• jmanes@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Lashing out against all Americans is misguided. I didn’t vote for Trump. You gonna yell at me too? Maybe show some empathy for those of us affected rather than talking trash to a group of people who are now disadvantaged by these recent SC decisions. Especially the one about discrimination.

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      Same here, didn’t vote for Trump, held my fucking nose and conformed and voted Hillary in 2016 because I was still a socdem back then and I was scared. Then 2020 rolls around, centrist democrats backstab Bernie and simultaneously rally behind Joe Biden’s lukewarm corpse to stop a progressive from gaining any more momentum. Now they sit on their hands every step of the way, no effort to remove the filibuster, Biden and congress come together to stop the railroad strike, no effort to pack the court, nothing.

      I’ve voted in every fucking election (local, state, national, midterms, etc.) since 2008 when I turned 18. It doesn’t fucking make any difference. Candidates are chosen and corporations always win. The system is working as intended for those who it was built for. Hint: It is not me or you.

      I keep seeing these annoying libs lash out towards leftists for the mistakes of the Democrat party. Democrats back some of the most unlikable candidates, backstab their own, don’t exercise their power when they do have it, are condescending, overly worried about optics and decorum, and do almost nothing to combat the broken hydrant of lies and vitriol coming from Republicans.

      Almost 100 million eligible Americans didn’t vote in 2016. And yes we know the electoral college, gerrymandering, voter id laws, material conditions, etc, impact that number. Yet libs don’t seem to have the mental capacity to ever look inward and analyze the conditions that resulted in these outcomes. They are so fucking dense.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t vote for Trump

      But did you defend Clinton against those baseless accusations or debunk false information? Or did you phone bank or try to get new people registered for voting?

      Because just voting is not enough.

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        1 year ago

        I absolutely defended her and rallied folks to vote in that election. I live in Missouri, though, which means we are constantly outnumbered. I tried, though.

        Advice for you: drop the internet virtue signaling and assumptive behavior.