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[–] [email protected] 265 points 1 week ago (22 children)

How ironic that the guy who was never elected for anything is whining about democracy. And "corrupt"? Corrupt might as well be Elon's middle name.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

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lmao Reddit has become a complete joke.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Absolutely shameful. I hope the management at this station and CBS in general get a ton of flak for this. Cowards shouldn't be in charge of journalists.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (16 children)

You won't have a hard time arguing that Donald Trump is a massive piece of garbage, but your comment presumes that Kamala Harris and the Democratic party are entitled to votes.
You'll find there is a large portion of the Democratic base who are not motivated to vote for a pro-genocide candidate, which is exactly the entire point of this poll. The Democratic party needs to do better and stop fighting against the progressive wing of the party if they ever want to regain the trust of working class people. At a bare minimum you would expect them to respect international law. Then again, they're doing exactly what AIPAC and defense industry paid them to do, same as the Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No comments yet, but plenty of downvotes. I wonder if anyone here actually read the article past the headline.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Obviously to target those that are politically inconvenient to you. Or perhaps as a favor / quid pro quo for one of your rich buddies. Or maybe as revenge for pissing him off. You could pretty much guarantee these scenarios if Trump had this ability. And honestly he doesn't even need to care about any of it, he just needs some conservative think tank to give him a hit list.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If it were the same ratio it would be 70%. 35% is if the death count doubled with zero additional women or children killed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think that's a great way to look at it. I'm hoping we can get some better leadership in the democratic party willing to listen to people and offer fresh ideas instead of taking the "if you don't vote for me then you're hitler" approach.
Leaning to the right didn't work for Harris. We need someone to energize the base by offering meaningful change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Good analysis. You also should understand that Americans are HEAVILY propagandized, since most of our major media outlets are also captured by the same corporate interests that bribe our politicians. Critiques of capitalism are de facto not allowed, because that would be bad for business. (Not to mention the previous decades of cold war era "red scare" nonsense the older generations grew up with) As a result, many democrats don't know how to receive criticism from the left, and can't even conceive that there might be a different path besides "status quo" and "conservative hellscape".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

100% correct, dude's a huge narcissist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty big assumption that "leftist" concessions would only appeal to self-identified leftists. Leftist policies happen to be massively popular. Ask any senior citizen if they want to give up their social security and medicare. Also, you'll notice that Harris had her biggest boost initially in polling when everyone was excited for the nominee to be NOT Biden. She has since continued to talk about how she's going to be Biden exactly, but less old, and her numbers have been steadily declining. It's clear that Biden's policies, (and not just his age) are important factors. People are eager for change - which almost always comes from challenging the status quo from the left.

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

Or: unironically blaming it on a democrat-controlled weather machine

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