• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    For the love of cod…Kamala Harris is not a “progressive”. These fucks just keep pretending to be something they’re not, and then can’t understand why people aren’t buying it. Either walk the talk, or shut the fuck up.

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    Oh my god the username literally has “67” in it to try and be hip

    Fuck alllllll the way off you unserious ghoul

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    Is this the sort of thing that’s going to get Gen Z excited about progressive politics? I doubt it. I’m no 17-year-old, but when social media is filled with videos of masked immigration officers indiscriminately attacking protesters and separating children from their families, I don’t think what young people want is a “progressive content hub.” I might be going out on a limb here, but I think what Gen Z wants is for their elected officials to do something that actually helps their constituents. Does this feel like the right time for a Substack essay?

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      It’s starting to feel like whoever is behind her political planning is the same person behind Hillary Clinton’s and now I’m wondering if that person is getting their ideas from someone determined to torpedo the U.S. political landscape with constant cringe and feelings of helplessness.

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        It’s still probably David Brock/Media Matters, the one that helped give us Clarence Thomas by smearing Anita Hill and smeared Bernie in 2016.

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        14 hours ago

        It’s either that or the way people perceive female politicians is slanted.

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          Would that be an excuse if it was true? You knew everyone hated a candidate, but nominated them anyway?

          The logic involved is beyond stupid, and flat out wrong, and everyone knows it. Justifying nominated someone that can’t win is not excused by their minority status, no matter why people rejected them. And given that Hillary was rejected by white woman, and kamala by blacks, and woman, it makes the argument even dumber.

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            Sure, it’s possible you didn’t like either woman who gained the Democratic nomination for President both times it happened, but you’ll give the third a fair shake. Anything is possible.

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              As an outsider with high vested interest in American politics, without a doubt both Kamala and Hillary were better than the Republican alternative in 2016 and 2020, but I would hope they were not the best the Democrats have to offer (which could very well be a woman), and they were rather forced onto the electorate which has the air of unearned inevitability, to say the least.

              The country still should have voted for them.

              Obama was a better choice than Hillary for the Dem nomination though.

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    /facepalm

    I don’t know if she’s gonna run, but unless someone like a Mamdani shows up at the national level, it’s likely we will be stuck with the usual suspects, her included.

    Sigh.