• @[email protected]
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      Maybe Harris and the Democrats should’ve spent less time chasing Republicans and fascists for votes.

      I voted for her btw. But is incredible how Dem voters repeatedly allow their leadership to be so weak and outt of touch.

      • Flying Squid
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        And maybe people who repeatedly told others “don’t vote for Harris” should claim some culpability for people not voting for Harris…

        But it’s amazing that every time I suggest that, someone has to talk about the faults of the Harris campaign as if you can’t blame more than one party. It’s whataboutism.

        If you [general you] tell people not to vote for Harris and they don’t vote for Harris and then Trump wins, you have some culpability.

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          Those people weren’t running for president. They may be culpable but it’s no where near the same level as the actual party leadership.

          Dems conveniently blame everyone but their own leadership every time they lose an election and therefore never learn anything from it.

          • Flying Squid
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            Cool. I’m not a Democrat and this isn’t about the Democrats. This is about the people who wanted others to not vote for Harris. Stop trying to change the subject.

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              Who are these people you’re claiming said “don’t vote for Harris?” You and I had plenty of back and fourths before and after the election about what a shit job Biden (and then Harris) was doing campaigning but I never once told anyone who to vote for and I don’t recall anyone else doing that either. You seem to conflate “valid criticism of a candidate and their policies” to “telling you who to vote for” and that just isn’t the case.

              • Flying Squid
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                -123 hours ago

                You have a very poor memory if you claim you don’t remember anyone saying to not vote for Harris. Considering it’s even mentioned in the headline of this post, a very poor memory indeed.

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                  It’s mentioned in the title in reference to some far-flung group not represented here. I’m talking about here on Lemmy.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    If you are going to pretend the many people on Lemmy who very vociferously told people to not vote for Harris did not exist, please do not let me be the one to disabuse you of that. You go ahead and enjoy the rich fantasy where that never happened.

    • Verdant Banana
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      not the voters’ job to make themselves buyable

      that is all on the candidates

      • @TrickDacy
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        Yes let us hold blameless those who didn’t give enough of a shit to piss on America when it was on fire. Your true colors show here.

        • @Ensign_Crab
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          116 hours ago

          You already hold Biden and Harris blameless.

      • Flying Squid
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        We are not talking about the voters or the candidates here. We are talking about the people telling voters not to vote for someone and then pretending they had no culpability whatsoever when that person loses. Thank you for proving my point.

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          112 hours ago

          If they’re telling people not to vote for someone because they’re doing something they can by all accounts stop doing, then it’s still on the candidate.

          • Flying Squid
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            Yes, I understand both you and Mr. Banana, who went out of his way to constantly tell people not to vote for Harris every single day on Lemmy up through the first day in November, you want to divorce your words from any actual real effect they might have.

            It’s very Republican of both of you.

        • Verdant Banana
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          People told others not to vote Harris because she sucked as a candidate

          Not the citizens’ fault billionaires rigged the election again

          • Flying Squid
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            I see you don’t understand cause and effect.

            If you tell someone not to do something and then they don’t do it, you’re part of the cause.