Jay Mysteri0
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I rarely weigh in on this topic, because I never feel like adequately understand all the moving parts. What I do understand is a need to blame someone or something for any ill or failings that may fall one's way.
I've been seeing quite a few videos recently about Dearborn and their buyer's remorse. I've also seen the strange pivot that drags PoC into the topic & always seems to blame Harris specifically but not ( ? ) dem party. Which has to led to videos from the Black community going "Don't come at me, I voted in OURS / YOURS best interests, even if you didn't". There's been similar calls from the Latino community that the Black community needs to unite with them for all of our sakes. Why? Because they ALSO voted the guy who said he was going to deport anything Brown & has a history with bans involving Muslims. That's who EVERYONE needs to rally against... NOW?! Which at this point I personally have to ask is this like an Evangelical thing? Where SOME Arab & Latino communities have no issue with what 45 promised he would do to others, because he claimed he wouldn't do it to them? IF that is the case...
Did they really mean to throw everyone else under the bus, hoping they would get a seat on that same bus?
A bus that the man they voted for & his friends have made perfectly clear is 'Whites Only'?
A bus driven by a guy that's commonly known as pathological liar, who will anything ( eggs anyone? Wars ending day 1? ) to get his way. They believed that guy? Over ANYONE else? Make it make sense.
Don't get me wrong. I've always said vote in your best interests, that's why it's your vote. BUT that vote is very very important. You don't throw it away on a protest vote. Yes, it's throwing it away. We have a political system that was literally made with "Voting for Dummies" in mind. We have a 2 party system that for better or worse lays out stuff in literal binary. There is no false binary because there are shades in whatever argument you make. Our system is so polarized that if one party offers you something, the other specifically doesn't want you to have it. If a subject isn't being directly addressed by a party, you can bet the other party isn't addressing it either but they want it made worse.
Didn't like how Biden handled Gaza? Understandable. He didn't handle it. But in anyone's heart of hearts, did they really think 45 was going to be better? The guy bibi was cheering to win, anyone thought would be better for Gaza? Really?
That voting for Jill Stein was going to soothe over anything besides one's "rationale". Did anyone think that by voting NOW for Stein, was going to make the dems pay attention to them in the future, but not think about Gaza's present?
We've done this sad comedy bit many times before. Groups thinking that the phrase involving leopards eating faces ( there's a literally a Youtube channel about an animated leopard highlighting remorseful 45 voters ) didn't become a thing until recently. It's a phrase about YOU!! People thinking that somehow a protest votes absolves them from whatever fallout occurs from who actually wins. No, it doesn't. It means you helped whoever won, ..win. That is on you! Even worse unlike the past, the person you helped get in is going to ran fallout on everyone, including those protest voters and no amount bullshit rationalization is getting you around that.
Congratulations. Whoever protest vote, stroke your own ego. I don't think the people in Gaza, Uganda, Ukraine & probably more give a crap about how you're feeling about yourself. They may have an issue with how you voted or didn't vote though.
I've been seeing quite a few videos recently about Dearborn and their buyer's remorse. I've also seen the strange pivot that drags PoC into the topic & always seems to blame Harris specifically but not ( ? ) dem party. Which has to led to videos from the Black community going "Don't come at me, I voted in OURS / YOURS best interests, even if you didn't". There's been similar calls from the Latino community that the Black community needs to unite with them for all of our sakes. Why? Because they ALSO voted the guy who said he was going to deport anything Brown & has a history with bans involving Muslims. That's who EVERYONE needs to rally against... NOW?! Which at this point I personally have to ask is this like an Evangelical thing? Where SOME Arab & Latino communities have no issue with what 45 promised he would do to others, because he claimed he wouldn't do it to them? IF that is the case...
Did they really mean to throw everyone else under the bus, hoping they would get a seat on that same bus?
A bus that the man they voted for & his friends have made perfectly clear is 'Whites Only'?
A bus driven by a guy that's commonly known as pathological liar, who will anything ( eggs anyone? Wars ending day 1? ) to get his way. They believed that guy? Over ANYONE else? Make it make sense.
Don't get me wrong. I've always said vote in your best interests, that's why it's your vote. BUT that vote is very very important. You don't throw it away on a protest vote. Yes, it's throwing it away. We have a political system that was literally made with "Voting for Dummies" in mind. We have a 2 party system that for better or worse lays out stuff in literal binary. There is no false binary because there are shades in whatever argument you make. Our system is so polarized that if one party offers you something, the other specifically doesn't want you to have it. If a subject isn't being directly addressed by a party, you can bet the other party isn't addressing it either but they want it made worse.
Didn't like how Biden handled Gaza? Understandable. He didn't handle it. But in anyone's heart of hearts, did they really think 45 was going to be better? The guy bibi was cheering to win, anyone thought would be better for Gaza? Really?
That voting for Jill Stein was going to soothe over anything besides one's "rationale". Did anyone think that by voting NOW for Stein, was going to make the dems pay attention to them in the future, but not think about Gaza's present?
We've done this sad comedy bit many times before. Groups thinking that the phrase involving leopards eating faces ( there's a literally a Youtube channel about an animated leopard highlighting remorseful 45 voters ) didn't become a thing until recently. It's a phrase about YOU!! People thinking that somehow a protest votes absolves them from whatever fallout occurs from who actually wins. No, it doesn't. It means you helped whoever won, ..win. That is on you! Even worse unlike the past, the person you helped get in is going to ran fallout on everyone, including those protest voters and no amount bullshit rationalization is getting you around that.
Congratulations. Whoever protest vote, stroke your own ego. I don't think the people in Gaza, Uganda, Ukraine & probably more give a crap about how you're feeling about yourself. They may have an issue with how you voted or didn't vote though.
