• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    Beware of ANYONE going around spouting the “we can’t run AOC because WOMEN ALWAYS LOSE! Just look at the LAST TWO TIMES!” bullshit

    As if Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris were perfect candidates offering anything more than “imagine how bad Trump would be!”

    “The Most Lethal Millitary”

    “Nothing will fundamentally change”

    “Pokemon Go!-to-the-polls”

    I mean come the fuck on.

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      18 hours ago

      “Pokemon Go to the polls” was just a silly meme. I think voters wanted somebody to the left of Obama, and Hillary felt like a big step back to the '90s.

      Dissing Bernie’s platform didn’t help. One key moment I remember was her saying that Medicare For All was something that would “never, ever happen”. Instead of adapting her platform to win over Bernie’s voters, she just dismissed it completely as foolish pipe dreams. Just really tone deaf and smug about it.

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        5 hours ago

        One key moment I remember was her saying that Medicare For All was something that would “never, ever happen”.

        I honestly hope it happens in my lifetime. Just for the sheer delight of gloating at centrists that the default is no longer “siphon your paltry amassed wealth to billionaires and then die.”