Everybody’s talking about his role in the ACA and video games, but I am firmly of the belief that if Gore hadn’t picked him for VP he would have won the election. Having Lieberman on the ticket turned off enough people on the left.
Gore did win the election. He only didn’t get into office because a violent Republican coup (the “Brooks Brothers Riot”) forcibly stopped the votes from being counted.
I’m aware that Gore did, in fact, win the election. However, without the factors that mindbleach mentioned and, I think, Lieberman being on the ticket it would have taken the powers of Brooks Brothers, Banana Republic, and Forever 21 combined to overturn it.
Or if Jeb! hadn’t played stupid games with counting the goddamn votes.
Or if Roger fucking Stone hadn’t staged a riot specifically to ruin that counting process.
Or if the Supreme Court hadn’t already been corrupted by Federalist Society bastards.
And this stupid instance scolds people for “celebrating death,” like it’s any rando commenter’s fault that an actively harmful force died old and rich. As if newspapers in 1945 should’ve read “Hitler dies, unfortunately.” Nah: you can read some obituaries with great joy. You wanna stop people from sharing the list they look forward to? Sure, okay, if I squint I can see how that’s untoward. But it is impossible to do harm… after.
This man is partly responsible for empowering absolute monsters. His failures may have contributed to threats to human life on this planet. Now he’s dead. I can manage a response stronger than than apathy. Don’t expect anything kinder.
Everybody’s talking about his role in the ACA and video games, but I am firmly of the belief that if Gore hadn’t picked him for VP he would have won the election. Having Lieberman on the ticket turned off enough people on the left.
Gore did win the election. He only didn’t get into office because a violent Republican coup (the “Brooks Brothers Riot”) forcibly stopped the votes from being counted.
I’m aware that Gore did, in fact, win the election. However, without the factors that mindbleach mentioned and, I think, Lieberman being on the ticket it would have taken the powers of Brooks Brothers, Banana Republic, and Forever 21 combined to overturn it.
Or if Nader wasn’t an egotist spoiler candidate.
Or if Jeb! hadn’t played stupid games with counting the goddamn votes.
Or if Roger fucking Stone hadn’t staged a riot specifically to ruin that counting process.
Or if the Supreme Court hadn’t already been corrupted by Federalist Society bastards.
And this stupid instance scolds people for “celebrating death,” like it’s any rando commenter’s fault that an actively harmful force died old and rich. As if newspapers in 1945 should’ve read “Hitler dies, unfortunately.” Nah: you can read some obituaries with great joy. You wanna stop people from sharing the list they look forward to? Sure, okay, if I squint I can see how that’s untoward. But it is impossible to do harm… after.
This man is partly responsible for empowering absolute monsters. His failures may have contributed to threats to human life on this planet. Now he’s dead. I can manage a response stronger than than apathy. Don’t expect anything kinder.
Yeah, a lot of things contributed to that. But having Lieberman on the ticket didn’t help.
All these points of failure can go fuck themselves, independently and individually.
We’ve been let down by a lot of people.