• moonlake [he/him]
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    1011 months ago

    Representation is important. As a childfree Millenial, I finally feel seen. Kamala is going to get a historic landslide win due to America’s biggest voting bloc - the r/childfree subreddit.

    • don
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      211 months ago

      As Gen Previously Known as Twitter, I completely agree.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3711 months ago

    These are the very same people that obsessed over Taylor Swift not having kids and wanted her eggs to produce Aryan supermen and yet Kamala is still going to lose against them. The dems run amazing candidates that everyone universally loves!

    • HarryLime [any]OP
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      6011 months ago

      yet Kamala is still going to lose against them.

      Honestly, I really don’t know about that. I feel like I’m in the minority on this website on this, but I think she has a strong chance.

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        Agreed. People are starving for a normal candidate, and Kamala strikes me as only being abnormal in how much of an absolute normie she is. She has almost no baggage at all, she has experience as a prosecutor (which should speak to her ability to communicate) and landed some pretty good body shots on Biden in the 2020 primary debates, and she has almost none of the problems that Trump and Biden shared (brain-addled golf-obsessed septuagenarians), and she can lay claim to Biden’s W’s and have plausible deniability for his L’s. Kamala has previously come across as a little too scripted, and that’s born out in other reports about her being something of an overbearing perfectionist, but I think that’s nothing that the DNC war machine can’t polish up. I think Kamala’s got a real shot here.

        • BobDole [none/use name]
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          2311 months ago

          Honestly, I’m kind of appreciating the normie perspective you’re bringing here with this comment. While I disagree with the “no baggage” statement, I don’t think her baggage will harm her with the broader fascist American public. The only people who will really care about all of the horrible things she did as DA/AG are those of us already on the left.

          • @[email protected]
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            That’s exactly what I meant when I said almost no baggage. The average canter/auth voter in the US couldn’t give two shits about Kamala being an over-aggressive DA. A lot of them probably appreciate it, even. Being more libertarian minded, it bothers me, but not remotely as much as Project 2025 does.

          • @[email protected]
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            811 months ago

            Well, which is it? She either persuaded lots of juries to lock up all kinds of people (she did) or she sucks at communicating, I find it hard to imagine how both could be true. At any rate, she’ll communicate better than Biden, who famously said [unintelligible]

              • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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                1411 months ago

                This wasnt a PPB situation at all lol. Clear example of some of us being too trigger happy with that.

                Maybe Kamala’s style doesnt work with you but I think she does have an ability to communicate and I dont think random lemm.ee person is wrong here.

                • emizeko [they/them]
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                  511 months ago

                  if you really think her time as prosecutor is good evidence of her persuasion abilities I don’t know what to tell you

        • regul [any]
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          511 months ago

          How could Trump do anything that would possibly lose him voters?

          • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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            511 months ago

            I think what he means is more alpng the lines of whether Trump will excite his base more than he will exicte the dem base to turn out against him. Not so much about “losing” votes

          • qaopjlll [he/him]
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            He could tell them to drink bleach again (but mix it with ammonia this time)

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        3611 months ago

        I agree. She’s a complete piece of shit, but she’s not a sundowning Silent Generation segregationist. If she plays her cards right and the Republicans keep saying weird shit like this fence sitters might be driven to vote for her.

        • regul [any]
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          1811 months ago

          People dunked on her for her debate plan to say “Why are you being so weird?” but it’s honestly probably pretty good strategy if (big if) she can convince people she’s normal.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        2911 months ago

        I remember in 2020 this site was convinced that Trump would beat Biden. This website assumes the worst at times.

        • mar_k [he/him]
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          211 months ago

          remember in early 2020 when most of the subreddit thought covid was a little flu being sensationalized by the media?

        • RedDawn [he/him]
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          1411 months ago

          Lots of people here weren’t. I was pretty sure Biden would win and in my electoral map guess I think I only got one state wrong. There were plenty of people calling it both ways, there wasn’t a sitewide consensus that Trump would win.

          • @[email protected]
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            911 months ago

            I think that’s completely fair. I’m on the left (lower case l) and I don’t know anyone who voted for Biden, but plenty who voted against Trump. Biden was a wholly uninspiring candidate, and if you’d asked me in the early days of the 2020 primary who was going to win, Biden was near the bottom with Yang imo. Especially after his disastrous debate performance, dude looked and acted like they’d just done CPR on him minutes beforehand.

