• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      In fairness I blame Stein for that shit. Her voters would have flipped every single one of those states had Putin not been encouraging her to spoil in favor of the wannabe authoritarian.

      • themeatbridge
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        I blame Hillary. Stein ran her campaign, and Hillary didn’t do enough to get enough votes.

        • norbert
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          2911 months ago

          Not to replay previous elections but seriously, if Hillary had visited just a few of the states she completely wrote off maybe she’d have gotten a couple vote there. I’m pretty left of center so I’ll vote my interests anyway but not even being worth a visit is a bit of a slap in the face to a whole lot of people who at least want to feel heard.

          • capital
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            2011 months ago

            I won’t say you’re wrong but how ridiculous is it that people need someone to come to their state to gain their vote?

            Get the fuck over yourself.

            Actually, I just decided if Joe doesn’t knock on my door himself he can forget about it.

            • Flying Squid
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              1111 months ago

              It makes sense to me that people feel that way. “Hillary didn’t even come to Michigan, why would she care about us?”

              No one is expecting Biden to knock on their door, but making the effort to show that their state counts does get people more likely to vote for him.

              • capital
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                311 months ago

                It makes sense to not vote to someone for lack of a gesture? I don’t think so.

                And it is just a gesture because hearing the candidate speak in person doesn’t tell me anything more about them than what I can learn online.

                • Flying Squid
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                  Lack of a gesture? No. Lack of caring? Yes.

                  I’m not sure how you got me coming up with the hypothetical statement of “Hillary didn’t even come to Michigan, why would she care about us?” and think that it was about gestures when I literally said it was about a perception of lack of caring about them.

                  Flint was going through a water crisis (and still is). Hillary never went to Michigan. That would get some people in Flint to think she doesn’t care about them. Why wouldn’t it?

                  • capital
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                    211 months ago

                    Yes, to them, I can see how some might think that.

                    I also think those people are ridiculous. I wouldn’t have even known if Clinton came to my state if it weren’t for threads like this.

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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          Nah, if Nader wasn’t here we wouldn’t have had Iraq, and if Stein wasn’t we wouldn’t have had Dobbs.

          The green party are fascist collaborators and deserve no deflection from their responsibility in holding america back in the name of their white left bullshit allowing the right to drag this country further and further off track in the name of “teaching those establishment dems a lesson.”

          We could have had better education standards, made headway on climate change, and avoided the 6-3 court taking away women’s reproductive rights, but nah, lets blame the dems who’d have stopped that shit for the Green Party being knowing spoilers upto and including taking RNC money to keep doing it.

          When we achieve the multipartisan pluralistic democracy this country needs the current greens will be wiped out and replaced, because they’re not a real party with real political goals, they’re a russian and RNC backed professional spoiler club who exist only to let the white left pretend the continued degradation of this country is the fault of the people out to halt or reverse it because,

          “well you didn’t make me want to vote for you as hard as this obvious straw-candidate who’s literally taking money from the folks out to destroy everything I claim to value more than rubbing it in your face that it’s your fault I’m doing nothing to help.”

          You folks still trying to blame hillary for Stein stabbing everyone in the back are the epitome of the “look what you made me do!” domestic abuser.

          Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim and Offender,

          That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal. And if it is, that’s not my fault. And if it was, I didn’t mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.

          We’re going to see queer folks be hunted for sport by the end of next year because people like you can’t just admit that shit is better when the Republicans are not let into at least one branch of government than when they aren’t.

          We literally have observable proof that the biggest improvements to life in this country come when the dems are given the margin to just do shit without having to spending months prying it from the right, but nah, let’s teach them another lesson by letting the Rs back into power so they can reverse Obergefell with a 9-0 majority this time instead!

          That will teach those old white folks that won’t be personally impacted at all and not just prove that the white left is not and has never been any sort of ally to the queer community!

          • @pantyhosewimp
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            Why don’t you advocate as vociferously for ranked choice voting and proportional representation instead of political districts so we can get out of dichotomy?

          • GodlessCommie
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            Your assumption that if there were no 3rd party candidates we would have voted for your neoliberal POS is incorrect. The 15% of Dems that switched to Republican in 2000 had more impact on Bush winning than the 3% that voted for Nader. Gore couldn’t even win his home state, had he done that he could have lost Florida and still won the election.

            Clinton did absolutely nothing to earn votes in 2016 and didn’t even try, her entitled hubris demanded any vote not going to the GOP was hers.

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            I voted for her, and I voted for Biden and will vote for him again, but 2016 was like a slow motion train wreck as viewed from the dining car. This Biden campaign feels the same.