I literally do blame the Democrats for Trump, and if you don’t, you weren’t paying attention.

Plenty of us were critiquing Clinton’s campaign on those merits and were consistently talked down to in shocker the same way we’re being talked down to now. Shocker, she lost. I remember saying a few weeks before the election “We’re about to get Brexited.” I put my vote down for Clinton, because Trump is fucking insane, and that was clear before he was President. It was clear in the fucking 1980’s.

Being able to critique our leaders is supposed to be what is the difference between us and conservative voters. They’re the cult who unquestioningly believes all the bullshit that comes out of Trump’s mouth and diapers. I find it weird that people think we should be more like them in regards to our leaders like that would be a good thing.

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Yeah, this may come as a shock, but the “largest worldwide protests ever” also happened in Germany. That’s what the word “worldwide” means.

So no, it literally couldn’t be that.

Also, the Iraq War protests absolutely did something. At least two involved leaders had their political careers end on the back of them. Not Bush, though. So yeah, the US frog simmers.

I’m not here to advocate that protesting fixes all problems. I will, however, advocate that if you think protesting doesn’t fix anything, protesting on social media DEFINITELY doesn’t.

It can demotivate people politically aligned with you enough to cost you an election, though, so there’s that.

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Why is the blame on me for talking about Democratic failures demotivating people and not… Democratic failures demotivating people?

Like, the actual action of their failure won’t demotivate people? Just people talking about it? How does that work?

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Because motivation shouldn’t even be part of the conversation at all.

Again, end times. Fall of the empire. Looming fascism. Non-functioning democracy.

Because when you speak in a political campaign you’re campaigning. You can do two things and you’ll get no grief from me: campaign for fascists not to be in power or shut up.

The people campaigning against the people campaigning against fascists are the fascists.

You are in a restaurant that is on fire complaining that they mixed up your order. It’s infuriating and extremely your fault.

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The people campaigning against the people campaigning against fascists are the fascists.

Wow, just wow. All right, good luck buddy, I really don’t even know how to respond to “if you want to critique democrats for not fighting fascism hard enough, it means you’re actually wish the fascists.”

That’s the second time today I’ve gotten the George Bush “you’re either with us or you’re against us” schtick. It would be really helpful if you understood how deeply you are channeling Republican attitudes.

(Which, last I checked, are fascist.)

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