• piefood@feddit.online
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      3 hours ago

      I think you dropped this:

      • supported genocide
      • supported an unpopular president
      • ran on unpopular policies
      • let the voters know that she didn’t care about what they wanted
      • wanted to keep the US military the “most lethal fighting force” despite the fact that we use them to kill innocent people
      • gaslit the voters on the economy

      Is Trump still worse? yes, absolutely. But maybe the Democrats could try running candidates that aren’t obviously terrible if they want to win.

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      We had a bad choice and a worse choice. So i said let it all fall.

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        We had a bad choice and a worse choice. So i said let it all fall. I’m a sociopath that’s fine with seeing minorities being brutalized and killed so long as I can maintain some kind of bullshit ideological purity.

        FTFY

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          Now I voted (not that it would have mattered as Kamala was going to win my state regardless), but for the sake of argument I also didn’t see minorities NOT being brutalized and killed under Biden or Obama. Or Clinton for that matter.

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        So i said let it all fall.

        At lest vote 3rf party.

        Otherwise the material reality is that you got out the way for the worse choice. Obstruction isn’t ideal, but its helpful none the less

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        At least with the bad choice more people would have energy and resources to fight back in more meaningful ways.

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          Worse option is exiling American citizens, tanking the economy, persecuting minorities, taking away rights, ignoring the constitution and, notably, full backing genocide in Gaza.

          Bad option would not act to stop genocide in Gaza.

          Clearly the same thing.

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      That was never the criticism from anyone actually opposing Trump. The criticism is that she built her career as a cop, locking people up for minor offenses, fighting to keep them in prison for cheap labor, and then went on to campaign for the most lethal military machine on Earth. But sure, go ahead and whitewash her record because it’s easier to joke than to confront the fact that your “lesser evil” still has blood on her hands.

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          I said criticism, you think no one who opposed Trump should have criticised former cop who built her career on locking people up?

          ACAB, just not one of the worst kind?

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            She was an attorney working for the executive branch, not a cop. Applying for a job higher up in the executive branch. If we are going to call everyone who executes the laws bastards, then you can’t vote for anybody to join the executive branch, as you are willingly choosing to make them a bastard apparently.

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        I only really saw those criticisms of her from people already on the left. What I saw (in generalized and slightly exaggerated manner) from conservatives was, “NO, SHE’S A LIBERAL, WOKE, COMMUNIST WHO WANTS TO DESTROY AMERICA!”

        To which most people I saw on the left respond with, “Communist? The former cop and DA?”

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          Every criticism presented is completely true. She would have been better than trump, but she was a terrible Democratic candidate. She would have made a better Republican candidate. Her campaign would only needed to have focused on her prosecutorial career.

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            Hope the next election (if there is one) goes your way and the candidate is perfect.