100% this. It’s all so tiresome to listen to those types, too. They really do think they are so very self-righteous and better than the “neoliberal shills”, etc. 🙄
If Harris wanted to win the election, they needed to listen to us and capitulate. It’s not more complicated than that. We gave the roadmap, we were informed, and the post mortems show us to have been right the entire time.
Harris ran a losing campaign. That’s an objective fact. We have a path to winning the election. Internet wide, apologists for Democrats chose to ban us, silence us, and wag their finger. Butt they didn’t have right of it. Their calculations were wrong.
We were litterally begging Harris to just fucking lie to us about her position on Gaza. Just fucking signal that she’d do something, anything to push back on Israel. She couldn’t even muster the most mediocre of efforts.
Then they lost the election.
And here’s the issue, and I’ve outlined this ad nauseum, and I’ll continue to do so until everyone understands: you don’t control the electorate.
You don’t have a choice in what people think or how they behave. And there are no functional mechanisms to move populations of people to whatever you think they “should” believe or how you think they should act. Moving populations is a decadal, generational project.
There is one path to winning elections: understand the electorate, and then move candidates into adopting those positions. You can’t shame, badger, or otherwise abuse voters into voting how you want them to. It doesn’t work. It doesn’t if you don’t like it. Trying to do so is counterproductive.
^ Well, I’m not sure if this is an actual question in good faith given this is coming from a banned account.
But, to answer it - I’m not sure if I said I never get response from leftists. Hell, I consider myself and many I affiliate with a leftist (despite all the arguments in bad faith that tend to kick off by calling everyone with even a slight disagreement a “shitlib” or a “neoliberal shill” and so on). If I said that, I didn’t mean it - what I meant is that I see less of them (online) since the election.
I have enough of the type of unapologetic unhelpful bad-faith types of “leftists” in my personal life even if all the online trolls/bots really did disappear immediately after the election.
I’ve had the conversation enough times and it’s nearly always done in bad faith and delusion. I’ve had it so many times that I could practically write out their responses anyway, so I don’t really see it going anywhere. In any case, I’m sure I’ll have it IRL soon enough as I have enough associates of the tankie archetype. It’s weird how much of the Murc’s Law media and reactionary centrist tropes they have adopted, that’s for sure…if I didn’t experience this kind of thing IRL, I’m not sure I’d even be convinced that all of these online characters were not just a form of online agent provocateur. I believe that at least some of the online people legitimately hold their views.
Bit weird how Darwin keeps ignoring you every time you prove him wrong. Even when pinged, he doesn’t reply to you. I’m sure there’s nothing weird about that.
Sorry, you didn’t instantly say you’d vote for no matter who they appoint without the consent of the voters, so you’re going to banned and ignored now.
Vote Blue No Matter Who! Even if they actively harm their own campaign, pledge to have a stronger border than Trump, actively enable genocide, and fail to keep promises that got voters engaged.
Sorry you don’t want to win, if you wish to keep Republicans elected, you can just swap party affiliation. You clearly don’t care about what Democrats want, only their corporate donors from the military-industrial complex.
Why Western Europe’s interests as opposed to the world’s interests? Western Europe is doing relatively fine, it seems to me that I have a greater responsibility to look out for the global poor, especially those who are suffering due to US intervention.
But why should US politics be oriented towards helping people who are already wealthy and secure instead of people who are poor and vulnerable, especially when their situation is our fault?
Do you think that supporting the interests of Western Europe is going to result in the US adopting a Western European style constitution? How do you envision this playing out, exactly?
An EU-backed Operation Historic Turn should the divide between US and Western European interests become severe enough. This would result in a new constitution favorable to Europe.
The user above you seems to be advocating that we vote for the only opposition the Republicans have ever had with any chance of actually winning elections, so your statement doesn’t really make sense. You’re saying voting for the only other option is keeping them elected? Are you Bizarro Superman?
We had answers to get Harris elected. She and her working for free sycophants said that she didn’t need them to win. She lost. Her sycophants then went on to say the people who they didn’t need or needed to listen to cost them the election.
Again, sorry you don’t want to have the DNC ever win again. You can just turn in your I Voted sticker for a MAGA hat, there’s no difference in the end. Sorry we tried to help her win, not sorry we were right all along and were ignored.
