• hector@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    Nothing about this party is subtle, they’ve been openly emulating hitler and the nazis both terms, more openly than ever this new one, and any resistance has since evaporated as now everyone knows democrats won’t enforce the law against them, call them out on stuff, put forth a popular alternative.

    But because you all still collectively trust the democrats to run the opposition, we are doomed to these nazi emulating plutocratic clowns running the show. As we speak, on this thread, passing the buck for forcing doomed to fail candidates, blaming voters for not voting for the candidates we knew they wouldn’t vote for but forced on them anyway.

    But next time I’m sure it will work!

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    That’s literally the point. They are trying to goad the Left into screaming Hitler. When we do so, we generally sound hysterical to the centre and independents whom we need.

    Donald wins when we’re sputtering with rage.

    If you’ve ever been a dick to a younger sibling so they freak out and get in trouble despite technically being in the right, you’ll recognise the tactic.

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      13 hours ago

      … to the centre and independents whom we need.

      kamala harris said the same thing and so did hillary clinton.

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        12 hours ago

        ??? Clinton, one of the most unpopular candidates in history, came within a couple hundred thousand votes.

        Harris lost running on massive inflation, in the same wave that saw almost every incumbent government thrown out by historic margins and still came within only a couple of points of trump.

        I’d also argue Harris was a bit doomed because of how hard we took the bait last time and screamed HITLER at every provocation. The independents and centrists who watched that and endured a bad but relatively normal presidency learned the lesson that the Left exaggerates and that their warnings are without merit. If we’d “kept our powder dry” maybe we could’ve convinced them the 6th was as bad as it was but, like my younger sister, we just screamed, took the bait and lost despite being right.

        Call it the party who cried HITLER.

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      12 hours ago

      ‘Bbbut… My party didnt say they werent Hitler! Ima gonna sit it out until my party fields a candidate that does!’

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    12 hours ago

    American voters still cant be arsed to turn out for the primaries and midterms.

    Just america being america.

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      12 hours ago

      The funny thing is, im working with a German national rn, and his take on the whole thing us ‘oh, so this is how it happened…’.