• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      “I Know you don’t like MY candidate, but you know… Blue No Matter WHO!!! You don’t want a fascist to win, do you?”

      people are absolutely lying about it. the question is… how many.

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        3 months ago

        You’ve not convinced me. I don’t know why anyone would use that argument if it completely betrayed their feelings. Plenty others you could use which make more sense

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          3 months ago

          Uhhuh.

          You don’t believe people can be manipulative assholes? Or that they lie?

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              3 months ago

              You don’t see the motivation to push your preferred candidate onto people? To manipulate people who disagree with that choice?

              Or to manipulate an entire base?

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                3 months ago

                Oh no, they manipulated the entire democratic base to vote democratic!

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                  3 months ago

                  Great argument on the day of the Election Day.

                  Lousy argument during primaries. It’s the kind of argument that gave us a Hillary candidacy when anyone who wasn’t deluded knew she’d lose. (An anti-establishment platform against the one person who embodies “the establishment”- and not in a good way?)

                  It’s the kind of argument that gives us fucking manchin or menendez, too.

                  But making that argument during the primary? Before the nominee has ever been decided? Naw. If they were serious, it wouldn’t matter so much and they’d let the best candidate win.