• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    we could have had Bernie, except Warren was a backstabbing scumbag. oh well. we got what we deserved: suffering.

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      3 months ago

      If you mean her rhetoric, she was just playing the game of politics, and I don’t fault her for that.

      If you mean not dropping out after it was apparent the moderate candidates were going to coalesce behind Biden, yeah, fuck her.

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      3 months ago

      That backstab is why I now vote against her in her Senate primaries. It’s deeply frustrating, because until that point, I really did think she was one of the best possibilities for being a sane and effective presidential candidate.

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    3 months ago

    The left is constantly punching itself in the dick with purity tests. You’d think they’d realize that’s half the reason why they’re constantly spinning their wheels. Liz would be the most left wing president since FDR

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      3 months ago

      Wait, liberals have been saying that Biden is the “most left wing president since FDR” for his entire term. Have you all changed your mind?

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, that’s what I’m saying, “smart guy”. So what does it mean to be “the most left wing president since FDR”? If Biden already is that, what does it matter if Warren would be?

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            3 months ago

            Because Warren would have been better…? Your attempt at bad faith questions don’t even make sense. If Warren had been elected, she would have been to the left of Biden, who (according to whatever your source is) is the most left wing since FDR. So how much more so would Warren have been. I think all the dialectics are rotting your brain, comrade.

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              3 months ago

              But according to the comment I replied to, she wouldn’t be “better”, she would be the same. That’s my question, which I don’t get how that’s bad faith. If she’s “the most left wing since FDR”, but Biden is already that, in what way is that an argument for her? What point is the comment making? You’re not explaining anything.

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                3 months ago

                She would be better and more to the left than Biden. And I consider myself a part of the left. Fred Hampton wasn’t killed because he was a leftist, he was killed because he was a big tent leftist.

                My point is the perfect candidate doesn’t exist and we should fight for the progress we can get with politicians that can win in the current deeply flawed system we are forced to operate in.

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    3 months ago

    This hexbear user is not wrong tho, america’s left dosn’t really serve the people, they team up with the richs.