i can’t even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they’re not quiet now once they get called out

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      I wasn’t super fond of the democrat’s platform either man, but I definitely wanted Not Fascism and Some Semblance of Human Rights to win.

      Now we have nothing, and I have to make plans to figure out how to get my girlfriend out of the country if she ever needs reproductive care. Great job!

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      Couldn’t have said it better. This post is pure cringe but the op is a perfect example of why Democrats lost.

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        Naaah. What’s cringe are the smug pseudo-intellectual “trolley problem” gEnOciDe accusers that didn’t do shit but sit on their thumbs while the rest of us tried to save democracy.

        Now they all get to blame the people that acted while smugly admitting that they chose not to?

        An estimated 90 million people chose not to vote. Of those 90 million were third party supporting clowns that chose not to vote because they knew their candidate didn’t stand a chance. Also among those 90 million were protest-voting clowns that chose not to vote because their last two remaining brain cells were too busy fighting over third place.

        There is ZERO logic or intelligence in accusing the people that actually tried and did something to avoid a shitty outcome while arrogantly having not done jack shit about it.

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            So you tried saving democracy by… doing nothing and in the end, everyone lost. And I don’t recall ever supporting genocide, mentioning anything even remotely supportive of genocide, or even so much as hinting at that possibility of being an okay thing to do for any reason.

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      There sure are a lot of people that didn’t do jack shit and think they have a place to blame anyone.

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        Canadian, voted for left wing party that had the best chance of winning despite the leader being a gilded spoon brat who couldn’t lead his way out of a wet paper bag.

        I did my fucking part. All you wannabe progressives in the US had to do was vote to keep the Nazi out of office and you couldn’t even do that.

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          American. Voted for Harris. I think you responded to the wrong person.

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            That was in general to the people who “held back their vote” to “teach the Democrats a lesson”. The kind of people who don’t realize that the luxuries the west has were hard fought and think they will always be there.

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          And what has the liberal party done with your vote? Next year is going to be a fucking disaster. The strategy of voting for the least bad option doesn’t work when the least bad option keeps getting worse. You can bleat at people to vote for the one party over and over again, but eventually enough people just give up or get desperate for any chance at change and think that voting for the other party will at least shake things up.

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            I voted for the NDP.

            Federally the Loberals are the centrists led by the gilded spoon spoiled brat who couldn’t lead his way out of a wet paper bag. But he is fantastic at speeches.

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              The same NDP that doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell at getting power nationally? Again, next year is going to be a disaster.

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      I say she relied on the left coming out for abortion rights and democracy. They couldn’t even come out for that.

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      Their main failure was choosing a half black, half Indian women as their candidate. That in it self is 3 failures. You can have ONE of those things. 2 is highly improbable, 3 is impossible.

      This has nothing to do with how I think Harris will perform as president but more to do with how racist and misogynistic this country is.

      I truly thing Walz would have done better at the polls.

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        I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. John Fetterman would have won easily. Americans pick based on appearance.

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        Her rallies were massive and she was polling 10%+ ahead of Trump when she was seen as progressive.

        When she went full blue dog and parroted the same strategy Clinton failed with in 2016, the advantage evaporated and she started polling at or under Trump.

        Falsely attributing the failure to misogyny solves nothing.

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          But if it isn’t the progressives then it must be men’s fault, black people’s fault, Muslim people’s fault while being the fault of racists, misogynists and Islamiaphobes.

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            More importantly, they stopped talking about rally size when she went blue dog.

            The pictures I’ve seen of both sides’ October rallies looked about the same, very different from her earlier massive rallies.

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      Well yeah, otherwise they’d have to consider actually changing their shit strategy