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Well, I for one will question it, because I don’t understand what I’m seeing. How the flying fuck is this happening?

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81 points

The apathy of the masses.

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141 points

Calling this apathy is letting Nazis off easy. This isn’t apathy, this is a massive chunk of the US population willingly acting on this. Today is truly a tragedy.

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They’re no less at fault. Fascists were always going to vote. Non-voters had the power to decide. Self-titled “centrists” and “apoliticals”, or those who adopted a stupid moral high ground because of one thing that Harris did or did not say, made a choice that amounted to “I’m okay with the worse outcome”. They failed to vote against the worse outcome.

Fascism is a cancer that should be excised with prejudice. So is abstention. And Americans should hold them equally responsible for every harm and every life.

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10 points

I’m fully expecting a “night of the long knives” type of situation now. Hope to be wrong about it, but I haven’t been so far.

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36 points

Apathy? This isn’t apathy. Apathy doesn’t vote. Hate votes.

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That’s the problem, you see. Fascists and zealots were always going to vote. The decision was in the hands of the people who didn’t, and they’re at fault exactly as much as fascists.

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Inflation, housing, and further on the right xenophobia. Clinton was right, “it’s the economy, stupid”.

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10 points

White women, Hispanics, and black men all came out in droves voting for Trump.

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31 points

Because the DNC would rather get Trump elected than listen to their constituency.

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26 points

That’s right.

Like is 2016, the Dems have to own this. Like 2016, they won’t.

You can’t offer sweet fuck all to most of the electorate and then ask for their vote.

You can’t back a man perceived as infirm, say everything is fine, only to ditch him 6 weeks out.

Can’t send billions to Israel and Ukraine when the price of food & shelter has skyrocketed.

You can’t maintain the system that creates billionaires but increases poverty and expect the masses to show up for you.

The dems lost to convicted felon. That is how shit they are at doing this.

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While yes I’m sure it contributed, I think a lot of people voted because their rent and groceries were too expensive, so that means “vote for the party not in power”. It makes zero sense, but I have to hope that they’re just uninformed and desperate and not eager for what Trump and 2025 crew want.

Ultimately though, it’s on them. It was their responsibility to know what they’re voting for, and they failed. Now we can only hope they’re too incompetent to do what they want.

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And you cannot blame the moronic masses for voting for this apparently

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Yeah make sure you never ever ever ever ever ever ever blame voters. It’s always Democrats and never voters responsible. God fuck this world and every moron in it

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The fact of the matter is: People need more than sticks to do anything; they need carrots. Nobody, me included, cares if you don’t like how people didn’t fear your preferred stick enough; that’s just how people work. The failure remains squarely on the DNC who, having the perfect stick in Trump, refused to prepare a carrot and opted for a piece of shit hoping to attract some flies from the neighboring mountain-sized pile of shit. Getting angry at voters is like getting angry at the wind for destroying your paper house; I mean okay but maybe don’t build a paper house?

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15 points

Always relevant

(…if slightly ableist)

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