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The Streisand Defect (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This was Hillary's strategy for winning in 2016, believe it or not. This was revealed by WikiLeaks.

No way they could've predicted that backfiring, right?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Just imagine how much better the world would be right now if she fucked off and allowed Bernie to win

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s assuming that her moderate voters wouldn’t have gravitated around another moderate Dem early in the game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

"moderate" americans are just conservatives without the nazism lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

This is our punishment for shooting the Kwanza gorilla

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

To be fair, the onslaught of negative Trump coverage also helped him lose the house in 2018, the general in 2020 and a shit load of easy Republican house seats in 2022.

People seem to forget that a lot of folks stayed home in 2016 because they thought it was impossible for that clown shoe to get elected. No one believes that anymore.