How many million people didn't vote? And how many million would Harris have needed?
Not voting is a choice and clearly it can be an important one. Their voices exist you just don't seem to want to listen to what they're saying.
Ironically for the old racist man we now have less white Europeans immigrants as before and more from Africa and India regions, at least in the area I live. I love it how it's backfired on him.
Yes! I really tried to explain this to people. One guy I saw on the news said he was voting Brexit to "get the Muslims out," apparently completely unaware of how batshit insane it is to leave the European Union to reduce the number of non European people in Britain.
My future, my son's future, all now shaped in a more restrictive way because of people's views like this.
Yeah it fucking sucks. I left before the official Brexit date, in a year or two I will hopefully have an EU citizenship again. Most of my friends couldn't have really done that so easily
Yeah and the same if someone is chasing/suspecting you. They would never be able to prove anything if you don't make a mistake or draw attention to yourself. Also helpful that L is fictional
Putin
Trump
Kim Jong Un
Netanyahu
All heart attacks, all at the same time. Play like Light except with world leaders. Undoubtedly I'm missing many, but I could add as needed. Minimal text size to leave space.
No public statements so I'm harder to trace. Then I save the page. If a world leader pulls some horrendous shit, down they go.
It would be flawed for the same reasons Light is, and it would be biased to my viewpoints, but I don't care. I cannot imagine the world would be a worse place with those people dead. And eventually people would spot the pattern and then leaders might think twice.
Although for the planet overall maybe it'd be better to use it for eco-terrorism
More than 52% of British people in 2016 and still more than many now, I bet. I always supported Remain but before I voted I wanted to do my due diligence and re-evaluate. It took googling "brexit pros and cons" and all of 5 minutes reading a BBC infographic to confirm that basically everything the leave campaign said was completely and utterly wrong.
The fact that most people still voted for it despite the obvious lies was way more disappointing to me than the racism. Back then I thought better of people.
"Those kids aren't going to kill themselves" - Joe Biden, probably
All the hasbara money in the world cannot wash the blood from their hands
Nice! Clearly I blocked it out because of the trauma of the ending
They did a minor retcon later. The scene is shown again and as well as the original shadow (And nibbler's eye in the bin), you see Fry's shadow too, since he time travels back there in the Why of Fry. Unfortunately I can't remember which episode this is in at the minute
And you're punishing the Palestinians for it, for some reason.
Trump is an embarrassment worldwide. And the DNC lost to him twice. If that can't get you to criticise them I don't know what will.
Blame the voters to some extent, sure. People are stupid. But it's the party's job to win the votes. If that wasn't true why campaign at all?
So you have decided that the people suffering a genocide don't get your help because of how people who "advocated for it" behaved? Literally punishing people who did nothing wrong. You are not obligated to, of course, but as a moral stance it fucking sucks.
The people who advocated for it that I saw (including myself) tended to say "this terrible policy will lose Harris votes, she should change it." And they were right. The people who fucked you over were the ones who told you it would all be fine because Trump is worse and apparently because they thought the American electorate were super logical?
Blame the people who's fault it actually is. The people who misjudged how the policy would affect turnout. And the people who actually support Trump, of whom there are way too fucking many.
Furthermore, even if I wasn't this bitter, it wouldn't matter because there's literally nothing I can do now.
There wasn't much you could do anyway, unfortunately. But it's the same now. You can advocate. Vocally support BDS. Biden didn't care anyway and Harris said she would continue to support Israel.
Obviously I agree that you should prioritise, but it seems a little silly to turn your back on something I'm sure you agree with just because the DNC fucked you by ignoring voters and losing the election to Trump.
Imo if you're resisting Trump you're all on the same side.
You said you no longer have solidarity. What did I misinterpret?
My country's politics are shitty so now I don't care about an ongoing genocide? What the fuck did I just read
You can care about two things. More even. Cutting your solidarity with Palestine over this is pathetic, I find it hard to believe you had any in the first place if this is enough to break it.
And let's not forget that "people who generally agree with me except don't like supporting genocide" are much less of an issue than "people who think my trans friends are mentally ill cis people, hate all immigrants and actively encourage the genocide." Tens of millions voted for Trump. They are the problem.
You don't know how I voted.
It's not an issue, they can just make it up. You see, everyone is stupid when you imagine that they have a stupid position and ignore any evidence to the contrary.
In that spirit, I'm pretty sure the person you're talking to just took a shit on their ballot. So really this is all their fault.
Hilarious. Why do a less committed version of the same shitty politics as the other party? Who the fuck is this going to win over? Did you miss what happened in November?
I would ask if they were high but that would encourage creativity and awaken any remaining embers of idealism so it can't be the case.
