• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The thing is it legitimizes them.

    This isn’t a new or unique problem.

    I think Israel’s government sucks, I say it a lot. Sometimes a Nazi agrees with me. I don’t say “even Nazis hate Israel”.

    I tell the Nazi to shut the fuck up, and that were not on the same team.

    Before Biden dropped out, sometimes I’d criticize him and a trumper would show up and agree with me. I never said “even trump supporters think Biden is a shitty candidate”.

    I told them to fuck off and we weren’t on the same team.

    So when Dick Cheney shows up to say Kamala’s right and trump is bad…

    I expect Kamala to tell Cheney to fuck off at minimum. Ideally she could actually hold him accountable for some of his war crimes.

    I dont want to see everyone talk about how things were better when Republicans were like Dick Cheney. Because shit was fucked up even back before Reagan was in office.

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      2 months ago

      This is a trash analogy because everyone knows Nazis hate Israel, it’s part of their ideology.

      A former republican vice president endorsing a democratic president candidate is note worthy because it’s goes faint their ideology.

      That you choose to reach for Nazis to make your argument is the clearest Godwin Law I’ve witnessed in a long time.

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      2 months ago

      So when Dick Cheney shows up to say Kamala’s right and trump is bad…

      I expect Kamala to tell Cheney to fuck off at minimum

      I wonder if Dems always choke in Presidential races because they have people like you as their chief strategists, where vague concepts of noble virtue and ideological purity supersede pragmatism at the most crucial moment.

      I can’t possibly imagine being so privileged that I could get an endorsement from a former Republican VP during an incredibly close race and my response to him would be “fuck off”.

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        2 months ago

        I wonder if Dems always choke in Presidential races because they have people like you as their chief strategists,

        You’d have to be completely and totally ignorant of American politics to think in 2024 this is what the party would do…

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          2 months ago

          What specifically? Choke? Leave it to Democrats to sneak defeat from the jaws of victory. Or do you mean hire an amateur as a political strategist? I agree, but sometimes I wonder.