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I wasn't laundering any false premises. I was only stating the fact that she has lied. I don't doubt this because she IS a politician after all. The examples i used are things which the Republicans have brought up as "lies" which i acknowledge, and i assumed everyone also acknowledged. Of course, you're free to disagree but I wasn't trying to launder any false premises here.
You just acknowledging the blanket false claims, generalized "lies" and that framing is laundering their false premise. You conceding some sort of an equivalence and saying "so what, she lied" is further laundering their BS. If this wasn't intentional, I'll hear you out, but you need to then know that you're being used as a puppet here then and unintentionally parroting what they'd like you to be saying. And, you should go add a note to your original post clarifying, if you're sincere.
I will ask you this, "What do you ACTUALLY know here?" You mentioned lies about fracking, sincerely, what are you referencing there? If you don't have specifics at hand, and you have to now scramble to look something up and double down, time to admit, again even if unintentionally, you are laundering republican bs.
Here I'll help you:
Harris did not make her personal position on fracking clear during her only debate in 2020, the general election’s VP debate against then-VP Mike Pence (of "Hang Mike Pence" fame)
Harris never explicitly stated a personal position on fracking during that debate. She said that Biden, running for president with her supporting as VP, would not ban fracking if he was elected president.
During the 2020 VP debate, Harris said, “Joe Biden will not end fracking,” and “I will repeat, and the American people know, that Joe Biden will not ban fracking.”
Back before that VP debate, When Harris was actually running in the presidential primary on her own and could reference her own views on fracking directly, the furthest she came was “there’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”
There is no promise there. No lie told since. You can be in favor of something that isn't politically feasible at a time, or feel you personally have more to learn. You can say something akin to, "that sounds like the right thing to do, but I'll need to think about it more" that's the measured stance of a thinking person.
So what was the lie there? Or again, were you laundering the republican's bs propaganda to try to normalize the idea that " EVERYBODY just lies, man... so trump ain't so bad I guess..." - intentionally or unintentionally.
Is that what you wanted me to say? Look man, I'm not a Conservative nor am i even American. Like i said, I've just been following the US election, and have been engaging in media from both sides. It's possible that i have been "tricked" by the Republicans, but i was simply asking a question while both making some assumptions and stating a fact. And with the fracking:
Here's her saying she is 100% in favour of banning fracking.
Here's her backtracking on that
So clearly your claim "Harris did not make her personal position on fracking clear..." is false.
Also, where did you get the "everybody lies, so Trump's not so bad i guess" from in my post. If you go back, and put on your reading glasses to see what i wrote, you'll see that i was asking why people bring up Kamala's "lies" when Trump is even worse of a liar.
Backtracking five years later isn't strictly the same thing as lying. Five years is enough time to learn new information, and she's being upfront about the change. I'd be more concerned if she were saying right up until the election that she's going to ban fracking, then suddenly refused to do so as president.
Fair enough then. These are the criticisms I've heard from people on the right though. I just wanted some clarification. Thanks!