https://reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1gzivqh/the_palestine_protestors_that_didnt_vote_for/

Outright racism against Muslims is becoming normalised among Liberals. And their entire argument is that "Trump will genocide Palestinians harder".

I'm literally just raging reading this shit.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    20 hours ago

    It’s a self-own not to vote for the people already genociding you

  • Lemister [none/use name]
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    17 hours ago

    No they can finally express their racist thoughts outloud- trump gave them permission.

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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    21 hours ago

    The "carrot" approach clearly isn't working. Im sorry to say but some people genuinely need "the stick". They need to be shamed and reminded of their inaction when it came to not voting Harris.

    Carrot approach? When? Where? What carrots?

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      19 hours ago

      The last time the Democrats did the carrot approach was Obama 2008. And he won by an absolute landslide. Every other time was "You don't want the current Republican to do these bad things, do you?"

    • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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      18 hours ago

      imo these people are just so privileged and entitled that they think giving potential voters nothing but being slightly less outwardly fascist is "the carrot"

      it makes no sense to me how regardless of the outcome they think they can blame anyone but the democratic party. coke isn't entitled that i buy their product over pepsi and neither of them are entitled that i buy their product. why would it be any different for voting, especially in a country where as many have pointed out, your vote boils down to consumer validation rather than actually exercising some supposed democratic right?

    • Homer_Simpson [they/them]
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      19 hours ago

      I've been begging for half a carrot. Even just lie and tell me there's a carrot. That's my bare minimum.

      • miz [any, any]
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        17 hours ago

        they don't even respect us enough to lie, it would risk scaring the donors

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      18 hours ago

      What, is promising to bury more Palestinian mothers in rubble not a good enough incentive for you?

  • VHS [he/him]
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    21 hours ago

    Liberals don't seem to understand that scolding is not effective. They're arguing with maybe 100,000 leftists and Muslims on twitter and r*ddit while they lost seven million votes since 2020. That's a hell of a lot of people that are not the ones they're scolding online. The idea of "appealing to voters" is alien to them. People will vote for you if they like your positions

    • nandos_house_of_glues [she/her]
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      19 hours ago

      “DID NOT VOTE” still won the popular vote like he does every four years but they’re never going to engage with “those people” (people who work at Kroger)

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        18 hours ago

        The ruling ideology and its two mythologies are so abstract and removed from material reality, they would sooner bring nonbelievers into the ballot box via catechism than slogans.

    • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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      20 hours ago

      you expect liberals to take a position? even when they're taking a position they deny it's their position. liberals are spineless brainless racist trash. at least actual conservatives will tell you all the fucked up shit they think. liberals will walk right up to that line and then when you ask them if that's what they're saying they feign offense and act like you're the bad person and you deserve to be scolded.

      • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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        14 hours ago

        I know this is a popular refrain in left circles, but it's not entirely true. The Dems DO try to reach non-voters, or at least some of the many 501c4 orgs do this kind of outreach...

        Problem is you need something that people actually want to get them to give a darn. Who knew 🤷‍♂️

        • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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          14 hours ago

          Elaborating without doxxing myself too much: I know for a fact that each battleground state had programs to reach every college student on every major campus in these states. Several million $ went into canvassing efforts per state to get college students out to vote. Whether it actually worked...

      • Lemister [none/use name]
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        17 hours ago

        Like Bernie was making inroads into the “red wall” states in the middle of the us. There are many places where the right call can stir up many people.

        The people are looking to answers now, it is our call to give them ones.

  • LaughingLion [any, any]
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    22 hours ago

    Is this an open admission that they lost the election because they failed to cater to those concerned about the Palestinian issue.... something they denied was an issue leading up to the election?

    • jackmarxist [any]
      hexagon
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      21 hours ago

      They're literally just blaming voters lol. Some guy in the comments was like "Biden is 80% genocide while Trump is 100% genocide. Palestinians FAFO".

      • Moss [they/them]
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        20 hours ago

        Every time I see your pfp I think it's Saul Goodman in Disco Elysium art style

      • LaughingLion [any, any]
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        21 hours ago

        I don't understand what it means to "blame voters". That's just how democracy works. If you don't inspire people to vote for you then you don't get the votes.

        • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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          21 hours ago

          Democrats don't value democracy so much as they value being in control. The only way to maintain their sense of unassailable moral superiority is to remain the political status quo.

          Without that, they have to confront the fact that people have increasingly little use, respect, or patience for their two-faced, fair-weather-friend political beliefs.

        • neoinvin@lemm.ee
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          21 hours ago

          it's voting in the wrong lizard logic. people didn't show up to vote against the wrong lizard, so the people who voted for the right lizard assign them blame, since not having lizards isn't thought of as a realistic option.

  • grandepequeno [he/him]
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    20 hours ago

    So the post is about an article that says the lady trump is appointing to replace gaetz wants to "deport pro-palestinian protestors", like, where? Seriously no one questions how that's gonna be done, and if there's actually a real chance of that.

    So many of these statements by right-wing politicians are only done to appease their base, they're not actually afraid of the protestors enough to risk fallout by deporting american citizens.

    One shouldn't expect better from that subreddit though, it's smarmyness embodied

    • blame [they/them]
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      16 hours ago

      I’m willing to bet there are foreign students participating in these things which is probably a violation of the terms of their visa but only a psycho would actually follow up on it.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      20 hours ago

      risk fallout by deporting american citizens

      I think you overestimate Americans and the Republican base in particular.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        19 hours ago

        yeah. deport american citizens just means "indefinitely detain" or "disappear"

        whether they pull it off i dunno

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    22 hours ago

    Democrats are going to take away from this whole election that clearly being 99% Hitler just wasn’t good enough. Now they have to out-Hitler Hitler.

    Inb4 “nuh-uh, the GOP are the real wokes.”

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    23 hours ago

    Watch out Muslims! When we were in power, we gave Israel infinity dollars. Trump won, so he's gonna give them infinity + 1 dollars. How'd you like that!

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      22 hours ago

      Them doing literally whatever the fuck they want with zero consequences will be so much different when trumps president.

      Also, we saw bidens repsonse to the Palestine protests and it was uhhhh..... not great.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        20 hours ago

        What, you mean calling people with a soul that were literally stating what the admin was doing 'Russian agents of disinformation' wasn't smart?

        Sounds like something a Putinbot might say

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    22 hours ago

    I've said this before, but the catastrophic blunder the liberals are making here is not concentrating simply on Muslims but going after all minorities simultaneously

    The way some of these filthy scum talk, you'd think the supermajority of POC's actively voted for Trump and by not focusing solely on one minority group they're instead targeting Black people, Hispanics, and even Native Americans along with muslims

    The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, some liberals are more anti-black then they're anti-Hispanic so they want to blame the loss on black men, others are more Islamophobic, another faction is really peeved by the so-called "Hispanic betrayal" despite the fact Harris promised to implement Trump's immigration policy and Biden deported more people than Trump did in his first term

    All of this is like acid on the funding and support structure of the democratic coalition and people are starting to notice every day it continues, liberals still haven't figured out that the kayfabe of social inclusive and anti-racism is what sustains their party, and now they're actively trying to tear their foundation apart because blaming elites is simply not comprehensible to them

    Millions of POC's will never again vote dem because of this hate campaign and by the time (around the midterms) dem pundits panic and start posting articles about the dangers of alienating their base it'll be too late

    • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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      11 hours ago

      even Native Americans

      If you crunch the numbers, it's basically

      Voted for Trump: 0.67%
      Voted for Harris: 0.33%
      Voted for neither: 99%

      • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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        11 hours ago

        A liberal will scream incoherently for hours if you showed them this

    • Burningmeatstick@lemmygrad.ml
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      17 hours ago

      Harris broke records in crowdfunding and most of their rich backers swung towards Trump and so did big tech because of Trump tariff policy, and cause just mentioning the word Palestine is enough for Zionist backers to go elsewhere. So to support the working class base they had, they tried to swing towards the right and beg the rich backers to come home to them.

