i can’t even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they’re not quiet now once they get called out

  • Lux
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    1210 hours ago

    Maybe pick a candidate that people want to vote for next time

    • @world_mods_are_scums
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      They are sore loser, they would blame everybody but themselves lmao. They spent 3 months saying genocide shouldn’t be a deal-breaker, still lost, and now amazingly, they manage to be smug about it.

    • @ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world
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      You vote based on the choices you’re presented, not the ones you like. Like it or not a no vote is a vote one way or another.

      • @spujb@lemmy.cafe
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        66 hours ago

        Your comment highlights the tension between idealism and realism when it comes to voting.

        Ideally, everyone would vote based on the choices they’re given. But in the real world, human behavior is messy—especially in an electorate like America’s, where civic education is weak and collective action is a foreign concept to many. It’s not surprising that “lesser evil” voting and the idea of keeping a genocide on simmer failed to compel a minority of voters who chose to abstain.

        Do I blame nonvoters? Sure, to an extent—maybe 49%. But realism forces me to direct most of the blame at the Democratic Party, which has spent the last eight years repeatedly folding to Trump’s every authoritarian move. Until they address their own complicity, they’ll continue to bear the larger share of responsibility for this broken dynamic.

    • @Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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      -410 hours ago

      You mean like Shill Stein? Or do you mean that other do-nothing that no one can remember because they’ve done nothing?

      • @world_mods_are_scums
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        Doing nothing is better than committing conspiracy to genocide. It’s a capital offense.

      • @njm1314@lemmy.world
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        I’m just guessing here but they probably don’t mean a candidate who got less than 1% of the vote. I’m not sure why that’s where you went right away.