[+] -10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

if you honestly believe that's the future of the us, you should probably leave the country

you should probably have been planning to leave the country for the last three months, since the election never went more than 60% in harris' favor

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    being angry at voters who didn't vote the way you wanted them to isn't going to actually achieve anything, though

    harris didn't even win the popular vote. it wasn't even a particularly close election. you can't not blame the dnc after a defeat like this.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Like, what "leeway" does Kamala have to say anything different than she already has, which she could shift to?

    a significant enough chunk of her voter base credibly withholding a vote based on a desired policy change would force a shift toward that desired policy change

    i'd say biden's platform in 2020 was significantly more left-wing than clinton's in 2016

    But that was then, and this is now.

    this is the same "it's too late" or "it's too unprecedented" or whatever you want to pick that was exactly the justification for biden being kept in as long as he was

    I think it really does show voting not for a 3rd party but voting for the other side b/c "bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMe" (the title of the post), specifically wrt genocide.

    people the post targets aren't voting red. they're just not voting at all, or voting third party. it's an argument to a position held by an insignificant fraction of the left-anti-harris crowd.

    it doesn't address the core issue they have. they'd say that continuing to vote for the least-bad party is the reason both parties are bad, and that at a certain point you have to attempt to force a more radical change.

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