This is the fucked up part. I had to listen to a gaggle of middle-aged white ladies at work spend an hour talking up how Kamala's campaign is a disaster, tAmPoN tIm lying about his son being near a shooting and how vance was so polite and cordial during the debate, picking apart "lies" like Walz doesn't even know how to use guns...
...meanwhile the orange turd and the couch-fucker have been spewing off endless amounts of lies and hate including the pet-eating illegal immigrants in Ohio, the state we currently live in. And one of them had to "explain" what gerrymandering is and why they should vote to keep it in place in Ohio.
It's called "sane-washing" where our "liberal news media" (you know, the one that's owned by six corporations) covers up Donald Trump's fuck-ups or re-writes them as subtle genius.
Meanwhile Harris has to not make a single mistake, no matter how small.
I voted party for socialism and liberation and you can too!
They’re running Claudia de la Cruz on a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to arms shipments to israel.
If you never asked Harris to dazzle you, only to show even the smallest sign of intent to end the genocide she’s party to, why not vote for a candidate that has consistently been anti genocide this whole time!
I think it's just that people act where their actions have effects. Making Kamala a better Kamala is something that could happen. Trump, by contrast, is immune to feedback and improvement, so nobody tries. So Trump is left to poop his pants and Kamala gets the entire world's feedback firehosed at her.
Harris whole career is a mistake. There's nothing inspirational about a prosecutor turned genocider.
Trump only exists because the dems offer nothing much better. They could've beat this guy with Bernie, Michelle, etc. They chose a genocidal cop instead.
Don't blame me for that. Voting in my state doesn't even matter.
please please for a 3rd party. we need to show that the people want an alternative to these child murdering parasites and the data to show for it it. its a long fight and even it doesn’t get to 5%, getting closer to it will be a step in the right direction.
No, a better short term goal is to get away from the First Past the Post system. Something like STAR voting. Those third parties would benefit themselves by working towards better voting systems locally.
how is this a meme ?
like is there some hidden joke about harris dazzling us with the promises of continuing the genocide, increase fracking and bring anti-immigrants policies ?
“I hope that you will forgive me if I'm a little angry that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, his obvious mental decline, his history as a convicted felon, a known slum lord, a predator found liable for sexual abuse — all of this while we pick apart Kamala’s answers from interviews that he doesn't even have the courage to do, y’all,” she said.
A big part of this election is winning the Obama-Trump-Biden swing voter over to Kamala again. How do you get a mushy moderate with ambivalent feelings toward the two major parties to take your side?
Kamala's strategy is to raise her own profile by going on interviews and presenting herself as an appealing replacement for Biden. Trump's strategy is to host large events and wait for his statements to be reported by the constantly-trying-to-sound-neutral national media.
But I think we're past the point of talking about how candidates present themselves. If you were turned off by Trump's ramblings or his white nationalism or his Elon fetish, you'd have showed up for Kamala on the first day of early voting. If you can't stomach Kamala's brand of market liberalism and her progressive stance on LGBTQ/Abortion issues, you'd have mailed in your vote for Trump a week ago.
What do you say to someone who is still reachable, but not yet committed, as a voter? "Um... actually, the media is being very unfair to my candidate"? No shit. Western media doesn't exist to be fair, it exists to make money. What else have you got?
It's probably related to the phenomenon called "gish gallop". It's when someone outputs a ton of falsehoods and other junk very frequently, and other more rational individuals have to refute all those claims and pseudo arguments, look up sources, look up what's true and what's false, and so on.
There's an asymmetry in effort - it's much easier and way faster for the trolls to spit out junk, falsehoods, misleading content, misleading memes, false claims, and so on, than it is to refute those and gather facts, and to do that, you also have to be very careful to make it accurate or else the listeners might go "boo that's wrong as well, they both suck!"
And then there's the phenomenon that even bad advertisement is advertisement. Someone whose name keeps coming up, such as Trump, because that name is constantly all over the news, each and every day, must be very important since the name is repeated so much. This automatically "elevates" that person in the minds of some voters, even though the reason for his constant mention is purely negative. So the more reports about Trump's weird ramblings, the more he is automatically advertised.
I think it's like a combination of such unfortunate phenomenons. The result is that real politicians have to be accurate, careful, constantly maintain a professional attitude, and carefully counter Trump's weird claims, while Trump can just continue to spit out hostile nonsense all the time, which is so much easier.
I'm not sure what can be done against such strategies other than education and media literacy, which is probably becoming weaker over time in society. You don't vote for proven anti-constitutional fascists, ever. If you do, you'll always be much worse off than if you hadn't. Even when the alternatives might also not look great overall... it should be your moral duty to always vote for the least-worst option, which means NOT Trump.
~1930ish Germany made such mistakes. Don't repeat them. You're now at ~100 years later and are supposed to learn from grave historic mistakes. So please show that you are actually wiser than the people ~100 years ago and don't vote for proven fascists.
I've had to deal with people who are very vocally pro Trump lately and talk about him like he's an unfairly persecuted hero. I'm long past the point of trying to reason and simply dismiss them for being fools. There's no way they'll change their minds after all these years of seeing him do awful things and ignoring it.
I don't know if there's a word for this, but when someone fails constantly, successes are noteworthy. When someone succeeds constantly, failures are noteworthy.
Edit: I wanted to add that it's weird that the result is one side is judged on their best and the other is judged on their worst... and centrists are still 50/50 on them.
No, there's not. Liberals have fully gone mask off and are outright stating that defending their way of life is worth whatever genocide they actively choose to commit.
It's honestly shocking living in 1930s Germany when liberals decided to support far right ideology out of fear for themselves.
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Me too. I said this in another thread- there are a significant number of people on Lemmy who only know English as a second language and this is pretty close to trolling those people. It's just plain rude if nothing else.