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[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Sibshops@feddit.cl 16 points 3 hours ago

Old people are so easily manipulated to clips.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

she never recovered from falling from a coconut tree

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works -5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It was the explicit support for genocide and the tacit support for transphobia that made me dislike her.

I don't blame anybody with family in Palestine refusing to vote for her.

I think Trump is the perfect candidate to destroy the Clintonian Democratic party, because their entire goal is to be The Lesser of Two Evils. They want to press right up to the Republicans like it's a tango, and tell everybody "look, I'm not as bad as him, vote for me!"

Trump pulled Harris so far out with him that her own voters didn't recognize themselves in her platform. She wanted more wars, more violent policing, more surveillance, more queer phobia entrenched into law, more uneven tax system. She had no policies that I approved of that didn't take a paragraph to explain.

Complete malpractice.

[–] Fishy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Look, I don’t live in the US but there is usually a side that is a lot worse than the other. Holier than thou attitudes of “but the better side wasn’t as good as I wanted so I let the worse side get into power” is basically being part of an apocalyptic cult. It’s pathetic. You could still oppose everything you oppose now but with a better baseline. Yeah I want my left politicians to be better in certain topics—some that impact me a lot personally and I can still be an advocate for those things—it doesn’t mean I implicitly support the extreme right here getting into power.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I do live in the U.S., and I'm acutely aware that it's not a law of nature. It won't endure forever, as some sort of fundamental human condition. It may feel that way because it's always been there, even in our great-grandparents' lifetimes, by we're seeing how fragile it actually is. The nation and its values have to be maintained, as any system has to. Voting for the lesser evil every time, rather than doing the maintenance, will catch up to us. There won't always be a next time to attempt a non-evil candidate.

It ain't fair, there's not always a solution or a good option, but that's life. We need better than what Harris offered, or we're cooked.

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Look I donated to and voted for Harris, and urged others to do the same.

But I'm not in the turd polishing business, and that's what Democrats expect their base to do, over and over again.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

GeNoCiDe

Trump literally said he wanted to turn the entire area into a parking lot and hotels.

Harris was a bit wishy washy on the subject.

But hey, at least we went with the greater of two evils. Horay for the maybe .001% of the population with family in Palestine. At least in the long run, they will have a nice resort to stay at while visiting the graves of their families.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 1 points 47 minutes ago

Trump literally said he wanted to turn the entire area into a parking lot and hotels.

That's what Ben-Gvir, and other Israeli ultranationalists want. They'd still want that even if Harris were President. I just don't see the evidence that her adminstration would be pushing back on that, given that Democratic leaders are still voting to send foreign aid to Israel.

(I'm not trying to defend the fascist regime, but I think truth matters.)

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I donated to and voted for Harris.

Because I hated Trump.

There was nothing else appealing about her to me, and I have a lot of the identity politics that was theoretically supposed to make me gooey for her.