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[–] [email protected] 87 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (31 children)

Alright new atrocity from Israel just dropped, who should we blame:

  • ~~The fascists running Israel~~
  • ~~the fascists running the US~~
  • ~~the democratic party who teed up the atrocity~~
  • a couple hundred leftists on lemmy who didn't vote
[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

Its good to mock those couple hundred people anyway, but to blame them for it is scapegoating. They're obviously kind of dumb but yeah like Joe Biden running for re-election is like probably the #1 dick that Democrats tripped over. Campaigning with abysmally unpopular Cheneys, buying ads on republican media instead of knocking on doors or spending money on dem neutral media, focusing too much on trump instead of on strengths, moving right on immigration all contributed.

2024 was nothing less than a strategic clusterfuck.

Dems should run primaries even when they're running for re-election. Its free coverage and right wing media has to address it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Neither party runs presidential primaries when their guy is incumbent. It's almost superstitious, that having someone 'primary' your incumbent is going to make them lose (because of losses under those circumstances by Ford, Carter, and Bush Sr.

Of course the cause/effect is backwards, they were primaried because their administration was at risk, they weren't at risk because of the primary, but as superstitions go...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Hopefully they'll switch there tone on the "incumbent advantage" after back to back one term presidencies.

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