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this thread is full of people placing blame on everyone except the people who actually voted for trump. face the facts: the democrats could have put caucasian jesus on the ticket and trump would still have won.

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Dog shit voter turnout isn't committing no mistakes, it's the definition of a mistake.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Take this on an individual level there bud, it made me smile after I tried hard to get people to vote, made sure to vote myself, talked about the issues - this hits home for me

[–] Lwaxana@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it was the second highest turnout in the past century but please explain to the people why the democrats are the actual problem

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you want to do a le epic mic drop moment about what you think my meta-point is, be sure first. Your reading comprehension needs work.

[–] wick@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yea you're clearly saying they should make voting compulsory. Some people smh.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

The Democrats, in hindsight, fucked up with the economy and/or the messaging.

Did inflation happen because of the groundwork that Trump laid down in his term (not to mention global pandemic)? Sure


but did inflation get really bad under Biden? Yes, absolutely. That doesn't make it his fault, but it makes it a problem that the Democrats probably needed to address more aggressively, an all-out attack on rising cost of living.

At the start of the pandemic, for me to carry $100 of normal weekly groceries home from the supermarket was a real challenge, but I could do it. Now, I carry $100 no problem, with a toddler on my shoulders. The money doesn't really matter to me, but from what I've been reading, it really mattered to a lot of voters. Again: I think his will be worse under Trump (if it does get better, it'll be due to some shady tax rebates to supermarkets or big ag or something, IMHO).

So while the Dems are talking about first time home credits and whatnot, Vance is out there lying about the price of eggs


but it's a lie that "feels" right to a lot of people, and anecdotally, has some truth to it in that inflation/cost of living increase is real. Nevermind that the R policy is...what, exactly? But they say they'll fix it, and they point out that Dems are currently in power, and that's enough for a lot of people.

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah? Well you know who I blame?
The democrats.

[–] Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

y'all will blame anyone before you blame the people who voted for him

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gimmie someone worth voting for, fuck.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd prefer democrats to get rid of First Past The Post voting and to stop blocking other political parties from participating.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

The Maquis have a lot of good points.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

And rhymes with where I'd rather be.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Open to discussion, but since 2008, the Democrats have won every election where the leadership didn't "put their finger on the scale" in the primaries/picking the candidate. Obama, Obama; Clinton arguably shouldn't have been the nominee and Sanders should have; Biden was (?) properly primaries; Harris was picked


obvious pick, but still, not primaried.

Or the other reason, that the US is too sexist to elect a woman. It's depressing either way of course.

[–] Lwaxana@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

face facts, if biden had lost the internet would have blamed the dnc and said bernie would have won

america has a ton of racists and sexists and some of yall keep trying to blame the non racists and sexists for all the racism and sexism

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You made a big mistake using this quote like this.

[–] wick@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

9 out of 10 trusted schizophrenics recommend blaming the invisible hand of fate.