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Yes, yes. We all know that you folks have moved on from "don't vote for Biden" to "don't vote for Harris."
This country really needs Project 2025, doesn't it?
Who said not to vote for her?
I didn't read that anywhere in Weevil's comment.
What do you think their comment implies? What do you think their latest comment suggests?
That these policies are rather mid, and they would like to see better. That doesn't imply anything about voting.
You can support your favorite sports ball team, and still complain when they suck, wanting them to do better.
You gotta realize, America isn't a new iPhone release with chamfered edges. We're trying to save America from Fascism. That the campaign is also doing things on top of that is just great. They've already probably accomplished much more in the last 4 years than you realized, not even counting the fact that they had to undo the clusterfuck that DonOld the Orange Bloat left behind where departments had no people, no records, nothing.
Example of what you should expect in the future based on the last 4 years (as summarized by ChatGPT):
Biden-Harris Administration Accomplishments (2020-2024)
Summary of Key Accomplishments
Economic Recovery and Job Creation:
Healthcare and Social Policies:
Infrastructure and Environmental Initiatives:
Social Justice and Civil Rights:
Foreign Policy and National Security:
Economic and Trade Policies:
Departmental and Agency Accomplishments
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Department of Energy (DOE)
Department of Education
Upvote for effort alone.
But you gotta realize, I didn't mention Biden's accomplishments. It's all arguing against something I wasn't even talking about. So as great as your comment is, it's kinda misplaced.
You're choosing a team. Not a person.
I'm choosing a person, hoping they build (inherit) a good team.
Copypasta takes no effort at all.
Virtually every comment they have made since then is about not voting for Harris.
I've read them all.
They complain about policy more, explain the election system, and complain about Netenyahoo jerking us around. None of which suggests to not vote for Harris.
In fact they clearly state that Trump is worse.
I think you are deliberately refusing to see something that pretty much everyone else here can see just because he isn't literally saying "don't vote for Harris."
But sure, maybe he's saying not to vote at all. Which is basically the same thing.
As someone who is terminally on Lemmy you should do more to build a better culture of charitable interpretation of what people are saying instead of trying to fucking gestapo-up alleged Trump supporters and silence any criticism of your preferred candidate.
It's toxic shit
No, Democrats are perfect and anyone who doesn't love their constant failures at everything but funding genocide must be literally Trump.
Careful! If any Democrat sees your snarky comment it'll cause them not to vote or vote for Trump instead.
We need a criticism non-proliferation treaty before it's too late to contain this dangerous power.
But only criticism from the left. Without criticism from the right, Democrats won't know which principles they need to stop pretending to hold.
Maybe you should look at their post history and see if that "charitable interpretation" is justified.
To me it seems like they're criticising her from the left and that's valid criticism. I didn't run a background check on them so maybe they aren't. Maybe they won't even vote.
I'm not going to bully them until they leave, though.
This community is extremely toxic. It's no different than the politics subreddit.
Keep punching left, guys. That'll work.
I'm not going to bully them until they leave either. I don't even have that power. I'm not sure why you're granting me abilities I don't have.
Ok fair you're not the worst of them but you're contributing to the toxicity at least somewhat. There're worse examples actively harassing me and I took some of that out on you.
Close.
I'm deliberately refusing to infer something that isn't implied. I'm refusing to try to mind-read someone I don't know. I'm deliberately accepting their statements at face value, because I don't know them.
It's how I would hope people read what I write.
And how I believe we can have more productive interactions online.
Well I do know them. I've seen them post here for a long time. I've also seen them switch almost immediately from "don't vote for Biden" to "don't vote for Harris."
If what you've argued about their statements today, is indicative of your interpretation of their statements then... I hope you'll understand and forgive my doubts.
As a leftist I was critical of Biden and continued to be critical of Harris, despite hating Trump even moreso.
It's not suspicious, it's consistent based on our ideology.
As I've said elsewhere I'm an expat not a resident, so I mostly vote here in Canada, and I don't really like any of my 3 main options right now. I'll strategically vote to keep the Conservatives out, but that doesn't mean I like the Liberals and I'm comfortable criticising Trudeau.
I think its more like when you see somebody step on a rake and it hits them in the face. The natural response is to be like "oh no" . Fortunately these are second hand sources and Walz is hopefully on hand to check some of the more lawyer tendencies when dealing with the public.
I'm curious to know what Harris stands for and this article doesn't seem to offer much.
Project 2025 seems bad and I wouldn't suggest voting for a guy like Vance or Trump, given his support of it. But Harris's response appears to be to just not talk about policy and campaign without upsetting anybody.
Who do you think wins if people don't vote for Harris?
American elections aren't decided by the popular vote, so its anyone's guess.
They are decided by the per-state popular vote, as I am sure you know.
Who wins when not enough people per state vote for Harris?
They're decided by an electoral college selected by the party. We've seen state governments assert the right of the state legislature to usurp the popular vote by citing Rehnquist's decision in Bush v Gore. And while you'd like to think this remains a decision in popular hands, Idk how current composition of the SCOTUS will respond if presented with an opportunity to overturn another general election victory by the Democrats.
In theory, its the Big Scary Cheeto (or, assuming another Demolition Ranch subscriber gets within 400 feet of the former Prez, JD "Couchfucker" Vance).
But if all you care about is Not-Trump, why are you in a thread talking about Harris's policy? Why take offense at anyone asking? You know who you're voting for, regardless of what she says, so why are you in here pretending that you care?
I am not pretending that I care that people don't vote for Harris.
I fucking care because I don't want a fucking genocidal dictator. Why don't you care about that?
Then you think you'd care about the nine people who will ultimately decide this election. You'd think that would lead to more calls of "Pack the Court", "Fight illegal felony disenfranchisement laws", and "Support universal mail-in voting", rather than "Fuck you for asking what anyone supports".
Instead, I'm seeing someone who is willing to waltz blindly into another Bush v Gore SCOTUS sponsored upset while screaming "Fascist!" at the Naderites.
The difference between caring about this election and caring about democracy is in wanting your team to win this round and wanting general participation in democratic institutions after November.
It's not "my team."
Again, I want to stop the genocidal dictator. Apparently you do not. Why?
Netanyahu is going to be President regardless of who wins the US Presidency in November.
So the genocides of queer people and Latinos Trump is planning don't matter. Why don't they matter?
They don't seem to matter under Biden, when Abbott is doing them.
Does Harris indicate she'll crack down on Abbott's state goons or rein in the DHS officials that have sided with him? Or is she going to continue turning a blind eye?
I asked why they don't matter to you.
Lying about Abbott committing a genocide of Latinos and queer people does not answer that question.
https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/
That's in the platform, but it appears it isn't part of Harris's platform because she's afraid it might upset people in the private industry.
And possibly because it’ll upset the victims of the private industry. MFA is the only solution to the American healthcare crisis. They’ve already sold off parts of Medicare. We need to kill the private health insurance industry or it will keep trying to get us back here