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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

News Flash, there are other elections that happen in the US every year that are more influential and important for national issues than the presidency.

Maybe take your weird hatred of the failure-of-the-democratic-party-not-being-as-progressive-as-you-want energy and focus that on:

  • getting local city councilors, mayors and county clerks etc. elected who represent your political ideology,
  • getting state legislators and other officials elected who represent your political ideology,
  • getting judges elected (where applicable) who understand the codified and written law and are willing to execute it as written,
  • maybe even (SHOCK) getting congresspeople elected who match your political ideology.

I know this might be hard to understand, but there are a myriad of elected officials that comprise our federal system and focusing on THE PRESIDENCY alone will never make anything meaningfully change.

And for anyone who skews even the least bit toward NOT WANTING FACISM to take hold in this country of The United States of America, just fucking vote for Kamala Harris you stupid asshole.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where meme?
This just a political ad I see on CNN

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it's nice to point out that Trump is a piece of s*** for those reasons, but let's not pretend that career politicians are all wonderful human beings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure why you think the things listed constitute a wonderful human being.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Because the post is romanticizing Harris. It lists all of these negative qualities that Trump has that doesn't list any that she and Trump share. And that's okay, but if that's your advertisement, then be careful that you don't alienate potential voters.

Many people expect that career politicians have a checkered past and possibly support some policies that we personally dislike, and if you try to frame someone as being angelic, which this poster did by contrast, your message may be considered basically dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

0 apologies for convicting drug users into forced labour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm sure the realistic alternative would be much better on this issue, especially considering what he did about the Central Park 5 as a private citizen

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Another thing that gets no attention is that she is one of the few members of congress who didn't invest in individual stocks but just does index funds to prevent conflicts of interest/insider trading. I really wish democrats would do a better job of contrasting Trump's corruption with theirs but then again I guess they gotta pick something and run with it.

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