• eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    2028 primary election polls?

    I’m busy planning the Orlando Magic’s NBA title parade, while we’re worrying about realistic concerns.

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    10 hours ago

    Cool… AOC is leading in the polls about an imaginary election taking place more than 3 years from now. Meanwhile yesterday I spent $116 on groceries and didn’t even need help carrying them up the stairs.

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      $116 of groceries that you can carry up the stairs‽ So like, a few bananas, an avocado, and some stale bread (no toasting required)? Quit bitching, you’re spending wayyy over your means, obviously! Lemme guess, you occasionally enjoy cheese as well. Have you tried $116 worth of beans instead?.. I bet not, you bougie peasant

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        Importing that avocado is the real problem, should have picked up a Florida orange and a Georgia peach instead.

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    Someone should tell the Boomers that it’s time for them to get out of politics and let the younger ones replace them.

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    AOC has it all. She’s progressive, well educated, from a humble background, intelligent and good looking. I am rooting for her but I don’t expect the Democratic Party to have a fair primary for that Senate seat.

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      10 hours ago

      I’ve never voted for anyone because the are considered “good looking”. What a shallow approach to politics.

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      Was nodding along until you commented on a politician’s appearance….

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        JFK has entered the chat.

        In the first televised presidential debate in 1960, radio listeners said that Nixon won, but TV viewers thought he looked thin and sallow compared to Kennedy’s youthful vigor and gave JFK the edge.

        Appearance has played a big role in politics ever since.

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        Unless you haven’t lived in the real world, you’d know that -like it or not- looks also matter, and right now we need all the matter we can get

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        I think they meant that in the sense that charisma is a practical tool to get elected and to get your message across, not that they want to see more hotties on CSPAN.

        Like the other reply said, it’s unfortunate that it’s a significant factor, but here it is.

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        It’s the unfortunate reality in American politics, especially for someone from a minority group

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    My hope is that more “quiet Democrats” get primary’d. Usually they would say “don’t primary me, you’ll risk losing us to the Republican candidate in the general and we have a moderate agenda that’s the lesser evil”.

    Right now they don’t have an agenda at all, no rudder, no direction. This is the time to primary tf out of the old Dems.

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    Schumer has already started cozying up to the most important election lobby.

    Israel.

    Activate AIPAC

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      I remember a time when the United States actually took a break from reporting on elections instead of manufacturing hype for four solid years between major elections.

      The current political media landscape is exhausting, and I’m so sorry to everyone who is young enough to think that constant election projections are “normal.”

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        Multiple 24hr all-news channels + produced as an entertainment & engagement product + people thinking that what smart informed people do is watch the news channel all the damned time. It all adds up to this crap we have today.

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    I’ll be glad to see the back of Corporate DINO Schumer. Though after being booted, he’ll probably regularly show up on Fox News as a token Democrat to criticize anything the government does that helps the people more than the billionaires and corporations.

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    Don’t think I can support anyone running against AOC. She’s the best candidate by a country mile.

    It’s not even that she’s so spectacular, it’s just the other options are horrendously shit.

    Gearing up for the tsunamis of useful idiots though telling me why we need a moderate candidate just like hillary and kamala.

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      why we need a moderate candidate just like hillary and kamala.

      Screw the “don’t rock the boat” candidates… unless they’re the only option compared to the “let’s destroy America!” candidate on the other side.

      Not rocking the boat is better than setting the country on fire for no goddamn reason (if the system were burning down with a reasonable expectation we could make it better that’d be arguably different). I’m sure there are plenty that feel smugly superior for having “protested” by not voting, and I trust you don’t mind the whole “country’s on fire” thing going on (insert “this is fine” meme).

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        It’s a two-pronged strategy.

        The lesser-evil candidates piggyback on the greater-evil ones by saying “Hey, at least we’re not as bad as that guy!”

        It’s super effective against useful idiots.

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      Not American but from my point of view it looks like you need her more than anything. Her, and preferably many more just like her. Normal intelligent people from all walks of life. Decent human beings.

      This is also why I’ve never had an issue with Elizabeth Warren, not that I want to be shilling for her here. I would’ve loved to see her get a real chance at the presidency though. While she might be relatively wealthy now she also came from a comparatively normal background, and she seems to remember living it, too (I obviously don’t have her voting records in front of my face, but I’ve read almost everything she’s ever written).

      Got called a misogynist at Reddit back then for daring to suggest she might be a good candidate, because apparently that’s what you are if you think she might have a better temperament than trump…

      I digress, though. AOC is awesome.

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      No need for a moderate candidate. If you have another election, people would happily vote for a mentally handicapped squirrel over whatever republican is running.