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        Yes but even unsympathetic Dems aren’t very likely to attack someone for their choice of sweatshirt

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      Remember last time Trump was in power our feeds were full of Republicans behaving poorly in public? (in between the police beating protesters through most of 2020) - looks like we’re going to get that back again now.

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        their perception of how welcome their violence is intensified, too. the movement that killed Heather Heyer considers themselves ascendent. last time they had the electoral college and not the popular vote. this time, thanks to 10mil likely democrat voters who cculd swallow their pride for joe biden in 2020 but not for kamala harris in 2024, the very worst people on earth consider their view point to be the norm

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          Not 10 million. As of today (all votes still not counted) trump leads the popular vote by 2,557,324. That’s 49.9% to 48.3%. Current vote count: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/RESULTS/zjpqnemxwvx/president/

          Not that the popular vote matters in who wins, but it’s nice to know he didn’t get a true majority of all votes cast. 1.8% of votes were 3rd party, more than the difference between trump and Harris. If the amount of those votes that were “to teach the Dems a lesson” were added to the ones where POTUS was left blank to “teach the Dems a lesson”, well … anyway.

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        Thats more like reddit. Go take a look, its full of pro israel stuff. Some are even sympathetic to Netanyahu and compelete disregarded the civillians deaths in the pager attack in Lebanon and claimed it was some sort of genius strategy that had “minimal civillian deaths”.

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              Most people are not very much political or interested in politics in general.

              Most people do however support actual leftist and progressive policies.

              If any president just looked at polling and supported the implementation of policies that more than 60 percent of Americans support, or even only the issues with 70% approval (from both dems and republicans). That policians agenda would be a progressive, leftist agenda.

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                I actually agree with you. However, the right wing won, full stop unfortunately.

                Arguing “no true leftist” or “Your side” is pointless. The Right won and no amount of semantics or told you so is going to change the results.

                So when they start mass deporting or rounding up trans people we can just say “the dems didn’t run progressive enough policie for me” and wash our hands of it I guess.

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                  Harris/Biden ran a dumb campaign. You cant only blame the voters for the loss. They didnt own those campaign decisions.

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                  Trump won every swing state. He lost my state and all of my states electoral college delegates are going to Harris. I could have voted for Mickey Mouse and this fact would not be different.

                  Other voters in swing states had real issues with the economy, crime, and less so the genocide in Israel.

                  Kamala unfortunately pivoted to the right and embraced republicans and corporate CEO’s. Why vote for republican light (Kamala) when you can just vote republican (Trump)? I assume this is what people were thinking.

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                    Other voters in swing states had real issues with the economy, crime

                    In other words, they were lied to and bought it hook, line, and sinker.

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                    I assume this is what people were thinking.

                    I’m not sure those people exist. Lemmy seems to think they do but the electorate doesn’t reflect that at all and unless they’re ready to arm themselves and fight (and they’re not, as much as they like to talk about it online) they may as well not exist.

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                “Your” party didn’t even show up, why would anyone listen to them?

                Edit: hey at least a couple of you learned how to vote! Maybe try doing that irl and not just on the internet!

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                  “Your” party didn’t even show up, why would anyone listen to them?

                  Progressives don’t have a party that even considers representing them.

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                    Progressives turned out to vote for the obviously less dangerous to America candidate.

                    Terminally online internet leftists sat at home in their basements and want feel like they’re revolutionaries.

                    Start a revolution champ, we’re all waiting.

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                    And yet there are more than enough that you expect the Democratic party to bend the knee to you?

                    I consider myself a progressive. The genocide in Palestine is a big problem for me, and I resent being lumped in with liberals simply because I understand politics and math enough to vote for Harris instead of aiding in Palestine’s destruction.

                    But I also understand that progressives are a small minority of voters in the US, and am not deluded enough to believe that Democrats will pander to me when it makes no tangible difference come election time.

                    It doesn’t matter how many people agree with progressive policies when you ask them, when they don’t fucking vote and aren’t doing anything whatsoever to organize and win elections down-ballot.

                    Where is the Green Party? They’ve already vanished, and we won’t see or hear anything from them for 4 years.

                    Why is it that progressives can’t seem to organize a real political party if there are so many of us?

                    Touch grass

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        Just wait until you see what Trump does for Palestine, boy are you in for a rude awakening. Congrats on sticking it to the democrats, I guess. Enjoy the next four years.

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        Wait a second. You would assume the person votes for Biden/Harris because they support Israel while trying to keep Israel under control. You don’t assume the person voted for the person who said he wants Israel to “finish the job” and enacted a Muslim travel ban?

        Are you really that stupid? Or are you just trying to make a political point?

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        Damn why the downvotes? Its almost as if there was a concentrated Israeli effort to downvote facts about Israel? Can anyone tell me why I am ratioed so?