• Anas@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    As an outsider, I think you’re not on the side of the meme that you think you’re on.

    If not voting for Trump wasn’t enough for Harris to win, she sure didn’t act like it. “Nothing to change” from the policies of the guy who was forced to step down wasn’t what the people wanted to hear.

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      I mean he was asked to step down because of the worry that his mental faculties, not due to his policies. Remember, it was right after his first debate with Trump. The following debate, Kamala roasted Trump.

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        Yeah, except for the whole genocide thing. But mostly college kids protested that. You can just beat up those.

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          Argument falls apart when she was still the lesser of the two in the regard

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            Regardless of the actual outcome, I assume that most people who didn’t vote for her didn’t intend on helping Trump. Otherwise, they would have voted for him.

            You want people to vote for you, it’s not enough to simply not vote for the other guy.

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        Hold on, last election he refused to say so explicitly, but he repeatedly implied he wouldn’t run for a second term and described himself as a bridge candidate. Then he demanded a second term at the last minute.

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      “Nothing to change” from the policies of the guy who was forced to step down wasn’t what the people wanted to hear.

      This has been explained. Answering anything else was a PR trap.

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        A basic move would’ve been: “I will move to have better policies than before. Rally with our party and we will commit to changing course for working class families.”

        It could’ve been as empty a promise as her opposition made, but that would’ve been basic competant campaigning. Easiest trap to avoid ever.