• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yes, yes. We all know that you folks have moved on from “don’t vote for Biden” to “don’t vote for Harris.”

    This country really needs Project 2025, doesn’t it?

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      I think its more like when you see somebody step on a rake and it hits them in the face. The natural response is to be like “oh no” . Fortunately these are second hand sources and Walz is hopefully on hand to check some of the more lawyer tendencies when dealing with the public.

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      don’t vote for Harris

      I’m curious to know what Harris stands for and this article doesn’t seem to offer much.

      This country really needs Project 2025, doesn’t it?

      Project 2025 seems bad and I wouldn’t suggest voting for a guy like Vance or Trump, given his support of it. But Harris’s response appears to be to just not talk about policy and campaign without upsetting anybody.

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            They are decided by the per-state popular vote, as I am sure you know.

            Who wins when not enough people per state vote for Harris?

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              They are decided by the per-state popular vote

              They’re decided by an electoral college selected by the party. We’ve seen state governments assert the right of the state legislature to usurp the popular vote by citing Rehnquist’s decision in Bush v Gore. And while you’d like to think this remains a decision in popular hands, Idk how current composition of the SCOTUS will respond if presented with an opportunity to overturn another general election victory by the Democrats.

              Who wins when not enough people per state vote for Harris?

              In theory, its the Big Scary Cheeto (or, assuming another Demolition Ranch subscriber gets within 400 feet of the former Prez, JD “Couchfucker” Vance).

              But if all you care about is Not-Trump, why are you in a thread talking about Harris’s policy? Why take offense at anyone asking? You know who you’re voting for, regardless of what she says, so why are you in here pretending that you care?

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                I am not pretending that I care that people don’t vote for Harris.

                I fucking care because I don’t want a fucking genocidal dictator. Why don’t you care about that?

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                  I am not pretending that I care that people don’t vote for Harris.

                  Then you think you’d care about the nine people who will ultimately decide this election. You’d think that would lead to more calls of “Pack the Court”, “Fight illegal felony disenfranchisement laws”, and “Support universal mail-in voting”, rather than “Fuck you for asking what anyone supports”.

                  Instead, I’m seeing someone who is willing to waltz blindly into another Bush v Gore SCOTUS sponsored upset while screaming “Fascist!” at the Naderites.

                  Why don’t you care about that?

                  The difference between caring about this election and caring about democracy is in wanting your team to win this round and wanting general participation in democratic institutions after November.

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                    It’s not “my team.”

                    Again, I want to stop the genocidal dictator. Apparently you do not. Why?

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          Securing Universal Health Care Through a Public Option

          That’s in the platform, but it appears it isn’t part of Harris’s platform because she’s afraid it might upset people in the private industry.

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            And possibly because it’ll upset the victims of the private industry. MFA is the only solution to the American healthcare crisis. They’ve already sold off parts of Medicare. We need to kill the private health insurance industry or it will keep trying to get us back here