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These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

And most of all we can blame the DNC for being so shit, that people preferred Trump over their choice.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Most of all we can blame the voters who dont care about their democracy. No matter what the DNC did. If they have a fascist as an opponent they should win

[–] DictatrshipOfTheseus@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And that really is it. The only ones to blame here are the Democrats! They are the ones who insisted on funding genocide and taking every opportunity to prove they're moving ever further to the right (which they are) for the sake of courting so-called moderate Republicans, and constantly spitting in the face of genuine progressives that are supposed to be their base.

"You had better vote for us because Trump is even worse!" is the only sincere response they had for anyone concerned with their inaction on everything important from women's rights to climate change, and their actively trying to be even worse than Trump on things like deportation and the border! It's no wonder that people who care about these things, people who care about other people being literally genocided, didn't want to vote for the Democrats who made a show of how much they love sending money and weapons to the genociders.

Yet so many people here even in this thread don't want to blame the responsible party - the Democrats themselves - but instead lay it all on the people who absolutely have good reason and every right not to want to vote for these people hurting them just because the other guy might hurt them worse. That's deeply abusive. Everyone who is saying "Fuck you for not voting!" is sickening to me. It's bordering on victim blaming. They should be saying "Fuck you for not being remotely worth voting for!" to the Democrats! The fact that we now have another 4 years of Trump is 100% the fault of the Democrats themselves, so direct your anger at them, where it belongs.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

No one has good reason to choose fascism over democracy. The non voters and third party voters did exactly that. They are the same kind of scum as MAGA and will go down in history as exactly that.