HalfSalesman

The problem isn't that its not definitionally a meme but that people are jumping the gun on calling anything they post a "meme".

If you post an animation and call it a "meme" you are being presumptuous that it'll spread sufficiently to be considered memetic in the first place. Its like saying "You will all share this animation." in the title.

Usually, people don't title their image macros "meme" though they may later refer to them as memes if they have successfully spread/are shared.

Uh, no. This anti-Harris lefty, like the vast majority of anti-Harris lefties, knows an outside strategy is insane and mostly right wing propaganda.

I meant anti-Harris lefties who actively wanted her to lose to Trump. (Which TBH, if they were vocally anti-Harris when it was clear it was her or Trump, they did)

Maybe if there had been more anti-Harris lefties in the party, we would have had a viable candidate.

How? How would you propose that could have realistically happened?

Nope. The following is from a Pew Research study.

So quit uncritically accepting the mainstream establishment excuses. Harris lost because she was a shitty candidate, not because the left doesn’t vote.

Did I say it was specifically because "the left doesn't vote"? No.

Its partially because more of them don't vote compared to the last election.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/harris-gaza

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kamala-harris-moved-right-did-it-cost-her-the-election

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-underperformed-three-demographics-1981222

The ratios of progressives vs centrists who normally vote anyway is irrelevant. What is crucial is the percentage shift in voting behavior within groups election to election. Clearly this election centrist Democrats, Progressive Democrats, and left leaning indies failed to get out and vote compared to previous elections.

Its not hard to figure out why but its not a singular reason.

Now does some of the blame go to the Democratic establishment? ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY. But not all of it.

Fuck everyone even remotely responsible. Just fuck them. I legitimately hate them. (Including Harris and Biden themselves)

Gosh, were you out campaigning for Harris? I just can’t understand how she didn’t attract more voters. Scolding voters seems like such a solid strategy. /s

I did actually, I traveled 5 hours out of state to canvass for her in a swing state. I was a different person then.

I can tell you, I'm done now. Political action is dead for me. I don't want to swim up a fucking waterfall anymore. I'm done spending my own time and money on this shit. Not enough people give a flying fuck. If it takes things getting critically apocalyptic-level bad for average people to move their dumb-fuck-asses and be politically conscious about what is going to happen to them when fascists win I can't bring myself to care about them anymore.

So you can go ahead and choose to not vote next election. I don't care enough to argue with you on that now. Because now it wont be arguments convincing people, it'll be catastrophic damage done to the country and their ability to put 2 and 2 together.

The time of bickering for positive change is over. Now we get to see some mass death and material suffering. I already tried. I not putting more of myself in for a ride I very much did not sign up for and in fact tried very hard to avoid.

At this point I'm just screaming into brick wall for a sliver of catharsis.

I'm blaming anyone who choose not to vote for her who were center or left of center. Anyone. As stated: if you are to my right or to my left and you explicitly choose not to vote for Harris and could have, you can suck shit.

If you discouraged people from voting for her: you can suck shit. If you constantly criticized her and barely talked about how fucking dangerous Trump is in general political discourse: you can suck shit.

I'm torn, most of the time I'd agree and I do befriend co-workers myself most of the time. But I do kind of resent the fact that often people at work often come to dislike you if you aren't spending time with them during breaks/lunch.

Thing is, I know why: gossip/shit-talking about you is easier when you aren't around. I know co-workers will start shit talking other employees (or even the manager in a personal way rather than general work complaint way) and even when I myself dislike the co-worker/manager they're shit-talking myself I tend to soft-defend them because of the discomfort over talking shit about other people.

EDIT: I kind of wish people could just be more blunt/open or even confrontational and not do the Machiavellian thing. Rip the bandaid off.

What the fuck are you talking about I've heard it a million fucking times already. Its all anti-Harris lefties talk about.

Having fun with the fascism we've got instead? Thanks for that BTW. Real good. Really makes me motivated to fight for my rights when my follow lefties keep empowering fascists through inaction in the most simplistic and basic fucking democratic function of going to a polling place and voting once every 4 years for the lib that'll beat the fascist.

I really wanna go fight ICE in hand to hand combat and get shot in the fucking face knowing this probably could have been prevented.

Also if you are going to complain that I'm not bagging on the centrist/liberal dems for losing because they refused to budge left: I fucking hate them too, you can both suck shit directly out of my asshole.

While I am a pro-gun leftist, being a pro-gun leftist absolutely wont solve this.

They do this because [even nice and intelligent] women are ~~human~~ horny, and do the very ~~human~~ horny thing of making mistakes and regretting them.

Bad/terrible people can be hot. In fact, often when people are hot they feel more free to be their natural asshole selves because they can get away with it more. This applies to both men and women in all directions.

In fact, some people want their partner to be mean to them, its more often hetero women who like that. If a guy can be mean and get away with it, that implies they're hot shit, extremely confident, rich, and/or powerful. Those are attractive features in a guy.

There are also hetero men who want women to be mean to them, especially in the bedroom.

The difference is that now conventional corporate media has a much weaker effect on people's beliefs now.

Now its corporate social media that is influencing our deep fried brains.

I promise, there are people who are even more dimwitted and still wont budge from MAGA in even the face of this. And the ones breaking from MAGA aren't realizing the obvious, Epstein is interwoven into q-anon and various rightwing cult beliefs. They're just choosing one mythology over another. Even if the mythology surrounding Epstein is closer to reality than MAGA is, they aren't choosing it for that reason. Its all feels over reals.

I say this as someone who doesn't have Obamna Derangement Syndrome: this post is painful boomer slop.

Opposition to Epstein's crimes are far too interwoven into the fabric of the cult-right/q-anon cult's identity and mythos for them to let this go. Its not that they care about children, its that even Trump doesn't supersede the collective rage they're attached too with their belief in a "secret evil cabal" and "deepstate". Protecting children is just a convenient justification for what is mostly just bitter reactionary politics towards a changing world economy or culture. Always has been.

Even if with Epstein they're at least overlapping with the truth (Epstein was a human trafficker and rapist and many who hung out with him were rapists as well), you shouldn't mistake that reactionary rage for an earnest desire to fix things or protect the innocent. They just want a justification to hurt people. They want someone to burn at the stake.

Imagine being scooped up by that thing, never even likely knowing previously what being that high up in the air meant. Being in awe of what you are seeing as you are carried to your doom, only to be horrifically and painfully eaten alive.