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[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago
[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

The good old FAFO and the Gaza Ghetto has the possibility of becoming a resort. Always vote for the lesser of the two evils.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 7 hours ago

We told you so. I hope y'all chucklefucks enjoy the hell you've brought down on us all, because I have negative sympathy for you.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Love seeing all the pissed off abstainers get angry that they're not being thanked.

It didn't work in 2016. It didn't work in 2024. Maybe next time? Oh wait....

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry.

All out of sympathy.

Maybe if their trash decisions, after numerous warnings and pleas for common sense, didn't lead to putting my own country in extreme jeopardy, I'd find the will to give a shit about their problems.

Hope they like the leopards shitting on their faces.

[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Hope they like the leopards shitting on their faces.

Is that before or after they eat their faces?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Someone told me that it was over now and we should just get over it. I swear to god, I vowed every day that I aruged against these fuckers, non-stop for 5 months, to throw this in their face and make them regret. I'm not going to make myself a liar. My high morals prohibit it.

None of it will mean shit when it's 3 years down the road and I'm pleading, "do not make this fucking mistake again." And they do it anyway. No, I want to shame them away from politics. I want to shame them to being active trump supporters. If there is no lessons learned then I get to enact revenge.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 28 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Many of [the voters] stayed home, and some of them voted for Donald Trump," he said. "But they are now feeling very clearly that they made a big mistake. And, you know, sort of like the kid who gets in trouble and his parents send him to his room and he goes out there and starts throwing stuff around... in a pique of anger. All he's got is a mess and that's what we've got here.

Now that some of them have (maybe?) woken the hell up, I'd like to see a shit-ton of apologies from those that bought into the concerted gEnOcIdE narrative to put donvict into office.

I am pretty sure that most of those pushing that narrative are not going to apologize, because I know the type, and they are very stubborn. They pretty much got what they want - many of them are, at root, nihilists. And that's just the ones that are not Russian trolls, who have mostly clammed up for the time being.

[–] ChokingHazard@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The loudest ones were Russian and Chinese bots sewing discord and hastening the USA’s decline.

[–] wisely@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

Dividing everyone was the goal. Is it disappointing what happened? Yes. Are we still falling for the tactics that caused it to happen? Yes

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[–] dynamitechicken@lemm.ee 6 points 12 hours ago

Start recalling Republican Congress reps/sens if you really do regret it.

[–] moshankey@lemmy.world 99 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

Awwww. Maybe if people actually had been reading the news they may have seen this coming. Now it’s only the leopards.

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 84 points 21 hours ago (48 children)

They aren't regretting here yet. I make comments about it and get brigade against. Hey Dearborn Palestinians for Trump: you guys were completely ignorant, ignored everything that man said, and still held out hope he would be better for your people for some god known reason. Ya fucked up.

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[–] archomrade@midwest.social 30 points 19 hours ago (24 children)

People here still blaming this on minority voters are deafeningly silent on party leadership holding the coalition hostage over AIPAC funding

Stop directing your anger at people being robbed of basic representation instead of political actors who are gleefully accepting blood money to turn against their constituents and a blind eye to genocide

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 18 hours ago (23 children)

We know they're war-criminals. There's still a difference between that and leveling the place for a hotel. Trump gleefully accepted $100m from Adelson for the west bank.

Stop assuming we're pro-dems and not just anti-trump.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 17 hours ago (11 children)

Stop assuming we're pro-dems and not just anti-trump.

This is the shit that drives me nuts. No matter how many fucking times you explain it, they just cannot wrap their heads around this for some reason. Or they refuse to.

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