• Wahots@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    Not too much can be done, since a ton of the country sat with their thumbs up their asses instead of voting. Republicans control all three branches of government now.

    In two years, after permanent damage has been done to the government, the climate, and the economy, we may have another shot at at least slowing things down via Congress IF people actually vote for sane people.

    And in four, potentially a new presidency and Congress. But that could be dicy, since there’s going to be little stopping corrupt officials from screwing with democratic safeguards now that the government is teeming with freaks and degenerates under its skin.

    Aside from lawsuits from Democrats, I think the federal government is going to be in complete freefall for the next two years, bare minimum. Thanks fascists and nonvoters. You really fucked the entire world this time. Fucking malicious idiots.

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      17 hours ago

      Because over half of this country has been convinced that acting against their own interests is in their own interests as long as they “win” some fantasy game. “We showed them!”

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      19 hours ago

      They can vocally and actively criticize the DNC leadership for being controlled opposition. Bernie is doing it, why isn’t everyone else?

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        18 hours ago

        Because everyone else knows that criticism isn’t action. I think it’s safe to assume that no mountain was ever moved because someone criticized it enough.

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      1 day ago

      A lone voice of reason. Everyone wants to be lazy in November then expect the people who have no power to do something for them in March.

      Talk about passing the buck.

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        The Democrats need to give voters a reason to go out and vote. The choose the lesser evil reason and keep the status quo isn’t enough.

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          7 hours ago

          This is the laziest fucking bullshit excuse every time. Crying up a storm when a fucking literal fascist is on the ticket with an understanding that the guardrails are basically fucking gone and going “Yea, but they didn’t give me a reason to go”

          Guess what buttercup? You want “action now!” I was trying to drum up action when all that was needed was standing in line for maybe a couple hours and putting your vote in and half these leftists going “We gotta do something!” couldn’t be faffed to show up at that line in the sand.

          And before “But Biden” or “But Harris”, my beating the drum to vote is for your local shit every day where you have FAR MORE control than the DNC but statistics show you probably weren’t even aware when these were.

          So no… I’m not rallying to y’alls cries because you’ve proven you’ll be fair weather allies at best and probably stay home expecting someone else to save your asses. And when the fire gets tough, those that I know who stayed home can’t expect me to lift a finger to help them either because I’ll be busy helping those that at least could do the bare fucking minimum to try to course correct instead of just acting smug.

          Our society is about to get what it deserves. I feel bad for the 1/3 that did show up and tried. The rest can go to hell for all I care.

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          9 hours ago

          IDK. When Hitler was on the ballot, I feel the lesser of two evils was a sufficient reason to vote for the social democrats.

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          Whether the democrats did or not- the conservatives DEFINITELY gave you a reason to. There was NO excuse to not vote AGAISN’T what they promised would come. So, those that chose not to- have no excuse that carries anywhere near enough value it would take to buy them out of taking responsibility for where we are now.

          The democrats may have run a bad campaign, there’s little to argue there. But a bad campaign is NO excuse to allow conservatives to take over our democracy. They told us exactly what they would do. We all knew they would do this.

          You didn’t have to vote FOR democrats, but you absolutely should have voted AGAINST the end of democracy.

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          23 hours ago

          That’s just bullshit, all repeating this does is enable people to not vote by blaming the democrats. Inactions have consequences and anyone who stayed home instead of vote is as much to blame for the current situation.