https://subium.com/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3l3wc7kdzsn25

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Yup, just too 'woman', which is why Elizabeth Warren was comfortably in second or third for almost the entire race and only tanked after she went warren-snake-green

  • edge [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    voters, extremely shy from Hillary's loss, were afraid that [Kamala] was too Black

    Yes because if Hillary's loss indicated anything it's that a black person can't win. This is definitely a coherent analysis.

    • casskaydee [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      They were so triggered by her loss in the 2016 general they forgot all about her loss in the 2008 primary

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      I feel that only the democratic party gives half a fuck about "middle [America]" and the people who are waffling between the two candidates. I'm sure you could get a fuck ton of votes doing something, anything popular instead of talking about bullshit Marvel slop quotes to try and convince someone whose high fructose corn syrup coated neurons couldn't conjure a coherent ideology any faster than infinite monkies could.

      It's a dogshit analysis.

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Why are we still doing "too black" as an excuse after having a black president for 8 years?

    • StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      My theory: I think framing like this is an attempt to create infighting on the left. I remember her doing poorly because she's center right and wasn't the most well known center right dem in the 2020 race. Notably Biden had similar positions and was much more widely known.

    • gueybana [any]
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      3 months ago

      Because Obama was a one time novelty, let’s not act as if racism over

      • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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        3 months ago

        Nobody is doing that friend. It’s just pointing out how democrats are reheating 2020 idpol arguments rather than dealing with the actual reason she got 1 percent in those primaries

      • Rojo27 [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        No, racism isn't over, I get that. But I also don't think Obama is a onetime novelty. I think he offered enough, well at least the illusion of enough, material benefit to sway voters. The biggest problem Kamala had in 2020, and even now, was that she really didn't have anything to offer voters to set her apart from the field.

        • nothx [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          Her lack of charisma is very apparent. Libs just won’t admit she is unlikable because they are scared the truth will hurt her chances.

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          3 months ago

          Racism isn't over but democrats officially announced it is over, so the claim from the same people that Kamala was "too black" after 8 years of black president they all loved sound at least very weird.

  • porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    it's wild to me that anyone tries to argue that normal people vote based on how they think a candidate will "appeal to the middle of the country". have these people ever talked to a human in real life that they weren't paying?

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Yes, that's the reason she had literally no supporters except those K-hive freaks.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    3 months ago

    I have a leftie telling me that because Cheney endorsed KH , we should take that as evidence that she is a bad candidate and NOT AN ANTIFASCIST.

    I kept pointing out that Patton and Stalin invaded Germany and HATED each other. “Ally of convenience” is not a friend. As long as no concessions are made, the best thing you can do is let two enemies destroy each other.

    After the main danger is vanquished, we excise our “once and future” enemies the neocons.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      And Patton wanted to recruit the Germans and take the lead in Operation Unthinkable lmao

      His comments coupled with slapping that soldier earned him a demotion. Really poor example.

    • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      I saw a comment on an .ml instance post about this (maybe a .worlder) saying "WOULD YOU HATE DOGS JUST BECAUSE HITLER LOVED DOGS???"

      Well, no. Nor would I if Cheney loved dogs. If Hitler endorsed my political candidate, however...

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Patton and Stalin invaded Germany and HATED each other. “Ally of convenience” is not a friend.

      Ask this person what they think of Molotov-Ribbentropf

    • newacctidk [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      and Patton regretted it every day. Ike was the one really pushing for helping and working with the USSR.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    That would be the one upshot of Kamala winning, trolling libs with “huh turns out voters will vote for a woman guess that wasn’t the problem in prior elections.”

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      Lib denial is deeper than the Mariana Trench. If Kamala wins - within days there were be op-eds opining the 2016 tragedy. It's a shame voters weren't really for a female candidate then. Hillary could have and should have won. And it would have been an era of kittens, puppies, rainbows, unicorns, joy, and neoliberal wonderment.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        They will flip it around as the US becoming less misogynistic since 2016. I can see it now. Nothing has actually changed (except, you know, losing abortion), but libs will act like they were the vanguard for women's issues this whole time.

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          Ugh, I can see it now.

          the-democrat: “We did it! After enough concessions we finally convinced the dumb backward masses into voting for a woman president! It feels great to have educated them! Tailism? What’s that?”

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      I’ll give libs this. They are right that this country is rabidly misogynistic.

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    If in the sequel their interests turn out to be uninteresting and their power turns out to be impotence, either this is the fault of dangerous sophists, who split the indivisible people into different hostile camps, or the army was too brutalized and deluded to understand that the pure goals of democracy were best for it too, or a mistake in one detail of implementation has wrecked the whole plan, or indeed an unforeseen accident has frustrated the game this time. In each case the democrat emerges as spotless from the most shameful defeat as he was innocent when he went into it, fresh in his conviction that he must inevitably be victorious, taking the view that conditions must ripen to meet his requirements, rather than that he and his party must abandon their old standpoint.

    From Marx's 18 Brumaire: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch03.htm

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Trump only lost to Biden because voters were afraid Trump was too entrepreneurial.

    McCain lost to Obama because voters were afraid McCain was too tumor-having.

    having a coherent politics is just that easy.

  • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Ah yes, there's no reason people would avoid voting for a cop president after a widely publicized lynching.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    The reality is that nobody knew who the hell she was. Only knew a few older people who liked her during the primaries and that’s because they have all the time in the world to watch CNN 24/7 and get familiar with the candidates.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      It's the third post by the OP - haha.

      For the record, my argument here is not “she should have beaten Biden in 2020” but “she was a much better candidate than the point at which she dropped indicated, and for instance is substantially better than Klobuchar."

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    3 months ago

    Is this even wrong? I think if Kamala had been a white guy, she would've done a lot better and the Democrats might very well have rallied behind her instead of Biden. Yeah, she sucks ass, but she's not particularly worse than any of the other Dems. The only reason she's the candidate now is because she happened to be VP while Biden basically died during a live debate.