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news flash: he, like many other leftists are welcome to say whatever they want. doesnt mean we give a shit what he says. we often agree with him on things and support them. but 'bernie says blah' only gets your foot in the door for about 3 seconds until we look into what he said. if the reasoning behind it is wanting we reject it.
If you think bernie represents the left, hell if you think anyone represents the left you're sorely mistaken.
that being said: many leftists told you exactly what you needed to hear the entire year you needed to hear it.
if you think we needed to shift our position. you were very sadly mistaken. both morally and strategically. as you're now witnessing. We didn't go out and pressure our friends for harris, why? because harris didn't budge and you spent more time telling us how your grand 'lesser evil' strategy was the optimal behavior, even more than tell harris to fuck off on genocide!
guess it wasnt so optimal since you know, people tuned you out and you lost. oops. You see the thing is a lot of leftists are actually very quiet. they spend their time with their friends enjoying life and as a network we signal to each other when its important to vote. we did that in 2020 for biden and we conditioned it on him having a single term.
Biden, as we expected, went counter to his promises on a number of factors. so we didn't quietly send our signals to our group. My roommate and I for example were talking last week about the election and they were like 'looks like another 4 years of trump, and I was like 'yup, gonna suck''. we both still voted. but we didn't do what we often would do and be like 'yeah harris is worth getting the gang together and disrupting our shit to get our networks of apathetic voting friend out'
why? hand waves the last 4 years and the last 6 months in particular. genocide is not a stance you shift on.
News flash, no candidate will ever court your vote since you are a fringe lunatic who doesn’t understand how anything works. Congrats, you and your fellow “leftists” enabled Trump. Spin it however you want, but the bullshit caring about Palestine is just that… bullshit. By pushing 3rd party votes, or not voting at all, you directly helped the Trump campaign.
Congrats comrade, you got what you wanted.
Congrats your candidate lost shrug. Whats the definition of insanity again?