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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Good thing we didn’t elect GENORCIDE JOE.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (45 children)

But Biden wouldn’t give me everything exactly the way I wanted! Guess I’ll just throw my vote away so Trump can win 🙄

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

True. Instead of repeating the state propaganda verbatim, NYT now needs to do crazy word plays on Trumps honesty to sell the genocide to their audience.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're both exactly the same, right?

Right!?!

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yep, other than a dozen critically important issues, exactly the same! And of course Trump is as bad or worse on Palestine. Great move for these self-proclaimed communists to help get a true fascist elected.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Trump could execute the last living Palestine on live tv and these idiots would still claim they made the right choice.

They don't actually give a fuck about Palestinians, it's virtue signaling in its purest form.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The fact that the Democratic Party threw the election was absolutely not a good thing. In order to win an election, a campaign needs to offer concessions to voters to earn as many votes as possible. Something the Democratic Party's Campaign decisively chose not to do, and in fact do the opposite.

The total uncommitted in the Primary was 706,591 (Which may have been undercounted) which is absolutely massive for a primary. On average, general turnout is twice that of primary turnout. The Democratic Party knew that at they were risking at least 1.4 million votes by ignoring the issue. They also knew throughout the whole campaign that a vast majority of their constituents wanted weapons embargo and permanent ceasefire (required by domestic and international law), plus a majority of independents and Republicans. There was no valid reason for the Democratic Party to ignore the demands of that many voters, especially if trying to win an election

Instead, they chose to arrest thousands of student protestors, gave billions of dollars to a genocide at the tax payers expense consistently for 15 months, actively suppressed the voices and representation of the main victims of the genocide, and campaigned with Liz Cheney (who was actively involved with the Bush-Cheney foreign policy in the middle east and enthusiastically pro ethnic cleansing of Palestinians). They chose to do all that instead of represent the view of the majority of their constituents and abide by domestic/international law.

And that was just one of the major issues, along with immigration and the economy, that tanked the approval of the Democratic Party. If the Democratic Party wanted to actually win against Trump they would have done everything to gain as many votes as possible. They chose not to. They threw the election and let an unpopular fascist win.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

concessions to voters

You mean lies. You wanted them to lie more.

And I agree. The Republicans do it so the Democrats need to as well. It's just harder to lie to thinking folks.

I mean. I want them to hang the 1% throw their children to the wolves spread the bounty of earth to everyone dig canals and run public transit ferries with compensated live artists and open bars that I can use to travel to museums, libraries, and orgies.

But barring that yea maybe like dress your fucking corporate genocide agenda up a little better.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I want them to have actual actions, both in popular policies and effective politics. But yes, they couldn't even be bothered to lie about enacting progressive policies that would improve the material needs of the working class. Such as codifying abortion rights, expanding Medicare to universal healthcare, implementating public housing and expanding renter's rights/protections, cracking down on corporations on not only price gouging but also trust busting, implementating expansive public infrastructure projects. Under the policy spoiler you can find a whole bunch of policies that are overwhelmingly popular with every American and would improve people's livelyhood. It would be the best way to fracture the Republican base of support, but it would require going after the bottom line of corporations.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That would have been impossible as he wasn't even running.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This is true. That didn't stop the "genorcide joe" people from acting as if he was though, by connecting Harris to him.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Ny times has proven again they are zionist. The wrote multiple article about gaza genocide disputing facts and even got called out by Israeli news media .

These outlet lives in the 1990 thinking people cant easily find out the truth.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He already eliminated global aid.

That aid was soft power he gave away. And since we're the baddies/monsters, it's probably for the best we've lost so many coersion chips.

I say this as an American, fuck us up world.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

"I've been a bad boy"

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The New York Crimes: White Washing Israel's genocide and war crimes since 1948. Now with more bootlicking

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