Headline: Kamala Harris Is Farther Left Than Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders

American media is all out on convincing people Biden and Kamala are Lenin 2, huh

  • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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    4 years ago

    What a stupid fucking article, lol. “According to some vague-ass metrics about senate votes, Kamala is actually the fourth most extreme leftist in politics! No don’t look at her history of treatment of minorities and LGBT, here’s a chart!”

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Also ignore the Senate is an inherently conservative institution, or that this vague-ass metric actually seems to value partisanship rather than measure left-right alignment, or that it's easy for a politician to be partisan when they're in the opposition.

      • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        ya and she even voted against a fucking pitiful 10% decrease in the military budget so wtf sort of metric do they even use to describe what is "left" in terms of the shit senators vote for? https://twitter.com/aaronnarraph/status/1291603731591634944