I get the feeling you would suck Trump’s dick if it tasted like candy and everyone was weirdly cool with it, but we don’t live in your wackass alternate realities. The differences between party policies is night and day, and Trumps antics would get him removed in an instant if it were up to every GOP and 20 DNC.
I’m talking about who you would favor if there’s a presidential election between Donald Trump’s third term, on the Democratic ticket, and a despicable fascist who gives a new definition to the word evil, on the Republican ticket. And some third party candidates.
Does Blue No Matter Who still hold? I just want to clarify how strongly you believe in “No Matter Who”.
Well, since the orange shitstain just sits in the “first bedroom”, eating KFC and watching Animal Planet and doesn’t actually have any convictions or positions of his own and the entire administration would actually be calling all the shots, I would likely vote for Trump in that case once in the voting booth. Trump was actually a Democrat until 2009, he could have the Dem nominee if all of this had played out a particular way in 2008 instead of 2016. That said, I definitely would have been trying everything to keep the DNC from picking Trump up until the convention.
I guess it depends on who was really running against Trump since a 140 year old confederate corpse wouldn’t be.
Right, that’s what I was thinking. I admit Jefferson Davis was probably a bad example, but I was trying to go for someone who is clearly worse than Trump. With the scenario of:
The Republicans abandon Trump and instead support a young guy who openly advocates war with Denmark, annexing Canada, and nuking the fuck out of Britain and France. This individual has also been leading a small scale guerilla war against Canada with some gun nut crazy people.
The window shifts so far to the right that the DNC accepts Trump as a viable primary candidate. MAGA switches over to the Democrat party in droves, and some elements of the media assist Trump in the primary. Trump somehow wins despite his opposition’s best efforts.
General becomes Trump ( D ) vs The Guy Who’s at War with Canada ( R )
Under such circumstances, I can see the Blue No Matter Who folks voting for Trump of their own free will in the general, because “he’ll die of old age soon anyway”.
100% this. It’s all so tiresome to listen to those types, too. They really do think they are so very self-righteous and better than the “neoliberal shills”, etc. 🙄
If Harris wanted to win the election, they needed to listen to us and capitulate. It’s not more complicated than that. We gave the roadmap, we were informed, and the post mortems show us to have been right the entire time.
Harris ran a losing campaign. That’s an objective fact. We have a path to winning the election. Internet wide, apologists for Democrats chose to ban us, silence us, and wag their finger. Butt they didn’t have right of it. Their calculations were wrong.
We were litterally begging Harris to just fucking lie to us about her position on Gaza. Just fucking signal that she’d do something, anything to push back on Israel. She couldn’t even muster the most mediocre of efforts.
Then they lost the election.
And here’s the issue, and I’ve outlined this ad nauseum, and I’ll continue to do so until everyone understands: you don’t control the electorate.
You don’t have a choice in what people think or how they behave. And there are no functional mechanisms to move populations of people to whatever you think they “should” believe or how you think they should act. Moving populations is a decadal, generational project.
There is one path to winning elections: understand the electorate, and then move candidates into adopting those positions. You can’t shame, badger, or otherwise abuse voters into voting how you want them to. It doesn’t work. It doesn’t if you don’t like it. Trying to do so is counterproductive.
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world You said you never actually got any response from leftists. Here’s one. Why didn’t you answer it?
^ Well, I’m not sure if this is an actual question in good faith given this is coming from a banned account.
But, to answer it - I’m not sure if I said I never get response from leftists. Hell, I consider myself and many I affiliate with a leftist (despite all the arguments in bad faith that tend to kick off by calling everyone with even a slight disagreement a “shitlib” or a “neoliberal shill” and so on). If I said that, I didn’t mean it - what I meant is that I see less of them (online) since the election.
I have enough of the type of unapologetic unhelpful bad-faith types of “leftists” in my personal life even if all the online trolls/bots really did disappear immediately after the election.
I’ve had the conversation enough times and it’s nearly always done in bad faith and delusion. I’ve had it so many times that I could practically write out their responses anyway, so I don’t really see it going anywhere. In any case, I’m sure I’ll have it IRL soon enough as I have enough associates of the tankie archetype. It’s weird how much of the Murc’s Law media and reactionary centrist tropes they have adopted, that’s for sure…if I didn’t experience this kind of thing IRL, I’m not sure I’d even be convinced that all of these online characters were not just a form of online agent provocateur. I believe that at least some of the online people legitimately hold their views.
