where the fuck did this narrative that Kamala Harris ran a great campaign come from?
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where the fuck did this narrative that Kamala Harris ran a great campaign come from?
the centerpiece of her campaign was a brutal immigration policy and how she had no intention of doing anything different than Biden
she spent most of her campaign talking about her gun and how much Dick Cheney likes her to try to flip a bunch of suburban white women who ended up just voting for Trump anyway while telling her base that they could expect nothing from her but not being Trump while most people can't afford groceries let alone rent
this wasn't people witholding their vote out of protest this was people withholding their vote because she never gave them enough reason to jump through the various hoops that voting entails
don't even get me started on how she showed no intention to stop sending arms to Israel even though multiple polls showed this would be a net gain for her in votes
it was a really dogshit campaign and the sooner we can wrap our heads around it the sooner we can make sure the dipshits who planned this campaign are never allowed to make an important decision ever again
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it you get the democratic nomination and then spend your entire campaign dismissing all your base's concerns while cozying up to people they hate and trying to convince everyone what a good republican you are, you don't get to be shocked Pikachu when democratic voters stay home
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@[email protected] @[email protected] There's this thing that I think could be articulated in a single sentence, if only I could work through it. About the mind numbing cognitive dissonance that surely must exist in the minds of some people; that they spent the entire campaign shutting down any talk of Harris halting arms shipments to Israel, even as we watched them all die in real time. As people's entire families were killed in a single day or week. As everyone they had left behind in Gaza was murdered and the DNC laughed about it.
And then for these people to turn around, never once caring about the murdered friends and relatives, and blame the person who asked them to care. That it was their fault that Harris lost and that people will die. That the rise of fascism is on them. That they are cold and heartless and don't care about minorities.
I... I still... it's so selfish. It's beyond selfish; it's... I think they can't let themselves think about it, maybe, because if they did, they'd understand the magnitude of what this country has done and enabled and the minority groups and leftists who had the gall to ask our nation to stop enabling a genocide are easy targets. And so the blame goes to them. And they'll probably always blame them. They'll probably continue to blame anyone who called it a genocide. I don't know. I'm not a psychologist. But I suspect for some of them they just can't come to terms with that. And meanwhile, our nation continues killing. -
@[email protected] @[email protected] My spouse and I are both trans. Obviously it's frightening. I even allowed myself, perhaps selfishly, to hope that Harris might win.
I don't think, for a second, that people asking to stop the genocide "cost Harris the election". That's victim blaming on a massive scale. So the problem, you say, is that people stayed home because they were aware she was going to continue to facilitate a genocide? Do you not think that perhaps the problem is the genocide, not the people pointing it out?
But, let's say, for a moment, that it was the fault of people asking those pesky questions about why we can't stop enabling a genocide that is being live streamed to us. Do you think, somehow, that the people in Gaza aren't worth risking that for? Do you value your illusion of safety and comfort so highly that you would watch as money that could be used to shelter and feed people here is instead turned into weapons that are leveling, literally leveling, almost 400 square kilometers and murdering everyone in it? As entire families are wiped out? Do you not think that helping to stop that was worth asking uncomfortable questions?
And if you do think it wasn't worth asking uncomfortable questions, what makes you think you're going to "resist" fascism when it's orange and local instead of just "over there"? Because you haven't before now. -
@[email protected] @[email protected] So many fucking people telling on themselves by somehow failing the trolley problem by making it the trolley problem and then blaming people who care about the dead.