            • NapoleonBlownApart [he/him]
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              1111 months ago

              I didn’t think Bernie was going to win that election, but there was that moment when the establishment Dems were on the bottom of the polls, and Bernie was ahead. It was the last time I felt any kind of hope for a process to go our way.

              • xapr [he/him]
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                911 months ago

                Don’t you just love it that the “hope” dude (Obama) was the one to take away our hopes?*

                *Obama is widely considered to have orchestrated everyone except Biden and Warren dropping out on the same day, flipping the table for Biden.

                • NapoleonBlownApart [he/him]
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                  811 months ago

                  Yup. He was my first election. I didn’t vote for him for a second term. He blew it the second nobody got in trouble for the bank collapse and letting the bush admin off the hook.

              • @[email protected]
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                211 months ago

                Bernie would have beaten the absolute dogshit out of Trump, imo. That little stunt the Democrats pulled in all dropping out and giving their delegates to Biden and declaring him the de facto winner after [checks notes] he won one of four primaries, on top of all of the shit in 2016, has made me completely cynical towards them. I’ve got the fastest eye roll in the West for anybody who insists that the democratic primary reflects the will of the voters.

        • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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          2111 months ago

          It was an incredibly close election and literally everyone was wrong about which way which demographics would vote

          • mar_k [he/him]
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            it was pretty obvious biden was most likely going to win, and it was far from a landslide but still pretty decisive, far from incredibly close. polling aggregate from 538 before the election:

            for reference, they gave hillary clinton a 70/30 chance, so her loss was fairy probable

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3011 months ago

        I think it’s at least 50/50, but I also think the lathe has been emitting unholy smoke and fire and i have no fucking idea what is even possible anymore.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    jd vance only wants people to have children because he is a bad Terminator and wants more skulls to step on ominously after SkyNet launches the nukes

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3511 months ago

    They had a good thing going during the 2016 period when Trump’s snark and anti-pc attitude won people over during the peak of anti-sjw.

    But now they’ve gone back to letting the Fox News brainworms settle in.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    3511 months ago

    I think Harris is a shitlib, but these freaks are attacking her on the worst stuff.

    Give her a competent team and if this “no kids” shit sticks… she can turn that into a strength of “I had to choose between career and family, which is a major problem today- as president I will push for laws and rulings so that we can have it all.”

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      I’m shocked they haven’t gone after her for calling Biden a segregationist on national TV and then becoming his VP anyway, but I guess they themselves are also naked hypocrites who care about nothing but power so it might not reflect well on them.

    • Barx [none/use name]
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      2311 months ago

      Reactionaries will always attack liberals for the wrong reasons. If they were pointing to the right reasons they probably wouldn’t be reactionaries.

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        1511 months ago

        Yeah, I hate to be so binary, but attacking liberals for the right reasons either makes someone a broken clock or a communist.

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        That’s not necessarily true. Often they will attack liberals for the right reasons and then their solutions are utter nonsense.

        tromp The war in Ukraine is a disaster! anakin-padme-2

        tromp That’s why we need to stop spending money there and spend all our money on killing immigrants! anakin-padme-4

    • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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      711 months ago

      Give her a competent team

      based on how she ran her primary, and how Genocide Joe’s done the handoff, this is highly unlikely

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        411 months ago

        Wasn’t her team in 2020 all ex-Hillary people? Maybe she can go chill in Cedar Rapids.

  • Pentacat [he/him]
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    The politician from Ohio is so concerned about making sure people have children. Normal people might remember Ohio as the state that rejoiced over the miracle of a pregnant 11-year-old.

    Kamala could gain points with normal people (including surrounding swing states) just by mercilessly dunking on Ohio until November.

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      Making your entire campaign about shitting on your opponent for being from Ohio will always result in a 49-state victory, with the opponent pulling a Mondale Special

    • roux [he/him, they/them]
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      Ohio doesn’t make bright people. I got family there. I’m probably among the smartest in my family and that isn’t saying much. I have a cousin in Ohio that is in a union and argued with me one time that unions aren’t socialist because he pays dues. That was his reasoning. Not a single wrinkle is that man’s brain.

  • Chronicon [they/them]
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    2011 months ago

    yeah, this type of attack will resonate with some freaks for sure but I don’t think its net positive, probably

  • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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    511 months ago

    Dems have what is basically another layup and it’s going to be really funny to see them blow it again (but not really because I’m sure they’re financially happy with Trump let’s be real for a second)