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Absent of any anti-Trump arguments, I'd like to hear the case for Kamala being a truly great President. A few policy positions she, in particular, is notable for?
Except for embracing firearms, I dont think she has a few poicy positions for anyone to evaluate. She just adopts whatever Bidens policies were. She did the same thing when she was running for president before Biden tapped her for VP. Couldnt formulate a policy position to save her life.
Start with what makes a good president? Obviously there's the issues and all that which people focus on, but that's subject to debate. Objectively, some qualities are definitely good, like being good at both urgent and non-urgent decision making, good at managing/organizing/handling chaos, capable of outsmarting adversaries, being a unifying force rather than a divisive one. Just to name a few. So let's look at those:
I'll avoid comparing Trump who is obviously severely deficient in all of these respects. But I could go further and say she obviously compares favorably to Biden too, and compared to Obama, I'd give her an edge on outsmarting adversaries and managing, and Obama probably gets the edge on the other 2. But we'll see.
Not even balanced - Clinton produced a surplus during his last couple of years in office. Had we continued on that path, we would now be debt-free as a nation, instead of in debt to the tune of $35 fucking trillion (equivalent to a full seven years of tax revenues).
See, that's what I'm not thrilled about.
You're only arguing the "I'd vote for a ham sandwich to keep the GOP from power" side. You don't need to argue that part, we all know this, and it isn't what the person you're replying to was asking.
No one even said anything about Jill Stein here, bringing her up now feels like a very bad faith argument.
I didn't feel the need to go over the DNC point-by-point. I said the Dem agenda is what I'm not thrilled about.
Do I have to go point-by-point before I can ask why you felt the need to bring up the Republicans and even Jill Stein at all when it's clear that wasn't the question being asked? We all know they're bad, but the fact that it seems like the only way to talk about the DNC is to keep reminding us that they're not the other guys, you were explicitly asked to actually say what's good about Kamala without doing that.
Asks for good points about Kamala Harris without mentioning any bad points about republicans. Gets lots of substantial points and a throwaway about Stein. Ignores all the points about democrats and greys very cross about mentioning Stein once at the end.
https://lemmy.world/comment/12851475
What conclusions am I to draw? You just hate it when other people don't follow the letter of your laws,even the ones you didn't say out loud? That you hate discussing bad points about Kamala's opponents? That people can tell you benefits of voting for Kamala as much as they like, you'll never hear any of it and you'll still assert that no one can come up with any?
I didn't ignore what you said, I responded by saying I'm not thrilled about the DNC agenda. It's all too little too slowly, without addressing underlying structural issues with capitalism. Did you need me to quote each line individually in order to say that?
What I don't like is that even when the question is explicitly "Regardless of how bad the other side is, what's actually good about the DNC?" you are incapable of not pivoting that question back to talking about how bad the other guys are. We know, but that wasn't the question.
What I don't like is that I can't even say "I'm not thrilled about the DNC agenda" without having all kinds of accusations hurled in my face.
Correction, you can't say "tell me good things" and ignore all the good things, then complain that there were no good things, without being called out on it.
To which their response was "yeah, that's not exciting, we've seen it before", they addressed it. You didn't need to write out all of those words when you'd already summed it up well with "basic democrat"
Being a Democrat does not make you an inherently great president, it makes you the not-shit option
So, when asked for an argument that's void of any anti-trump points you basically said "they're Democrats. Plus they're not trump!", which isn't an answer and includes the thing they said not to
Lol, "any criticism of the Democrats is right wing infiltration" is some shit taking for sure
It might not be right wing infiltration, but it sure is right wing talking points, whoever it's coming from.
Sah yes, gotta shut down any criticism of glorious leader!
Fucking shit take
That's not a denial, it's just name calling.
Yep. I agree with you 100% and is why I've tried to stop engaging regarding politics on this site. It just seems like 99% of the posters are posting in bad faith, or insane levels of naivety. Perfection the enemy of good personified.
She used to be a prosecutor. That means she can see things from both sides and look at things objectively and not make rash decisions. It's a good quality for a president.
We larping pigs now?
JFC... Is there anything liberal about the modern moderate democrats?
Disgusting statism and corporatism is all they seem to be about.
They got theirs, fuck everyone else.
acab.... But prosecutors aren't cops and if your simple brain can't comprehend the difference, then I don't know what to tell you. Our society would not function without people in roles that enforce the laws that our government passes.
I would love to hear how you would go about punishing/rehabilitating/removing from society a murderer justly and fairly without prosecutors. Truly, I'm all ears.
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Just because us system "seperates" them as some sort of check on each other, it is clearly not working in practice.
Look at how the system actually functions not what propaganda says.
No…that’s the Republican Party platform. The current Democratic Party is very much about make the government work for the people and do at least something to rein in the rich and corporations
I need whatever this guy is smoking
I mean there's been a lot to help corporations and the rich I don't agree with but the current administration has also given tons of resources to the IRS to claw back evaded taxes from the wealthy, made moves to bust monopolies and price-fixing practices, and while they aren't directly responsible there has been a historic expansion of unions not seen in my lifetime
Also, there's a reason why conservatives are fighting tooth and nail to stop every attempt he's made at student loan forgiveness...
And even still, his administration has managed to find several novel ways that has allowed them to eliminate billions in student loans despite all of that.
He's smoking you lol