It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him.

Trump is a convicted felon, liable sexual predator, caused an insurrection on the Capitol Hill, tried to steal the 2020 election (find me 11,000 votes), constantly kisses Russia’s ass, has more pending court cases and gets sentenced next month and overall has been the main driving factor in America’s division.

Yet, this race is STILL either 50/50 or a slight tilt (Harris leads the polling aggregate right now). Harris gets destroyed by the corporate media for almost anything, yet Trump is still lying and saying the most outlandish shit and nobody cares.

Why does it feel standards are much higher for Harris than Trump?

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Stop pretending Harris is running a flawless campaign and ButTrUmP when the stupid lie gets debunked.

    • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      We use a first past the post system. Stop denying reality as if your third party candidate matters in the slightest. Until we get some sort of ranked choice/etc, they literally couldn’t matter less

      • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        We’ve been trying to tell this shining intellectual star and friends that for 6 months but somehow they aren’t able to understand those comments.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’m not pretending that. I’m pointing out that the official policy of the US since before my parents were born has been to support Israel no matter what, and if that was going to change because anybody cared what was happening to Palestinians it would have changed decades ago.

      So you need to accept that the country you live in will do heinous shit that you loathe and there’s nothing you can do about it.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        You need to accept that anyone enabling it is responsible. Anyone voting Democrat or Republican is complicit in Genocide and should face tribunals.

        There was ignorance in the past. Everyone voting D now knows they will support Genocide and do so willingly

        • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Anyone voting Democrat or Republican is complicit in Genocide and should face tribunals.

          Really great job silencing yourself to prove a point. People who don’t participate in society are great at enacting change 🙄

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yeah, that too. My tax dollars are going to kill children. Just like my father and his father before him.

          Welcome to America.

        • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Brilliant, I’ll just vote for a candidate who can’t possibly win. Then I’m all set.

        • Letsdothis@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Ahh, I love you, bro. This place is wild, ain’t it? If one doesn’t fall in line to their militant liberal agenda, you’re ignorant MAGA scum.

          I’m just glad to see someone else here trying to talk some sense.

          • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            What he’s saying makes no sense at all, in real life. Voting for candidates who support voting reform at the state level is the way to get more choices on national ballots. Convincing otherwise D voters to vote for 3rd parties helps Trump. Maybe not MAGA scum, maybe just misguided and clueless? Who can tell.

          • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Stay strong my man/woman. We had red MAGA in 2016 now we also have Blue MAGA. The death cult grows fast.

            • Letsdothis@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              The divisiveness is insane and scary. So many feel such a devotion to “their side.” They don’t realize these politicians love getting them all riled up and emotional about an issue so that they will fight for their political agenda with passion. And they just sit back and laugh.