I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?
I will never regret choosing to vote third party no matter what happens. I will not regret my vote even if Trump marches me personally into a gas chamber. The sooner you get that through your heads, the better. You will never be able to “scare me straight” by pointing to the Republicans, no matter what they do.
The reason things have gotten as bad as they are, to where we have to choose between genocide and genocide-lite, is because of a complete unwillingness to have a spine and draw a red line, out of fear of letting the other side win. We have sacrificed every single standard and principle in the name of that fear. This “common sense” strategy of unconditional support of the lesser evil is actually completely insane, and easily falls apart under scrutiny.
However, if you cannot be persuaded that we are correct, then it is better that you see us as stubborn and irrational. Because a stubborn and irrational person will only be persuaded by giving them what they want, and not by words or anything else. If you want to make sure the Democrats actually win next time, the best strategy is to pressure them into conceding to our demands. Which, if you think about that for 5 seconds, it makes our approach seem a lot less stupid and irrational, but what do I know, I’m stupid and irrational.
It must be easy to stand from on high in judgement of others when you aren’t the one that stood to lose anything, because It’s the ones that have nothing to lose that always go all-in at the table.
Your lack of regret clearly illustrates that your decision was influenced by a colossal amount of entitlement.
Reposting the explanation without the language they used towards me.
You wanna talk game theory, let’s talk game theory. Two people are given $100 to split. One person makes an offer, the other choses to accept or deny - if they deny, nobody gets anything. What is the “game theory rational” outcome? The offer made is a $99-$1 split, which is accepted, because $1 is better than nothing. What actually happens when this has been done irl? The result is offers less than about $30 get rejected, and so the offers tend to be more equitable. Chosing to take nothing may be less “rational” on the surface level, but by establishing it as a credible threat of denial, this “irrational” approach achieves a better outcome.
Normally, if I played that game with someone, I’d probably just offer a 50-50 split, but if it was one of you, I’d only offer you a dollar, because I know you’d take it. Because literally your whole ideology is built around accepting shitty deals, rejecting the deal would invalidate your entire belief system.
The reason that people are prone to the “irrational” strategy in that game is that the “rational” strategy is only rational within the confines of the game. In real life, the game doesn’t end there, and if you signal you’ll accept a $99-$1 split, that’s all you’ll ever get in the future.
The vote wasn’t between genocide and genocide lite. It was between genocide lite and genocide, plus additional genocides, some domestic, plus economic sabotage, plus the emergence of a new evangelical southern Baptist military regime.
I don’t think that narrowing the scope of the voting gap to just you is helpful, so I don’t want to use this as a moment to level scorn. I just want to be very clear that the premise you presented is wrong. Very wrong
And In The next panel a Nazi is stabbing the marginalized person and the dem is saying you voted for this.
You guys always tell half the joke.
Imagine believing that Trump’s genocidal policy is somehow different from genocide joe and kamalacaust. It’s a continuation that they actively enabled and now support.
Do y’all understand how watching these creeps support a genocide for more than a year might have caused them to lose?
And you’re still crying about it and blaming voters instead of opposing genocide. Pathetic and gross.
In two short weeks. He’s managed to put into place an ultimatum where the Palestinians either leave their homes forever, or become one with the craters their homes will become if they don’t-
… and you are STILL here expecting anyone to believe the bOtH siDeS bullshit?
Pathetic and gross indeed.
it’s a lot different, and you trying to come up with insulting plays on names is very trumpian, and belittles the fucking real genocide.
it’s not a joke, stop making fucking puns.
and yes, trump v biden (kamala was never president, btw… she said words but had no real power)… but yes they were very very different.
it’s a horrible concept, but there’s a different level of genocidal monster… there’s enabling, and then there’s escalating and taking over the genocide… pretty different.
but i do think that’s the biggest reason they lost. Not because people thought trump would be less genocidal, but because they couldn’t support any genocide either way.
kamala wrote a several paragraph statement about gaza protestors at the white house, it was entirely about how she opposes anti-semitism, absolutely nothing about murdering an entire population….
hardly inspiring, but trump is still miles worse… and he did already lift bomb bans that biden put in place….
also, biden helped broker the ceasefire so at least that was nice.
Hey look! The liberals are still blaming the left! What compromises were you doing in order to win the leftists votes btw? Maybe that is the question you should ask yourself.
