PlanckEraWasMyBestEra
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The fact that the world is blaming American people and Democrats/Leftists/Liberals (not just politicians) for what is happening and saying things like "Why aren't you doing something to stop this?" Even those of us on the Left are turning on each other and even on ourselves saying things like "Well millions of people didn't vote and that's why this is happening" which feeds DIRECTLY into the Right's hands. They want NOTHING more than for us to be driving a wedge between ourselves.
We are weakest when we are divided.
We are weakest when we are busy directing our anger at each other.
We are weakest when we are more focused on feeling betrayed and angered and disappointed by the faceless masses who let us down, rather than directing our fury where it needs to go.
Stop saying this shit. It weakens us.
THEY know that if we stop bickering with each other, that if we support each other, unify, rally, and ORGANIZE, they will lose.
I would bet money that there are bots on this site right now who aren't spouting pro-Trump BS (because that's way too fucking obvious), but rather sowing discord by provoking people's feelings of anger and betrayal at each other. How many accounts going "This is your fault Americans" or "Why aren't you doing anything Americans?" or "We didn't vote and so this is what we get" or "That's fine, let the red states suffer" or "FAFO" are bots? They aren't stupid and this is currently WORKING.
I don't think it's all bots, but I think they might be helping this discourse along and it's definitely growing in prevalence on Imgur right now.
After all, these kinds of comments do nothing but rile people up. Many of us feel hurt and betrayed by our peers, by the people who would be our allies. We feel isolated and rejected. And others getting support for their feelings feel their anger is justified and amplified and then they go on to say more, gaining evenmore traction, and thus alienating us from each other.
Unfortunately, we can't change the election.
It happened. It's over. We couldn't go back if we tried.
Whether those 20 million lost votes were from non/protest voters, voter suppression, purged ballots, or the many valid ballots that have magically disappeared, we can't know, but we can't fix it and our politicians dont seem to really care either.
So WE have to unify, not divide.
Stop attacking each other.
Do Not Let Them Win.
florpglorp
Tell that to the DNC those assholes do everything they can to block popular progressives. Unity doesnt come from random individuals it comes from the people in high places in large coalitions. If they cant unite with anyone other than right wing leaders lile liz cheney and wealthy donors where does that leave the left?
Awmph
the goal is to create chaos
the rest is window dressing or looting
Betterbecauseofthem
Like it or not, the Democratic and liberal parties must unite and work toward maintaining control and keeping people like trump out of office even if it means less progressive policies
Lavos5181
Plain and simple if you won't fight for others why should they fight for you.
1stTimerAgain
IdiotSavantTinker
I see a lot of defeatist comments, and I've wondered if they are bots.
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PlanckEraWasMyBestEra
I am all for people tagging shit, but this is actual real life and death, not "politics".
lastmanonearthbutidroppedmyglasses
knexusatx
The moment the votes started to come in people started blaming Muslim voters and saying some real fuckin awful shit. It's really shit to see that the left just like the right was just waiting for any excuse for Islamophobia
PlanckEraWasMyBestEra
Yeah, there was briefly a lot of focus on minorities and I'm glad that seems to have faded fast. It does make me wonder if that wasn't orchestrated too for the exact same reason - to get us fighting each other so we are too distracted/divided to fight them.
Chereazi
They already won.
And it's important to learn for next time, so pretending people didn't fuck up ain't helping, assuming there is a next time.
So, what's the game plan for the meantime?
PlanckEraWasMyBestEra
That's giving up and if we give up, there definitely won't be a next time. Pointing fingers isn't getting us anywhere except maybe feeling a bit of self-righteousness for a moment.
Chereazi
It's not about preventing them from winning now, it's about taking it back.
They've won, "preventing them from winning" won't do much. The government needs to be taken back. Which is much much harder and needs a different approach.
And refusal to learn from the past is exactly what got us here... People didn't even have the attention span to remember back 4 fucking years...
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
PlanckEraWasMyBestEra
Exactly this. I feel like we are forgetting the "don't allow scapegoating, push back against division" part and getting hung up on easy targets (each other), rather than those who truly deserve it.
knexusatx
Calling out, naming, and shaming has no negative effects on them and it's been that way for fucking years
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
It's not principly about changing their behavior, it's about not being tolerant, but if you're calling people out on their bullshit when you see it and it's having zero effect, you're not being loud enough.
PlanckEraWasMyBestEra
Not being tolerant of what? Of people who didn't vote? Because we can't go back and change that, so I have no idea what you think you're calling out by just sowing discord between people who are on your same side and want the same things you want. We need to be uniting and cooperating and organizing, not feeling self-righteous by "calling out" people we think aren't as good as us.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
No idea how you got here from what I said but carry on I guess.