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People who sat out on voting for Kamela over the Biden handling of Gaza voted for this.
Hmm... not sure if its just those people who swayed the election. I think you are overestimating just how little the average American care about brown kids dying in the middle east.
If you look at the inflation, its correlated with Biden's presidency, but voters don't understand the idea of
Correlation =/= Causation
They forgot the whole Covid thing caused it, it was trump fucking up covid that exacerbaed the inflation.
And voters immediately thought its Biden's fault, so those who voted democratic in 2020, decided to not vote because "prices didn't go down so why bother voting"
It was death by 1000 cuts, but let's not pretend Gaza wasn't a major contributing factor on top of a feels-over-reals vibecession due to pandemic inflation.
So, the spike in homelessness was just an illusion people were feeling?
Man, I wish people told the ones doing the evictions that it's all just an illusion....
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.
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.
They're getting exactly what they voted for, but probably not what they wanted. But at least bLuE mAgA lost right guys?
The exact same thing would have happened under Harris. Remember, Harris is a strong ally of Israel...
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.
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.
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.
And what part of that is the same as what trump is doing?
How many thousands of Palestinians died under bidens administration? How many billions in weapons were sold? This is not laughable in the slightest.
Keep blaming and crying about the voters neoliberal corporate-whorism failed to motivate!
It's worked out well for you so far...
Sorry the prospect of keeping a literal fascist out of the most powerful office in the world didn't get you off, I guess? Sorry you don't understand the difference between neoliberalism and fascism? Sorry you prefer fascism? I don't really understand what y'all's hangup was.
This is a democratic republic, or well it was... The people (the demos in democratic), absolutely deserve much of the blame for how they voted.
A functioning adult brain shouldn't need to be "motivated" to do what is obviously the better choice for them, their family, the country and the world. And yet here we are, a land of endless useful idiots, thinking they are making a stand while doing exactly what empowers the corporate oligarchy the most.
So is genocider A or genocider B the right choice?
Do you prefer a red genocide or a blue genocide?
Or will you admit it's just Red v Blue for you, rather than principled choices?
My principled choice says fuck Netenyahu, fuck Hamas, fuck Donald Trump, fuck Yahweh, fuck Mohammah, and fuck useful, easily manipulated idiots who desperately search for a new excuse every 4 years to let perfection be the enemy of progress.
Congratulations, you're about to see what real scorched earth genocide and mass relocation looks like.
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!
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!
You are confusing in power with absolute power. It's a very common issue with dishonest people.
Don't forget stupid fuckwads who never learned what Congress is or how the government works on even the most basic fucking level!