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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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I've been saying since the election that anyone who voted for Trump or abstained in protest is complicit in Trump's regime of terror. Trump and his staff spent months on the campaign trail telling the public exactly what they would do when they took power, showing everyone exactly who they are, and now they're doing all of it. No one has the luxury of claiming ignorance.
Probably not helpful to be this divisive with your anti trump allies. Whether in your eyes the abstention voters made a mistake or not, we’re going to need all the solidarity we can get to oppose/survive this administration
My anti-trump allies voted against trump, the rest of you are complicit in enabling his plutocracy.
We can't change the past, so the only choice we have is to work together to start fixing this situation. I understand why they did it, but they refused to think about how their actions would affect the larger outcome. We shouldn't let abstention voters forget the role they played in getting us into this mess while we encourage them to make better (or at least less bad choices) in the future.
These people pretend to be allies until the next election season where when they don't get exactly what they want, rabidly push everyone to not vote or vote fascist.
"These people" are strawmen you have been fooled into hating
Nope, they are people that didn't vote against this stupidity we all saw coming. One candidate was going to paint the house red but could be talked to, the other one owns a red-paint business and ran on burning the house down, and "these people" didn't vote because they wanted the the house painted green. Fools. It isn't cope or strawmen, it is observation and you are coming up with any way to save face or feel better about your dire mistake.
No amount of believing this makes it true.
The protest voters didn't meaningfully impact the election.
Young people voted the exact same as they do every election.
Even if every single gaza protester actually stayed home like you're pretending, it wouldn't be enough for the dems to win.
But you can make whatever excuses you want to hate your neighbors
Ignore the actual issue, cool.
Are they allies? They ushered in trump on a red carpet