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    1 year ago

    Congratulations, Americans. You really showed how much you dislike Hillary Clinton. Have fun with the hellhole you created for yourself. Let me guess, you will vote Republican next year because Democrats didn’t do “enough”.

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      yeah, I bet the millions of Americans who voted Democrat and then had their votes functionally overturned by the archaic electoral college are just thrilled that student loan forgiveness was blocked

      get a grip dude

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        I’m talking about the dipshits who opposed Hillary Clinton, who told me how bad she’d be and all that stuff. I went all in for her in 2016 because I knew what was at stake. Not enough americans did that and that’s how a 59.2% voter turnout gave us Trump, whereas in 2020, a 66.9% turnout prevented him.

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      Lashing out against all Americans is misguided. I didn’t vote for Trump. You gonna yell at me too? Maybe show some empathy for those of us affected rather than talking trash to a group of people who are now disadvantaged by these recent SC decisions. Especially the one about discrimination.

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        Same here, didn’t vote for Trump, held my fucking nose and conformed and voted Hillary in 2016 because I was still a socdem back then and I was scared. Then 2020 rolls around, centrist democrats backstab Bernie and simultaneously rally behind Joe Biden’s lukewarm corpse to stop a progressive from gaining any more momentum. Now they sit on their hands every step of the way, no effort to remove the filibuster, Biden and congress come together to stop the railroad strike, no effort to pack the court, nothing.

        I’ve voted in every fucking election (local, state, national, midterms, etc.) since 2008 when I turned 18. It doesn’t fucking make any difference. Candidates are chosen and corporations always win. The system is working as intended for those who it was built for. Hint: It is not me or you.

        I keep seeing these annoying libs lash out towards leftists for the mistakes of the Democrat party. Democrats back some of the most unlikable candidates, backstab their own, don’t exercise their power when they do have it, are condescending, overly worried about optics and decorum, and do almost nothing to combat the broken hydrant of lies and vitriol coming from Republicans.

        Almost 100 million eligible Americans didn’t vote in 2016. And yes we know the electoral college, gerrymandering, voter id laws, material conditions, etc, impact that number. Yet libs don’t seem to have the mental capacity to ever look inward and analyze the conditions that resulted in these outcomes. They are so fucking dense.

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        I didn’t vote for Trump

        But did you defend Clinton against those baseless accusations or debunk false information? Or did you phone bank or try to get new people registered for voting?

        Because just voting is not enough.

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          I absolutely defended her and rallied folks to vote in that election. I live in Missouri, though, which means we are constantly outnumbered. I tried, though.

          Advice for you: drop the internet virtue signaling and assumptive behavior.

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          And what if I did phone bank for Clinton, donated to her campaign, worked at a polling station, raised awareness, knocked on doors? I live in the state with the highest voter turn out. In 2016 I properly shamed every fucking friend, family member, co worker I could to go out and vote. Hillary had the popular vote but the fucking archaic electoral college meant that I didn’t matter what I did in my state. Should I have quit my fucking job for Hillary Clinton so I could go from state to state with her? Where are your going to move the goalposts to next? Holy shit you’re so insufferable and condescending. You don’t know anything.

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      At first I thought there was no way trump would win in 2016. Now, I had the same feeling the other day about trump again… I’m not sure what’s going on in this world of ours beyond the fact that don’t know what to think… I feel like I’m taking crazy pills if I look outside my daily life bubble for more than a few minutes to think about what’s happening.

      Did our connectivity with our communication tech including social media break our monkey brains? We as a society went from knowing only the people in your local community to being able to talk to anyone in the world instantly within a very short time span.

      And we use that power to disastrous effect.