I agree with you. It honestly looks like GOP bots trying to manufacture hate against democrats by “capturing the narrative”.

They aren’t real people. When you compare election results to the popular political opinions on lemmy it becomes obvious there are bots in this echo chamber.

We’re talking about whether recycling is feasible.

Whether or not it is feasible is decided by how hard it is to do compared to just making new materials.

Your comment seemed to be saying the contaminates in recycling make them harder to recycle back to their raw materials (compared to making new raw materials).

Raw materials come from the ground. By your standards of “contamination” aren’t raw materials much more contaminated?

A lot of work goes into refining glass, aluminum, steel, copper etc. A lot of impurities have to be removed to make those materials for the first time.

I stayed up all night studying for this drug test! You gotta give me a 2nd try!

When choices are far right and center right, center left and far left voters just stay home.

So you’re saying that Trump is in office because leftists stayed home instead of voting?

And no. Educated people vote left at a much higher rate!

You said Americans are sooo uneducated.

Meaning they won’t vote left.

There’s way more evidence that Americans want far left policies

Not according to the election results.

Problem is that Americans are soooooooo politically uneducated it’s scary

Doesn’t this increase the chances of a leftist losing?

I don’t think we should risk another 4 years with GOP/Trump candidate based on your opinion.

This is Russia using Tulsi and other politicians they own to dismantle our intelligence from the inside.

Money makes or breaks elections.

I think Dems would’ve lost by much more if they didn’t work with the rich, the military industry, etc.

For example, the progressives that lost their elections because AIPAC funded their opposition.

No, Trump won because of foreign influence primarily from Russia. Also he had help from the billionaire class and the GOP propaganda machine.

Together they were able to tip the scales less than what Trump lost by in 2020.

They accomplished this by convincing democratic voters to either not vote or to vote for Trump.

How do you know who influenced Obama’s decisions?

If Trump and the GOP accomplish their goals there will not be any more “rounds” or elections.

This is the reason it’s a bad strategy

In this context, “valid strategy” = everyone is worse off, protestors get the opposite of what they wanted and fascist gain power.

In this context, “punishing the other player” = punishing yourself.

The timing, the fact that it was only used against democrats is a sign that the GOP will use it to their advantage.

The way it was done is also an issue. In this context, the message of the protest was that democrats needed to give the protestors what they want. Otherwise democrats wouldn’t get votes from the protestors. Resulting in the protestors helping Trump get elected.

Democrats have constituents that do not agree with those protestors and so democrats would’ve lost votes by giving into the protestors. Resulting in the protestors helping Trump get elected in this outcome also.

In my opinion, supporters of a party should express what they want changed by engaging with their politicians.

The only time that won’t work with a politician is if their intel indicates they gain more votes by not making those changes.

In that scenario, the supporters need to accept that the majority rules in a democracy and vote for the lesser of two evils because that is in the best interest of those supporters.

Instead what happened was protestors cut off their nose to spite their face and now things are much worse as a result.

So if Trump wasn’t the candidate that trump is, he wouldn’t have won? I mean he was Trump tho.

This statement indicates you think Trump won because of who he is.

My statement points out it is not because of who he is but instead because Russia chose to interfere in elections.

In other words, if Trump dies today, Russia would find another person to fill his place and would use the same propaganda tactics to help get them into a position of power.

This is because Trump is a puppet. Your comment was evidence you don’t understand that that is why he won.

Every candidate will have criticisms.

Every politician will amplify their opponent’s criticism to impact election results.

Validating concern trolls isn’t the solution.

Getting everyone to vote in everyone’s best interest is.

Allowing the GOP to gain more power and end democracy is unproductive.

Trump has been trying to become president since 2000 and he has been talking about it since the 80s. It wasn’t until Russia got involved with their propaganda machine that he was able to start his cult.

Without Russian support he wouldn’t be anybody.

Not all voters agreed with those protests. Arguably, the candidate would’ve lost by more if they listened to the protests and addressed the issues that were brought up.

What we can’t argue about is the fact that the protests hurt voter turnout and now Trump is the president.

Maybe if it wasn’t Trump and fascism on the line.

But in this context you’re referring to the prevention of fascism as “unproductive”.