LMAO I’m well aware far-left lemmy will downvote me for saying this, but the fact that you’re copping an attitude with that person is funny because lefties are absolutely TERRIBLE at messaging. Democrats and lefties suck so badly at communicating with voters that a guy who rambled incoherently about immigrants eating pets was able to beat them.

Sadly, no, most Americans don’t know what the hell an ‘oligarch’ is because that’s what happens when you have decades of Republicans de-funding education. Pointing this out isn’t ‘pretentious’, because it’s sadly true.

First, that is an extremely bad-faith interpretation of my words, and you know it.

Nope. Pretty sure I was right the first time, and your novel of a post only convinced me of that further.

I get that Democrats are weak, incompetent p*ssies, but at the rate we’re going we’re not going to have another real election. There’s a very good chance that from here on, we’re going to have Russia-style elections where the winner - Trump - is predetermined and the election is just for show.

As awful as the Democrats are, if you didn’t vote Democrat in 2024, hope you enjoy the sham “elections” because it’s what you voted for.

Oh I see, our fundamental disagreement is that you don’t think Israel is committing genocide against the palestinians I am incapable of understanding that Joe Biden was never the President of Israel.

Fixed that for you.

Don’t worry - now that Trump’s going to let Netanyahu do whatever the hell he wants, you’ll soon learn what genocide actually looks like.

By the way, may I interest you in a stay at the luxurious Trump Casino/Resort Gaza when it’s finished?

And just who are you to presume to correct anybody’s point of view? Because telling me that commies and fascists like to send people to gulags is doing nothing to change anybody’s my mind.

Fixed that for you.

From the sound of it, you seem content with letting Trump be dictator and do whatever he wants, so why are you arguing with me? Shouldn’t you be off praising Dear Leader Trump for making the country great again?

The problem with voting for a party simply because “we aren’t fascism” is that it produces the most perverse incentives imaginable.

So your solution is “Just let the dictator take over and do whatever he wants”?

Not a very good solution.

How would Harris have been better for Palestinians?

LMAO Trump has pretty much let Netanyahu off the leash and is going to turn Gaza in to a hotel and resort. If you can’t figure out how this is the worst scenario for the Palestinians then you aren’t intelligent enough to be discussing this matter.

She was part of an admin that was assisting their genocide

1. No she wasn’t.

2. You don’t know what genocide is.

Additionally, who is that “boring liberal republic” better for? Certainly not Palestinians. Certainly not for union workers on our rail lines. Not for people becoming houseless. Not for queer people. Not for indigenous peeps, either Definitely Palestinians. Definitely union workers. Definitely homeless. Definitely queer people. Definitely indigenous people.

Fixed that for you.

If Kamala Harris had won, literally all the groups you just mentioned would be far better off than under a literal fascist dictatorship which Trump’s lackeys want to establish.

Honestly? I’m starting to believe lemmy is, like reddit, filled with a bunch of clueless college kids who haven’t set foot in other parts of the world and have no idea what it’s like to live under a dictatorship, and thus take the rights and freedoms they have completely for granted.

Sadly, Trump is about to teach us all a lesson in authoritarianism - You, myself, and everyone else on the planet.

The problem isnt commie guy, it’s all the other brainless sheep who keep voting for the same two parties who don’t represent them is definitely commie guy for not understanding that a boring and flawed neoliberal Democrat is preferable to a fascist dictatorship.

Fixed that for you.

Consider this: if all the people forced to vote opted to vote someone else, then the Dems would really understand why they’re failing, and more, you’d have the basis for an actual third party to from.

Wrong answer. That made sense under Clinton vs Bush or Obama vs Romney, not nowadays. We can “consider” your proposal when there’s not a damn fascist dictator threatening to send US citizens to an El Salvadorian gulag for disagreeing with the President.

Then again, commies tend to love gulag’ing people who disagree with them, just ask Stalin… So maybe commie guy sees the gulags as a good thing?