I was gonna title this “And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice” and then write “Stuck inside of America with the fascism blues again” here, but I’m not sure if that comes off like gloating and that’s honestly the last thing I want to do this morning.

  • @surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    -257 months ago

    It’s easy to get students to protest. They’re young, it’s exciting.

    Voting isn’t loud or angry, so it doesn’t feel effective. It feels like actual work. And so they skip it.

    • John Richard
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      367 months ago

      I’m sorry, forgive me if I don’t take advice from the party that just lost. After Kamala picked Walz she was up by more than 5 points in many states that she was trailing in at the end of her campaign. People skip voting when you pick unpopular policies like Praise the Cheney’s, No Different than Zionist Joe, Billionaire Mark Cuban Is the Greatest, and Hollywood Loves Me.

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        247 months ago

        Yup, other than picking Walz each new thing the campaign did made me less excited aboit voting for Harris. I would have rather had Walz lead the ticket, at least he would have been an unknown white guy that the right wing propaganda would have had trouble vilifying.

        • John Richard
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          167 months ago

          I don’t think the white guy thing is as important as at least he would have been someone that wasn’t directly tied to the White House that has been lying about genocide for the last year, or apartheid for the last 4 years.

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            27 months ago

            You underestimate the racism and sexism of rhe general population.

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              OK, but the people who are that racist and sexist are voting republican anyway. Of the dems many mistakes, running a black woman wasn’t one of them.

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                47 months ago

                OK, but the people who are that racist and sexist are voting republican anyway

                No, plenty of them vote Democrat too, because the majority of the country is racist and sexist, even if it is just subconscious.

                I’m not saying running a black woman was a mistake, just that a white man has an advantage because the population tends to favor white men.

            • @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
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              I don’t think you’re wrong but I also have to add that I won’t accept that we just can’t run black women for offices for that reason

              e; I should have read this thread further, it looks like other people are already discussing this

              • snooggums
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                27 months ago

                I am NOT implying that Dems shouldn’t run black women.

            • John Richard
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              17 months ago

              I’m not pretending racism and sexism doesn’t exist, but that didn’t cause her to lose. I hope one day you’ll come to accept that.