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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Some people will be miserable no matter who is running

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

This whole debate among the American left just feels to me as a big sign of "letting perfect be the enemy of good"

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

She's a woman, and she's black, of course there will be opposition.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It'll be interesting to see what minor controversy from her past that voters glom onto and equivocate with Trump's blatant assault on democracy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

She argued in court in favor of California's death penalty, and she threatened to jail parents of truant kids while she was the DA in San Francisco. It's more complicated than those sound bites--like, it was her job to argue the state's position--but you'll get the sound bite opposition.

I don't like Harris since I support 2A rights in addition to things like LGBTQ+ rights, and right to choose, but I like her odds of winning more than I liked Biden's.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Some people think criticizing is the same thing as not supporting.

If you want things to get better, you have to honestly and critically examine your leaders, not blindly support them and pretend they are flawless. Shutting down criticism is short-sighted nonsense and will only lead to worse candidates in the future.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Wow, how weird it's the same 4 ppl posting them 🥱

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The positive take would be to start with the "Trump is too old for 4 more years as a President" memes.

Instead we have these "those who don't instantly bend the knee are against us" memes that, frankly, have quite the wiff of the typical Far-Right/Foreign Propaganda Op purposefully sowing division on the Left.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Can she remember what she had for breakfast? If so, she's got my vote.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

She could be a human suit full of spiders and she would have my vote.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And this is why I'll never be president.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Well maybe you could be president if you stopped eating avocado toast and made coffee at home.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I’d vote for you if you legalize my medicinal cocaine.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Don’t forget about my emotional support prostitute.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I like both at the same time so you can try pushing rope into a bored looking lady for three hundred bucks an hour.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They’re always dead silent for a few days after something happens. Then they all come out like roaches after the lights are turned off.

They’re being programmed as we speak.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

We’re electing a president, not a monarch. Nobody is above criticism, and there’s a weird segment of people who act like criticism from the left exists only to help the right.

Like, I actually saw someone say we shouldn’t do it because it’s too nuanced for the average voter, and sorry but I don’t do paternalism like that. If reading criticism of how a candidate isn’t far enough left makes you vote further right, that’s a basic political literacy problem.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I mean, we could focus on defeating the GOP and the day after the election results come in start using social pressure to guide our elected officials. If the criticism risks the GOP seizing even more power, it might be counterproductive to your goals even if the criticism is valid.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Any good faith criticism of the Dem candidate should be obvious in its criticisms that R policies are inherently worse. For example, Harris’ record as DA is worth criticizing, but any bad decisions related to imprisoning people are going to be a million times worse under Trump, as Project 2025 shows.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Any good faith criticism of the Dem candidate should be obvious in its criticisms that R policies are inherently worse.

Your argument would be great if we didn't live in the reality presented below. There are too many people sitting on the fence who legitimately cannot discern between a mediocre candidate and a career conman, criminal rapist. Where you see nuance, others see "she's no better than Trump".

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240721200927/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/polls-president.html

I like Harris as much as I like Biden, which is not at all, but the alternative is the very real possibility of the end of America.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm sure the Russians already have their list of alliterative agitprop ready to test on .ml before pushing the best ones to prod on Reddit and Facebook.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just a reminder that Harris has a voting record to the left of all Senate Democrats.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2020

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