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

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    7 months ago

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

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      7 months 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.

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          7 months ago

          If I’m offered a plate of tomatoes, which I hate, and a pile of shit as choices to eat, both are not palatable to me. But that doesn’t make them the same.

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            Yes but if the person handing you the tomatoes had been handing you tomatoes your entire life while promising chocolate cake you’d be a lot less happy about it. Especially if they also said “We’re not going to change anything and if you have a problem with tomatoes you need to take Econ 203 to understand why you’re wrong for being upset.”

            Democrats need to get people enthusiastic to vote. Not getting shit on a plate is not enough to get people to vote.

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        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.

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          7 months 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.

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            7 months ago

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

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                7 months 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