Protest voters bLuEmAgA screeching didn’t happen in a vacuum
And those uncommitted/undecided voters change their minds easily. What if for every protest voter screecher posting their “bOtH SiDeS” BS there were 5 uncommitted voter lurkers saw it and just went “Eh fuck it, I’m busy with work anyways” they’re not protest voting, those are just uncommitteds doing what uncommitteds do.
Scale that up to nationwide and on major social media platforms that totally would have promoted it thanks to those wonderful algorithms and you can see what it’s a problem
Had a friend who was not particularly radical or politically involved who was almost discouraged enough to cast a third-party vote for all the “BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES” rhetoric.
Words have power.
Sure but if I’m going to put the blame on someone it’s going to be the politicians who refuse to do anything but ratchet right and not the people who are mad about it.
Man, do you not remember what it was like 20 years ago? Even 10 years ago? “We’ve ratcheted right” is empty fucking rhetoric. The Dems have been moving leftwards ever since the nadir of labor support in the 90s. Is it enough? Fuck no. Are we rightward of that? Have we moved right since? Also fuck no.
The people who are ‘mad’ about that have just chosen to kill as many Palestinians as US support can, in addition to genocide against LGBT folk and immigrants, immense damage to the working class, and God knows what fucking else will emerge in this shitshow of a fascist regime.
I’m not going to sit here waiting for Medicaid to be repealed so I can enjoy exsanguinating by internal bleeding because I can’t afford my meds in our fuckhole of a country and say, “Oh, shucks, well, those folk, they were just SO mad that they let the Nazis win, I guess they’re still okay in my book :)” I’m pissed. And I’m pissed for everyone who’s going to get fucked worse than me, which is, unfortunately, a great many people.
Words have power.
Yup, I was saying the same thing pre election in a couple of my wonderful discussions with those bots “people” such as anticolonialist (whos been silent for months now a day after the election LMAO)
I see it all the time on platforms that provide statistics, a comment or post can easily have thousands upon thousands of views but like 2 likes and maybe a reply. It’s those thousands that are really easily influenced and they don’t even bother to like/dislike something let alone answer surveys and polls and are incredibly likely to just leave that mail in ballot on the kitchen counter so it’s impossible to know how many there were that could have been potentially influenced
such as anticolonialist (whos been silent for months now a day after the election LMAO)
The pro-Palestine folks haven’t been quiet. They just get downvoted below visibility by Blue MAGA folks who like to pretend that all the pro-Palestine folk were Russian bots.
