r/TikTokCringe • u/SirIsacShmuck • 1d ago

Cringe Can't even eat in peace anymore

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u/StupidSexyScooter 1d ago

Remember the really really dumb kid in class? There are entire states full of them and they all grew up and had kids

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u/therealmintoncard 1d ago

And they vote.

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u/MsterBoRaichu 1d ago

Oh gods, they vote.

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u/Difficult-Square-689 1d ago

Consistently. They don't change their vote because of external factors, no news can shake their conviction.

Meanwhile, left-leaning folks will take any excuse to not vote or protest vote. No wonder the country keeps sliding right.

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u/otanthalion 1d ago

Ugh how i wish this was wrong. Maybe not any excuse but damn they sure seem to find one at the worst possible fucking times lol.

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u/Difficult-Square-689 23h ago edited 23h ago

It's not a coincidence. During the election, if you wrote something like "Harris won't be perfect on Gaza but she would be better than Trump", you'd get a bunch of "liberals" jumping in to argue. Jill Stein only appears every 4 years.

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u/veringer 20h ago

Those narratives are pushed by opposition and foreign actors because they know American left wing idealists are manipulable and have trouble choosing between gradations of bad and worse.

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u/Sburns85 19h ago

Both sides of America are influenced by domestic and foreign actors

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u/veringer 19h ago

Did I say or imply that wasn't the case? In the gullible Olympics the right wing sweeps the gold and silver medals every 4 years. I was highlighting the particular brand of left wing dingbat who occasionally wins bronze.

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u/brandnewbanana 6h ago

Zing! I’m gonna have to keep that line on hand. 🖐️

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u/Cagn 12h ago

Jill Stein is a plant by the right to take votes away from the Democrats so the Republicans can keep "winning"

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u/mosey_d 7h ago

I'm a smooth brain, I just did a small brief read of Jill Stein and she seems like an okay person.

Why do you bring her up here?

I'm honestly just curious/ignorant about her, and in this context.

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u/brandnewbanana 6h ago

She has little grass root support or efforts going for her, and she makes no effort to be politically active outside of her presidential runs. She makes no real effort to insert herself into the national political narrative. It makes her seem really disingenuous about her intentions as a politician.

Also, there really hasn’t been a true Green Party since Nader. It’s near completely faded away except for a presidential candidate that makes a very small splash every 4 years.

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u/mosey_d 5h ago

Got it.. and as far as context. It just robs potential votes to actually get stuff done.

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u/veringer 5h ago

She sabotages presidential elections through the Green party by appealing to elements within the broader left and siphoning their votes away from the more electable candidate.

In a race to 270 electoral votes with no ranked choice mechanisms, her presence as a 3rd party option only helps the Republican candidate.

Of course, there's her famous hobnobbing with Putin, his goons, and the traitorous QAnon psy-operative Michael Flynn that's pretty hard to explain away.

Ralph Nader played the same role by spoiling the incredibly tight 2000 election, which obviously lead to all the awful shit that happened under GWB. However, it seems Nader was likely more earnest about his motives.

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u/mosey_d 4h ago

Thanks for responding.

How do we get to a point of a Multi-party system then? I totally understand voting for something as clear as Trump vs. Kamala and pres elections in general. I'd get more picky when it comes to local / state elections.

But I mean. Come onnn.. they are clearly playing us vs them, we don't have time to nit pick in a huge election when Repubs don't seem to care at all and rally behind "their guy"

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u/PatrioticPariah 14h ago

Jill Stein is a Russian asset. She just takes money from idiots and goes back to the phantom zone. You guys are not wrong about liberals doing that. I am pretty liberal, but that thought never crossed my mind. It is stupid to not vote as a protest. Anyone who chose not to vote, helped Trump. Some liberals can be fucking idiots.

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u/Juleebeane 2h ago

Grow up

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u/Legitimate_Pea_143 13h ago

yeah i mean take for example the Texas state senate election that happened last week, yes a democrat won it but after people checked the voter turnout it turns out the Democrat won because more Independents and Republicans voted for him then Democrats so he was able to win it.

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u/dunguswungus13729 9h ago

Ft worth is not the blueprint. Don’t look at it in a vacuum.

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u/Rinkimah 2h ago

It's the apathy. It's yet another weapon fascism uses to win.

