• derf82@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    They have not told anyone to vote for Trump.

    They told them not to vote for Biden, which is much the same.

    The Dems took voters for granted in 2016 and got what they deserved.

    65,853,514 voted for Clinton, over 2.8 million more than voted for Trump.

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      9 months ago

      You forgot to quote the bit about this being the primaries, not the general.

      And you’re going to have to explain how Clinton was a desperate underdog in 2016 if you want to imply that actually, she did well.

      “For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” – Chuck Schumer 2016

      And they still haven’t learnt anything.

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        9 months ago

        And you do not think those attitudes will carry over into the general?

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          It depends entirely on whether the Dems are capable of responding to criticism or whether they do their usual la la la can’t hear you.

          The problem with obediently voting for the least worst option is that you end up with no good options. Being marginally better than a fascist is not enough. They need turnout and if they want turnout they need to stop fucking over their voters.

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            It depends entirely on whether the Dems are capable of responding to criticism or whether they do their usual la la la can’t hear you.

            You act like Dems voters are a monolith.

            The problem with obediently voting for the least worst option is that you end up with no good options.

            And how is this going to generate another option?

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              9 months ago

              I referred to a political party, not its voters.

              And, wtf? Are you such an obedient voter that you do not care what they are offering as long as they’re wearing the right colour? Come the fuck on.

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                9 months ago

                Fuck, no. But what the fuck else should we do? Let Trump fuck us over just because Biden sucks? I do not like Biden, either, but I DETEST Trump with every fiber of my being.

                Quit the “both sides” bullshit.

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                  9 months ago

                  You’re reading “both sides”?

                  Work on your reading comprehension. This sort of braindead centrism should have died 8 years ago

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      9 months ago

      They told them not to vote for Biden, which is much the same.

      no, it’s not. i expect to have at least 4 options on my ballot, possibly 5 if my donations to cornel west accomplish anything.

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        9 months ago

        And I promise you, all but 2 of those options have a 0.0000% chance of winning. Like it or not, that is the system we have.

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          9 months ago

          i think i saw it was more like 1/500 so it’s more like 0.2%. at least that’s what the betting odds called for stein and west, who are the only two candidates i see that deserve my vote.

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              9 months ago

              Speaking to The Intercept in 2017, she said the notion that it was an “intimate roundtable” was “mythology,” and that Putin and his associates “weren’t at the table for very long.” Stein said that “nobody introduced anybody to anybody” and that she “didn’t hear any words exchanged between English speakers and Russians” due to the lack of a translator.

              from your first link

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                  it was the tenth anniversary of a media outlet that gave her more time than probably all American media combined. she paid her own way. it’s a nothing burger

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                    And what media outlet is also inviting Putin? You are burying the lede that it is Russian State TV, RT. Kinda proves my point.

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              9 months ago

              your second link contains actual lies or facts that have changed since it’s publication.