• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    LOL, nah. Pretending people were too sexist to vote for Hillary and some white male neolib would’ve done better is nothing but a fantasy neolibs tell themselves to try to excuse their corporate bootlicking.

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        7 hours ago

        True! But also shutting out AOC is itself an example of said corporate bootlicking, so it’s not so much of a “well, and” as it is an “including.”

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        1 day ago

        Biden squeaked by only because Trump fucked up the pandemic so badly. That does not mean he would’ve won in 2016.

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        And the conditions in 2016 were markedly different than they were in 2020, unless you don’t believe in the forward progression of time.

        In other news, a tautology is a tautology.

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          Yes, conditions in 2016 were markedly different. Biden was the VP of a highly successful president. Hillary had been demonized by the right for 2 decades and by the left for 1 decade. By the forward progression of time, Biden was weaker in 2024 than he was in 2020. Conversely, he would have been a stronger candidate in 2016.

          Listen, every other “X could have beat Trump” is a hypothetical. Trump has only ever been beaten once, and I don’t want to carry on a factual debate with a Qanon MAGA hat that doesn’t believe in logic, just “feels”, so good night.

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            1 day ago

            Well clearly someone’s emotions have gotten the best of them. Have fun wallowing in your hypotheticals and lashing out at people meaninglessly. After 8 years of Obama, America was not voting for Obama 2 immediately after. That is a crazy take.

            Edit: Obama 2, now more boring and uninspiring!

            I was there. Biden was not the solution then.