republicans never vote for democrats, yet democrats never stop chasing their votes.
the left wing are far more reliable voters for democrats than the republicans whose votes centrists envy. And their votes are actually gettable. You know their issues.
So, republicans just piled on the anti-trans hate last election, and democrats responded with either silence or running their own anti-trans hate in their own ads.
Republicans are going to choose republicans, no party stood up for trans people, and the Overton window on trans people moved to the right. democrats not only didn’t say boo, a few of 'em said yay.
Of course the window was gonna shift with no one counteracting the propaganda. The same propaganda you’re boosting.
Pandering only works if you’re delivering more of what your audience wants than your opponent. It yields no votes from right wingers when they can choose fascists and get more of what they want.
But it does alienate people who would otherwise be your natural allies.
So many countries are worse than mine.
And so many more would be, but your country contains you.
I only talk about china because most people on this platform view China as the shining hope. That can do no wrong.
I found that telling you my positions on anything just gives you something to troll with, but it turns out that my positions don’t matter to you since you’re just trolling. Like so:
If you dislike china, then I’ll start talking good about china 🤣
This really just is a game to me isn’t it
Well, that’s because you’re a troll.
I get that you want to talk about anything but how your country committed atrocities and how your positions represent a continuation of same, but no.
I am not going to indulge your whataboutism. harris didn’t support the genocide in gaza hard enough for your liking. You’ve spent this entire thread saying she wasn’t far enough to the right for you and I sincerely wonder if trump is far enough to the right for you either.
Now try desperately to steer the conversation to a country you think is worse than yours. Well, congratulations on being second worst to China. You must be so fucking proud. If they were a majority white country, you would support 100% of their atrocities and clamor for more.
Whataboutism. The Gaza genocide wasn’t enough for you.
I know. Your country has a proud history of being happy with atrocities elsewhere as long as you’re comfortable.
You typify it. Go away troll.
Then it would be smart of her to go more right wing, right?
How far to the right did you want her to go? How many more genocides would it take? Maybe you would prefer if she campaigned on lopping off children’s hands for not producing enough rubber?
Go away, troll.
I voted harris. No liberal was running. Just conservatives.
Go away, troll.
But only when someone says “fuck nazis”
Go away, troll.
Go away, troll.
It’s not my responsibility to entertain you, troll.
You would have preferred harris run even further to the right?
Or are you trolling here too?
It’s easy to be condescending when I am better (if you take this serious, you make my day)
Admitting to trolling. Goodbye.
Yes, the only reason we got trump is because democrats didn’t capitulate enough.
It’s never good enough for you, is it
Contentment got us trump both times. It’s good enough for you, I’m certain.
And what did you see, exactly? I’m a staunch supporter of transparency. It’s literally my job.
I’m an astronaut, doctor, lawyer and actor. But what I really want to do is direct. I can lie about my job too.
I haven’t been hiding anything, just tell me which part of the massive amount of information I give available to you has led you to believe I’m further right wing than Elon musk.
The very first sentence:
Lemmy is just left wing politics in an echo chamber
To a rightwinger, I suppose it might look that way.
I’m giving you an opportunity to become better.
Become less condescending.
Then they are welcome, easy to integrate them.
At least the ones that can make it out in time. And it’s neat how blase you are about it.
I vote in primaries. I also see how, in local races, the party pulls out all the stops to stop progressive challengers to conservative incumbents, an advantage not afforded to progressive incumbents with conservative challengers.