Fuck, this really opened my eyes. You ruined giraffe centaurs for me. D:

Voter turnout in swing states, the only ones where the voter total really matter in our trash electoral system, actually stayed the same or increased. You can check and compare the reuslts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. The large drop is due to turnout depression in blue strongholds where voters knew democrats would win. Trump won swinstates in spite of turnout. I want you to be more informed.

"Dems need to make changes sure but we also need to remind nonvoters they most definitely culpable for everything that happens in this administration. Why are you so averse to that?" The vast majority of voters and non voters are not on Lemmy or in your circles. The protest 3rd party votes and non voters are a small fraction of the overall turnout suppression that happens with a bad campaign. My frustration is that I'm already seeing individuals like yourself and establishment democrats learning the wrong lessons. What you're saying is the same lesson the Democrats have learned in past elections and it's what will keep them losing. Rather than energizing support with a populist campaign and policies they only campaign as the status quo compared to the Republican threat and it is not working.

Obama won by a large margin in 2008 because people were energized by the promise of change. Rather than delivering on that promise or learning that that was effective messaging they thought they had gained party loyalty that they could exchange for corporate friendly policy.

You're right nonvoters, Trump voters, etc are culpable for this loss. My frustration is seeing so much focus on it. Shaming people did not did not work this election and it won't work in the next. The issue wasn't that you didn't shame.hard enough. Keep doing it if it makes you feel better, but you're yelling at a wall.

They call all Democrats dirty socialists already. If you start running somebody with popular policies it'll be harder to boogie man them away.

How am I making excuses?

I would have liked Trump to lose. When assessing what went wrong we need to look at the causes. You can say, "these lazy dumb idiots didn't vote," but that isn't a fix. That's only identifying a problem. We now need to figure out how to get lazy dumb idiots to vote.

My frustration is that its the job of a political party to motivate lazy dumb idiots and the democrats haven't been doing a very good job.

For fucks sake read the words im about to write.

It sucks that those people didnt vote. I think that they should have voted. It's even okay to be mad at them for not voting, but that's not the important part. None of that fixes anything. I think its more important to look at why they didn't vote and how to get them to vote.

Wanting to make them hurt because we're hurting is not a strategy. The problem is that people did not vote for Kamala Harris. Trump's turnout increased in 2024. Do you think Republicans shamed their voters or do you think that they offered change? The solution is not to lash out at other voters. The solution is to identify people not voting as a problem, but to then look at the root causes of that problem. I can promise that the problem is not that you didn't vote shame people hard enough.

Looking for reasons why something happened does not excuse it, but it does help you understand why it happened.

Pence was Trump's last Vice President. His politics are as bad as any other republican, but he did the bare minimum of admitting to losing the last election and didn't take part in any of the election overthrowing funny business.

I'm not falling for that officer.

There's a difference between justifications and reasons. I'm exhausted seeing people use the fact that atrocities are unjustified to hand wave away the reasons and circumstances that led to those atrocities.

The massacring of innocents isn't justified, but the reason it happened isn't that people magically became evil. The reason is that enduring apartheid oppression pushes people to extremism.

I don't think she's the Disney in charge.

I'll give both a shot just in case.

No clue why you're being down voted. Youre right.

Gates chose to patent life saving medicine during a global pandemic.

The consequences of that decision are essentially withholding lifesaving medicine because it makes him more money.

I just looked it up and they charge up to $1000 if you block ads or tamper with it. They have all sorts of crazy requirements too.

I checked the profile too. Today I learned that being pro Palestine and posting food pictures is a far right government plot to make the Biden administration look bad.

For thousands of years there have been people who told us things can't go on like this.

Another reply pointed out that even if it's true you have nothing better to do than try. Those in power benefit from our defeatist attitudes. I don't blame you though. Shit looks grim.

It is, but she's turning 68.

I read it as the turtle questioning their gender identity.

Do we bomb banks when the robbers have hostages?

Killing civilians because they're in the way is BAD. Reporting shows Iarael is making minimal efforts to limit civilians casualties. That's a war crime. War crimes are bad.

I'm so fucking exhausted.

Edit: Before anybody tries a gotcha. Taking hostages and human shields are bad too. Multiple things can be bad at once.

Yup and the girlfriend has 0 obligation to deal with it.

Nothing ever mattered? D:

There's a big difference between a bigger slice of the pie and taking all of the pies and making everybody share the crumbs. It's an incomprehensible wealth disparity.

If the barrel is big enough for the hoof to fit snuggly it'll stop the bullet.

The date?

Looney toons = Nazi misinformation

Leave language alone motherfuckers not speaking in Old English. smh

Boooobs or super naturals.

Sometimes I upvote/downvote posts and comments on accident while scrolling... I might be giving people too much credit though.

You're so right and smart. On that note it's weird that nobody wants the US to bomb their own schools when an active shooter is holding up there.

Level the whole school. That will prevent future shooters.

It likely is, but she most recently used the same phrase to shutdown pro-palestine protestors at a rally.

When you're as old as the pope setting up a website seems like a miracle.

You have to lick your fingers after handling them like it's cheeto dust.

And they were devastated by it.

"Insider was unable to independently confirm what was found, but Israeli media outlets have also reported the claim, attributing it to soldiers."

"The spokesperson told Insider that although he hadn't seen images or videos himself, 'soldiers on the ground who are there told me this.'"

From your own article they are the unconfirmed claims from somebody who's job it is to spread propaganda.

Edit: To be clear the actions that are known to have been committed are horrific, but a group like Hamas does not appear from nothing. The perpetuation of an apartheid state is met with backlash.

"I'm speaking."

She has used this multiple times, but most recently it was to shut down people protesting the genocide of palestinians.

Edit: Who's downvoting my factual and verifiable answer to their question?

Capitalism is so good. Would you rather be insert nation exploited by capitalists?

People can already divorce if they are being abused or cheated on. By making it a legal requirement that must be proven you make it more difficult for these people to leave those marriages and put the burden of proof onto them. You aren't going to reduce domestic abuse with a policy like that.

I literally just threw up. I feel better now though.

But what if the person on the other side was parked over the line and I had to leave space to get out and then they left and now I look like I parked like an asshole and then some asshole uses that as an excuse to ding my car.

Plenty of that money has gone to killing Palestinian children. We need a more equitable distribution of resources if we're sending money over. I don't think we need equal amounts of rockets, but aid and a cease fire. If you don't trust the channels that money will go to that's what we have 3rd party humanitarian groups for.

You can think Hamas is evil. That wasn't my point. What do you think makes normal people turn into the types of people that join Hamas?

Do you want to reduce the amount of serial killers? You reduce the amount of abusive upbringings.

Do you want to reduce the amount of extremists?

I'm on here because work is slow.