• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    At this point, don’t let the news, horserace polls, TV and social media’s narratives of false equivalency (like how Trump wanting generals like Hitler’s is equally newsworthy as Harris not going on Joe Rogan’s show) paint your attitude.

    Give it your all, give it your best, vote, volunteer, encourage your friends, DO NOT GIVE UP until the day after Voting Day at least.

    As a Canadian I can’t vote, so I can feel especially helpless sometimes with what’s happening to the USA. What I can do is inject hope and positivity and courage to give Harris the best chance to cross the finish line. So take this energy and run with it until the end.

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      I remain optimistic about Harris’s chances, completely honestly. But even if my optimism is well-placed, it is vital that we remember this bullshit, not only in the lead-up to the election, but in the days after it. Fascist cunts will try to pretend none of this ever happened. We have to remember it, and cite it, and push it forward every time one of them tries to convince some burned-out swing voter that both sides are ‘just as bad’ or ‘the mainstream media is in the pockets of the DEMS!’

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        I’m not optimistic, but only because I see how well trumps vile behavior is playing in the south.

        He’s playing them like a virtuoso pianist, and their advantage in the EC might make it enough.

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        I hope you’re right. I have hope too, but it’s really only denial that there is a reality where Trump is a serious candidate. This is 2016 all over again, but with proof, plus he’s gone even darker

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          That’s right I voted in my local provincial elections where a clear winner still hasn’t emerged. My local NDP MLA wrecked the hell out of her Conservative opponent in votes, thankfully.

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            It was pretty clear what they meant if you had at least two functioning brain cells to rub together.

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              It was pretty clear I was making a joke about their ambiguous wording if you weren’t a complete asshole.

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                If you were joking, then you figured out what they meant. If you figured out what they meant, then everyone else can too. Their wording was fine and clear within the surrounding context

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                    I’m not sure that you do. Pretending to not understand something you then say that you did understand is not sarcasm. It’s more like feigned ignorance. And while I guess that can be used to point out that something is unclear, in this case the thing was clear, so the ‘joke’ didn’t really land

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      To be fair the Harris campaign hasn’t been able to get traction.

      It’s infuriating Harris is taking about medical records while Trump is planning to undermine the results.

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          No she’s not.

          There’s every chance she’s going to lose the election to a criminal, fascist, rapist, lying, insurrectionist octogenarian who’s only policies are lynching political opponents and tanking the global economy with a tarrif war.

          I like Harris immensely and I think she would make a fine president, and maybe go a long way to healing the yawning chasm between progressives and conservatives.

          However given the remaining likelihood that she will lose against such an opponent you have to agree that her campaign hasn’t really gotten traction.

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            No, I actually don’t agree respectfully. I wholeheartedly disagree. I think she’s on fire.

            🔥🔥🔥Harris🔥🔥🔥

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                Sounds like you’ve been listening to the wrong people instead of watching her interviews and rallies for yourself.

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                  Come on. If you want to evaluate the effectiveness of Harris’ campaign, should you listen to her talk, or listen to commentary from a variety of sources?

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                    To evaluate the effectiveness, you would listen to the people, of course. What “sources“ are you talking about? News pundits? Because that would be a terrible metric.