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And I'm being serious. I feel like there might be an argument there, I just don't understand it. Can someone please "steelman" that argument for me?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I was born and raised Jewish, going to Hebrew school in addition to English school from preschool to 14. The horrors of the Holocaust and all it’s trauma was shoved down my throat at far too young of an age to be appropriate. Never again means so much to me, one of my deepest held beliefs. Never again isn’t just Jews but any group hunted down for their ethnicity (not to mention all the other undesirables murdered in the Holocaust, such as the disabled and queer).

What’s going on in Gaza is a Holocaust. I can’t live with myself and sleep at night if I vote for trump or Harris, because materially for Gaza they are the same. I voted third party. In 2020 I held my nose and voted for biden. I’m disgusted with myself for doing so. He managed to be worse than I could ever imagine. And the liberals were out to fucking brunch for the past four years.

I will drink liberal tears all damn day long. They can whine and cry and carry on like entitled spoiled rotten children all they want. They were warned that they would lose if they continued to pursue the path they were on and that’s exactly what happened and I have zero remorse for it. And for the record, I’m a visibly queer woman who’s experienced a lot of physical violence in my life for being queer.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These next four years are for you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

so just to recap here, and I'll put the facts in bullets.

  • you're Jewish
  • refused to support literally the only candidate that had majority support
  • installed a LITERAL NAZI as president through sheer incompetence
  • did it all to make people suffer
  • will take great enjoyment out of the suffering

you sound like a cool dude. I really hope you have a positive experience with the Nazis when they open those concentration camps.

oh you thought those camps were for them. no, those camps are for us.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You know Jews voted en masse for trump because they want to glass Palestine a little faster, right?

Also, go back to brunch you piece of shit liberal.

I didn’t vote for a fascist. The democrats ran a PIECE OF SHIT CANDIDATE THAT LOST IN A LANDSLIDE. Go fucking blame the party that REFUSES to hold a primary that they don’t fuck with since 2008.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Enjoy drone strikes and beeper bombs and Israeli AI companies hunting for dissidents on social media. Oh yeah, that’s all in israel/Palestine right now but the blowback will bring it to the US in no time.

All of that is happening under the BIDEN HARRIS administration, trumps not in office yet.

Go back to fucking brunch you useless piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

So you voted to have it happen in the USA and Ukraine too as well as Gaza? 😅

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What have you done except be out to brunch for the last four years? Fucking liberal trash

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

What's with the hate for brunch? 🤣

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's important to remember the Holocaust happened largely because people didn't do enough to stop it. "First they came for the Communists..." and all that. The Nazis were a fairly minor party for years, but they were able to consolidate power because their opposition wouldn't rally against them. Coalition requires compromise.

I am not happy with the Democrats either, but they were the better option. And abstaining from a decision between bad and worse doesn't help anyone. By allowing Trump to take power again when we might have stopped it, we are all responsible for what comes next.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Another moron who doesn’t know how voting works. Take all the third party votes, give them to Harris in swing states, and she still fucking loses the popular vote and electoral college in a landslide. And most the senate! And likely the house too! GREAT JOB OUT TO BRUNCH LIBERALS!

HARRIS LOST BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS REFUSED TO RUN A CANDIDATE THAT WENT THROUGH A REAL PRIMARY SINCE 2008!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's true that Trump had a simple majority of votes, but you can win the electoral college and lose the popular vote; this is typically what happens for Republican victories. Kamala lost MI, PA, and WI by 3% or less. If those had flipped, she would have had her 270. You are right that third party votes wouldn't have been enough though. The bigger problem was reduced turnout from people not voting at all.

The fact that Republicans also managed to do so well in Congress to me suggests that the problem for Democrats wasn't really just their choice for presidential candidate. Voters really care about immigration and inflation right now, and those tend to be stronger for Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Thankfully trump won both instead of winning the electoral and losing the popular. If it was remotely close or god forbid a repeat of the 2000 election we would be in a hot shooting civil war right now with states threatening secession. So as much as I hate the guy im grateful it wasn’t close as it buys us more peace and more time to organize against his worst impulses.

The democrats lost the senate and likely the house because they didn’t have a candidate worth voting for for president. I think they would of had much closer margins if they were able to turn voters out but they couldn’t because their unelected anointed nominee was trash.