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I think millions of Americans didn’t see their lives improve (or if anything, got worse) over the past four years and saw all that was being offered was AT BEST more of the same, so didn’t bother voting

Like, Trump also lost about 3 million votes. It wasn’t a great comeback, it was a total collapse of liberalism

And it’s fucking terrifying, as a Brit whose country is also razor thin levels of close to descending into fascism too I really feel for everyone who is in very real danger because of Trump’s policies

And I feel for everyone in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and the Congo who NEED our support (regardless of who won)

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On twitter I’m seeing dozens of threads from Black activists warning people against burnout, giving all sorts of useful tips about preventing and managing it for the sake of a long-term, sustainable effort.

On tumblr I’m seeing a hell of a lot of young white kids yelling at anyone who actually follows those steps, and acting like burnout is a moral falling rather than a well-proven psychological phenomenon.

Be careful who you get your information from. Don’t let guilt lead you to make choices that will harm both you and the movement.

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hey, now that orange man is back can we get angry about the kids in cages in concentration camps like 20 miles away from me? like. you know, the concentration camps that were started by obama and have continued running unmentioned and unhindered during biden/harris' term?

can we be angry about the genocide biden/harris have been directly funding?

can we be angry about the multiple transphobic and transmisogynistic bills that passed during biden/harris' term, which they did nothing to stop?

can we be angry about the loss of roe v. wade which also happened during biden/harris' term?

can we be angry about the continued funding and militarisation of police, and the exponential rise of police brutality and myrders that have happened during biden/harris' term?

now that there's someone unlikeable coming into office, can we be angry again about all the stuff you've been ignoring because the oval office is blue?

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It really is incredible that Kamala could have taken the most milquetoast, centrist, nothing stance on Israel/Palestine and probably swung a lot of leftist votes simply on "well she'll do better than Trump" but she was apparently incapable of doing this. It was more important for her to campaign for the shareholders and to shut down actual Muslims voicing their concerns at her rallies than for her to take anything but a complete pro-Israel stance

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"what happened to the democrat voters aaah"

they died susan. under biden.

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To the people who are saying "i hope trump turns Gaza into a parking lot" as some sort of twisted idea of payback — you guys do realize that entire towns have been completely leveled right. Like I'm not exaggerating peoples homes are literally just gone already. they've been gone for months now.

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its almost as if trumps loss in 2020 was in-fact a bellwether for the continued rise of neo-fascism... its almost like, just maybe, when a liberal party responds to reactionary ideologies with centrism and militant nationalism it doesn't exactly offer a counter to fascism but instead offers nutritive soil for its roots to grow... you could almost argue that a state that extracts its power from violent exploitation will inevitably fall to fascism... perhaps, just maybe, this is the inherent trajectory of a nation built on genocide... weird...

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We are the law.

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understanding that there a lot of tme people out there who are totally fine with "trans women are women" as long as its some nebulous meaningless statement that simply implies you respect trans womens internal sense of self

but as soon as you say that trans women fundamentally ARE women, live as women, exist in community as women, and simply arent cisgender... ohh then we've got a problem! thats suspicious and possible terfy

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From what I can see Trump didn’t gain a significant amount of new voters it’s that Harris LOST a significant amount of voters

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anybody paying attention saw the rise in conservatism among the youth over the last few years. the return of the r slur, modesty/ tradwife content, rampant fatphobia, misogynistic twitch streamers...the writing was on the wall

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the most depressing part is that it's not even kamala's stance on genocide that is costing her the elections. i wish it were. it's people genuinely shifting for trump. but it's the pro-palestine movement that's going to get the blame for it.

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If Harris loses, please try blaming real issues (Republican-driven voter suppression and intimidation tactics; billionaire-funded Trump-PAC’s and propaganda machines; a broken electoral system that hinges presidential elections on a dozen or so states instead of a simple popular vote; or the Democratic Party’s fumbled opportunities to respond to things like the corporate greed driven cost of living crisis, the housing shortage, the medical debt and healthcare accessibility crisis, the ongoing climate disaster, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine) instead of doing the Right’s job for them by blaming folks like climate protestors, Antizionist and pro-Palestine activists, Black and Brown people, jaded millennials living paycheck to paycheck, and tumblr users with an audience ⅛ the size of the average Christofascist MegaChurch Congregation.

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Scratched liberals all over Twitter rn:

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Uncharacteristically political take, I know, but I personally think if you want to blame any particular group of voters for Trump getting elected it should probably be the people who voted for Trump

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the most depressing part is that it's not even kamala's stance on genocide that is costing her the elections. i wish it were. it's people genuinely shifting for trump. but it's the pro-palestine movement that's going to get the blame for it.

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