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[–] 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Kamala would have won if she had come out and promised to do things differently, mostly on Gaza/aid to the Zionist Entity and some real trifling domestic promises, Joe Biden was a losing candidate and promising to be like Joe was tantamount to professing a suicide pact.

My dear Wil do you know why she couldn’t make that very simple pivot? Because the unelected masters of this place would not allow it. No amount of voting gets rid of those guys. They’re unelected.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I don't know the details of US elections but from a distance it looked like just choosing to run her was an intentional decision to hand the presidency to Trump and the Republicans.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago

    she started with a promise to do price caps or some such, that combined with the campaign calling the republiklans weird was doing numbers on the polls. So of course they dropped all those and started going around with Liz Cheney while refusing to drop Joe Biden and his genocidal legacy.

    so yeah, either you're correct or they're just really bad at this

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    I don't think it was their choice to run her. The choice they made was to nominate Biden's corpse to prevent the contest for the next Democratic nominee from becoming a referendum on genocide. She was the backup plan after that exploded in their face.

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  • [–] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

    They ran with some extremely cursed and mind melting argument that since voters had voted for Biden before he dropped and Kamala was running in lieu of Biden she just had to adopt his awful stances or it would be seen as “a betrayal” to those who had chosen Biden

    This was all so they wouldn’t have to scrap the primary and re-run it.

    Edit: changed “strategies” to “stances” for clarity

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