• Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The Protest Vote Paradox™

    As we’ve all read time after time in the months leading up to the election, the Protest Vote™ simply states states that:

    “We refuse to vote against a Tyrant-Felon in order to send a clear and concise message that we will not stand for [roll D20 for random popular single issue], and alongside our refusal to vote against the Tyrant-Felon, is a collective hope that the aforementioned clear and concise message- if ignored, is received under unmitigated duress!”

    -Cut to Tyrant-Felon’s win, and the aftermath:

    Wether observed or not, the behavior of the Protest Voter will attempt to achieve the following:
    • Obnoxiously tell everyone “We told you all what would happen!”
    • Claim there is “No way protest voting could cause trump to win.”

    As both of these options cannot simultaneously be true in the same reality without breaking important time-space things that we would probably prefer not be broken- we are left with only a few logical conclusions:

    1. Protest voters have no idea what they’re talking about.
    2. Protest voters don’t understand the concept of hypocrisy.
    3. Protest voters have somehow learned to defy reality and become exempt from the concept of paradoxes, thus creating an entirely new study of theoretical science, known as Bulletproof Symbiotic Hypocrisy Theory, or BLsHt.

    Something, something, something Ted Talk.

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    Reminder that the West Bank is the one that’s not even ruled by Hamas and hasn’t attacked Israel. If Israel tried to do this under Harris, no doubt weapons would’ve been cut off and the US might have even favored sanctions.

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    If we don’t give the nation of Israel full control of the region, then we can’t fulfill the prophecy to bring end times!

  • FediNeko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Coworker: “I hate trump, he should never be president!” Me: “So you’re voting Harris?” Coworker: “I don’t know if we’re ready for a WoMaN president”

    Asking for a friend, where is the nearest cliff? He would like to go jump off of it.

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    Maybe the political party should have conformed to the pressure of the people who vote in its party. Just saying.

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    FAFO! Big time. Bunch of idiots. They do not understand that Israel has the USA by the balls and this has been going on since the USS Liberty.

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    Except…

    The same thing would have happened with Harris… Harris fully supported Israel’s genocide.

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    If only they’d put this much effort into getting one person to change her mind on the issue, instead of trying to get 10 million people to change their morals.

    It appears especially ghoulish now after it came out that even her campaign’s polling showed that it was a losing position.

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    Finally I can stop wondering how the protest voters handle aiding and completing a genocide while claiming to have any sense of morality at all.

    They ignore it because they never cared, that’s IT! NOTHING ELSE. ITS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSES FAULT BECAUSE OF THEIR NARCISSISM.

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    Oh look at that, exactly what literally every sane person predicted would happen is happening.

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      Yes after a year+ of genocide, it’s continuing unabated. People would have to be ins4Ne to believe anything else was gonna happen.

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        Do you think this wouldn’t happen if Kamala was president? Because I seem to recall an entire genocide they could have halted a year ago but chose not to.

        Are you seriously arguing that slow genocide is better than quick genocide?

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          I’m arguing that you can have protests and at least an effect with Kamala and the dems in power…good luck with repubs and trump. They are don’t give two fucks about anyone.

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        I know neolibs like to blame everyone and everything but themselves but even if 100% of the protest voters voted for Harris, she still would have lost.

        • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          If every protest voter and third party voter was for Harris, she would have still lost in the landslide.

          Turns out having horrid policies, saying “I’m not going to change from the person in office no one currently likes, except emulate Trump more”, doesn’t work. Who knew you had to be popular in a national popularity contest?