• troglodytis@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Have you seen the numbers of people who think they were better off 4 years ago?

    People think they were better off during the height of COVID deaths. Our attention span is 27 seconds. We’re idiots

    Also, Harris doesn’t have a penis and somehow that’s supposed to matter

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      12 days ago

      Old white man, old white man, if he can’t do it, no one can!

      Yeah I wouldn’t discount sexism, or racism - I do think it’s hard for Democrats to win elections here unless people are in the middle of a conservative administration, they just don’t remember how bad it is, it’s like people who remember their time in school fondly once it’s over.

      But in general, it’s also true that women have to be near perfect, to be promoted over a man. And same thing with race. Like they can’t just be the better choice it has to be a blowout. Now to a sensible person, she met that bar and flew past it, but we aren’t all sensible and people are stupidly nostalgic for times that were objectively worse.

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        12 days ago

        You’d love for it to be about sex or race. Then the voters have.to change, not the democrats.

        Sorry buddy… the democrats have to change. Alot. And they have to do away with First-past-the-post voting in the blue states they control. Get more people represented, more political parties on solving this problem. The democrats have demonstrated multiple times they are incapable of doing this by themselves.

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          I’m not a Democrat. Yes I’d like them to be progressive instead of drifting ever rightward. It sucks to have two totalitarian parties here. But if you think racism and sexism is dead in America you are blind.

          The government isn’t a machine, it’s us. People.

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      13 days ago

      A lot of people probably were better off. Not working or working remotely. Possibly getting 600/week in unemployment, it may even have been an effective raise. We now know the panic around covid was largely just that.