• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    24 days ago

    Many believe Harris lost in 2024 because voters viewed her as too progressive, and that Ocasio-Cortez could face the same problem.

    Who’s this “many”? Kamala lost because of her Joe Biden neolib policies, her hard heel-turn to the right, and her “nothing will change, we are the most lethal military” stance on the Middle East.

    Instead of reassuring the masses who she thought were a shoe-in, she tried to appease the “I’ll never vote for a black woman” crowd, which alienated the former and would never have worked on the latter.

    It was either the greatest miscalculation ever, lead by Third Way focus groups, or someone tugged the leash. Either way, with the GOP rat fucking that was almost certainly happening to some degree.

    Pretty shitty of Newsweek to pretend that progressive policies are unpopular with a majority of Americans.

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      24 days ago

      No, she lost because she was black and a woman. People always underestimate just how racist and sexist the US is. Don’t fall into this trap.

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        24 days ago

        You couldn’t mention her name around here without a bandwagon of “She’s the literal genocide queen and a vote for her is a vote to murder Palestinian children.”

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          23 days ago

          I mean, she did support the genocide. Which murdered tens of thousands of Palestinian children. What is your point?

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            23 days ago

            Thank you for illustrating my point. And I’m sure you feel like Trump is doing a fantastic job with human rights, at home and abroad (when he comes up for air while gargling Bibi’s balls, of course).

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              23 days ago

              And I’m sure you feel like Trump is doing a fantastic job with human rights

              Why don’t you just go have a nice tea party with the little strawman you’ve created?

              The only thing Trump is doing a great job at is destroying the US. Whether that’s good or not, debatable.

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                23 days ago

                “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”

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            23 days ago

            However, the immediate effect of not voting for the lesser evil is either not voting, meaning the right wins, or voting for candidates with no chance of winning, taking votes away from the more left ones and allowing the right to win. “More right” is better than “all the way to the far right.”

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              23 days ago

              If you’re not going to change direction, the speed at which you’re moving right isn’t really important. You’re getting there anyways.