• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago
    1. Very few people idolize Harris. Hell, Harris is not particularly popular even within the Democratic Party. The issue is that banging the drum on all the reasons not to vote for her two weeks before it’s decided whether we’re going under a literal fascist regime, or getting another four years of time to unfuck as much as we can, is a strategically stupid decision from any actor who doesn’t want fascism. Yes, Harris is a moderate who supports all the long-standing fuckwaddery of US foreign and domestic policy. No, that’s not particularly relevant ten metaphorical minutes before an election with a candidate who supports all the long-standing fuckwaddery of US foreign and domestic policy getting much worse as a core ideological aim.

    2. The idolization makes it ridiculous, but the essential difference between the two parties isn’t that “GOP idolizes its candidate while We, The Clear-Sighted, do not!”, the essential difference is “The GOP has openly announced that it’s going for a fascist regime, and the Dems don’t want that.” If someone were insane enough to start plastering Harris’s head on Rambo Trump style, man, it’d be worthy of mockery, but even if it was widespread, it wouldn’t change that one party is essential to support in this election over the other. We want another four years of not-fascism so we can reinforce and build new structures against fascism. Maybe even a better world, though for the next few weeks I’m focused on not getting sent to a concentration camp.

    3. If you think that a platform of 50k isn’t enough to be worth talking to, I dread to consider what you think of attending town halls.

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      17 days ago

      If you think that a platform of 50k isn’t enough to be worth talking to, I dread to consider what you think of attending town halls.

      Look, i know it’s a desperate time now, but to take the 50k in lemmy as undecided rather than an echo chamber is another level of desperate. Like, come on man.

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        17 days ago

        You think the population in a town hall is mostly undecided? I assure you, it’s not.

        We do what we do in the hopes that one or two votes might come out of it. That’s all we can do. And there sure as shit are plenty of people here who are on the fence about voting, or voting Dem.

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          16 days ago

          Are you concerned this type of rhetoric could also lose kamala votes? Its very condescending type talk to tell someone they should care more about potential problems in this country vs an actual genocide in their home lands.

          Say what you will but the actual lived experience for some has ended up better under trump than the current democrat administration, and Kamala is part of that.

          I don’t think those are the type of people you can just bully into your position, I’d assume the opposite rather.