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If Harris wanted to win the election, they needed to listen to us and capitulate. It's not more complicated than that. We gave the roadmap, we were informed, and the post mortems show us to have been right the entire time.
Harris ran a losing campaign. That's an objective fact. We have a path to winning the election. Internet wide, apologists for Democrats chose to ban us, silence us, and wag their finger. Butt they didn't have right of it. Their calculations were wrong.
We were litterally begging Harris to just fucking lie to us about her position on Gaza. Just fucking signal that she'd do something, anything to push back on Israel. She couldn't even muster the most mediocre of efforts.
Then they lost the election.
And here's the issue, and I've outlined this ad nauseum, and I'll continue to do so until everyone understands: you don't control the electorate.
You don't have a choice in what people think or how they behave. And there are no functional mechanisms to move populations of people to whatever you think they "should" believe or how you think they should act. Moving populations is a decadal, generational project.
There is one path to winning elections: understand the electorate, and then move candidates into adopting those positions. You can't shame, badger, or otherwise abuse voters into voting how you want them to. It doesn't work. It doesn't if you don't like it. Trying to do so is counterproductive.
Bit weird how Darwin keeps ignoring you every time you prove him wrong. Even when pinged, he doesn't reply to you. I'm sure there's nothing weird about that.
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world You said you never actually got any response from leftists. Here's one. Why didn't you answer it?
^ Well, I'm not sure if this is an actual question in good faith given this is coming from a banned account.
But, to answer it - I'm not sure if I said I never get response from leftists. Hell, I consider myself and many I affiliate with a leftist (despite all the arguments in bad faith that tend to kick off by calling everyone with even a slight disagreement a "shitlib" or a "neoliberal shill" and so on). If I said that, I didn't mean it - what I meant is that I see less of them (online) since the election.
I have enough of the type of unapologetic unhelpful bad-faith types of "leftists" in my personal life even if all the online trolls/bots really did disappear immediately after the election.
I've had the conversation enough times and it's nearly always done in bad faith and delusion. I've had it so many times that I could practically write out their responses anyway, so I don't really see it going anywhere. In any case, I'm sure I'll have it IRL soon enough as I have enough associates of the tankie archetype. It's weird how much of the Murc's Law media and reactionary centrist tropes they have adopted, that's for sure...if I didn't experience this kind of thing IRL, I'm not sure I'd even be convinced that all of these online characters were not just a form of online agent provocateur. I believe that at least some of the online people legitimately hold their views.
Sorry, you didn't instantly say you'd vote for no matter who they appoint without the consent of the voters, so you're going to banned and ignored now.
Vote Blue No Matter Who! Even if they actively harm their own campaign, pledge to have a stronger border than Trump, actively enable genocide, and fail to keep promises that got voters engaged.