You DID NOT HAVE that leverage, not after the primaries were over and not with Trump as the only alternative!

Did you not read my post? I voted for Harris so did every leftist I know. Please shut up about misrepresenting my actions by continually forgetting in your rhetoric the fact that I stated I voted for Harris, I also did not advocate for NOT voting for Harris though I expressed a lot of uncertainty over feeling ok voting for Biden and then Harris after she made it clear there was going to be zero realworld daylight between her and Biden’s policy on the Palestinian Genocide. It seems that for you this is emotional pathos about imagined characters being your punching bag because you are upset and confused.

Further, it seems that you are upset precisely because the voters who voted for Biden but did not vote for Harris did in fact have a whole lot of leverage that the DNC and Biden/Harris refused to acknowledge, and they likely lost the election by ignoring it in favor of choosing to play cozy with rich donors and republicans. They refused to allow a Palestinian to even speak at the DNC while giving prime stage time to fucking LIZ CHENEY A REPUBLICAN.

…and what fucking primary? The one the DNC and more relevantly Biden undermined by not dropping out until it was too late to have a primary?

I understand you are upset, but you are acting like a republican in that it seems like you NEED a morality story, you need some selfish, reactionary person acting in an infuriating way to be angry at. You can’t admit that your way of understanding the world is flawed and that a whole bunch of unsustainable shit has been normalized in your mind that is falling apart catastrophically, and that would always have inveitably fallen apart catastrophically.

The only positive thing you can say about your strategy is that maybeeee it would have delayed this happening, which seems like a reasonable argument until you recognize that is absolutely as far as that strategy can take you and no further because all holding an unsustainable explosive potential in harder accomplishes, past a certain point, is to increase the lethality of the explosion when it finally occurs.

The way you see the world, a perspective that sees the Palestinian Genocide as a distracting detail to US elections, is so fundamentally flawed that you and people that agree with you can never reach an effective majority coalition in U.S. politics by adhering to it, you will piss off and drive away too many people. That is just a fact, a fact born out by this past election.

It is time for your understanding of US politics to evolve, the plight of the Palestinian people isn’t a fucking detail to US politics and US voters understand that whether you are willing to or not.

That means 71% of non-Harris voters rejected her for reasons other than Gaza.

Do you not understand the concept of a plurality? facepalm

I am getting tired of explaining this, I am a white caucasian leftist born in the US, I voted for Kamala even though I had massive reservations about the genocide, the reason people like me were sounding the alarm is because we hadn’t lobotimized our ability to empathize with Palestinian americans, arab americans and Palestians themselves (also all the jews against this too!) and understood this was a catastrophic, losing strategy.

Gaza was not the reason she lost.

Actually, it was literally the largest reason she lost according to polling?

https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling

Damn all those centrists shouting down progressives sounding the alarm about the Palestinian Genocide in Gaza look really fucking pathetic right now, turns out it was a fire alarm that needed to be rung and centrist losers took the side of the fire rather than do it.

The Democratic Party needs to be burned down I am afraid.

Lol your political career is over Newsom, hang out with Steve Bannon even once like this and you are dead to a large swath of people.

No, this is a long time coming and it isn’t something I say brashly, I think it is the only way forward at this point unfortunately shrugs

I mean I think a lot of them WANT the economy to crash, but still…

The dem party needs to be burned to the ground, I don’t think it is reformable at this point.

It’s in free fall now.

weird way of phrasing “genocide increases in intensity”

It will change, I promise you. I am so confident I will literally bet my girlfriend’s chihuahua on it.

better hope lefties and artists get their shit together you tiny little monster

As a musician and composer it really took the life out of my identity as a composer seeing an alternative to bandcamp never really form and then one day waking up to it bought by Epic.

I didn’t cry that day, but I might as well have, it made me extraordinarily sad to see that headline and I imagine there are actually countless talented musicians out there who will never actuate on their creative vision because the environment for music production is at this point, downright hostile towards artists and musicians considering the amount of work music production is.

It takes an obscene amount of work to take a song from something that has promise to being as polished as listeners demand nowadays, and listeners won’t even give your song a chance on actual speakers. You have to twist and warp your music so it sounds good on essentially monophonic phone speakers with shitty frequency coverage or otherwise nobody will give it a try on speakers for actually listening to music. Doesn’t matter though, nobody is going to actually support you for the art you make.

🙃

It seems like https://resonate.coop/ is still around tho which seems like a cool idea (a coop owned streaming service where listeners can stream-to-own a song).

Gotta love all my friends who are really into music who happily use Spotify and don’t give a shit it is a weapon of class warfare being used on musicians disguised as a music player!

I basically lost all my drive to make something of my love of creating music seeing how little anyone in my society actually values music or musicians in terms of material support and reward, it is honestly pretty scary how broken music has become.