• horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’m dizzy with this circular logic here.

    Dems need to behave and act like an opposition party. Organize local outreach and fund down ticket candidates. Who any of us voted for no longer matters.

    Organize and resist. Moving forward is how you win. Gloating about the worst possible outcome at the end of the world doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

    If we don’t get off our asses there won’t be another chance to vote. It’s not 2000, Trump isn’t Bush. Our systems are being dismantled. If that’s not a call to unifying action I don’t know what is.

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      6 hours ago

      No one is getting off of any asses. The bed was made and now we’re sleeping in it.

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        6 hours ago

        Honest question, are you ashamed that you don’t feel empowered? Is that why you shit all over anybody’s efforts to organize.

        Or are you just so confident you’ll be able to pass the coming Mischling tests?

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          5 hours ago

          Why would I be ashamed? I voted to stop this. I canvassed. I did the work. I’m proud of my efforts to stand in the way of a fascist dictator.

          And I’m not shitting on anything. I’m just observant. I don’t lie to myself others.

          Organizing protests won’t do shit even if you could gather enough people. I’m not happy about this. I don’t want this, but inept that this is how it is.

          We had a chance to stop this. We were warns this would happen. We were TOLD this would happen. And yet- NINETY MILLION ELIGIBLE VOTERS STAYED THE FUCK HOME.

          So no. I’m not ashamed at all. I’m just DEEPLY disappointed and angry that she lost our only chance to avoid this. And on top of that, I’m furious that there’s people that have the audacity to cast aspersions on those that knew there was a way out of this. I’m furious that these people smugly accuse those that busted their asses to stop this of not trying to help.

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              5 hours ago

              You people LOVE using the past as a battering ram to break the bullshit of the present.

              News flash: IT DOESN’T FUCKING WORK LIKE THAT.

              I don’t give a shit about your links to events that happened decades ago. That’s not now, those weren’t the same people, and this is NOT the same situation.

              We had the chance to stop this and ninety million people chose to stay home. So go ahead, protest all you want if it makes you feel like you’re doing something. I suppose it’s better than doing nothing- but I hope you suffer no illusion that it’s going to do fuck-all about anything.

              We lost that chance in November. No more finger in the leak… the damn is broken.

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                  4 hours ago

                  Man… you people really love telling others what they’re saying/doing, don’t you?

                  I’m going to let you have this discussion all by yourself. You seem to know what I’m saying, so go ahead and fill in my parts and enjoy the win!