she still would have supported genocide in gaza, and her term would have pushed people further towards fascism. there was really no real choice in that election, sadly. the usa was already too firmly controlled by the ruling class.
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Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months agoShe would have been so good
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Accelerationism it is. It’s too terminal to save, conservatives need to feel the pain.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
don’t get me wrong, i would have voted harris. (im not american) but she wouldn’t have been good. she wouldn’t have even been ok. but she was better than trump.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My God… I can’t believe people are still saying this.
Bremmy@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Versus Trump who is actively and openly trying to genocide and relocate Palestinians? Trump who praised Xi for his Uyghur concentration camps? Trump who is turning Guantanamo into the same thing?
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
i hate trump probably as much or more than you do. please re-read my comment as i actually wrote it, because i meant what i wrote. i did not mean what you imagined i might be secretly thinking or whatever. please don’t jump to conclusions :(
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
She would’ve been thoroughly mediocre, but that still would’ve been infinitely preferable to what we got.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Nah, her policy positions were good. She was on the right side of every issue with a reasonable plan to target it. There is no other president in recent history who is as progressive.
I find it werid that people will rate dems as if there is was a magical dem who would have been able to do everything.
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Harris was 100% on the wrong side of the Gaza genocide and also not even a little bit economically progressive. That second part – the abject refusal to do meaningful things to help the working class – is how she lost to Trump. People were seduced by Trump’s dishonest and wrong, but easy, “scapegoat the minorities” answers to the question of how to restore prosperity.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Trueee she should have thrown her support behind hamas. Try and compete with trump for the anti Semitic vote.
Her platform of reducing the cost of even more prescription drugs, paid leave, more worker protections, more union protections, banning corporate price gouging, providing first home assistance and more would have absolutely wrecked the working class.
These are reasonable policies thay would get through. Compared to a guy who has already stripped all of those using illegal power.
Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 2 months ago
She was literally in favour of continuing the genocide in Gaza, the fuck is wrong with you seppos that you think that’s the right side of an issue?
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
She was in favour of removing the terrorist group from power and a two state solution. Why the fuck would an American president not support Isreal? The single criticism you lot have is over an issue that every American president has the same stance on.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’re all just tired of being taken advantage of. Dems are weak with no spine/teeth, Republicans are selfish egotistical maniacs. Everyone out for themselves and will step on anyone they can to get what they want.
We just need people like Bernie who just wants to help pretty much everyone with healthcare, rights, etc. but the money from corruption is too good.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re STILL saying this shit? My God, we’re on the brink of WW3 because of people saying this shit.
kava@lemmy.world 2 months ago
kamala was more biden. the same group of people that was around behind created the conditions for a kamala run to even be possible.
they had to pull some weird “democracy games” to even get her on the ballot. pretend like biden was gonna run so he automatically wins the primary and only then announce he’s gonna leave. really shows how far this democracy has fallen
as for kamala, biden’s immigration proposals were “compassionate approach” and “immigration reform”
if you went to her website and looked under immigration there was only “strong border” and “border security”
to be honest, i only wanted kamala to win because she was a woman and that woulda been cool. but the descent into fascism would not have been meaningfully slowed down, i think