• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        How much money are they spending on campaigns, and what does that say about what they want? And if you don't think they want to win, who specifically doesn't want to win? The candidates? Their staff, who get jobs out of winning? Campaign volunteers?

        They want to win the same way you want to eat something when you're blazed. You really want to eat something, but you're not going farther than your kitchen or your front door to make it happen.

        • Comraragi [none/use name]
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          Don't overanalyze it. Liberal democracy is a show, for libs it is about playing the game, look at all the vote shaming. Remember the primaries Biden didn't even campaign and still managed to win, what you spend, your actual effort is irrelevant.

          They want to put a candidate, they want to appear as if they are fighting. If the goal was to actualy remove Trump we would have a different nominee, Biden wasn't even the best candidate other than Bernie even shitty Warren would destroy Trump here.

          • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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            Overanalyzing would be saying: "Despite all the incentives to win, despite the boatload of money spent on winning, and despite literally every Democrat saying how much they want to win, here's why they actually don't want to win."

            • Comraragi [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              Exhibit #1

              Wanting to win implicitly means doing the most/best you can. If you think Joe Biden is the best democratic presidential candidate available to beat Trump back in March then be my guest. There is an obvious reason we have this walking corpse as a candidate.

              • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                Wanting to win implicitly means doing the most/best you can.

                Not at all; see my example about getting food while high. People want to do all sorts of things without doing everything they can to make it happen.