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Summary

Key leaders of the “Abandon Harris” movement, which encouraged voters to oppose Kamala Harris due to U.S. support for Israel during the Gaza war, are now expressing unease about Trump’s incoming administration.

Many in the movement, including prominent Muslim leaders, voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East.

However, concerns are growing over his Cabinet picks, such as Mike Huckabee and Tulsi Gabbard, which some see as troubling for Muslim communities.

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[–] doctortofu@reddthat.com 287 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

"Many in the movement, including prominent Muslim leaders, voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East"

How the FUCK would you hope for that? Have you been living under a rock and didn't know who Trump actually is and what he does? The Muslim ban Trump? That Trump? Bringing peace to the Middle East? Seriously?

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 174 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The American electorate is stunningly stupid and disconnected from reality. Look up some of the trending Google searches on election day, they're stupider than you think

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago

Like the ones confused that Biden wasn't an option.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

decades of dismantling the education system will do that to you...

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes: the guy who banned Muslims from entering the US on his previous term will end the war and bring peace to the Middle East.

monkey’s paw curls

palestinians are thoroughly genocided and Gaza + West Bank + other lebensraum in the area have all structures reduced to grade #7 gravel

That is also technically peace, in that there is no more fighting. It’s just a really bad one.

Truly, the gullibility of some people simply beggars belief.

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[–] Xanis@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Wait wait, I remember a guy who was constantly arguing and berating everyone about how Biden was just the worst Satan reincarnation or some shit and how we all needed to band together against both him and Harris. Oooh @HomerianSymphony , you still around, bud?

We'd like an interview.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They were probably just astroturfing, and now that they've successfully completed their objective, they've got no reason to stick around.

I still see a handful of the useful idiots that were on here paroting those talking points, and I have to wonder if they've been able to accept that they were sold a bill of goods.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have to wonder if they've been able to accept that they were sold a bill of goods.

They were the bill of goods. They were a line item on the Trump campaign budget. Their temp job is over so they're not posting.

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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 216 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

I voted for Harris. I voted for Biden. I voted for Clinton.

I still wouldn't warn a single one of them if they were about to get hit by a bus.

Its harm reduction. They don't solve anything. They just keep us treading water sinking slowly whereas Republicans start taking a hammer to the hull to open up new holes.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I voted for Harris. I voted for Biden. I voted for Clinton.

I still wouldn’t warn a single one of them if they were about to get hit by a bus.

American Democracy in a nutshell. You get two choices, they're both awful for different reasons. One of them wants to see you executed for your religious beliefs/sexual preferences/nation of origin. The other is continent to sell bunker buster bombs to some raving psychotic mass murderers overseas. Nobody is going to do shit about climate change, though, so we're all on the clock in the long run.

Its harm reduction.

It increasingly feels like the closest thing to harm reduction the US achieved was the time Trump fucked up his COVID response and a bunch of his senior leadership choked to death on their own lung fluid.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 47 points 1 week ago

bunch of his senior leadership choked to death on their own lung fluid.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (41 children)

Harm reduction is bad?

Obviously, it's not ideal, but one has to act according to the real life conditions... And in 2024, our only two options were "harm reduction," and literal fascism with literal concentration camps.

Fuck you if you didn't choose harm reduction.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

To be fair to them, we're just delaying collapse. It is a choice.

I agree with them that there's no saving this constitutional structure. In one sense it's cowardly, because there's no escape from this capitalist slaughterhouse hellscape without collapse. Collapse is necessary. Trump will certainly usher that in faster.

But Im too much of a softy to let the blood that always has to spill be on my hands.

This country was irreparable since Reagan, a zombie nation oligarch piggie bank. My vote was a cowardly one for a few more years of quiet orderly slaughter, NOT peace.

But we lost, so the slaughter will be loud and bigger than it's ever been, so maybe it's time for revolution if we want our kids to have anything left.

