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Why? Does she automatically get all the votes just because she exists? You get votes by doing what your electorate wants you to do. She didn't do that and this is the result.
Because she is no fascist. If you have the choice between a fascist and a non fascist and you dont vote you support the fascist. In this case it is even dumber because one side tells Israel to calm it down but sadly still send weapons while the other says Israel is correct, did everything to worsen the relationships between israel and palestine even more and has a fucking settlement named after them.
If you have a choice between someone who is going to kill people you care about or a person that's going to kill the people you care about, voting for either of them is supporting people who kill people you care about. And it is doing that directly, not through some proxy "oh but Trumps voters will vote, we need people who don't support what Harris has been doing to vote for her anyways because not voting is supporting fascism".
One side does fuckall to stop what's happening in Palestine. They're letting the Israelis kill Palestinians en masse, displace them and take away their land. That side is currently in power and had every possibility and every leverage available to them to stop it. They didn't, and now they lost an election because of it.
The new side will still do fuckall to stop what's happening in Palestine. They will say Israel is correct and will still send arms to them to kill Palestinians.
The result is exactly the same - dead Palestinians in the Gaza strip.
You had the choice between someone who tell the people that do the killing to stop but isnt doing so strong enough and someone who says kill even more people and name a settlement after me, while also openly talking about implementing fascism.
Fuck every single person who didnt vote for Harris, esp. those who did so because of Gaza will regret their decision soon and deserve everything they will get now.
When did Harris tell people "to stop"? She said "Israels defense, end the war" two days before the election. Nothing more. And she only did that because the polling had it as a more important issue than the democrats previously thought.
You don't look at what politicians say, you look at what they do. And what they did was send more weapons to Israel. What they did is publicity stunts. What they did is shun people who talked about Gaza. Going as far as to shut them up with her idiotic "I'm speaking". The genocide continued.
But I don't blame people like you. To you Gaza is some far away country that you don't care about. To other voters though, it is an important thing and they have shown that. Call them names all you want - the reality is democrats fucked up. They fucked up on Gaza, they fucked up on moving to the right to try to "steal" votes from the republicans.
And this reasoning is why harris lost.
She lost because americans apparently love fascism. Or at least dont care about democracy. The people who didnt vote are on the same level as MAGA. Edit: I forgot. Same for the people who voted for a third party candidate
Okay Mr skinner, the children are definitely the ones who are wrong. Sigh 🙄
If the children support fascism they are clearly wrong. But cool if you are a big fan of fascists. You will see its horrors soon enough. Dont act like you didnt know what you were doing afterwards.
You lost friend, and you lost not because people support fascism trump has the same level of support as he had last time. But because you failed to push for policies Americans wanted in the states that matter.
I didnt participate non friend. And yes the dems lost because americans want fascism or at least dont mind it. They decided to believe the misinformation that tariffs will make things better even with being schooled they dont and sold their daughters and mothers rights for it.
The only good thing is that after Trump burned that shithole down hopefully something decent can be built.