• @randon31415
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    -12 days ago

    Or at the very least, Biden in 2016.

    • @grue
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      82 days ago

      LOL, nah. Pretending people were too sexist to vote for Hillary and some white male neolib would’ve done better is nothing but a fantasy neolibs tell themselves to try to excuse their corporate bootlicking.

      • @Ensign_Crab
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        311 hours ago

        Well, and a preemptive excuse for shutting out AOC.

        • @grue
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          210 hours ago

          True! But also shutting out AOC is itself an example of said corporate bootlicking, so it’s not so much of a “well, and” as it is an “including.”

      • @randon31415
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        62 days ago

        Biden won against Trump, unless you are part of the MAGA cult that believes he lost in 2020.

        • @grue
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          72 days ago

          Biden squeaked by only because Trump fucked up the pandemic so badly. That does not mean he would’ve won in 2016.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 days ago

          And the conditions in 2016 were markedly different than they were in 2020, unless you don’t believe in the forward progression of time.

          In other news, a tautology is a tautology.

          • @randon31415
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            -12 days ago

            Yes, conditions in 2016 were markedly different. Biden was the VP of a highly successful president. Hillary had been demonized by the right for 2 decades and by the left for 1 decade. By the forward progression of time, Biden was weaker in 2024 than he was in 2020. Conversely, he would have been a stronger candidate in 2016.

            Listen, every other “X could have beat Trump” is a hypothetical. Trump has only ever been beaten once, and I don’t want to carry on a factual debate with a Qanon MAGA hat that doesn’t believe in logic, just “feels”, so good night.

            • @[email protected]
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              Well clearly someone’s emotions have gotten the best of them. Have fun wallowing in your hypotheticals and lashing out at people meaninglessly. After 8 years of Obama, America was not voting for Obama 2 immediately after. That is a crazy take.

              Edit: Obama 2, now more boring and uninspiring!

              I was there. Biden was not the solution then.