• krashmo@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Good for those people. Did it change anything? Do you think more people doing it would have? How many more people would it take? Can you find them and convince them to show up? I have no interest in naive lectures on idealism. We tried that already and it failed spectacularly.

    Look man, I get that you’re having a hard time letting go of the idea that you’re a peacemaker out there making a difference but if this whole situation hasn’t caused you to revaluate things then I don’t know what to tell you. Good luck with the delusions I guess. I’d rather live in an uncomfortable reality than hide away in fantasy land. You say grow up but I say that’s exactly what I’m doing by taking an honest look at the world around me. What you’re talking about sounds like storybook bullshit to me.

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      11 hours ago

      Lol you still won’t admit that you did nothing. Do you know who organizes the door knockers? THE DEMOCRATS. They were door knocking FOR THE DEMS. You go talk to Kamala fucking Harris and ask her why more people were not doing it, you go ask HER why it didn’t change anything, you talk to the Democrats and ask them why they failed you. You couldn’t identify Idealism if it was stapled to your own forehead.

      What do you even think I’m talking about here, hmm? Door Knockers are the antithesis of idealism. They are agents in the material world, engaging with people directly, hearing their positions and making real attempts to offer them answers. They’re engaging with the non-voter class and republicans in an attempt to create material change within the electorate. Republicans also door knock, for the same reason. What’s idealism is YOU thinking that somehow people should have just “Done the right thing” and showed up and voted for someone who offered nothing to them. Republicans voted for Trump because he had clear and understandable messaging, Harris had absolutely awful messaging. If you’re a Door Knocker and all you have to work with is garbage, then the only ones to blame are the ones who gave them the garbage. The Democrats.

      If you want to “fight fascism” every two years by showing up to vote, you’ll be living under fascism faster than you think. Get out, touch some grass, talk to your neighbors, stop leaving your political life in the hands of people who have no interest in offering you anything, that’s called “Growing the fuck up”.

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        9 hours ago

        The difference between us is that you’re assuming this outcome is because people weren’t educated enough. I think they knew exactly what they were getting and asked for it anyway. All your shit talking is just your way of rationalizing the fact that the American public doesn’t care about the same things you do. You think if we try hard enough that will change. It won’t.

        That’s the last time I’m responding to you because you clearly don’t know how to get out of your bubble. Stay in there until it pops for all I care.