• @jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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    14 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.

    • @Funkwonker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      04 months ago

      I still can’t get over how they were essentially presented with a simplified version of the trolley problem and chose to not pull the lever.

      By their own narrative that “the democrats are complicit in a genocide in Gaza”, they were aware that Palestinians were metaphorically tied to both tracks, yet decided to not pull the lever when America itself and every marginalized person living within was also on the track the trolley barreled towards.

      • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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        24 months ago

        Why the fuck did the democrats leave Palestinians to their tracks?

        This didn’t have to be a difficult problem where we’re forced to vote for genocide. The only people at fault for the democrats doing something as wildly unpopular as genocide, silencing anyone who said “You need to stop this if you want to win”, and reaping the effects of that policy being unpopular are the democrats.

      • @Iceman@lemmy.world
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        14 months ago

        I find it scary how easily people where fine with having genocide on both sides of the ticket.

      • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        04 months ago

        I suspected that many of the accounts were Russian plants or Trump supporters trying to divide the Democrat vote. Most of the time when I checked account age they were made either that day or the day before.

        I know that Lemmy is new and all but still was sus.

        I haven’t gone back to accounts to see if they are still active. I suspect that they aren’t.

        • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Even worse, I think those Tankies really were just Tankies. They don’t want the USA to be fixed, they don’t care about creating actual socialism, they just want us all to off each other. I would get into discussions with those supposed purists abstaining from Kamala in democrat centric discussions and they almost always out themselves as another masked up Tankie talking about the USA as an evil empire that needs more destruction.

          They’re still active now, too, trying to promote their version of “resistance” which is just more of the nation harming itself until nothing is left to oppose the CCP.

        • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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          04 months ago

          I suspect that what we saw here on lemmy were actual people who had been indoctrinated elsewhere.

          Lemmy isn’t really big enough to be a target for bots and so on.

          • @Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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            04 months ago

            Bots are cheap to write. That’s naive to think there wasn’t a disinformation war going on with bots being on the forefront of it.

            • @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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              14 months ago

              Hmm, I’m not naive enough to believe that Lemmy is free from disinformation and bad actors, but I would be surprised if it was targeted by sophisticated state actors.

    • @eatCasserole@lemmy.world
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      04 months ago

      I’m not sure the incessant chorus of 'I told you so’s is really helping the cause.

      Personally, I’m watching the dumpster fire from up on your hat, without any option to participate in your elections either way, but it’s still getting pretty grating. Surely, there’s a better strategy.

      • @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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        04 months ago

        Yes, because hopefully if we point out how much not voting has hurt us and everyone else, these dimwits will actually choose the lesser evil next time instead of letting the greater evil win

        • OBJECTION!
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          04 months ago

          We absolutely will not. Take that into account and stop thinking it’s a bluff you can call.

          • @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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            4 months ago

            We absolutely will not

            Better to let the greater evil win, eh? If some Palestinians are bound to die, better that American transes die too?

            *I have literally seen people on Lemmy share this sentiment

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            Mods are fascists, so I have to reply to replies in an edit

            You asked for examples of the things we were saying, I provide examples of the things I’m saying, and now it doesn’t count because there weren’t enough people saying that American transes should get genocided. This is like the definition of moving the goalpost

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              You need to update your rhetoric. The Democrats have already started talking about how they lost because of their support for trans rights and plan to move away from that. Your line in 2028 is, “If Palestinians and trans people are bound to die, we might as well let the Republicans win and go after bi people too, eh?” But maybe you should start practicing for 2032 and say, “Oh, so if Palestinians, trans people, and bi people are bound to die, we should let the Republicans win and go after lesbians too?”

              Or, instead of walking down the list of “then they came for’s,” we could draw a red line and say that if they keep walking down that path, we will make it impossible for them to win. And if enough people do, then they will either have to give in or be replaced.

              Edit: You posted two removed comments that nobody upvoted lol. Reminds me of that Bloomberg ad about random Twitter users saying mean things lol.

    • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      04 months ago

      What the fuck are we supposed to say? We spent a year and a half doing everything in our power to show the dems what they need to do to have a chance to win, they chose genocide instead.

      • @Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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        14 months ago

        And we (informed voters) spent a year and a half painting you a very detailed picture of what was going to happen if you didn’t suck it up and do what was necessary to keep a rapist traitor out of the White House. Hell… even HE spent a year and a half telling you exactly what he was going to do.

        Remember Project 2025? Yeah… that is the actual name of what’s happening right now.

        Sooo……

        What the fuck are we supposed to say?

        Start with: “I’m sorry” and work from there. Because anything short of this is unacceptable.

        • @alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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          04 months ago

          The only thing that would have kept Trump out of the whitehouse was for the democrats to stop facilitating genocide.

          You blue MAGA are the ones who helped them maintain the delusion they could have both their genocide and win. You helped them maintain the delusion they could have won with Biden until 5 months before the election.

        • spirinolas
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          04 months ago

          To be honest, of all the posts I’ve seen of the shit Trump is pulling, all I’ve seen is comments complaining of the Democrats who didn’t vote. The actual story in the post…crickets. It’s unnerving when you want to actually see comments about the subject of the post and all the comments are “wwuuaahhh, you didn’t vote for Harris it’s all your fault” against people who aren’t even reading the goddamn posts. I’m sick of it!

          Like…I hear you guys. I don’t fully agree but I hear you. But for fuck sakes, let it go, lets talk about the actual post instead of going on and on about the perceived injustice the Democrats have suffefed. Right or wrong, it’s done! Let it go!

          • @Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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            Did you think that maybe it’s because we all already knew about all of this shit? So it’s not as important for us to spend time discussing it because…

            WE ALREADY HAVE BEEN FOR THE PAST YEAR.

            • spirinolas
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              14 months ago

              Yes, I know you know. You are all very smart and sofisticated. But by being stuck on your complaining you are preventing people from discussing what really matters. In my case I see a post about the latest Trump antic, I go in with a opinion to give and eager to see other people’s insights.

              But it’s all “wuahhhaaa…it’s all their fault” and the actual shit that Trump pulled takes the back seat and is buried in your moping. So I’ve mostly given up on commenting on these posts even though I agree more with you than not. Trump himself couldn’t censor me more effectively.

              Your priority is being right. And since the shit that Trump does makes it easier for you to feel right then that is all you want the world to know. How right you are and how wrong the others were. And they should say “sorry” for eternity so you can feel right forever, while Trumps rapes your butt because your ego is what matters.

              I want to be angry with you. But ultimately I just find it sad and depressing.