reminder:
this election was lost on multiple fronts.
do not let articles like this, however truthful, and the inevitable spiteful comments underneath convince you that the next four years were caused by Arab-Americans.
fine, fine, yes, it is multifactorial. Unity in opposing trump’s ghouls is the most important, not infighting over losing.
thanks, and not trying to be combative here :) i just know how discourse molds and progresses and it’s just a few short steps from the comments and name calling i’m seeing here to “pro-Palestine caused trump”
when in reality biden/harris actively ignored the petitioning of multiple vital demographics including latino, young, and low-income voters—all of which played out very poorly. it speaks volumes that i haven’t seen a single post about these demographics yet and multiple about Arab-Americans.
just be careful yall! your neighbors need you
20-20 hindsight is better than nothing I guess, unless you get it when you’re looking up at the rapidly receding cliff.
Americans have taken WAY too long to figure out Trump is a con man playing them. Very special insight.
I lived in Detroit for a brief period and my observation was that the Arab population in Dearborn was comprised mainly of people born into multi-generational wealth. I know that’s anecdotal but if my observations were accurate then we’re talking about wealthy people who are disconnected from real life struggles who are voting for Trump. Not about immigrants who have seen and experienced hardships.
Nope. Uh uh. No sympathy from me. My give a damn is broken.
You had SO many red flags
You know the Sara Mclaughlin commercials with all the sad, sick, and starving puppies? Do you think there’s a similar market for engorged, morbidly obese leopards?
MLK was right about liberals. You lot are the biggest threat to justice.
Good luck getting justice with Matt Gaetz as attourney general and an imperial presidency intent on reversing everything the civil rights movement ever achieved.
Of course in the liberal worldview the only political action is voting and so now that voting is over you go after people who didn’t vote or voted wrong and wait four more years until you can (hopefully) vote again.
Instead of retreating with your tail between your legs and waiting for another chance to vote join up with those that are taking direct action through protest and political pressure and fucking riots and strikes.
If more of you joined the anti-genocide voices instead of chanting “vote blue no matter who” your party wouldn’t be the milquetoast status-quo-upholding pro-genocide garbage party it is today.
You can punch left or you can stand with the left and build up the power to punch back.
No, but voting for the option that gives you the most leverage is the least you can do. If you can’t even do that, what makes you think you can protect yourself from hostile institutions?
Yes, we know both sides are evil. That’s the point MLK was making.
Fine, enjoy watching “nothing change”
I’ve been watching that for my whole life. Democrats had the chance to enshrine our civil rights into law. Instead they stood by and did nothing. Now women can’t get abortions.
That’s all you lot do. Nothing. You’ve never stood up for anything other than protecting the status quo. That’s why your candidate campaigned with republicans. That’s why she endorsed the genocide in Gaza and promised continued support for apartheid.
Enjoy, if you don’t care what happens to you, I sure don’t either. This is how totalitarians take over countries e.g. Germany, Iran, they separate the left from the liberals. Looks like it’s working.
I’m a leftist. I’m armed. Nothing is gonna happen to me. Nothing is gonna happen to our trans and queer brothers and sisters, because we’ll be out there in the streets in black bloc, while you sit at home complaining about how we’re causing a ruckus.
You need to worry about your own neck.
And there it is, you’re probably an accelerationist and dream that after the system collapses you will emerge victorious. Don’t forget to create a multi-party system in your new country.
Hmmm, let’s inspect this sample.
Bland name calling, unimaginative reasoning, blind anger and content absolutely and WILDLY straying from the subject of the article.
You sure, may be a tankie
I’d rather be compared to a tankie, than a liberal. Of the two, the former is further away from a nazi.
I’m guessing leopardsatemyface is gonna be the new hermancainaward hotbed of schadenfreude over the next 4 years
Steve Bannon Award?
Eh. Fuck off. I really don’t care anymore.
You chose this. You knew exactly what was at stake, you knew who Trump was beyond any shadow of a doubt, you knew he was going to fully enable Isreal to wipe your family off the face of the earth. You knew.
I fought all the bad faith arguments flying around here and beyond. All the “never genocide” bullshit. Every day, for the better part of a year.
But you played stupid fucking games. And now we all have to find out.
It sucks because people will suffer. Likely people I care about too. But this bleeding heart “liberal” has been bled dry. I can’t muster any more fucks.
Liberals love to talk about how much their hearts bleed. But it was also liberals talking about how disruptive and criminal people protesting in black bloc were being last time Trump was in power. It was also liberals who were saying students protesting peacefully on campuses needed to be beaten and thrown in prison.
You lot don’t give a shit about anyone but yourselves. You use minorities as tokens and ways to sell merch. The downside to that is that when the republicans are doing pogroms these next four years, they’re gonna be going after the people who aren’t armed. And while leftists will always have the backs of our queer and trans brothers and sisters, democrats can figure out defense and mutual support on your own. Because we remember who was really there for us last time, and it wasn’t you. It will never be you.
