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  • You missed the point by a mile. Your slogan is supposed to attract people who would support the policy changes you want, not your 'enemies'. Saying 'abolish' and 'defund' didn't attract the centrists and moderates you'd need to enact changes, which is why 'reform' was actually a better choice.

  • Before there is comprehensive voting reform it won't work at all. It's more likely to get whatever candidate you least support elected.

  • 'defund the police' and 'abolish the police' were very poorly slogans which scared off more people than they attracted.

    US Liberals are a LOT closer to leftists than Republicans are... that's the entire point. Generally they support socialized healthcare, labor unions, worker protections, consumer protection, social safety nets, helping people in need, police reform and many other topics leftists support, while conservatives oppose every single one of those.

    Criticize Biden all you want but if it helps get Trump elected, good job I guess.

  • That would be great but voting for them this round isn't a practical choice. We have to somehow get voting reforms then support the candidates we actually prefer. That would start at a local/state level.

  • How would the country collapse? Because Trump got elected and ruined it the rest of the way, or because the left/social liberal/Democrat vote was split between the D candidate and a 3rd party, like people keep suggesting we should do? Not sure what you mean.

  • Problem is absent major reforms in every state, that's not how voting works. Third parties playing spoilers in the first-past-the-post system has been documented and evidenced many times. Whichever bloc has greater unity or no appealing 3rd party candidates will win. So you could end up with Trump being elected with 35% for Biden, 25% for West, and 40% for Trump. Run-off or ranked choice could fix that but we don't have that.

  • Strangely more often it's "I'm left so I hate the US left" and they don't bother criticizing Republicans at all.

  • Weird how people who are 'I'm so COMMUMIST!!' reserve their criticism for US politicians closer to the left and don't bother saying shit about Trump or the Republicans in congress.

  • It’s amazing and truly a victory of propaganda that anyone ever thought this incoherent imbecile ever had an edge on “sharpness”.

  • It is kind of confusing how you press down to signal left and up to signal right

  • Advertisers surely know he's full of crap, too. He can make up fake views, he could even have bots click on ads, but unless he's also going to fake being a customer it will all come out in metrics. Savvy advertisers track all of that. Clicks per display, sales per click.

  • Weird, this week they’re also claiming that TwitX has 24 times the engaged users of YouTube.

  • i obtained a coffee grinder from IKEA 2-3 years ago. Somehow i feel like i shoplifted it even though I paid it for it... they were out of coffee grinders so I surreptitiously removed the "I be IKEA" tags and made them look it up at checkout. My fuckin ex broke the glass french press, just like my loser brother did to my double wall German one 10 years ago. I'm over it. I do not have to grind for 5-10 minutes or harm myself to make coffee.

  • Also, Republicans want to send weapons and money to Israel and not to Ukraine, while Congressional/Biden admin Democrats want to do both. So with Republicans you get double the genocides.

  • That's not the point. I was saying that national Democratic politicians are not properly representing what their voters think on the Israel issue.

  • Politicians, yes, constituents, no.