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Um, the marines not the army libtard.
/s
checkmate.
Atheists.
New Headline: Kamala Harris Doesn’t Know Difference Between Army & Marines.
The American left: I won’t vote for an old white man! We want change!
“Ok he’s gone, here’s an educated, youthful black woman”
The American left: ew, not like that!
(No need to reply I’ve heard all the excuses you’ve all made to explain why the black lady is hitler and just as bad as trump, by the way those excuses like typical Americans, focus on other countries and what they’re up to, instead of fixing your own damn country)
“Ehh, it’ll be easier to block Trump on fundamentally everything he does as he dismantles the country and straps American prosperity for his own gain than to influence Harris’ foreign policy. I think I’ll make my voice heard by just not voting.”
Idk I think many Americans are that shallow but I think the majority don’t care about skin color or gender. I think she would have won if the Dems hadn’t tightened the leash and let her run a more progressive campaign instead of forcing her to go into lock step with Biden and campaigning with Cheney.
the hilarious thing is that they had tim walz as a running mate, and everyone obviously LOVES him because he seems like a genuinely good person, and kamala just kinda… did nothing with that?
like especially when contrasted to walz, harris just feels like a cardboard cutout, and democrats are just puzzled why people give up on voting as a whole
I don’t think Harris was progressive at all. She seemed disingenuous, media-trained to be as uncontroversial as possible, and every talking point focus tested. Her major economic policy was to give more money to business owners. I think Waltz is somewhat progressive, and they did put a leash on him. I agree she would’ve won if she was more progressive, especially if she focused on policies benefiting labor.
Ive seen that one of the major demographics that swung the election was Latino Men, and a lot of the follow up was that there was a lot of sexism/racism in that. They couldnt fathom a black lady being president. At the time, Trump was already threatening to throw them out of the country, and they still voted for him.
And yet the Mexican President?
Mexican doesn’t encompass all latinos…?
Maybe the majority of Democrats, but make no mistake, the “DEI Hire” comments being shouted in from the right are nothing more than racism and sexism.
She was (and still is), despite the shit circumstances of her nomination, one of the most qualified people in the country for the Office of the President.
If she’d kept talking about housing and price gouging she wins, maybe even without distancing herself from Biden on Gaza. If she does all three it’s the landslide the ppl were predicting before she went on tour with Liz
They voted for Obama despite deeply rooted racism. Sexism would be my guess here.
tea party was formed in response to obama being elected. america absolutely couldnt even call him the first half white prezzo. ‘He was the first black president,’ who was half white. It was ridiculous how many people lost their mind during his terms.
Essentially he was black, since race is a construct, how he was perceived is what matters.
Yeah that racism was poked with a stick by libertarian trash who sold the presidency to whoever pays more.
Essentially he was black,
Only in America. as a biracial person myself i understand how it works. Perception is right. Neither side will accept you, but if you succeed in life they will claim you.
The amount of people who are BuT GeNoCiDe screaming is pathetic. They didn’t give a fuck about Sudan being in a civil war, they don’t care about Myanmar. They don’t care that trump wantonly supports Russia who’s ethnically cleansing Ukraine right now, it’s just all about Gaza for them.
Somehow, trump gets a pass from them with Russia, but Israel doing what Israel has done pretty much since it’s existence is the fault of only Kamala.
True. I know these fake ass leftists who cry about “Genocide Joe” are disingenuous because they never gave even 1% of the same amount of fucks about the ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs. I have to remind people that there are still multiple genocides going on as we speak, but the only one that seems to get any political attention is Israeli cleansing of Gaza. Those crimes against humanity are but one of the horrible things being carried out and not only is it not a new/recent event, but it shouldn’t come as any surprise that our government both Democrat and Republican, have never lifted a finger to curtail it since the state of Israel was formed after WW2.
The Dem voters who stayed home and let Trump win because of Biden’s foreign policy with Israel are beyond moronic. Congratulations, you voted with your conscience, now the pro-genocide candidate is in office and Israel has 4+ years to glass over Palestine and completely eliminate it’s peoples. Well done.
Yeah man I’m in the exact same camp as you on this.
When the young American left started yelling about gaza I was like “y’all just found out about gaza? That shit has been going on for like 60 years” and don’t get me wrong, im not against any of the points that are being made. Im just against Americans leading the charge. Americans are the last people who should be criticizing annyone about genocide, it’s their national pastime. It’s the left’s version of being the world police. And I guess it’s easier to try and fix Israel than to try and fix their own country which is currently on fire.
