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Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, special counsel report says
(www.theguardian.com)
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But don't you understand? The genocide totally would've been worse or even the same. Something something duopoly! /s
Edit: to be clear, if you argued against voting for Harris, this is partially your fault. And I'm done with you. Write me a shitty reply here to be added to the blocklist. I'm all out of patience for your types.
To be clear, I agree with you. However, I've been saying that the Trump Campaign didn't win this election, the Democratic Party lost it. The Trump campaign was a fucking mess. Trump rallies sucked. Their policies sucked, and I don't mean they were evil, I mean when you polled people, objectively, virtually every major policy the Democrats held polled better than anything the Republicans did.
The major difference was that the Democratic Party gave people the impression that they cared about propriety and institutions more than they did about normal people or even winning the election. They tried so hard to seem normal that nobody believed them when they talked about the threat posed by Republicans, and how can you blame people? If you were facing an apocalyptic threat, you would be fighting, not issuing high-minded press releases and carefully-worded and narrowly-defined policy papers.
Harris didn't run a totally garbage campaign, but when Trump and the Republicans were in full rabid dog mode and the Democrats couldn't figure out how to get past the tut-tut stage, it was never going to work.
I agree with most of what you wrote here but I have a response to one phrase..
I mean, for me to not blame anyone, I'd have to assume that the vast majority of people are way stupider than I ever knew, or had no access to information to the contrary. And I've always thought people are dumb as fuck.
How can I blame people? Well, even if we assume that people knew nothing at all about the past decade, republicans made it blindingly obvious what a shit option they are. The democrats could've come on the stage drooling and babbling about space lasers and only in that case should the choice have been unclear.
IMO Trump reelection is entirely the fault of people who argued against voting for Harris. Partial blame is being too nice to them.
Well yes. I guess I was just assuming here on lemmy most people making that argument are claiming to be on the left, which is a smaller part of the problem.
Prior to the election, it seemed to me like there was a lot of astroturfing going on here; comments encouraging protest votes against Harris since she was "guaranteed to win anyway" and "one vote doesn't matter". I'm not sure how it was in other places, but it seemed like a concerted campaign to discourage voting for Harris, and then after the election, no comments on actually what to do now to help Palestinians.
Yes, exactly yes to all this. There are still a few third party people lurking and all those plus the astroturfers can fuck off