      They also blamed Asian men, despite the fact that again, Asian American Men were second to African American men in percentage voted for Harris, and Asian American women were the only demographic amongst women that voted more for Trump then Harris aside from white people. Oh yeah, they also blamed LGBTQ people and are dropping them from their platform, even though LGBTQ people as a whole voted more for the Dems than any other demographic aside from Black women. They're so ignorant of the numbers and refuse to punch up to blame white people but, more specifically, the base of the elites who make up the Dems who clearly failed in their strategy; whatever, I hope the Dems go the way of the Whigs, but unfortunately that won't happen.

      • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]
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        14 hours ago

        They still had a 1.5 BILLION $ war chest and that's not counting all of the Dem-aligned orgs that also campaigned for Killer Kkkamala. They can't complain about a lack of funds when they outspent Trump by this much.

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    22 hours ago

    Outright racism against Muslims is becoming normalised among Liberals.

    outright racism against muslims has been normalized among liberals for literally decades. none of this is new

    Death to America

    • jackmarxist [any]
      hexagon
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      21 hours ago

      Liberals have spent the last 8 years pretending to be friends with Muslims but Muslims ain't buying it no more.

      • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
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        21 hours ago

        Some liberals in online spaces have pretended that they are cool with Muslims (the "good ones" at least). Now these same ones dropped the mask. I don't think offline libs care so much.

  • very_poggers_gay [they/them]
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    23 hours ago

    reddit libs have absolutely jumped the shark.

    yesterday, the top post on /r/pics was a bunch of random photos with the title Top general and 500 N. Korean soldiers killed by British Storm Shadow missiles Nov. 20 inside Russia. Cringe-worthy propaganda is all over every major subreddit and getting updooted to the top. half of it must be bots or astroturfing, but that means there's still tens of thousands of people doubling and tripling down on truly silly pro-US empire propaganda.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    22 hours ago

    Leopards ate my face? I didn't vote for the leopards that eat faces party. I was weary of their face eating policy. This sounds a bit more like "first they came for the Palestinians and I did not speak out because I am not Palestinian. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I am not a communist."

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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      21 hours ago

      libs be like:

      smuglord those pro-Palestinians I'm not speaking out for commited the biggest self-own in history by me not speaking out for them

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    23 hours ago

    86% of muslims voted for Biden. That ended up with full support for genocide and sending some of the largest Zionists of the party out to areas with large muslim populations lecturing them about how Palestinians deserve to die during the election campaign. At least they didn't send Fetterman I guess.

    The efficacy of voting blue in order to get your agenda through is pretty obviously bullshit.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      20 hours ago

      Dems are doing a better job of radicalizing people than we could ourselves

      Think of how many people saw this circus play out, realized they could meaningfully do nothing within the confines of the system, and were lectured like they were petulant toddlers after

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        16 hours ago

        I know Obama was a major radicalization moment for myself. I've always been skeptical of democrats/liberals, but I thought maaaaybe a black president would empathize with minorities and non-Americans.

        This notion was quickly dispelled and I'm more militant because of it.

  • Adkml [he/him]
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    22 hours ago

    Love the moralising too.

    One of the top comments was "basically here's what happened, they had an option to eat slightly stale cereal or elect somebody that would kill them and their whole family and they decided they really didn't want to eat the stale cereal."

    If I had to sum up liberals "comparing genocide to eating slightly stale cereal" would be a really good start

    • Darth_Reagan [they/them, comrade/them]
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      19 hours ago

      I feel like these people just do not interpret the news as real events that occur. What do they think is happening in Palestine? Why the dumb ass allegory, especially when your side is LITERALLY KILLING THEIR ENTIRE FAMILY.

      • miz [any, any]
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        16 hours ago

        deep down they don't view Palestinians as people

    • SoylentSnake [he/him, they/them]
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      21 hours ago

      they had an option to eat slightly stale cereal

      i don't believe in universal compassion anymore my contempt for these sniveling smug creatures consumes all goodness in my heart. push them into a locker but the locker is also lined with spikes.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        16 hours ago

        You say that like they aren't eating Hogwarts flavored Lucky Charms or whatever the fuck.