• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      2 years ago

      I think people forget how significant a moment 2020 felt.

      Democrats are in for a rude awakening when the turnout plummets this cycle because normal people don’t feel like it’s the end of democracy like they do.

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        2 years ago

        And then those normal people are in for a rude awakening when it is the end of democracy as we know it.

        “I didn’t think the Supreme Court would actually overturn Roe!” – People in 2016 who said to not threaten them with the Supreme Court

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      2 years ago

      I spent a good amount of time calling OP a shill in this thread without bothering to read the article. The combination of thehill.com + OP’s bias + polls aren’t really indicative of anything let alone deserving of the “multiple updates multiple times per day” conceptual weight they’re being given in OP’s posting history, led me to feel it was a better use of time to just talk about why are we talking about this again and why do we think OP posts this so much, as opposed to just obediently feeling like I’m obligated to spend time talking about it again, because OP feels like posting it again.

      I mean I will say in my own defense that earlier today when for the other multiple time OP posted a whole story about how bad Biden’s doing in the polls, I engaged with that story purely on its own merits. Here’s the conversation that ensued:

      • Me: It seems like this poll is polling everyone, not just likely voters, which is a relevant flaw in it
      • Someone: “You should read articles before posting them” “You should also believe in science”
      • Me: (Asks a question to try to Socratically teach them the point I was originally trying to make)
      • Them: “What are you confused about?” (illustrates that they still don’t get the pretty straightforward point I was making)
      • Me: (Asks the question again)
      • Them: (Finally answers the question, seeming to get what I was saying for the first time, but effortlessly pivoting to condescending about how limiting polls to likely voters is a bad idea)

      And so on. It went on from there, but the point that I’m making is that engaging with this stuff on its own merits isn’t the doorway to productive conversation it might appear to be. In my experience the shills will come out of the woodwork to make weirdly hostile bad-faith conversation with you for more or less an unlimited amount of time. I think blithely being okay with putting up with an unlimited amount of that isn’t a fair thing to ask people to do.

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      2 years ago

      I thought most people considered this election even more important than the last!

      The most important election in history is always the one happening next year.

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      2 years ago

      Thank you. For supposedly being “the most important election of our lives” a lot of people don’t want to hear the truth that Trump could win again and it’ll be Biden’s fault.

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        2 years ago

        It’s a little late for Biden to terminate his campaign. Best thing he can do is pick a progressive VP (I don’t know much about Kamala right now) and then resign day 1.

        I think Democrats have focused too much on who they don’t want as President for the last 8 years, and now the party doesn’t have any other candidates that have the name/brand power to go toe to toe with trump and his base of far-right brainwashed quislings. The best bet to win this thing is to run Biden at this point, but they need to build some candidate brand/visibility for their next election.