Dog shit voter turnout isn’t committing no mistakes, it’s the definition of a mistake.
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Submitted 6 months ago by Lwaxana@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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pimento64@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
it was the second highest turnout in the past century but please explain to the people why the democrats are the actual problem
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
If you want to do a le epic mic drop moment about what you think my meta-point is, be sure first. Your reading comprehension needs work.
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
it’s possible to make tonnes of mistakes, lose, and still claim you didn’t make any mistakes.
that’s not fodder for a pithy quote. that’s denial.
Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
im not the one in denial honey bun
BigBenis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Frankly, this take is profoundly arrogant and indicative of why the Democrats lost to Trump (again, arguably again-again).
This implies that the Democrats could not have possibly done any better, or at least submits to the idea that there is nothing meaningful to be learned from this failure. It projects onto the general electorate a deterministic outlook, that they were always going to vote for Trump no matter what as a way to shield the Democrats and ourselves from accountability.
This is a difficult time time for all of us. We are looking down the barrel of another Trump presidency, one that promises to be a significant tragedy in the history of our nation. It hurts to know what’s coming and people are resigning themselves to complacency in order to ease the pain.
But if we want to stand a chance the next time around, we need to understand that the Democrats played a role in their own demise. We need to demand better, not make excuses for them and perpetuate the mediocrity that has been the Democratic platform over the last decade. We can’t just hope for another deadly crisis to get us out of this one.
Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
yawn
wake me when you are not voting for a bigot and putting in effort to convince others not to vote from a bigot
until then your internet comments are basicaly just masturbation
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 6 months ago
AreaKode@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I needed this today. Thank you!
Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
❤️
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 months ago
The Democrats, in hindsight, fucked up with the economy and/or the messaging.
Did inflation happen because of the groundwork that Trump laid down in his term (not to mention global pandemic)? Sure — but did inflation get really bad under Biden? Yes, absolutely. That doesn’t make it his fault, but it makes it a problem that the Democrats probably needed to address more aggressively, an all-out attack on rising cost of living.
At the start of the pandemic, for me to carry $100 of normal weekly groceries home from the supermarket was a real challenge, but I could do it. Now, I carry $100 no problem, with a toddler on my shoulders. The money doesn’t really matter to me, but from what I’ve been reading, it really mattered to a lot of voters. Again: I think his will be worse under Trump (if it does get better, it’ll be due to some shady tax rebates to supermarkets or big ag or something, IMHO).
So while the Dems are talking about first time home credits and whatnot, Vance is out there lying about the price of eggs — but it’s a lie that “feels” right to a lot of people, and anecdotally, has some truth to it in that inflation/cost of living increase is real. Nevermind that the R policy is…what, exactly? But they say they’ll fix it, and they point out that Dems are currently in power, and that’s enough for a lot of people.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Bro mistakes were made. A veritable cornucopia of mistakes.
h3mlocke@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Oh yeah? Well you know who I blame?
The democrats.Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
You made ab ig mistake using this quote like this.
SARGE@startrek.website 6 months ago
The Maquis have a lot of good points.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
And rhymes with where I’d rather be.
wick@lemm.ee 6 months ago
9 out of 10 trusted schizophrenics recommended blaming the invisible hand of fate.
Dasus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah this definitely isn’t a situation Captain Picard is talking about.
The quote is true, aye, and one has to learn to accept that, but this election definitely isn’t one of those situations, mistakes were made.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 months ago
Open to discussion, but since 2008, the Democrats have won every election where the leadership didn’t “put their finger on the scale” in the primaries/picking the candidate. Obama, Obama; Clinton arguably shouldn’t have been the nominee and Sanders should have; Biden was (?) properly primaries; Harris was picked — obvious pick, but still, not primaried.
Or the other reason, that the US is too sexist to elect a woman. It’s depressing either way of course.
Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
face facts, if biden had lost the internet would have blamed ““the dnc”” and said bernie should have won
america has a ton of racists and sexists and some of yall keep trying to blame the non racists and sexists
Homescool@lemmy.world 6 months ago
America would have elected Oprah in a heartbeat.
The problem was thumbing the scale for wet rags who don’t lead can’t inspire.
Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
thats what the internet said about joe biden but he won… what coud the difference be I wonder🤔🤔
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 6 months ago
More specifically, my life.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, but there were lots of mistakes.
Lots.
Steve@communick.news 6 months ago
I could probably count the things that weren’t mistakes on one hand.
Draegur@lemm.ee 6 months ago
…
That’s about it. Looks like I only needed one finger. Dang.
Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
“I have a secret plan to defeat trump in 100 days” - everyone on the internet
y’all need to face the facts that the democrats could have ran a white jesus christ and it wouldnt have moved the needle
Lwaxana@startrek.website 6 months ago
the first mistake: they tried to run against a fascist bigot (america loves voting for these)
the second mistake: something so minor and inconsequential that it would gained .001% more votes (lefties will debate what this was forever)
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s actually closer to 16% and I would definitely not call it inconsequential given that Trump one this election with several million votes less than he got in 2020 when he lost.