• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I guess I got to be the first year to say it: this is fucking horrible, and we have to do everything we can in our power to stop this.

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      9 months ago

      The comment directly below this one reads like propaganda straight from Moscow. I’m very glad to see it down-voted. Blaming blatant authoritarianism and extremely dangerous rhetoric on “old people” seems like a pretty obvious diversion from the actual culprits: the entire Republican party who is sleepwalking into a legit second coup attempt. They’re losing political power and have abandoned the idea of democracy. The fact that they’re unable or unwilling to drown this Nazi rhetoric in the bathtub speaks volumes. They are openly supporting authoritarianism. Not “old people”. Republicans.

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      9 months ago

      I just wish that included candidates that weren’t geriatric. Their age and old values are from a dead world.

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          9 months ago

          One guy on the internet: " I don’t want my candidates to be so old they don’t understand me"

          Jeze3D: “Oh my god you are supporting trump now you fucking cow…”

          Stop polarizing everything, especially, if you are trying to fly the flag of cohesion. I can measure the cognitive dissonance with a odometer.

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            9 months ago

            … It had literally everything to do with his popularity. Are people able to vote for who they want or not? Did not Bernie give Hilary a run for her money.

            Did almost every average Democrat still vote for Hilary instead of Bernie? Did young people still not vote for him?

            All of it yes. Blame Hildawg having so much political influence, more experience at the presidential level, and money particularly with the democratic establishment as much as you want, it’s literally part of political capital and knowing when to use it.

            Bernie didn’t run against Biden after. Bernie didn’t try to get on VP ticket for either. I voted for him every chance I got, which was exactly once. He even won nearly everywhere that wasn’t populous.

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              9 months ago

              He “lost” the primary because Hillary controlled the superdelegates. They are beholden to the party, not the choice of the people.