• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    As a fellow Australian, I don’t understand why you’re surprised.

    “Hold your nose and vote for the lesser evil” may be pragmatic, but it doesn’t get people emotionally engaged. It doesn’t get you infectious enthusiasm and passion. It gets you reluctant, dejected compliance, and that simply does not catch fire.

    On the other side you have nothing but emotional engagement; god knows it’s not a rational or pragmatic choice there. Trump does nothing but pander to hatred and cruelty and fear and the power fantasies of gullible idiots, and it fucking works. Cheap shallow emotional satisfaction, no matter how stupid an idea it is. You know, like junk food and binge drinking and cigarettes and pokies; things that people know full well are ruining their lives, but they continue to seek them out regardless.

    If the dems ever want to win, they will have to make the progressives fall in love with them, and you don’t get that by backing genocide unconditionally, you just don’t.

    They didn’t get the oh-god-yes, just a not-no, and that does not equal consent.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Nobody with an eighth of a brain needs that much extra reason to put out a house fire in their own house.

      It’s exactly as surprising as they’re saying.

      • stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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        18 days ago

        Bruh, you see the whole world moving towards more shittyness as a whole and you think nobody is that stupid?

        We are all stupid, you because you prefer to bury your head in the sand instead of dealing with reality as it has shown itself. I have my own brand of stupidity and we’re all responsible for the way the world is turning out.

      • shadowfax13@lemmy.ml
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        18 days ago

        you are ignoring the fact that other option has been already burning their house already. would you buy again from wendy’s if their ad tell you to buys them because burger king is dogshit when they had sold you a moldy burger ?