It’s curious that these people never targeted the Republican position on Gazza, even though it was clear from the polls that Trump had a good chance of winning.
Isn’t it though?
I’m with you bud. I honestly tried. Lesser of two evils, help everyone, people deserve safety nets. Well the people I was fighting to help overwhelmingly voted against all of those. I honestly feel for anyone who voted for the same things I did and lost, but anyone who didn’t vote or voted to remove those protections I’m done feeling bad for.
Sorry grandma, you voted in the man who openly wanted to get rid of Medicare. Don’t care anymore. You needed Obamacare but voted for the people who openly said they’d repeal it? Too bad, get some bootstraps.
Again, those who voted to protect those things I feel for and I still want to help, but I’m done trying to help those who openly push against me.
Grandma’s coming to live with you.
Yep. No more sympathy
Are you imaging a world where Kamala wasn’t full throatedly supporting the genocide as well? Kamala “Most lethal military”, “Israel has a right to defend itself”, “No arms embargo”, “I’m basically Joe Biden but I want Republicans in my cabinet” Harris?
Yeah, you can fuck right off too. The news is already full of evidence that Trump is explicitly enabling Isreal to do wayyyy worse. Just like we all told you.
I’m done arguing in good faith with you asshats. Mods can remove my posts, ban me, whatever. Giving you clowns free reign to canvas lemmy with bad faith arguments just because they are borderline civilly worded is what helped disenfranchise the small slice of the internet lemmy represents.
Fuck you and fuck off. I’m done.
The least scratched liberal over here.
Stfu libby
“They voted for Trump to punish the Democrats.”
Oh, that didn’t work. Losing elections isn’t the same as being punished. Not saying it was a bad move, I’m saying it was the wrong one. It was also a bad move though.
“All Harris had to do was stop the war.”
Oh is that it? Just as a VP / figurehead, swoop on over and say, “Stop it.” Man, why hasn’t anyone ever tried that before?
Dearborn, I hope your lives work out ok. You’ve really fucked up.
“We would have voted for Harris if she would just have brought peace to the Middle East!”
…
A world renowned, pathological liar “played you”? The guy famous for a decades long history of incredible contradictions, tall tales and epic falsehoods. That guy. The Mythomaniac to end all mythomanics. The compulsive liar that lies more easily than he breaths? He played you? Really? I’m shocked!
Only now, at the end, do you understand?
Love how one person’s quote is supposed to represent Dearborn. It was literally a fuck you to dems. Everyone in Dearborn knows trump is also going to do it. Rebuking the dems for doing it was the least they could do. They gave dems every opportunity to stop it.
If all of you libs that wish ill upon them because your team didn’t win had a moment of self reflection you would realize that the dems weren’t saving anyone even if they won. When fascism shows up, blue or red, you fight it.
Notice how the dems aren’t doing every maneuver they can to clip Trump’s upcoming power. Hell a bunch voted to allow charities and other ngos to be able to be declared terrorist. Thankfully some of the lesser known dems fought it off. The party leaders are part of the ruling class.
Get off your assess and start doing some direct community support or action, no one is coming to save us, we protect us.
This doesn’t even belong in this community. I think it being posted here makes people who don’t read past the headline think they voted for Trump
Edit: I guess some of them did, but I don’t recall Trump ever being dishonest about his support for Israel, so I don’t see how he “played” them
“Cut off your nose to spite your face.”
It’s like the trolley problem but the person pulls the lever to kill as many people as possible to “send a message” to whoever is tying up people on trolley tracks.
Moṙ luık ku̇tıŋ ȯf Yṙ feıſ t ſpuıt Yṙ noz hıṙ.
spoiler
More like cutting off your face to spite your nose here.
Some part of me thinks they knew. Instead of dragging out the nightmare with Harris they just wanted it to end quickly with the inevitable same result. I mean I hope not but they had to know right?
They knew Harris wasn’t going to do shit either way. There is literally no way things can get worse than they are now. Not that Israel can’t do worse, what I mean is that Biden and Harris after him weren’t going to stop Israel from anything. And as proof: Harris already lost and Biden still isn’t doing anything.
Current administration dead Palestine kids for the next decade. Other guy all dead next few years. Is that worse? I can’t make it any simpler for you to follow.
They’re still dead either way, you absolute shitwit. How did you even post that piss-stained comment, thinking you were making a good argument. You have gotta be the dumbest liberal in this comment thread, and that’s saying a lot, considering your average intelligence.
“Hurr, durr, slow death better than fast death. I big brain ape! Slay queen slay”
Lol triggered snowflake?
Channeling the same energy as the DNC delegates laughing at pro-Palestinians as they left. It takes some prodding, but you lot never fail to shed your sheep skins and just openly start being bigots. The only difference between you and Trump, is that Trump doesn’t hide that he’s a shit human being.
Unfortunately for you, Trump hates your guts. The next four years are gonna be painful for you.
Lol I don’t even live in the USA so cry harder your tears are delicious.
Kid, if this is the best you can do in an argument, then I will spare a tear for you.
