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Young Activists to Biden: Change Course on Gaza — or Lose in 2024
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Aren't young Democrats the lowest turnout group in nearly every state in every election? I'll double check the numbers when I get home, but from memory that was the case.
I can see the onion headline already.
"Non-voters threaten not to vote if Biden doesn't do what they want"
Yeah, I remember an article from 2016, they were interviewing a college kid and asked who he supported, he said he supported Bernie Sanders. When asked how he felt about Bernie losing the primary he said he felt guilty because he had forgotten to vote.
You seem to forget when Trump won in 2016 because the DNC didn't listen to their base.
Yeah that base that never turned out and acted like they were part of the party.
You know why they call the Uber right wing the Republican base? Because they're the group that turn out the most.
Millennials and Zoomers underperform their own share of the population in the primary, which is fucking pathetic since they ought to be way overperforming that given their overwhelming lean against Republican politics.
You know why the Uber right turns out the most? Because they believe that if they don't that we'll abduct their children and turn them into an adrenochrome harvesting factory while worshiping Moloch. You know why Millennials and Zoomers stay home? Because their own party has made it obvious that they care more about corporations, than whether they'll ever have a fucking place to live safely. So if you want Millennials and Zoomers to show up then give them something to show up for.
If the protection of queer women's and PoC rights aren't enough for you to shut up and turn out no matter how corporate you feel the party is then you're in no position to say jack shit when Women Queer folks and PoC tell you to shut up and fall the fuck in line to use that white straight privilege you obviously are rocking to act like they're oh so the same to get the rest of us to where corporate fuckery is the only thing we have on our plates.
You know why the Uber right turn out every time, because they believe all that shit, you know why millennials and Zoomers don't? Because knowing the truth of what the right will do with the power they're handing them some the fuck how ain't enough for them to pony up to the onerous Herculean task of spending a day at most waiting in line to fill out a few forms.
You entitled fucks will fight bite kick and scream like toddlers rather than check a box. You want to perform allyship while fighting with everything you have to whitesplain to us why we shouldn't expect you to do any of the actual damn work of being an ally. You're making demands of us for you to do literally the bare minimum, you march and protest and say all the pretty words and then act like that amounts to anything next to a ballot to protect our rights.
How about instead of demands, you tell us why we don't have the right to bind gag and drag you by the feet to the polling station and leave you there to rot if that's what it'll take to make you do even the first act of actual allyship. Why you deserve to show up at protests and public meetings like your word is worth anything but being laughed out for the faker you are. Why we shouldn't consider you an active collaborator for having the fucking gall to not consider "THEY ARE LITERALLY FASCISTS OUT TO KILL US" all the reason you need to shut up and listen to what we're telling you.
Y'all love to quote MLK on the white moderate all the time as if he wasn't talking about y'all with your performative ass nonsense. All the words claiming you support the advancement of civil rights with NONE of the action.
Sit down. Shut up. And stay sat down and shut up till you come back to this convo with your "I voted" sticker to prove you ain't just Ally-Facing.
When the people pretending to be anti-fascists are the fascists