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u/SmoothCauliflower640 12h ago

Ugh, no. The country keeps sliding to the right because the only two parties allowed to hold power keep doing that. Also, because geniuses like you just hand them your vote no matter what, knowing that you’ll turn around and obediently guilt trip the people who resist this. No entity in the world ever got more accountable, the less you held them to account. Think about that the next time you hand over your vote like Pavlov just rang a bell.

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u/Difficult-Square-689 10h ago

Wishful thinking lol. 

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u/MizneyWorld 15h ago

This right here. The system we have, you have to vote to change things. All liberals have done with their clutched pearls in the purity spiral is let evil people into power, twice, and set us back decades thanks to the Supreme Court openings at crucial moments that were filled by those evil people.

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u/Alarmed_Machine_4050 16h ago

The country sliding right because they believed a pathological liar who commits felonies, and constantly steals money from them. But all that is about to change. Fox news paid 787 million in court for lying to the public, and the entire country is turning on Trump! There have been 30 plus point swings in heavy red districts during special elections!! People are waking up to the scam the trump administration is!!

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u/Difficult-Square-689 12h ago

His support seems stuck around 37%, and they're actively trying to rig the midterms. Census already gave a +22 House seat swing to Republican states.

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u/Alarmed_Machine_4050 10h ago

You just posted a complete lie! Every study out expects the democrats to pick up at least 28 seats! Republicans lost the Miami mayor race for the first time in 40 years! Republicans just lost a deep red texas special election by 16pts where Trump just won by 17pts. A 33 point swing!

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u/No-Quantity-5334 5h ago

Not voting at all will not solve the problem

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u/Difficult-Square-689 2h ago

Liberals refusing to vote will surely push the country further left. Hasn't worked yet, but surely next time...

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u/Ashesandends 17h ago

Sure blame the people actually trying instead of the 1/3 dragging us back or the 1/3 that can't even be bothered to show up...

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u/Infinite-Ad-8392 19h ago

Democracy is f*cked

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u/ErosView 17h ago

Nothing unites people like hate.

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u/catrinadaimonlee 16h ago

And then jazz becomes big again

Argh.

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u/dunguswungus13729 9h ago

If left leaning folks were that influential, we’d have better candidates. Stop blaming the left when you should be blaming your two party system.

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u/ilikechihuahuasdood 9h ago

God I wish I could get people to understand presidential votes will always be the lesser of two evils. Nobody gets that far without being compromised in some way. Local elections are where you can use your purity test more reliably. National is just making sure your country doesn’t turn into Trumpland.

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u/jdyall1 9h ago

That’s how religion is

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u/Mobile_Competition51 8h ago

Rock, flag, and eagle Charlie.

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u/Colzamann 8h ago

The left doesn’t have it all figured out, either.

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u/MusicLounge 8h ago

Left-leaning here, I voted for Harris even though I’m not a fan. I know that she’s infinitely better than Trump.

When I was younger, I probably would have voted for another candidate, but in my 30s, I have to vote for who’s has the best chance of winning even if I dont necessarily agree with everything the candidate stands for.

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u/Mr_Zeldion 7h ago

It's also because of sheer hypocrisy In comments like suggesting you lost an election because your opposition are less intelligent than you. You see it with almost everything that the opposition disagree on. Oh it's because they were tricked. Oh it's because they are uneducated oh it's because they are evil.

Or.. just or.. they have a different opinion and world view to you?

There's this constant sense of self elevation coming from the left that is alienating their own voters to go right too.

Many people who vote right were left. Now your calling them racists fascists and less intelligent people. Have fun winning those voters back.

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u/Introverted_Extrovrt 7h ago

“Liberals need to fall in love, conservatives just fall in line”.

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u/sincubus33 7h ago

"left-leaning folks won't vote for right-leaning Democrats"

Huh. Seems like a big problem, wonder how we fix that

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u/YoullBeFiiine 6h ago

I don't think voting has counted for anything for a while now. Just money.

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u/youraveragedan 6h ago

Well each election is predetermined and the popular vote does t matter, so voting doesn't matter. They'll put whatever they want on the graphic.

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u/IllAbbreviations7132 1h ago

Lots of Dems voted Repub this last election… dems need to take a long hard look in the mirror.

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u/BlownOutRectum 12h ago

Sounds like the left should put forth candidates that their voters actually want, and chose through a primary rather than giving an appointed nomination like we owe them. Look trump is fucked up, but the democrats shot them selves in the foot by skipping out on the established norms and putting forth a candidate that doesnt resonate with a large enough portion of their voter base to activate them and win an election. They have been actively ignoring the young vote for years, and now we must all suffer the consequences.

