceasefire is all I need to vote for the Dem candidate” immediately moved their goalposts once it happened, because Palestinian genocide was never the actual issue. They don’t give a single fuck about more deaths or less deaths. They just want to play purity politics, and people giving them asspats for doing so are encouraging this behavior.

But anyway, they didn’t do that, and the signs for this result were there when liberals, like the ones in this very thread, refused to abandon bullying as a strategy, and continued to think they could just gaslight people into thinking it would work after it didn’t work in 2016.

“Bullying is when you point out that a strategy is dogshit and senseless, and the more you do it, the more bullying it is.”

Like, I don’t know what the fuck to tell you. You voted for Harris, so you clearly understand on some level that abstaining is a dogshit answer, but you seem to be bending backwards to accommodate morons who’ve just willfully assisted in the deaths of tens of thousands of people, minimum, for no other reason than their own vanity.

maybe it’ll work in 2028 if we still have democracy then,

Wow, I really wish someone would’ve emphasized that losing democracy was a very real consequence of throwing the election, but apparently, that’s bullying.

Time to do Reconstruction right.

She was trying to win an election, but what’s your excuse?

Trying to avoid additional genocides here at home, and being rightfully upset that me, my friends, and loved ones are now in the sights of genocide in addition to the Palestinian genocide getting worse and Ukrainian genocide being enabled by Trump and a potential invasion of Taiwan by the CCP?

I guess that’s all small stuff compared to virtue signaling over Palestine. Gotta maintain that spiritual attitude towards politics.

Please scour through my post history and find where I’ve ever told anyone how they should vote.

I don’t know if you, personally, were banging the don’t vote drum, and expressed no opinion on whether YOU were or not. You have, however, jumped in on a comment mocking those who thought that abstaining was in any way a moral choice and saw fit to equate that to ‘mocking people for caring about genocide’.

Having the backs of labor and the working class amounted for jack shit in actual results for dems.

But I was told that Dems lose because they don’t have the backs of labor and the working class, and that if they just fixed that, they’d win elections???