I’m back on reddit for one hour and I’m actually arguing with some of the stupidest people on the planet who keep pivoting back to blaming protesters and can’t blame the DNC for even a single minute. So many people, so, so, so many people who all just want to blame the protesters and won’t say a single word about how Biden and Kamala tanked their election.

They literally keep going back and talking about the protesters, literally, and LITERALLY won’t say a word in their response in criticism of Kamala or Biden. This is utterly ridiculous; I left reddit initially because of the shocking amounts of bigotry and now I’m heading off again because these people are pigheaded children in response to people refusing to vote for genociders; they’re literally mocking that the protesters are protesting and even claiming they’re just doing it for tiktok and don’t actually care.

These people are so hateful and vile. God I wish I could teleport them into Gaza.

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    15 million people who voted for Biden didn’t show up to vote for Harris. They didn’t go vote for Trump, he got fewer votes this time than last time. So 15 million people just stayed home. The question is: what would have gotten them out to vote? Everything the Dems try every time, clearly isn’t the answer… Moving right, courting the center right, gaslighting, strong arming, bullying, running on nothing more than “at least I’m not him”, etc… maybe, just maybe, it’s time to move left and embrace progressive policy… And not just bullshit half-assed lip service either… I’m talking put Bernie and the squad in charge of the DNC and start kicking out fake Dems.

    Edit: I mean “fake” Dems as compared to the actual progressives we’d stack the party with

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    The whole point of modern liberal democracy, from the liberal perspective, is that it’s like a market: the entrepreneur/party identifies (or creates!) a demand for a solution/product/policy package, then brings it to market/nominates a candidate and launches a marketing campaign. If you profit/win the election, you did a good job; otherwise, you failed. You are bankrupt. You should leave the market.
    If your proposal does not represent the views of the voters, if you lose the popular vote, by definition, you did a shit job.

    Not only they don’t know jack shit about Marxism, they don’t even understand their own theory.

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      reddit-logo reddit-logo reddit-logo

      This site is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it!

      Creating this website was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

      This website is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

      What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

      The danger is on a particular website… it increases towards the default subs… the center of danger is here… of a particular ideology and mode of production.

      The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.

      The danger is to the mind, and it can kill.

      The form of the danger is an emanation of ideology.

      The danger is unleashed only if you substantially interact with this website frequently. This website is best shunned and left uninhabited.

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    I can’t even argue on reddit anymore they temp banned me for saying “watch a zionist short circuit when you show them an anti zionist jew” and they said it was hate speech L O L

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      Cussing out zionists on mainstream social media is so frustrating because if you’re even half as edgy as those evil creeps, your comment gets taken down and / or you’re banned.

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          they can call palestinians animals, call children terrorists, say they deserve every manner of horrific brutality, demand they vacate land, claim that cleansing them is god’s decree, the list just goes on

          i have never heard even the most radical muslim speak of anyone this way not even israelis

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      I spent the entire day arguing with Blue MAGA Dumbfucks in r/politics and honestly didn’t have this much fun on reddit since the days of MTC.

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    Not only do you have liberals insisting kamala ran a perfect campaign, the genz subreddit is fucking cooked.

    Like full blown celebrating and saying anybody who thinks anything bad will happen under Trump is delusional.

    It’s one thing to be delusional enough to say kamala would have been way better than Trump but to say that nothing bad will happen with a trifecta of republican control is wild.

    Are spaces for gen z just that astroturfed or is it really a bunch of little nazi shitstains running around. The exit pill data last night suggest the latter that gen z rejected liberals messaging but they are moving far right and fast as a result.

    Like the take isn’t “kamala wouldn’t have been any better for lgbtq people or gaza” it’s more like “nothing bad is going to happen to women or trans people you all just live in a bubble because you think trumps bad”

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      Are spaces for gen z just that astroturfed or is it really a bunch of little nazi shitstains running around. The exit pill data last night suggest the latter that gen z rejected liberals messaging but they are moving far right and fast as a result.

      Idk why millennials thought Gen Z was great or anything. Ever since they’ve been on the internet they’ve been inundated with fascist propaganda.

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        Yeah, that’s been the vibe for such a long time. There was a post about how you need to already have saved 1 year worth of salary for retirement by the age of 30. Some people were calling out how that’s unrealistic for a lot of people now, but there was way more people talking about how that’s entirely doable.

        They were typically ~30s or older and had children already. They were also making over 100k and had jobs in tech and engineering. The youngest was like 28-29 that had a high paying 6 figure job. Which is far from the norm.

        But yeah, lots of “that’s totally realistic!”, “the article is completely fine, genz is just lazy”, “if you haven’t begun saving for retirement in your early 20s it’s your fault and you’re a failure.”

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        There’s brigrading trying to rip influence and then there’s every single comment being about how trump isn’t bad and everybody overreacting and saying he’s racist is why they won.

        Like the top twenty comments are all gloating that watching liberals melt down makes their vote for trump even more worth it.

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      I don’t know why anybody thought Gen Z was going to be this generation of hardline communists or something, a plurality are little Nazi shitstains and most of the rest are at “Joe Biden dropped out???” levels of political literacy

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      Are spaces for gen z just that astroturfed or is it really a bunch of little nazi shitstains running around. The exit pill data last night suggest the latter that gen z rejected liberals messaging but they are moving far right and fast as a result.

      I’ve heard about Andrew Tate and how Trans people are icky far more than any other political ideas from highschoolers in the last two years. Granted, its only the guys and I’m in Texas (but one of the few counties that was blue despite Kamala’s terrible performance).

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      Tbh I wouldnt exactly trust reddit to show an actual sample size of what any particular group thinks in general because theyre all fringe weirdos, but especially not gen z. Your average gen z person is on twitter or tiktok, not reddit.

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    i cant even bring myself to engage in obscure hobby reddit anymore, even in completely unrelated spaces the fuckin smuglord energy permeates the area like background radiation

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      yeah I tapped out during… idk 2022? and haven’t looked back. more obscure forums and chatrooms I still stick around in, and I’ll read reddit threads when they show up in google searches, but I don’t have an account and won’t engage at all

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        for sure, there’s still tons of good info you can find on reddit, but in terms of actually engaging with peeps on there? nah lmao

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    Though there are MILLIONS of shitlibs out there, this shit is definitely being turfed. The idea that heads must roll among the Democratic party elite is an incredibly dangerous thing. It is an idea which must be strangled in the crib. This was the whole purpose of Russiagate 8 years ago. To absolve the party leadership of their world-historic negligence. Nobody lost their jobs.