• TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    The sad truth is that turning on Israel would have done more damage to the democrats electorally than it would’ve helped. Not saying it’s good, just sayings it’s true, and waving Gaza around as “the reason” Harris lost is kind of disingenuous and misses the bigger picture

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      5 hours ago

      Right up front, I voted for the ‘lesser evil’ in a swing state, so stow those comments about me enabling fascism.

      The sad truth is that turning on Israel would have done more damage to the democrats electorally than it would’ve helped

      I mean, you can keep saying that. But it’s not even true among Jewish voters, let alone the larger electorate.

      I’m really starting to suspect these kind of comments are morality laundering after spending months backing an immoral stance held by a feckless executive who refused to see past his moral blind spot.

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      Yes, the bigger picture is that as soon as Harris got the nomination, she ran back to the cold, dead embrace of the Biden campaign, and supported every single policy that made Biden so unpopular. No muslim spoke at the DNC, but they had cops, CPB, and republicans speaking for the party.

      Her words when asked what the difference between a Biden and Harris admin would be was “Well I would appoint a republican to my cabinet”.

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        4 hours ago

        Yes, the bigger picture is that Harris was a bad candidate for a litany of reasons.

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          Harris could have been a great candidate. The flaw was that she promised more of the same. She would have trounced Trump if she became the candidate we all hoped she would be in the weeks after she announced and appointed Tim Walz VP.

          This isn’t a messaging issue. Biden’s greatest flaw wasn’t that he was old, it was that he didn’t fight for the things people elected him to fight for, and instead compromised with republicans, ended covid protections, built more of Turmps wall, deported more immigrants, sent more weapons to Israel, and did fuckall to protect women’s rights.