• @carpelbridgesyndrome
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    77 months ago

    Ah yes the rampant sexism of American politics is on full display

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      Acting as if dislike of Hilary is solely due to sexism is either simple-minded ignorance or dismissive of people that aren’t your enemy.

      I voted for her, but not because I thought she was a good and honest person. I don’t think that at all, and would rather Bernie have won the nomination. She was way more qualified and way less of a dangerous wildcard than Trump, so she got my vote but not everyone saw it that way unfortunately.

      Among the current Repugs I’d pick Hailey now, but none of them will get my vote in the general.

      • phillaholic
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        17 months ago

        It’s majority sexism against a strong woman with power. The vitriol against her was unmatched. To this day people blame her for hearsay or flat out fabrications of things she supposedly did that other Politicians, namely Trump, were proven guilty of. It’s incredible when you look down through the list. The Bush and Trump Administrations both violated the same data handling rules by using private communication mechanisms and commit countless crimes surrounding it; Yet Hillary is the one to get the most criticism despite nothing being covered up. I had a list years back that Trump was guilty of nearly everything the Clintons were accused of. Crazy.

      • @carpelbridgesyndrome
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        17 months ago

        I have had so many conversations with people who insist that they want women in positions of political power who can’t name one woman in power that they don’t hate. Generally they don’t seem to have the same problem with men. So I have long since stopped talking people’s assertions in the subject at face value

    • @Thief_of_Crows
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      07 months ago

      Ah yes, the rampant sexism of Democrats claiming that the only reason an extremely unlikable woman who cheated in her primary lost is because of sexism.

        • @Thief_of_Crows
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          17 months ago

          She fucking LOST!!! Why the fuck do you think her getting 3 million more votes matters? Bernie would have won. We know this for a fact, by comparing contemporary polling data for both candidates with what actually happened. Trump is 100% the fault of Hillary Clinton and the DNC.