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I also have noticed that literally 0 of the "we can't vote for Democrats, stop voting for them, that is the way to progress" strategists have anything to say about candidates to support before the primary, protest organizations to join in the meantime, anything generally productive that is outside of the general election they're so gung-ho about giving their input to.
Right now would be the time to be looking around for good midterm or primary candidates who aren't corporate whores, talking up third parties or reforms that would make third parties viable, all that kind of stuff. Nope. Just "let the Republicans win" in the general election, and then, crickets. And now occasionally popping up to shit on Gavin Newsom when he's tangling with Trump, like a romantic partner who is grabbing on your arm and screaming "stop it!" while you're in the middle of a fistfight. Just fuckin' helping, the lot of them, from morning till night.
Many of the fake "leftist" that refuse to vote, have also never voted and don't know how elections work. Dig around on Lemmy enough and you'll find whole arguments with several hundred people that have no clue what a primary is. I know because I've been involved with trying to educate them. I've learned to just ignore idiots. Similar to other sites, I just had higher expectations for Lemmy.
They aren’t Americans and probably not “leftist”