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[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You missed the point entirely. The polls all but guaranteed Kamala would win, but we we're very vocally telling you we weren't voting for her, she was a nonviable candidate. The polls mislead you and instead of acknowledging that she didn't win because she wasn't a popular choice, you blamed people who didn't vote for her and she adopting the same losing strategy.

The polls are misleading, speak to real people, they don't want Newsom. When you insist on him being the candidate because of the polls conducted by capitalist organizations, he still won't win because the people are rejecting genocide supporting right wing candidates that spent years warning us about Trump and the best they can do is crack weak jokes at him.

Newsom is not your friend, insist on a viable candidate.

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

very vocally telling you we weren't voting for her

Thanks for admitting the current situation is your fault

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Zero critical thinking or reading compensation skills, only brain-rot propaganda.

Since the only reason I even became a US citizen is because the US and Israel destroyed and stole my homeland, you can thank them for me even having the privilege of not voting for them.

I'm not obligated to save your cushy lifestyle as an American when you refuse to stop funding the genocide of my people, but yes of course it's completely my fault that you refused to listen when I told you ahead of time that I'm not voting for them. There was no way for you to have predicted that, you had CNN and MSNBC polls that guaranteed Kamala was going to win in a landslide and I ruined it.

And now that you're making the same mistake again, you're preemptively blaming those of us who oppose soft fascism because to you the only boogyman worth fighting is Trump. And how do you fight Trump's fascism? By selling maga inspired memes and calling JD Vance "just dance dance". Good work.

[–] EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Your party could've put up a viable candidate instead of a senile old man and a cop. It's squarely on you that you can't win elections, not on people who won't vote for someone as thoroughly unelectable as blue presidential candidates