• Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      22 hours ago

      Whatever you do, don’t focus on the sick culture at the center of America that caused this. It’s probably some minority group that caused it by not voting hard enough!

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        21 hours ago

        Sure that’s a problem. Also. Sit your non-voting ass down for actively allowing bad shit to happen.🤷

        If you’ve gotta be convinced why not standing up to this before it happened was worth doing, you can convince the rest of us why you’ve got any right to talk at all. I’m sure when the perfect election comes along you can snipe it, but when real decisions are made

        WE. CANT. COUNT. ON. YOU.

        If the US gets a decent resolution at the end of this, it’s in spite of you as much as in spite of the R.

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          21 hours ago

          I voted Harris and I voted Biden, and I’ve literally never been able to have a discussion about how blaming non-voters is both stupid and nonproductive without someone coming in hot to unload their election related emotional trauma on me like you just did.

          Check your assumptions about people and why they believe what they believe. Or just keep screaming at anyone that says your trigger phrase, it seems to be working wonders.

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            21 hours ago

            Cool.

            If you can’t see how practical decision making works I don’t want to talk to you. Apparently you understand it, but still want to apologize for those who cant.

            I don’t have to blame non voters, but I can honestly say screw them. 3 more years and change of this to teach that party against Orange Hitler a lesson for not being good enough. I hope it’s worth it and they don’t all get to take their cute blahaj stuffies to federal summer camp.

            Edit: To be extra clear, I don’t blame non voters exclusively for this situation we are in, but I resent them for it, find it totally stupid, and don’t have a lot much sympathy for any consequences a non voter walks into.

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              18 hours ago

              If you can’t see how practical decision making works

              You mean like the people in blue states who know their electoral vote is going to be blue no matter what? Or the people in deep red states who know it won’t be blue even if every Democratic voter in an adjacent state came over and voted blue? Even though it literally wasn’t possible for them to change the election outcome no matter how they voted?

              Is that the kind of practical decision making we’re talking about?

              Because that sure sounds like voting as a performative religious rite, and that shit is stupid. People in solid red states* were never going to win blue electoral votes, anyone insisting otherwise literally doesn’t understand how presidential elections work in the US. Same for anyone who thinks some leftist in New York was putting America in peril by voting third party.

              * Except Nebraska, which splits its votes based on district rather than whole state only.

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                17 hours ago

                You’ve got options. You can vote swap, you can move, or sure you can bemoan the system, but let’s be real:

                This is totally in no way what you or the other guy are arguing above. It would even be relevant if we werent such an obvious attempt at an out from the discussion.

                The people no voting are not doing it as a fight against the electoral voting system. It’s smug ass, holier than thou, if I can’t vote for the perfect candidate I’ll take my ball and go home and trump (or whatever authoritarian may show up here or in any other country) isnt my fault.

                Yeah, sometimes voting a performative ritual. If you show up and tell us how you justify not voting against tyranny when it’s got any chance of being the alternative to people getting shot and you still look like an asshat.

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        22 hours ago

        Actually the group of people who voted Trump in combined with the group of people who didn’t vote and decided that they were okay with being complacent with him getting power was a majority of Americans.

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          It’s funny how ‘people who didn’t vote because they felt disgusted by both options,’ ‘people who didn’t vote because they live in a red state and agree with Trump,’ and ‘people who didn’t vote because they live in a blue state and knew their electoral votes were going blue anyway’ get flattened into a single group that are to blame, and also synonymous with Trump voters. Yay, that’s so much easier and less scary than confronting the wild racism and fascism at the heart of America!