• zbyte64@awful.systems
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      It’s a fucking popularity contest and you’re deluding yourself if you think voters can be disciplined.

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              You’re allowed to be rude on the internet, dunno if you knew that.

              Kamala losing was Kamalas choice. She ran a campaign aimed at republicans and centrists, instead of, you know, her actual base of support.

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                It’s literally the first rule of this community to not be a dick. Dunno if you knew that.

                Kamala took her base for granted, which is true. But those voters still chose to not show up just as they did with Hillary. It took a lot of people’s apathy to get where we are now. It wasn’t all just one person.

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                  Right, if my 2 choices were for genocide, I’m voting 3rd party. Many many people feel the same way, and Kamala knew that, and decided to continue support for genocide, and try and appeal to republicans.

                  The blame lies squarely on her and the Dem establishments shoulders.

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        You mean the senator arguably most responsible for packing the supreme court. Who was previously known as Jim Crow Joe due to his drafting of the '94 crime bill, close friendship with literal KKK grand wizards, and fighting tooth and nail to keep Deleware segregated.

        Who’s been saying, publicly and out loud, since 1976 that some of his goals in politics is to end social security and is “conservative on the topic of abortions”. One of which was accomplished during his presidency.

        It’s hard to understate the level of historical amnesia on what an evil bastard that man has always been.

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          don’t forget he was the self-described tough-on-crime senator, that also voted against the last real attempt to end the electoral college, and later when he ran for president he promised “fundamentally nothing will change.” in addition to that he helped write the legislation to prevent student loans from being discharged via bankruptcy. -His failed student loan forgiveness effort was meant to temporarily solve a major problem of his own making.

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