The reality is, some people struggled to vote for Kamala, not because she is just as bad (she is obviously not) or because they were paid bad actor agents of the far right, but simply because, despite being the better of two options, she just wasn’t left enough to represent their views.

I hear this all the time on lemmy and reddit and other lefty bubble media despite seeing all of the time in reality that progressive candidates aren’t very popular.

Harris ran as a strong progressive in 2020 and she was amongst the first candidates to exit that race. Bernie lost in a head to head matchup with a complete centrist, and Biden had way more people vote for him in the general than Harris did.

I voted for Bernie in 2020. People sat that primary out just like they sat out 2024 apparently. If there’s all this massive support for progressive politicians in this country, I’d like to see some evidence of it.

My beef is with purported leftists online that did their damnedest to dissuade people from voting at all.

Sounds great, where exactly is this thriving community? Grand Delusions, MI?

Yeah keep it up because it’s obviously going great 👍

Yeah, “we” lost. 🙄

Your usage of subtle Republican grammar like “Democrat” where “Democratic” would obviously be more correct gives you away.

That’s not true, we had a good run from the forties until I was born in the eighties. A whole forty years of some amount of power!

Democrats lose because characters like RBG and President Biden simply could not fathom that stepping aside was ALWAYS what they should have done.

Lol, dude the guy that won the election is the oldest person to ever run for president in the history of the country, and a sitting Democratic president stepped aside due to public pressure for younger leadership, but yeah the concept of gerontocracy is what did them in. 🙄

under a Democrat administration.

Dude, just admit that you’re a Trump voter. The election is over and it doesn’t matter anymore anyway.

Surely all of the revolutionaries online dissuading people from voting Harris will kick into gear and get everyone motivated to change the constitution, fix the electoral system, eliminate capitalism, and obtain gay space communism for all.

It’s already popular enough to be a meme scroll substitute for Reddit so I’m good.

They’re pretty good at monopolizing markets and releasing rehashed garbage once they’ve done so.

I’ve heard the film is terrible which is more important.

But we shouldn’t think about giving them less funds because that would be defunding them.

Once seemingly cool, Elon Musk now understood to be the giant douchebag he was the entire time

WUT ABOUT MEN?!??!?

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IhNcnLwiw

In what world is refusing to participate in a system you see as irreparably broken considered condoning its existence?

In a world where refusal to participate is indistinguishable from being too lazy, complacent, or satisfied to participate, and that is the one we live in.

Do you think politicians are going to go check why you didn’t vote? It’s basically as if you don’t exist to them.

Edit: I find it hilarious that when people disagree with my argument here, they downvote this post to signal that. Why do that? If I’m wrong, I can just look through everyone’s viewing history to see all of the people who didn’t vote on the post at all instead. 😆

In that way, if no other, voting does serve to support the existing system.

The amount and percentage of non-voter signals to most politicians that people tacitly approve of the entire system. After all, if they disapproved of something about it, they would’ve at least bothered to show up and vote, right?

There’s no better “the status quo is fine” indicator than not even giving enough of a shit to show up at the polls (or in some cases return a slip of paper through the mail).

Just because the technology is there and cheaper does not mean that humans can push aside their physiological limitations in a critical situation.

Have you considered the shareholders though?

The best businesses are rewarded with more money while poor businesses fail.

citation needed