I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

  • @SoftestSapphic
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    286 hours ago

    This push to demonize the strawman protest voters is an ongoing propaganda campaign to cause poor people to infight.

    • @Freefall
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      32 hours ago

      It isn’t a straw man, it is observation .

    • @finitebanjo
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      195 hours ago

      Strawman?

      6.27 Million more people voted for Biden in 2020 than Harris in 2024. That’s not strawmanning, those fuckers stayed home and that is exactly why we are in the current situation.

      • @TokenBoomer
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        -74 hours ago

        Let’s say you’re completely right. How does insulting people’s poor choices 4 months ago help us in the present? We can’t create resistance and solidarity if we hold grievances from the past.

        • @finitebanjo
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          74 hours ago

          Because some people, mostly just tankies and anarchists pretending to be moral abstainers, are unapologetic about helping elect fascism. By exposing and shaming them, onlookers will reconsider their own stance.

          • @TokenBoomer
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            13 hours ago

            There are actual Nazis in this administration, and you’re worried about “tankies?” Get it together man.

            • @Rhoeri
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              22 hours ago

              One’s enemies can exist on two fronts. It’s happened before.

              • @TokenBoomer
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                01 hour ago

                “We are fighting the wrong enemy.” Allen Dulles expressed this sentiment in 1942, while serving as the Swiss director of the OSS. He had reevaluated the ongoing war with Nazi Germany and decided that the Communist threat was far graver than the National Socialist one.

                You’re in good company

            • @finitebanjo
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              13 hours ago

              The Tankies are promoting abstaining to help elect the actual Nazis and it fucking worked, so yes I’m worried about the fucking Tankies.

              Tankies want 1 thing: “the end of US Imperialism” which is to say for us to all off ourselves so that NATO stops getting in China’s way.

              • @TokenBoomer
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                Are the Tankies in office? Prioritize and Organize.

                • @finitebanjo
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                  33 hours ago

                  Well…

                  2018

                  “He’s now president for life, president for life. And he’s great,” Trump said, according to audio of excerpts of Trump’s remarks at a closed-door fundraiser in Florida aired by CNN. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday,” Trump said to cheers and applause from supporters.

                  2020

                  Our relationship with China has now probably never, ever been better," Trump said, adding that he gets on well with President Xi Jinping. “He’s for China, I’m for the U.S., but other than that, we love each other.”

                  2025

                  U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has “always had a great relationship” with Chinese President Xi Jinping and that he looks forward to “getting along with China.”

                  Yeah, fucking looks like it.

        • @Rhoeri
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          Maybe if some of them would accept responsibility, it would go a long way towards creating that resistance.

          I’d actually have a lot of respect for someone someone that could admit they made a huge mistake, because it means they are self aware enough to know that their own behavior has consequences also.

          And I can get behind people humble enough to own their mistakes.

          But most of these people have the gall to blame people who voted for Harris, or blame Harris herself for not being perfect in every way.

          So unless they find some humility, there won’t be any solidarity and I would even go so far as to urge others to refuse to find solidarity with anyone that does not have enough strength of character to own their mistakes.

          • @TokenBoomer
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            02 hours ago

            Guess we should give up then, since things didn’t go our way. Right?

            • @Rhoeri
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              126 minutes ago

              If that’s what you’re taking from what I said, then maybe your should read it again a few times.

              Unless you mean to say that they’d rather suffer divided than own their part in the reason for it.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          127 minutes ago

          it’s generating productive discussion

          also there’s nothing really to “agree” with or not; it’s a question only and I have been doing my best not to come down with immediate judgement toward those answering the question

          • @[email protected]
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            117 minutes ago

            Gives some serious “just asking questions” vibes.

            The image definitely provides a pretty clear perspective. People seem to be reacting to either agreeing or disagreeing with that perspective. Why is the main focus on those that abstained rather than on those that voted Trump? I don’t really see any productive conversations happening. Just the same people reiterating the same talking points. The data makes it clear that Gaza was not a big issue for voters, and no one is really going to change their mind on either side of that even if it WAS the deciding factor in the election. This seems like a distraction and a great way to sow division.

    • Lemminary
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      04 hours ago

      Well, no, because I’ve been asking myself the same question for a while now. And I don’t have that agenda. Lol