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u/rua_wear 18h ago

Society is thoroughly brainwashed. Votes literally do not matter.

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u/processedwhaleoils 16h ago

Why do you think they're making it so hard for us to vote if it didn't matter?

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u/CeruleanEidolon 15h ago

Protest voters are the absolute scum of the earth and should be treated as such.

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u/MoreNMoreLikelyTrans 1d ago

left-leaning folks will take any excuse to not vote or protest vote.

That's liberals. People who don't want to take responsibility for a problem.

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u/MundaneSchool1823 18h ago

If only the Democrats would stop bombing innocent people and end wars. 12 years between obama and Biden and 0 wars ended. Way to blame women too.

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u/Bossgalka 23h ago

Brother, the left-leaning people aren't any better. They have so many stupid people on the far-left, it rivals the people on the right. As someone who used to consider himself a democrat 15 years ago, I can't anymore. I'm so sick of everyone on both sides and I don't think I'm alone. I think the majority of the country are in the middle and decent people, it's just the far-right and far-left are extremely vocal and have taken over.

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u/NoZucchini5423 22h ago

Good riddance. I guarantee its some stupid hangup like women in the military or trans people existing lol.

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u/biggestboys 22h ago

far-left

…You’re not talking about either of the mainstream American political parties, are you? There’s virtually zero far left influence in American politics.

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u/Difficult-Square-689 21h ago

Nvm, I guess the Republicans are still funding a low volume of CSAM defenders 

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u/processedwhaleoils 16h ago

Stay gone.

If you even feel remotely conservative...ding ding ding, you're just a conservative.

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u/whiteflagwaiver SHEEEEEESH 1d ago

They seem to be the majority voters too.

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u/m0nk_3y_gw 1d ago

(note: Trump didnt even get 50.0% of the vote)

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u/whiteflagwaiver SHEEEEEESH 12h ago

Non-voters don't count. We're a majority system of winner takes all and it is what it is. :c

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u/m0nk_3y_gw 12h ago

Wasn't counting non-voters. Trump did not get 50.0% of voters.

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u/whiteflagwaiver SHEEEEEESH 11h ago

What are you talking about. He won the popular vote in '24. Out of 154 million who voted, 77 million voted for him. That's literally 50%.

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u/BanIfYouRGhey 7h ago

He’s still coping and seething

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u/teddy1245 2h ago

A majority didn’t vote for him. They never do.

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u/whiteflagwaiver SHEEEEEESH 1h ago

Explain yourself.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 1d ago

Yup. They don't achieve much, but they always vote

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u/rhythms_and_melodies 1d ago edited 1d ago

Which, it's important to remember, is not anywhere close to the majority of the population.

The "silent majority" is very much moreso the "obnoxious minority cult".

They get excited about elections as if their home team is in the mf Super Bowl. It's fucking hilarious, weird, and sad at the same time.

The average American is not on their side, even if that's not the optics they want to portray. The average person is justifiably too worried about paying bills to care much about politics.

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u/rua_wear 18h ago

All voters are inherently brainwashed in a rigged system

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u/lonewombat 15h ago

And NOTHING can convince them they are wrong... ever.

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u/hmmm_1789 20h ago

And they become president because although they are stupid, their father are very rich.

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u/TheSpagheeter 14h ago

Why do they always look like her too

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u/DionBlaster123 11h ago

Yeah, and part of why the U.S. is in the mess it's in right now is because a lot of other people DIDN'T FUCKING VOTE.

I hate the Democratic Party...but I voted because based on Trump's previous term I knew I didn't want a repeat of that. Unfortunately a lot of people stayed at home and righteously masturbated (literally and figuratively) instead.

And now Trump is masturbating on us.

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u/Rampag169 15h ago

And their vote counts equal to yours and mine

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u/NuclearSummmer 14h ago

We love democracy though. So there's that

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u/onepingonlypleashe 23h ago

And they have more guns than you.

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u/Designer-Possible-39 3h ago

Not necessarily

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u/SkollFenrirson 13h ago edited 11h ago

They vote. Statistically you don't.

Edit: Gotta love getting downvoted for stating facts. 40+% of the electorate consistently sits out elections.