Because in 4 years the DNC WILL anoint someone to meet Trump's economy in the middle, and even I may not be able to stomach voting for that.

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[–] elrik@lemmy.world 109 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have zero sympathy for those who only regret their vote for Trump now that his policies - which were always obvious - come back to haunt them personally.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Many in the movement, including prominent Muslim leaders, voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East.

😂🫵

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, when you completely crush a region, what comes after could be called peace, I guess.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago
[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (17 children)

“Abandon Harris” movement, you mean half of Lemmy? Where are you clowns now?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Moscow. Same place they've always been. Just a lot less work to do now.

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[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Bryarr Misner, who worked as a campaign manager for the Abandon Harris campaign in Pittsburgh, admitted they voted for Trump, with NBC reporting, "He said the point of the Abandon Harris campaign was to punish the Democrats for supporting Israel during its war in Gaza, which the campaigners view as a genocide, and he hopes the Trump campaign will be more willing to negotiate with group leaders."

This is a person that was only ever going to vote for trump. Dipshits up and down.

[–] DrPop@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

I mean Trump said what he has to say about Gaza. He supports Israel. This was before the election too. They have no excuse.

[–] ynthrepic@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago
[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I would really love to be in the room with these idiots the moment they hear that Trump has signed the law that will arm Israel to the teeth and sanction them to exterminate every Muslim in Gaza. I want to see the terror and regret in their faces. Because this is what they have wrought.

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[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East

what

[–] fiddlesticks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess you could argue that total eradication of anyone that Israel hates will bring peace so they were sorta right

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Many in the movement, including prominent Muslim leaders, voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East.

Dipshits

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago

I voted for the Westboro Baptist church because I'm a transwoman dating a cisman and I imagine that putting them in a position of power over me can only go well. /s

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Show me a trump voter who is not a wealthy white male and I'll show you an idiot.

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 week ago

The leopards are looking mighty hungry.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

Way to go assholes. You fucked around and now we all get to find out.

[–] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

No no no,they saved Palestine, remember?

Now that the Dems aren't in control all those Palestinians are perfectly safe.

Right, tankies? That's all you were screeching about back in November. Now it's cricket chirps, like Palestine even mattered to you lot. Disgusting.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love how you are being downvoted without anyone actually providing a counter point. Because you are absolutely right.

Leading up to the election lemmy was flooded with Palestine bullshit and Genocide Joe, and people that suggested it's a war started by fucking Israel and you should be boycotting them were downvoted.

A lot of people here got swept up in the propaganda, and it was painful to see how dumb my side can be, but here we are.

Orange man is coming and suddenly no-one is posting about Palestine and every thread I'm in doesn't have people screeching genocide Joe.

I'm fully convinced lemmy was flooded with foreign assets spreading bullshit and hurting democratic turnout.

It's painful to see how effective it was, an an issue so ridiculous I couldn't have believed it if it was in a book. Country X, with president Y attacks Z, and idiots here are screaming at county U with president J......

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[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

Leopard, meet face.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, this is all very fucking stupid. WHAT THE FUCK did they think was going to be the outcome? Did they really think donvict was going to be better here?

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[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

🐆🍽👨🏻‍🦲

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 34 points 1 week ago
[–] finley@lemm.ee 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Unfortunately it boiled down to selecting the lesser of the two evils and the Abandon Harris clowns chose the neo-Nazi MAGAts which will send, for free, a nice assortment of 155 mm artillery shells to Israel.. From my point of view, zero sympathy for your FAFO.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago

Trump doesn’t negotiate. He’s a tyrant. They’re in for a world of hurt and punished a lot of innocent people with their votes.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trump has only ever wanted to glass the place.

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago

How could anyone have seen this coming.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

We fucking told you so.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Alt Timeline: "French Revolutionaires doesn't believe their leadership is good enough, supports the Monarchy instead" 🤡

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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

How could they have been that stupid as not to expect this??!

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