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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 150 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Good job everyone who sat out or voted 3rd party this election. You saved Palestine!

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I dont think those protest voters were significant, people just think "food didnt get cheaper" and didnt felt like voting anymore. Thats your average voter mindset.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's funny how they consider they had massive impact until there are consequences to their actions. Then, it wasn't much.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone sincerely believed that protest voters were ever going to have a significant impact. I think all of the noise you heard was astroturf designed to knock Harris from both sides of the Israel political position.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 11 points 1 week ago

At most it cost her Michigan. There were deeper issues with the campaign.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The jump in searches for "who is running for president" the day of the election tells you all you need to know about the average American voter.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My heart sank when I read about this. How?! Were these people in a coma for the last few months?

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[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Kilometers_OBrien@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks BIDEN (you know, the current POTUS).

[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Yet, after the election.

But, yes, it happened under Biden's presidency, Biden should get the credit.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While ignoring that for most people, their purchasing power also went up.

They want to pay pre-pandemic prices for food while making post-pandemic paychecks, and there's no way that's going to happen without guillotines. So instead they voted in the wealthy assholes who directly caused COVID and indirectly caused inflation/greedflation because surely those people won't do that again, right?

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[–] simplymath@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] ptz@dubvee.org 32 points 1 week ago (46 children)

Do you really think he changed his stance since then?

He's also the new US ambassador to Israel. That's from 2 hours ago.

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[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I'm sure he's a kinder, gentler Huckabee nowadays.

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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago

Your new Ambassador to Isreal.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

Middle to Low Income Americans: fucked

Palestinians: eradicated

Separation of Church and State: homogenized

1%ers: completely torqued

The NWO is here, the Rubes just forgot to mention it was them and the capitalists enacting it not the illuminati

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All the ghouls crawling back out from under rocks

[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

They weren't hiding, they just stopped screaming long enough to get a good breath of air for the next scream.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Crawling back out from the February 24, 2015 rock.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Based on the need for ancient history to claim a people, there's no Americans either. Does that mean we give everything back to the indigenous people? I hope so. Also even if they're Arabs as you say, that doesn't mean you can just murder them indiscriminately like this.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, an American politician should be wary of making the argument that non-ancient roots in an area make their claim on their land default.

Honestly, I have trouble dealing with the irony that American politicians are pro-zionism becuase Jews used to hold the land a long time ago until they were outcast from their homelands aand forced to move far away, displacing Palestinian people that live tthere now in the process.... and then think that Native American sovereignty (let alone their claim to their historical lands that were stolen from them) are ridiculous and unfair to contemporary US citizens that live here now.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No it's okay we have nukes.

I'm trying to be satirical but I can't really think of another argument

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, because Israel definitely doesn't have nukes. That would be in violation of international non-proliferation agreements, and they have the utmost respect for international law.

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

No one respects international law like Uncle Sam and his buddies!

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

This guy is about to become Ambassador to Israel btw

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is from 2015, just, y'know.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure he's changed his mind on the subject since then.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh.

Got any updates from Mike Huckabee for us that show a change in stance?

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Article from 2015

Not that his opinions have likely changed, but please tell people if you're sharing older news articles.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not that his opinions have likely changed

Exactly

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

No such thing as a Huckabee either.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Oh shit, that’s the first person I ever voted against! As a 17 year old I registered as a republican specifically because I hated him.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

"And to the left, we have the consequences of our actions."

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