• @DharkStare
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    2 days ago

    It’s such an alien thought process that I don’t even know where I would begin with discussing politics with such a person.

    • Todd BonzalezOP
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      1482 days ago

      This is the voter Kamala was supposed to sway with “better messaging”.

      • @givesomefucks
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        1022 days ago

        No, this is the voter she pissed off Dem voters for…

        It didn’t work out well if you’ve already forgotten.

        If someone says trump is Hitler but they voted for him anyways…

        Then he was already going to vote for trump, and chasing his vote just led to losing traditional Dem voters with literally no gain.

        Moving to the right is political suicide, yet we keep doing it because that’s how you max donations. And that’s all the people running the party care about.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 day ago

          ok but… the Democrats in swing states (hell, any state) who said “I’m staying home because Kamala courts Republicans, even though I know Trump is Hitler” are absolutely as shitty as the people who voted for Trump

          • @givesomefucks
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            21 day ago

            So?

            What matters is winning elections.

            Stomping our feet and saying they should do what we tell them isn’t fucking working.

            So if you want them to vote D so together we can stop Rs…

            Maybe we should try running a better candidate than we have been?

            Maybe no matter how much the wealthy insist on it, just being slightly better than trump isn’t enough.

            Maybe we should just run the best candidate we can, one that already agrees with Dem voters so we don’t have to ask millions of people to hold their nose?

            The excuse for running candidates further to the right then Dem voters has always been that it would magically win an election.

            It hasn’t, and it won’t.

            It’s a bad strategy and we’ve stuck with it for about a decade longer than we should have already.

            What logical reason can you give to stick with a plan that even when it works doesn’t get us as much as we need, and fails regularly?

            As a bonus, the more Dems move right, the more Republicans do.

            So every election Dem voters have their potential winnings reduced and potential loses increased…

            And people are really surprised why turnout was low?!

        • Todd BonzalezOP
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          472 days ago

          No, this is the voter she pissed off Dem voters for…

          Not sure why you said “no”, since you’re making the same point I was. This is who the party asked her to sway, and now the party is blaming her for not working hard enough to win the votes of complete fucking morons.

          I could have told you that ignoring these morons and running a campaign focused on the working class, social justice, and economic fairness would have gone 1000% farther than trying to win over fence-sitters during the most divided election in U.S. history. Not sure why the Democrats ignored this, I assume they have at least one competent advisor that said this…

          • @[email protected]
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            122 days ago

            I think I interpreted it the same way the original commenter did, but I see now we’re all on the same page.

            Maybe instead of saying she was “supposed to” it would be more clear you meant her campaign was “trying to”.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 days ago

            They said “no” because to them, the most important thing is blaming Kamala for whatever happened in some way. They’re disagreeing with you because you didn’t do that, and trying to correct you on it.

            You blamed the voter, which was the right response. I would expand that to include blaming the obviously Russian-influenced campiagn, however it happened, that convinced this person that Ukraine was a hugely important issue in this campaign in this particular bizarre way.

            We can give some blame to Kamala for her messaging, sure. But the thing you didn’t do, that made them say “no,” was redirect the whole conversation into a conversation about how it’s all Kamala’s fault and nothing else.

        • @[email protected]
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          52 days ago

          Well if the right are the only ones who constantly vote then yes they well change their views. Doesn’t matter if 2/3 of the country are Democrats if they can’t be bothered to get off their asses and vote.

          • @captainlezbian
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            11 day ago

            Yeah, the people running the party didn’t see that they lost the left wing vote, they only care about who voted and not for them.

    • @[email protected]
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      -282 days ago

      Well he speaks English, same as you. I guess you could always meet a conservative and then ask them questions sometime. Might be a mind blowing experience to talk to someone who disagrees with you, and actually listen.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 day ago

        Can you promise me there will be something other than lies or misinformation coming out of their mouths when I do so this time? Because based on my first hand experience over at least the past 8 years, those are the only two things I’m going to get.

      • @A7thStone
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        282 days ago

        I have listened, and there is nothing worth listening to. I have to listen, because there are all around me at work. It is continuous fear and ignorance. Not a single worthwhile thing. I’m done listening, especially since they won’t return the favour. I’m not going to meet hate in the middle.

      • Obinice
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        122 hours ago

        I’ve met plenty of Tories and their ilk, but none of them would vote for someone they publicly think is basically Hitler.

        This bloke’s thought processes are so alien to us they I don’t think we’ll ever understand him, sadly.