• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    stfu, leftist extremists had one fucking chance to stop this from happening but they got fucking greedy.

    now we all have to pat the price.

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      17 days ago

      You have data to back that up I assume?

      Biden had polling in his hands that said Trump would get 400 electoral votes against him on the day he decided to run for a second term. Then he held on just long enough to make certain we would have no primary and be stuck with a candidate who couldn’t shake the stink of his presidency.

      Harris lost the popular vote by over 4-million votes. There aren’t that many “leftist extremists” in the whole damn country, and only a small subset of those wouldn’t have voted for Harris.

      The vast bulk of those who stayed home were left leaning apolitical normies. Most of the country fits in that group.

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        16 days ago

        A candidate who couldn’t make it to the first primary in her last campaign for this position too! I felt what I could only describe as “meta-unease” about her.

        If I felt so unmotivated, how uninspired was everyone else?

        Also I think the racial rhetoric from the Dems is turning some Black voters off.

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        16 days ago

        Harris lost the popular vote by over 4-million votes. There aren’t that many “leftist extremists” in the whole damn country, and only a small subset of those wouldn’t have voted for Harris.

        You have data to back that up I assume?

        Literally did the thing you criticized them for.

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          16 days ago

          Best I could do without a definition for the stupid use of “leftist extremists” with no definition. My point is, there is zero evidence to blame this election on leftists of any stripe.

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      16 days ago

      Dunno if it was enough to change the results, but I agree 100%. As a progressive myself: fuck these people.