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darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks | Reuters (2024-11-16)0·6 months agoHow the fuck did he go the whole election cycle without knowing even that much? It wasn’t exactly a well hidden detail of Trump’s foreign policy
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year0·6 months agoIf you think nobody was paying attention to climate change after Biden’s win you are the one who slept
It’s funny because America and the world are fucked now. Blame whoever you like that’s the situation
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mlto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake33·6 months agoIgnorant Americans, never even heard of the common snailcat
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Might as well be us0·7 months agoisn’t it obvious that voting for the “lesser evil” just inevitably trends towards the greater evil over time? .
What’s obvious is that multiple election cycles of non-participation lead to people who want the greater evil winning the vote more often.
It is not a successful strategy at mitigating harm
Counterpoint: literally any of the things that happened under Trump that Hillary almost certainly wouldn’t have done.
Like nominating three of the judges that overturned roe
We’ve been down that road before
What doesn’t happen is non-participation leading to the abolishion of America’s two party system.
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Might as well be us0·7 months agoNon-participation is simply letting the greater evil win.
They’re not suddenly going to ditch first past the post because of some protest voters/abstainers.
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darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•If Harris loses, expect Democrats to move right0·7 months agoMaking the rightmost party more viable does tend to do that
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•We need an economy for the people, not the bankers and CEOs!0·7 months agoHurl all the childish indults you want that won’t change the reality of the situation.
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•We need an economy for the people, not the bankers and CEOs!0·7 months agoThem running isn’t going to result in anything but help further erase the left’s progress more than Trump already did post 2016.
It’s the unfortunate history of left leaning third parties in a fptp system.
Urim and thummim pilled
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’0·7 months agoSome of Hitler’s generals wanted to assassinate him, so it doesn’t even make sense from the loyalty angle Trump is going for.
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.ml•Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America's News0·7 months agoan attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.’
A…what?
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•This is the real Kamala Harris – a friend to Israel, war mongers and big business, an enemy to working class people. We need a new system! #VoteSocialistArtCall0·7 months agoThat’s a wholly dishonest take and anyone paying attention would know better
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•This is the real Kamala Harris – a friend to Israel, war mongers and big business, an enemy to working class people. We need a new system! #VoteSocialistArtCall0·7 months agoYou’re not meaningfully fighting genocide if you let the world backslide into even worse and more open genocidal ideology
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•This is the real Kamala Harris – a friend to Israel, war mongers and big business, an enemy to working class people. We need a new system! #VoteSocialistArtCall0·7 months agoDo you honestly think Donald Trump would somehow be LESS genocidal than Kamala Harris?
He literally said murder is a genetic predisposition.
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•This is the real Kamala Harris – a friend to Israel, war mongers and big business, an enemy to working class people. We need a new system! #VoteSocialistArtCall0·7 months agoSee, this is the kind of thing you bring up during primaries not when the field has narrowed down such that the only other viable contender is worse.
darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza0·7 months agoDemocrats winning means genocide becomes fully normalized forever,
Even more so if the guy who openly said murder is a genetic predisposition wins.
Who for the record is Donald J Trump.
Trump shitting on his supporters in every way but literally, they’ll tell themselves he gave them chocolate and ignore the stench.