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People demonstrably vote, including leftists. I also never said that not voting is going to move politicians to the left.

Huh, weird. I haven’t dated in a looooong time, so I cant say if anything would be off about that.

I’ve always tried to phrase it as “What do you do?”, skipping the “for a living” part. That opens it up to more than just work. It could be “What do you do for a hobby?”, or “What do you do for fun?”, or “What do you do in your free time?”, etc.

Sure, it’s not the best conversation starter, but when I know nothing about someone, it’s a good way to get the ball rolling.

Totally. I remember this happening back when everyone was using forums. This is a “Social Media” problem, not just a Lemmy problem. I have no idea how to fix it, but it’s been around longer than votes have been a thing.

He totally knows. He’s just trying to cover for the guy

The first time I heard it called “brain” was in the movie Waiting.

WARNING: There is some language in this clip that hasn’t aged well, just like most of the movie…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dzw4t_dB5M

They do. Check out Mamdani, who had record-breaking voters turn out. Remember FDR? They voted so hard for him, that Congress had to set up term-limits. It turns out that this “Leftists don’t vote meme” is bullshit. Leftists just don’t want to vote for Right-Wingers, which is why they never show up for Democrats.

Nothing tells me how unserious you are more than you continuing to say that people who very explicitly voted against something, actually voted for it.

Are you going to tell me that War is Peace next? Of that Slavery is Freedom?

And how has that been working out? The Democrats keep losing because they keep abandoning their voting base, while trying to pull in Republican voters. Republican voters aren’t generally going to start voting for Democrats, but there’s a giant pile of leftist waiting for a party that actually fights for them. Maybe the Democrats should try appealing to them instead.

If that is true, then it sounds like the Dems should start catering to the left, instead of telling them to sit down and shut up.

Additionally, that poll says “…a top reason…”, not the only reason. Look at the other issues listed in the poll:

• The economy
• Medicare and Social Security
• Immigration and border security
• Healthcare
• Abortion policy

All things that the Democrats keep campaigning on, but doing practially nothing about.

I always find it funny that someone who spends a bunch of time criticizing people for voting against genocide calls other people Nazi apologists. Self-reflection much?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute

The one that made the strike illegal, and forced the contract through because the members didn’t want it.

I think you mean fighting unions, and failing to deliver on the less-than-bare-minimum that he set out to forgive on student debt. It wasn’t sabatoged, it was because he was too busy boming innocent people, backing a genocide, and writing checks to his rich friends to get things done for the voters.

No, I very proudly voted against that PoS as well

But you were sarcastically correct, because you would rather make things up and yell at people, than fully understand their position, genius

I didn’t elect him. In fact, I very proudly voted against that PoS. But please, keep making up facts about me. That sounds super productive, and will totally get me to vote for the genocidal, child-killing party next time around.

That’s because you’ve never been interested in my views. You seem to be only interested in taking cheap shots, instead of understanding.

No, I blame the voters that chose this, and the politicians who ran on it. I also blame the party that built out the infrastucture that fascism is currently using for all of this. I don’t blame the ones that voted against it.

Thank you for bombing children

“Democrats talking about how they totally have to keep backing a genocide, bombing kids, torturing innocent people, screwing over their voter-base, voting the way their rich donors tell them to, in order to win elections”

“Trans people in the US who are 1 electoral loss away from being put in camps”

Fixed that for you