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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, fuck me for thinking vote for the lesser evil and work towards better

Yeah. Fuck you for that. Thinking like that blew the fucking election and handed the country to fascists. Thats what we're saying. Accepting or advocating for lesser evil loses elections time and again. If you were advocating for that approach in 2023/4, the fascism is on you.

Its the entire point we've been making since 2023.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So what was your alternative then, genius? Did you vote for the fucking green party? You third party people pretend to be moral but you're literally ejaculating at the chance to massively inflate your pathetic ego, meanwhile there are thousands of people in concentration camps all around the country because of your narcissistic bullshit.

You are responsible for that and just like the magat trash you should be held accountable. You stabbed your own neighbors in the back in the name of a bunch of people you've never even met. Fucking traitor. Fucking narcissist.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Move the fucking candidate to electable fucking positions you fucking dingus. You can't move the fucking electorate. Period. Accept the reality of how elections work and fucking adjust according shit-for-brains, instead of insisting a population vote for a candidate whose policies they don't want.

Blue MAGA did this to us you fucking moron. People who insisted that people just had to suck it up and fucking vote for genocide when instead they could have been insisting the candidate change her fucking position.

It's like you turds go through completely unwilling to accept the reality of how elections work. You just keep insisting that we have to rely on voter to just "do better when they never do.

If you can't accept that some people won't vote for a pro genocide candidate,and that you lost the election by insisting people do so, you are why we are here.