My message to Americans would be, i agree with you on this. Now shut the fuck up and fix your own shit
To be fair, though, Gaza has fully ramped to what may as well be an extermination. If it keeps up this new rate the whole place will be a lifeless wasteland in no time at all.
Exactly.
It was right wing psyops to get them to not vote, and it worked perfectly.
Soon as they invaded, and the online prop started, I knew it was going to target the left, and I knew it would fucking work.
No one on the left would’ve ever said that. I think you’re confused about “the left”. You’re calling uneducated idiots “the left”
Have you forgotten about the instance that posted memes about sacrificing trans people to Trump to save their precious moral superiority?
Do you think everyone sees the same things you do? No, I didn’t, and I’m very skeptical anyone posted that. Buy, hey maybe they did. Doesn’t make it a significant/widespread viewpoint. What I’m saying though is that if a person doesn’t hold leftist viewpoints, they aren’t on the left.
It was an example. Check my comment history if you want, it should be somewhere in there and yes it was applauded. There are lots of people that are economically / fanatically leftist but aren’t progressive, especially here on Lemmy.
If being uneducated overrode political affiliation Trump supporters wouldn’t be right wingers neither
We live in different worlds…
Also… wat?
If being uneducated overrode political affiliation Trump supporters wouldn’t be right wingers neither
The point is that you could only be so bigoted if you’re uneducated. So it seems like we agree on that but you’re speaking as though we don’t.
Complete non sequitur that seemed amusingly absurd:
The point is that you could only be so bigoted if you’re uneducated.
My brain first interpreted that to mean that, at a certain level if bigotry, one must pursue some form of education to fulfill the prerequisites of increasing bigotry further. Like the Bigotry Police show up stating “We’re sorry sir but, you can’t apply for the position of Grand Wizard until you’ve finished at least three semesters in upper-division Xenophobic Studies. Now, we’re going to let you off with a warning this time but, if you apply for the role again without proper credentials, we are going to have to cite you.”
Lol okay. For a sec I thought you were the other commenter and I was very confused.
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You didn’t need to say it, your refusal to vote Harris said it all
I voted for Harris and despise anyone who didn’t, but yeah… sure…
ahahah this is comedy gold given your comment history TrickDacy
Okay cool
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. The “left” isn’t a big enough voting bloc to swing an election. I’m an anti-electoralist and I voted for the fucking cop. Most of us vote despite our opinions on the two party system. Blame white liberals. They’re the ones who didn’t show up
Blame white liberals. They’re the ones who didn’t show up
100%.
As a fellow leftist who also held my nose and voted for the anointed Kamala, these tired attacks on the left with our “incredibly massive amount of political sway” are getting quite old.
Seriously. If the left are to blame for harris’ loss, if they really can swing elections like the centrists who hate them claim, the left are kingmakers and should be treated accordingly.
Whatever happens, can’t let democrats democratically elect their candidate. No, the candidate shall be anointed!
It’s always funny how people from .ml parrot right wing talking points while unironically calling themselves leftists.
It was an opinion piece.
Fuck Trump and America, but The Hill didn’t say that with the weight that this insinuates.
The story is again Americas media literacy perhaps.
Edit: lol ok everyone. Go check out all the NYT opinion pieces compared to their news. Make sure you give them the credit they’re due for not being complicit Nazis.
Garbage media literacy and the world burns for it.
“actually that comment wasn’t written by me, it was my brother, can you unban me?”
I know it doesn’t help, but the brain worm is real. I tried this last week. People are angry and I get that, my family is bipoc and our “friends” in Texas talk about reporting all the illegals they “see”. I’m furious, but that doesn’t make truth subjective. I don’t know why anyone thinks pretending that the fucking hill has anything to do with a fucking opinion piece. I don’t know why anyone thinks that platforming trash like this was intended to do anything less than generate buzz. I don’t know why people think that lending credence to that buzz has any measurable effect in any meaningful way beyond licking their metaphorical wounds. I don’t know why people believe that over-sensationalizing a best case semantic shit show is anything but playing into what the right views as stereotypical leftist tropes.
Shit like this… Just embarrassing
GL Friendo
BTC (who knows his shit) called out @TheHillOpinion. @TheHill posted the original. I don’t see a problem here.
was it given a platform and promoted by the organization?
they printed it as their opinion. and clearly promoted it as their opinion.
Opinion pieces abuse the legitimacy of the publisher to get out stuff like this, and that’s a failing on the media platform, just like native advertising. If they don’t want to be associated, make sure the tweet makes it absolutely obvious that it isn’t the Hill saying this, but just some nobody with an opinion.
you mean the weight… their own post suggests? The manipulacy!
