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'I'm right here': Trump struggles to find foreign leader sitting in front of his face
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Voting red or not voting is still the reason Trump got into office. He supports the genocide, but ok, HaRriS BaD. Note I don't like Democrats either, but I don't agree with throwing votes away because of one issue that was worse on the other side. The people who didn't vote or voted the other way supported genocide by letting Trump win.
But this is entirely the point. Blaming the voters gives you the opportunity to wash your hands and absolve blame, but it doesn't get us any closer to winning the election in 2024. Not now, and not then, in 2024, when it was happening in real time.
There was one way to beat Trump in 2024: Get more votes than him. Its obvious now that the argument "less bad" wasn't good enough to convince 6 million people to show up. We ran the experiment. We got the data. We know the outcomes.
If you, or SatansMaggotyCumFart, or anyone else wants to keep defending this approach, the onus is on you to provide a mechanism for how this argument gets Harris 6 million more votes.
Satan' thinks they have an axe to grind because they were couching their rhetoric with the expectation of failure from the onset. The argument that "less bad" should be good enough is bad politics and doesn't work because it doesn't convince any new voter who didn't already accept that argument to show up. The more that argument shows up, the more people think that this failed approach to electoralism has legs, the further we get from actually being able to beat the Trumps of the world.
Harris offered voters nothing, and we were quite literally begging her to throw a fucking crumb of rhetoric saying she would stop arms to Israel, because it was obvious to anyone with eyes that she was going to lose the election if she didn't move on this issue in August. And Satans approach to that point was to push those who were critical of kamala FURTHER out of the party; basically the same treatment the DNC gave to Palestinians at the convention.
Don't be like Satan. We need to actually win, and Satan's approach will lose us another election. Criticize candidates, intensely. FORCE them into positions that can actually get them elected. Demand that candidates move to where their voters are, because there is quite literally no mechanism to move 6 million voters into supporting genocide, and if you promote that, you are a bad person.