• MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Equal level of scrutiny > equal number of negative posts

    Maybe there are a million “trump is bad” articles because there are a million unique reasons that trump is bad. We don’t need a million “Harris is bad” articles to make it fair, we need legitimate comparison on equal ground. Nobody is insisting that you repost what’s already been said, but nobody needs to hear “Harris is also bad” when the only reasonable goal of such a thing is to draw a false equivalency in order to either encourage people that voting for trump isn’t actually all that bad, or discourage barely-motivated Harris voters from actually getting up off their asses to vote for her.

    To be clear, Harris isn’t perfect, but she’s proven to be competent and capable of growth as a human being who is engaging in a similar human experience as other people and understands the actual struggles we endure, their causes, and has proposed some solutions. The other fucking guy is airing out personal grievances, bitching about consequences for his actions, and spreading blatantly racist lies about immigrants which would make Hitler himself blush.

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      18 hours ago

      If anyone is legit not going to vote because of a negative news article posted by a stranger online… they’re dumb AF.

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        17 hours ago

        You’ve been here a while and most have told you about how it looks time and time again.

        Either you’re the living embodiment of the Skinner “No, it’s the children who are the problem” meme or you’re a “hidden” Trumpet/Russian asset/Bot

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            1 hour ago

            That’s a fine thing to say, but nobody believes you because of inconsistencies in your reasoning.

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            17 hours ago

            Then why are you so hell bent on helping Trump?

            I see we have gone with option a, living embodiment of the Skinner meme.

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              17 hours ago

              I’m not a Democrat I’m not a Republican. It’s the Democrats that are starting to court Republicans even praising war criminal Cheney. Politicians should constantly be critiqued. Hold their feet to the fire.

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                13 hours ago

                You:

                Politicians should constantly be critiqued. Hold their feet to the fire.

                Also you:

                Gurl please. There’s a million “Trump is bad” articles. Why would I post duplicates?

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                16 hours ago

                That’s what you fucks said about Clinton and now we have a tilted supreme court and two dead women and facing life in prison for miscarriages. Grow the fuck up.

                • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
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                  15 hours ago

                  Maybe Hillary should have actually campaigned harder and earned more votes? Blame the candidate not the voters.

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                    4 hours ago

                    I blame the voters just as much. It didn’t take a genius to see why Trump winning would be catastrophic.

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        18 hours ago

        Welcome to America, where people think that Fox News is a legitimate news source because “‘news’ is right there in the name!”

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        17 hours ago

        Oh, okay, glad all we needed was the smart votes and the votes from the deeply politically engaged.

        It reminds me of other instances of left purity, where somehow large swathes of voters don’t count because they’re too dirty, or something.