• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    A very significant portion of those who didnt vote were just people that couldn’t be bothered. And another significant portion were those who just abstained because Harris wasn’t tough enough on Isreal, and I’m sure those people are happy with that decision now. Palestine will be free any day now, surely. Yes there is a lot of voter suppression, but things were way too close with a lot of people not voting to claim that that made all the difference. They weren’t ALL disenfranchised. Plenty just made a choice not to vote.

    So… I do blame them.

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      things were way too close to claim that that made all the difference.

      Votes being close is why voter suppression and not voting for Harris because she wasn’t good enough to use as a vote against Trump had such a big impact.

      But in any democracy there will be a significant portion of voters who either aren’t engaged or are unwilling to stand with the available options. You can blame them, but you should really be blaming the Trump voters.

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      9 hours ago

      centrists support genocide and then blame everyone but themselves when genocide support isn’t a winning issue outside of their wing of the party.

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        I’d have much rather had someone who was actually progressive, or at minimum, not supportive of Isreal’s genocide. But that wasn’t an option, was it? Harris and Biden’s positions on Isreal were bullshit. But so was Trumps. At best they were a wash on that subject. And Trump was objectively worse in every other regard.

        People that do not live in reality, that do not understand that under our system you often have to vote for the lesser of two evils to save yourself from the greater of them, are children that need to grow the fuck up.