• @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Exactly… don’t blame the billionaires, oligarchs, or the criminally corrupt political class… don’t blame the 70 million fascists, or the 100 million people who completely ignore politics… or the Democrats who fail to motivate all of them and maintain unwavering support for a genocidal ethnostate… or the 60 million neolib centrists who insist on supporting the lesser of two evils, and reject “radical change” after the 5th “once-in-a-lifetime” crisis in a decade.

    Blame the phantom protest voters, without evidence, instead… THIS IS ALL THEIR FAULT.

    The “protest voters” are basically “the jews” or “immigrants” scapegoat for liberals. At least you get to enjoy the smell of your own farts while the fascist coup proceeds unabated.

    • @PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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      716 days ago

      Oh… it’s all of the people you mentioned. That doesn’t excuse anyone who didn’t vote against this

    • BarqsHasBite
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      16 days ago

      Who said I’m blaming? I’m informing protest-non-voters what they voted for. Honestly, that you feel/think blame is telling.

      • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        I’m not American, and I’ve advised people to vote blue no matter who for over 20 years, so as a foreigner watching America slide towards fascism for decades I can tell you, American liberals are just as much to blame for fascism as the uneducated morons brainwashed by it.

        Both parties have been destroying the working classes economic mobility for almost 50 years. Just because 1 party is worse than the other that doesn’t absolve either of their sins.

        Yet now, at the final hour, you blame a phantom left for not biting the pillow, as though that would’ve changed the multi-decade fall of the empire.

        I tell ya what, though. Just cry harder and blame the left. It’s worked for fascism!

        • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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          216 days ago

          I can tell you, American liberals are just as much to blame for fascism as the uneducated morons brainwashed by it.

          “D-don’t blame people who allowed fascism to take over… that’s mean… but FUCK those who tried to stop it, literally as bad as fascists!”

          About the level of discourse I expect from Lemmy at this point.

          • @bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            -115 days ago

            OK maybe you had a shitty day, but listen to yourself: “D-don’t…”

            this kind of speech also works well online. great.

            and then you seriously go ahead and lament the level of discourse here.

            • @PugJesus@lemmy.world
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              115 days ago

              “Just cry harder, liberals are as bad as fascists” - acceptable, normal

              [mocking this view] - UNACCEPTABLE, rude, how dare you be this unproductive 😭

              Fucking listen to yourself, and maybe reflect on who and what you choose to tone police.

        • @PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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          116 days ago

          I’m sure there are places on the Internet where you could sell that “ghost” story, but Lemmy during the runup to the election was like 45%+ people arguing for protest votes and vote abstaining as a means of “punishing” Democrats for a millenia-old religious feud on the other side of the world. Obviously this isn’t physical, definitive proof that protest voters and abstainers actually moved the electoral needle for Trump, I’m just letting you know why no one’s really buying it here.

          • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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            015 days ago

            So… your argument has no evidence or basis in reality, beyond the anecdotal from your own experience on Lemmy/SM?

            All you’ve done is provide another datapoint for why Liberals have helped turn America into a fascist dictatorship… Living in a manufactured reality based on feefees and propaganda instead of empiric evidence…

            • @PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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              015 days ago

              I didn’t make an argument at all, I simply described my experience of reality in an effort to help you understand why people here are disagreeing with you. Don’t worry, I won’t try to help you again.

              • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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                015 days ago

                Don’t worry, I won’t try to help you again.

                I’m not the one living in a fascist dictatorship, blaming the people who saw this coming decades ago, numbnuts. You are!

                Maybe you should take a break from sniffing your own farts and try to learn from history, instead of repeating 2016 and 2024 all over again?

                • @PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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                  115 days ago

                  I’ll have you know I can feel, and move, my nuts; they are perfectly healthy and functional as far I can tell. The left one hangs lower than the right, but that’s very normal, otherwise they’re smashing against each other all the time. I’m pretty sure Jordan Peterson has that, that’s why he always sounds like he’s about to cry.

                  As far as the sniffs go, even if I could avoid it, I don’t know that I would choose to do so. The gut biome, as we’ve all learned, is so so important and we need to use all the information we have to ensure its health. An off-smelling fart can often be the first warning sign of oncoming digestive issues.

        • BarqsHasBite
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          -116 days ago

          Lol you’re still on the blame strawman. Again, I am informing protest- non-voters what they voted for. That you keep trying to strawman this hard even after being corrected is funny. Ciao.

    • TheHiddenCatboy
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      115 days ago

      News flash: Everyone you mention is getting blame.

      We’re not absolving the 77 million (to correct your numbers) Trump voters. In fact, this is explicitly called out whenever someone says “This is not what I voted for!” on Team Red. Especially when we say “Oh, no, this is exactly what you voted for, but you voted for it to happen to other people. Suck it up, buttercup!”

      And the 100 million non-voters? They are EXACTLY who are being called out by someguy3. I mean, ‘protest-non-voters’ explicitly belong in the group of 100 million who don’t vote.

      And don’t forget a lesson everyone old enough to vote should have learned a loong, loong time ago. We don’t always get what we want. When the choices are “Greater Evil” and “Lesser Evil”, which they are all too often, either you vote “Lesser Evil” or accept the consequences of “Greater Evil”. 100 million people said they couldn’t be bothered to choose, and 2 million thought they had a viable alternative beyond “Greater Evil” and “Lesser Evil” and threw their votes away for distraction candidates.

      And here we are. Enjoy your Mango Mussolini. That’s the guy you picked with all the ranting you did above, assuming you didn’t swallow your pride and vote Harris in '24. In that case, other people making your argument picked Mango Mussolini for all of us.