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[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 months ago

People who sat out on voting for Kamela over the Biden handling of Gaza voted for this.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

They never gave a shit about Palestine. It was just another example of "The Issue" for them to base their entire personality around to pose online.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

I'm married to a Palestinian and so I'm hyper-aware about lip service, and I think you're right. My perception is that they are weak-minded people too naive or stupid to realize they've been conned into sitting out the election by a right-wing psyop. And they also have this mentality that a candidate has to be perfect in every way (by their standards) or they won't sully their purity by voting for them. They're the same sort of people who shop at Whole Foods because anything less than perfect should never pass their lips, and don't notice or care that it's just funnelling their money to Bezos.

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[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

They're getting exactly what they voted for, but probably not what they wanted. But at least bLuE mAgA lost right guys?

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

The exact same thing would have happened under Harris. Remember, Harris is a strong ally of Israel...

[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

If only more people voted for the Democrats, Americans would have free health care, better education, and they wouldn't be owned by corporations. If only enough people voted for the Democrats, Americans would be living in a much better place. Just like when Democrats where in power the last times, it was utopia. Obama even closed Guantanamo!

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If only enough people voted for the Democrats, Americans would be living in a much better place.

I mean, literally, yes. Most of the EOs that Trump has signed won't be felt by the majority but trans kids are about to be bullied and committing suicide in much greater numbers, Latino Americans are going to have their families torn apart or be deported along with their family, careers are about to be ended for thousands, cancer research is getting paused, medications are going to get more expensive, progress on carbon reduction is grinding to a halt and probably reversing, and Federal aid is going to be tied to how much Presidential ass you're willing to kiss. And this is with barely any legislation being passed! It would have been 10x better keeping the status quo!

[-] ubergeek@lemmy.today -2 points 5 months ago

Why wasn't that done when Biden was in office?

Why didn't the dems get rid of the filibuster when they created the rules package for the Senate on like day 1 of Biden's term?

[-] TheOtherThyme@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[-] lemmingthelemmers@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Darnit gang! It's those pesky republicans that somehow regularly and readily beat us at our own game whether they have power or we do.

We haven't found a way to fight back in 30 years. It makes us seem kind of impotent and not worth voting for, but we promise this time it will be different. Like super promise. Totally promise.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You are confusing in power with absolute power. It's a very common issue with dishonest people.

[-] maplebar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Don't forget stupid fuckwads who never learned what Congress is or how the government works on even the most basic fucking level!

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[-] Saleh@feddit.org -1 points 5 months ago

Biden was just fueling the genocide and would have continued to do so for all eternity, while having Blinken pay some lip service.

Pretending like Biden or Harris would have done anything different is laughable. Also they gave Trump the argument to ethnically cleanse Gaza based on the destruction that was done with American weapons consistently given to Israel to do exactly that. The end goal for Biden and Harris was equally to extend the Israeli control as a means to extend the US empire.

Now the Democrats might be inclined to change their position and get rid of the Zionist elites that are poisoning the party since decades. Or they just go around claiming how their genocide was a better final solution than Trumps ethnic cleansing, emphasizing again, that human lifes of people outside the US are worthless to both sides of the empires political coin.

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Pretending like Biden or Harris would have done anything different is laughable

No, just your opinions. Tell me, if Biden wouldn't have done anything different, why did trump have to announce a change in what we planned on doing?

These hot takes are so laughably uninformed that it's no wonder trump won.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 0 points 5 months ago

Biden had an entire year to stop sending weapons to Israel. Harris had three months to take a stance publicly that differed from Bidens. Instead she blocked a group advocating for Palestinian rights at the DNC, while Israeli groups were allowed to speak. And the Palestinian group wanted to even tell people to vote for Harris despite everything. She blocked people advocating for electing her, because those people didnt share her support for Israel.

[-] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And what part of that is the same as what trump is doing?

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