• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    No, you kept ignoring that her support for genocide lost her the election. You kept repeating the “trump was worse!!!” canard like that somehow made material difference in the results. But not once did you say that she was at fault in any way for the loss you blame the voters alone for.

    Second worst is a mistake because voters have standards. Blaming the voters is just an excuse to keep getting worse.

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      15 hours ago

      The only point I’m trying to make in this thread about Briahna is that Briahna was wrong to suppress turnout, which you agree with. We also agree on everything else, you haven’t noticed yet, and I apologize my comments are so Briahna-centric in the thread about Briahna, but post something else if you don’t want to hear my opinions on Briahna anymore.

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        15 hours ago

        The only point I’m trying to make in this thread about Briahna is that Briahna was wrong to suppress turnout, which you agree with.

        You claim that she was trying to suppress turnout, but centrists say that shit about everyone with even the slightest problem with genocide.

        We also agree on everything else,

        Then say harris shouldn’t have supported genocide. I don’t think you can. You’ll happily admit she did, but you won’t admit she lost a single vote by doing so. That was only the fault of those evil voters and the malicious critics of the genocide wing that is incapable of doing anything wrong ever.

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          14 hours ago

          You claim

          What is your claim? Did you watch the video? The entire conversation between her and Contrapoints was about this specific topic: whether to vote for Harris in the general or not. They are both left leaning political activists, they were discussing general election strategy, as I’ve continued to do in the thread related to that conversation.

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                14 hours ago

                Read what you’ve written. I did. Not once have you admitted that harris was wrong in the slightest to support genocide.

                It’s all “but trump’s worse!” and “but people were discouraging others from voting!”

                Harris was wrong to support genocide. Whether trump is worse is immaterial. She wasn’t failed by an electorate that demands perfection. She failed an electorate that had generous, reasonable standards she was unwilling to meet. “Don’t support genocide” isn’t demanding perfection. It’s expecting the tiniest sliver of basic human decency, and somehow that’s too much to ask. So she lost. The electorate isn’t going to fall line next time either. That’s not me discouraging voting; that’s me looking at reality.

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                  14 hours ago

                  Harris’ support of genocide was not the sole factor to her losing, activists like Briahna played a role as well as a million other factors. Harris should’ve been better, Briahna should’ve been better. In this thread about Briahna, I’m focusing on what Briahna and other activists could’ve done better. You will not engage with that, you are trying to have a different conversation, another one in which we agree, but is not the focus of this conversation between Contrapoints and Briahna. And you’re strawmanning so hard about my views outside of Briahna, I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith.

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                    13 hours ago

                    Harris should’ve been better

                    This is the closest you’ve come to saying that Harris shouldn’t have supported genocide in this thread. Still not there. Who’s stopping you from saying that Harris shouldn’t have supported genocide?