• piefood@feddit.online
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    2 days ago

    I always find it telling when people blame the voters that couldn’t stomach voting for genocide, rather than blaming their candidates for chosing genocide.

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      Its extremely telling; but its also like, brainlet level stupid:

      Their argument is that 6 million voters needed to vote differently, on their own. Like think the process through. How the fuck do you make that happen? What is the mechanism that changes 6 million voters minds?

      There is no mechanism that changes the mind of 6 million people. That’s not how elections work. Period. And keeping insisting that the voters “just needed to vote differently”, ok, but how? How does SatansMaggotyCumFart change 6 million minds on the matter by just repeating “Trump worse”?

      You can change the mind of one person (the candidate, Harris). We could have moved Harris if she knew she didn’t have enough of the bases support on this issue. But Blue MAGA/ BNMW through the entire country to the wolves so they could wash their hands of responsibility.

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        I agree with you mostly, except for this part:

        We could have moved Harris if she knew she didn’t have enough of the bases support on this issue.

        I’m pretty sure the polling was out already, and she knew that she didn’t have support. But she cared more about money and building out the War Machine, than she cared about winning the election.

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          than she cared about winning the election.

          Like, I want to believe she wanted to win, but because of the BNMW/ Blue MAGA, and the censorship across media that resulted of this (I mean we saw it here, directly), she didn’t think she needed to earn the bases support.