Liberals: why didn’t you vote to continue Biden’s polite genocide? I was comfortable with that. Now I’m uncomfortable with Trump’s rude ethnic cleansing and it’s all your fault.
@aral Whether to continue it was NOT ON THE BALLOT. Sadly you only get to vote for or against things that are on the ballot. Everything else requires non electoral methods.
OTOH Project 2025 was on the ballot and a bunch of people lying that "continue the Palestinian genocide or not?" was on the ballot voted for all of its provisions. And noe we're stuck with multiple genocides to fight and an administration that can't be pressured because they consider genocide a badge of pride not something shameful they want to pretend they're not doing.
@tinydoctor @dalias@hachyderm.io @aral @n8chz
Perhaps you should redirect your hatred to the party that did everything in its power to alienate those voters, and to the system that props up an oligarchy as if it were a democracy.
@freediverx @aral @n8chz Every time I voted for a democrat it was a vote for slow decline over precipitous collapse. I know what they are. Voting is necessary even under such a system. Until it isn't. We may have reached isn't. Hate is irrelevant. People who voted for Trump, and the people who didn't vote, in effect voted to kill my daughter. With NIH funding canceled, she now has a slow motion death sentence. So it's personal. Yeah, I voted for other people to die. More will die under Trump.
@tinydoctor @aral @n8chz
I voted for Biden 2.0 (Harris) as well. But we're long past the point where we should be scolding voters for the Democratic Party's failures and betrayals. We need drastic measures to break up that corrupt gerontocracy or replace it with a real people's movement, and there's no place in that movement for DNC apologists, certainly not in any leadership roles.
@freediverx @aral @n8chz Agreed. The Democratic Party as it currently consists needs to be razed to the ground, rebuilt, or replaced. I'm not scolding voters, no matter who they voted for. I'm *telling* Trump voters and nonvoters they voted to murder my daughter and people like her, and I *won't* forget. Literally, IRL, in person I tell them.
@freediverx @aral @n8chz I'm sorry, that's not building solidarity with the people we need for a successful movement. So, maybe I have to forgive, but I won't forget.