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[–] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Smh. They're gonna fuck it up again aren't they? The politicians will fumble due to vested interests and the voters will act like it is out of their control sit it out, or split between changing the old guard and new blood, and the rabid rs will retain both houses in spite of being fewer in number, essentially guaranteeing trumps third (in 2028, because some here need obvious cues).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    They're not gonna fuck up immediate elections. Republicans have nothing going in their favor electorally and will try to circumvent elections. If Trump doesn't manage to cancel or outright rig this year's elections, he'll sideline Congress instead. There will not be an election in 2028 unless Trump is dead and Vance's handlers want stability back.

    The Democrats are gonna fuck up elections down the road by not properly reforming the country. They will need to abolish ICE, overhaul the Supreme Court, and pass constitutional amendments at a bare minimum. There needs to be a new era of popular progressivism like existed in the early 20th century, or the country might genuinely descend into civil war as the capitalists side with external empires to keep America from being a global power.

    Americans need to get over their own exceptionalism and realize that it will never be the same. I suspect the Democrats will feed these delusions and not fix the fundamental problems, all but guaranteeing that America will plunge into decades of instability and corruption.

    edit: I'm too tired for this shit

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Its not the politicians. They are what they always have been. The r voters are consistently for their candidate. The dem voters are being bothered by things like their bellybutton lint. These people are what will lose the midterms and the next one.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    What a joke. The economy has been on a several decade long systemic decline and the Democrats have consistently affirmed that they will do nothing to change that. They don't run on what voters want, so they lose. The people calling for reform who try to work with the establishment are not listened to, so they lose.

    On the other hand, do you know why Republicans won with Trump? It was not because of the single issue voters who have stuck with them for decades, as all they did was get every Republican on their side. Trump won because he appealed to grievance, pointing out the obvious fact that the system didn't work and offering fake solutions that only made everything worse. Neoliberalism rotted this country's foundations, and Trump only took a sledgehammer to the rotten wood.

    What truly bends the will of voters is economics, and Democrats had the weaker message. This might seem wrong from a rational perspective, but voters were never rational beings who understand how the world works. All these voters can recognize is that things are bad, not why they are bad. They know that Trump offered more change, socialism for fools, and that sounded far more appealing than a Clinton or a coastal elite.

    Live in delusion that non-voters are to blame all you want, but it only weakens the Democrats to not blame themselves for their failure.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago
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    Saving America guarantees existence of israel. So destroy america, israel wont survive

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Both buttons were save israel.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Protest (non-) voters in 2024:

    Save Palestinians no one Save America

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    [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    It isn't even accurate to call it saving Israel.

    They say that when you set out for revenge to dig two graves. The genocide perpetrated by Israel has been more destructive to Israel itself morally, economically, and physically than anything their adversaries have tried to inflict.

    It's not justice, though. It isn't helping any victims. It's just the wasting of more life, senselessly.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    I predict that 2028 will be a repeat of 2024 since they are all bought and paid for by AIPAC

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Democrats hate America?? I guess a broken clock is right twice a day

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago (9 children)

    And who was that blue button for?

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I think the two buttons are a metaphor for two directions in the Democrats' campaign messaging 2024. The red button represents maintaining allegiance to Israel in the midst of an ongoing genocide. The blue button represents doing literally anything other than actively funding that genocide, using those billions of dollars to maybe fund healthcare, education, infrastructure, like literally anything else that would resonate with the American working class and garner more votes for the Democratic party. Just a guess tho.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    This comic is designed under a sane ethical framework, which places responsibility for the success or failure of a party on the people who actually hold power within the party. It's told from the framework of party leaders, holding them accountable for their failures. It's punching up rather than punching down. What options were available at the ballot box, as we're not talking about voters, we're talking about leaders here. Don't try and cover up for corrupt leaders by blaming the voters.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago

    Yea, that's right. To add: the argument that focuses on voters' individual behavior ignores the system within which they make their choices i.e. gerrymandering, private political parties, FPTP, winner takes all, Citizens United, Super PACs etc. It is a very low-IQ take to place the blame solely on the voters, and those unelected, unaccountable people who design the rules of the system would like everyone to have that take.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    This doesn't answer who is that Dem presidential candidate who isn't in Israel's pocket… perhaps Paperboy Love Prince?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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