• ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Totally lost any respect for her when she did anti China videos. And unlike her science or debunking content, the stuff on China had basically no citations, and she just took anti China critics at their word.

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    How do they think we arrived here, with calls for Biden to step aside growing by the day, donations drying up, all making Biden’s exit closer to a reality. Turnout in key states for the 2024 Dem primary were down compared to 2020 during covid. This is on top of the undecided/uncommitted vote campaign. Coupled with consistently dropping poll numbers, how else could we explain the current state of affairs.

    To me it seems obvious that when the population withholds their vote and threatens to withhold it by utilizing uncommitted votes, as a mass movement, the establishment flinches. This game of electoral chicken is still unfolding, but these calls to exit the race are what I believe is the flinch in slow motion.

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      these calls to exit the race are what I believe is the flinch in slow motion.

      I hope that’s the case cause that’s the only explanation I’ve got for why the media turned on biden so hard and fast. I feel like I’m missing something.

  • save_vs_death [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    “actually non-voters are not a real political constituency you can convince to come out and vote”
    “also, you, non-voter that are watching this, please vote for genocide joestar”

    huh, wuh?

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      2 months ago

      yeah lmao

      I guess if you are a lib who’s voted in the past or is voting for other races then she’s not counting you as a non voter. But if thats the case all the logic about why non voters don’t matter and can’t affect anything doesn’t really apply to you. The argument basically boils down to “dems won’t listen so you shouldn’t even try. Just bully them left once in office” as if that’s a great proven tactic. It fundamentally is logic based on the idea that america is to some degree Good, right now, and so we should just try and do a heckin civil rights movement over and over until it’s BetterTM. Except the material circumstances and varied tactics of the civil rights movement era aren’t given sufficient study, and the dems are considered to be more or less On Our Side, if we just give them the right push, not fundamentally opposed to almost everything left-libs want, let alone communists.

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        yeah, basically this; furthermore, following the logic of the video, the dems will only listen to me if i vote republican, basically, cause then they’ll actually try to appeal to me, the ratchet only turn right it seems