• @[email protected]
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    175 months ago

    In 2016 Democrats ran a widely disliked neoliberal through a heavily biased primary and wonder why they lose.

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      55 months ago

      She wasn’t disliked because she was a neoliberal, she was disliked because 1. Woman 2. Huge history of political baggage going back 30 years 3. 5 year long intensive republican smear campaign

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        5 months ago

        She’s generally dislikable. Calling anyone who doesn’t like her a sexist is an example of the attitude that continues to help the Republicans win elections.

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        105 months ago

        She was shady. She was manipulative. I saw it firsthand during the Iowa caucuses of 2016 when she sent out a guide on “how to run a caucus” with a bunch of stuff that was intentionally misleading to favor an establishment candidate.

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          25 months ago

          You’re saying an establishment candidate sent out ‘how to run a caucus’ with suggestions that favored an establishment candidate?

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            65 months ago

            Not suggestions, misinformation. Like it lied about how a caucus should be run, lied about what happens in a disagreement, lied about how delegates have to vote. Like someone in our precinct ended up calling the Iowa DNC to confirm that information that Clinton’s campaign provided was wrong.

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              05 months ago

              Is there some article or copy of the handout or whatever about that? I don’t remember it.

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        65 months ago

        It was much longer than 5 years. Fox News threw shit on her from day 1. And when she played a role in trying to implement single payer healthcare they turned it into a vendetta. More like 20 years.