• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    26 days ago

    Lol they are taking a lot of credit for a movement I’ve never heard of before. But for the sake of innocent civilians I hope it works.

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      26 days ago

      The Abandon Harris movement was huge in the Biden sphere. They got a large amount of people to not vote for Harris because she refused to fulfill their demands of stopping the genocide in Gaza.

      And instead of doing a pity regret dance they now use their proven determination to threaten Trump to cave to their demand or face electorale backlash for it.

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          25 days ago

          If you were in the Biden sphere and you never heard of Abandon Biden, and later Abandon Harris, then you were not in the Biden sphere.

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        25 days ago

        The people who might opt to not vote for Biden or Harris aren’t people who would have voted for trump in the first place, so I don’t see them having a lot of leverage.

        I can’t tell you what code to follow, but the whole thing reeks of people who didn’t get the memo that trump doesn’t need them to bleed votes from the Dems anymore.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          25 days ago

          It took a massive propaganda campaign, likely including their, efforts, to get Trump elected. If they were to dedicate resources to actually trying to help make the world a better place, it could assist in achieving his removal and prosecution.

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              25 days ago

              It’s an AND situation.

              Dems went with the fucked up status quo.

              Single-issue voters suddenly started caring about a genocide that’s been going on for nearly 80 years that they previously didn’t give two shits about (because of right-wing influence campaigns and bourgeoisie-owned media). They decided that the best course of action was to engage in purely performative, pseudo-political wankery that was only ever going to result in enabling fascists, as was easily seen in all extant historical election data from FPTP systems, so that they could pretend that they were doing something meaningful and stoke their egos by claiming that they had anything resembling moral high-ground.

              Sorry, the world isn’t black and white. It takes consistent, strategic engagement to effect positive change and these people chose instead to inflict greater suffering on humanity and pat themselves on the back for a job well done, while also doing fuck all in the way of direct action or attempting anything to meaningfully improve the human condition.

              Oh! And to add to that, I’m regularly seeing the same people deriding anyone engaging in non-violent action as “shitlibs”, specifically as it is not involving violence, while still doing absolutely nothing but be up themselves on the Internet. Want violence? Stop being a coward and do it yourself, rather than trying to pressure people into it on the online or engaging in the amoral religion that is accelerationism.

              Both the genocidal neolibs and the egocentric protest non-voters are significant contributors in this. And before you try saying that I’m going easy on the nazis in order to deflect, no. Just stop with the dishonesty.