Bit weird how Darwin keeps ignoring you every time you prove him wrong. Even when pinged, he doesn’t reply to you. I’m sure there’s nothing weird about that.
Sorry, you didn’t instantly say you’d vote for no matter who they appoint without the consent of the voters, so you’re going to banned and ignored now.
Vote Blue No Matter Who! Even if they actively harm their own campaign, pledge to have a stronger border than Trump, actively enable genocide, and fail to keep promises that got voters engaged.
Sorry you don’t want to win, if you wish to keep Republicans elected, you can just swap party affiliation. You clearly don’t care about what Democrats want, only their corporate donors from the military-industrial complex.
You’re right. I don’t care about what the Democrats want.
I instead care about advancing Western Europe’s interests in the US.
Why Western Europe’s interests as opposed to the world’s interests? Western Europe is doing relatively fine, it seems to me that I have a greater responsibility to look out for the global poor, especially those who are suffering due to US intervention.
It’s because I have a high opinion of France, Spain, and Portugal. Especially Portugal.
But why should US politics be oriented towards helping people who are already wealthy and secure instead of people who are poor and vulnerable, especially when their situation is our fault?
It’s because I want a Western European style constitution instead. And I don’t speak Portuguese.
Do you think that supporting the interests of Western Europe is going to result in the US adopting a Western European style constitution? How do you envision this playing out, exactly?
An EU-backed Operation Historic Turn should the divide between US and Western European interests become severe enough. This would result in a new constitution favorable to Europe.
The user above you seems to be advocating that we vote for the only opposition the Republicans have ever had with any chance of actually winning elections, so your statement doesn’t really make sense. You’re saying voting for the only other option is keeping them elected? Are you Bizarro Superman?
Harris could have stood in the middle of 5th avenue, and shot someone, and still not lost some people’s vote.
We had answers to get Harris elected. She and her working for free sycophants said that she didn’t need them to win. She lost. Her sycophants then went on to say the people who they didn’t need or needed to listen to cost them the election.
Again, sorry you don’t want to have the DNC ever win again. You can just turn in your I Voted sticker for a MAGA hat, there’s no difference in the end. Sorry we tried to help her win, not sorry we were right all along and were ignored.
So, once again, you’re saying the DNC advocates, us, are opposed to the DNC winning?
Careful. This kid will report you.
For breaking rules? Sure hope so.
With advocates like you, who needs Republican propaganda?
Vote blue no matter who, liberal!
I know I will.
I get the feeling that you would vote for Donald Trump if he switched party and the DNC was somehow okay with it.
Who do you favor? Donald Trump (D) vs Jefferson Davis ( R)? Or third party?
I get the feeling you would suck Trump’s dick if it tasted like candy and everyone was weirdly cool with it, but we don’t live in your wackass alternate realities. The differences between party policies is night and day, and Trumps antics would get him removed in an instant if it were up to every GOP and 20 DNC.
So you would absolutely vote for him if you saw “Donald Trump (Democratic Party)” on the ballot? Thank you for clearing that up.
What are you even talking about?
I’m talking about who you would favor if there’s a presidential election between Donald Trump’s third term, on the Democratic ticket, and a despicable fascist who gives a new definition to the word evil, on the Republican ticket. And some third party candidates.
Does Blue No Matter Who still hold? I just want to clarify how strongly you believe in “No Matter Who”.
I’ll answer your hypothetical with another: Would you prefer to fondle your grandfather or have your grandfather fondle you?
The DNC candidate is chosen by primary, and Trump demonstrably would never have a chance since he tried it like 16 years ago.
Well, since the orange shitstain just sits in the “first bedroom”, eating KFC and watching Animal Planet and doesn’t actually have any convictions or positions of his own and the entire administration would actually be calling all the shots, I would likely vote for Trump in that case once in the voting booth. Trump was actually a Democrat until 2009, he could have the Dem nominee if all of this had played out a particular way in 2008 instead of 2016. That said, I definitely would have been trying everything to keep the DNC from picking Trump up until the convention.
I guess it depends on who was really running against Trump since a 140 year old confederate corpse wouldn’t be.
Right, that’s what I was thinking. I admit Jefferson Davis was probably a bad example, but I was trying to go for someone who is clearly worse than Trump. With the scenario of:
Under such circumstances, I can see the Blue No Matter Who folks voting for Trump of their own free will in the general, because “he’ll die of old age soon anyway”.