Just leaving this here for no particular reason https://youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA?si=eDv9_1tiy_bvlFCJ
Sorry, did I miss something and the democrats actually won? No? Then they were pretty fucking important it seems.
Despite being highly upvoted and the comment section agreeing with the onion-y-ness as far as I saw. Ridiculous. Still a good post
Anyone who defended Biden and Harris on this never made it their problem in the first place. They didn't care.
my problem now is a fascist dictatorship taking over my country because your movement couldn't see more than one step ahead.
Not my movement. I still advocated voting for Harris.
And it's actually because "your" movement thought you could convince enough people to hold their nose and vote for someone they didn't like but you were wrong.
It's great for you that you don't care about the genocide going on. I bet that's nice. It's not so great for you that your complete and utter inability to understand your countrymen led you into this disaster. Maybe listen to well intentioned critics next time?
I know it wasn't you personally but you see what I mean.
If people in some far off land have to die so that we can give LGBTQA+ people a place to feel safe so be it.
Thanks for this wonderful summary of exactly what was wrong with many democrat supporters in this election campaign.
They don't have to die do they? That is the whole fucking point. How many LGBT+ people do you think would agree with this? "Yeah lots of kids died but it's worth it as long as I am protected."
If you don't care about Gaza it's fine. That's your business. But let's not pretend it's some trade for the benefit of a group of people you cannot possibly speak for.
Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the price of neglect.
Archive: http://archive.today/Zm9yl
>One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a recently established kibbutz near the border of the Gaza Strip. Dayan came to attend the funeral of 21-year-old Roi Rotberg, who had been murdered the previous morning by Palestinians while he was patrolling the fields on horseback. The killers dragged Rotberg’s body to the other side of the border, where it was found mutilated, its eyes poked out. The result was nationwide shock and agony.
>If Dayan had been speaking in modern-day Israel, he would have used his eulogy largely to blast the horrible cruelty of Rotberg’s killers. But as framed in the 1950s, his speech was remarkably sympathetic toward the perpetrators. “Let us not cast blame on the murderers,’’ Dayan said. “For eight years, they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt into our estate.” Dayan was alluding to the nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” when the majority of Palestinian Arabs were driven into exile by Israel’s victory in the 1948 war of independence. Many were forcibly relocated to Gaza, including residents of communities that eventually became Jewish towns and villages along the border.
>Dayan was hardly a supporter of the Palestinian cause. In 1950, after the hostilities had ended, he organized the displacement of the remaining Palestinian community in the border town of Al-Majdal, now the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Still, Dayan realized what many Jewish Israelis refuse to accept: Palestinians would never forget the nakba or stop dreaming of returning to their homes. “Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs living around us,’’ Dayan declared in his eulogy. “This is our life’s choice—to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.’’
>On October 7, 2023, Dayan’s age-old warning materialized in the bloodiest way possible.
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>October 7 was the worst calamity in Israel’s history. It is a national and personal turning point for anyone living in the country or associated with it. Having failed to stop the Hamas attack, the IDF has responded with overwhelming force, killing thousands of Palestinians and razing entire Gazan neighborhoods. But even as pilots drop bombs and commandos flush out Hamas’s tunnels, the Israeli government has not reckoned with the enmity that produced the attack—or what policies might prevent another. Its silence comes at the behest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has refused to lay out a postwar vision or order. Netanyahu has promised to “destroy Hamas,” but beyond military force, he has no strategy for eliminating the group and no clear plan for what would replace it as the de facto government of postwar Gaza.
>His failure to strategize is no accident. Nor is it an act of political expediency designed to keep his right-wing coalition together. To live in peace, Israel will have to finally come to terms with the Palestinians, and that is something Netanyahu has opposed throughout his career. He has devoted his tenure as prime minister, the longest in Israeli history, to undermining and sidelining the Palestinian national movement. He has promised his people that they can prosper without peace. He has sold the country on the idea that it can continue to occupy Palestinian lands forever at little domestic or international cost. And even now, in the wake of October 7, he has not changed this message. The only thing Netanyahu has said Israel will do after the war is maintain a “security perimeter” around Gaza—a thinly veiled euphemism for long-term occupation, including a cordon along the border that will eat up a big chunk of scarce Palestinian land.
>But Israel can no longer be so blinkered.
Archived link: https://archive.is/20240129190423/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-29/ty-article/.premium/top-members-of-far-right-swedish-party-with-neo-nazi-roots-meet-israeli-minister/0000018d-564e-d0fc-a9bd-5e5f9ff00000#selection-449.0-449.91 [https://archive.is/20240129190423/https://...
Step two: ???
Step three: profit
We've been giving them water in this tupperware all summer but now my bro apparently has his own plans