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i can't even guess as to why they went quiet. not one guess at all. we will never know.

edit: well they're not quiet now once they get called out

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You got Trump elected twice.

Good job, if that was the intent.

Your child analogy is sophistry trying to pin responsibility for the DNC's failures on others to preserve the paycheck of checks notebook oh yeah, the campaign manager of John Edwards failed primary campaign who then went to work for Clinton in 2016 and Harris in 2024.

You're carrying the water for people who continue to fail up and then fail using the same strategy that failed them before.

Good job.

But... I'm guessing you're not aware of the whole DNC consultant class that continues to drive failing campaigns that fail to get votes but succeed in getting billionaires contributions that get given to the consultant class so they can buy their next yacht. None of this is hidden either, it is public.

Which makes the irony of an ignorant person like you repeating the lines that fail to win votes but maintains the jobs of the people failing calling other people children.

EDIT: You're like a musk fanboi with a paid for blue checkmark. Difference is that the musk fanboi at least knows they're a fanboi.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You seem to have extrapolated quite a lot from such a brief comment. Is it possible you may have misstepped in some of your assumptions here?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you call the people pointing out the DNC was headed for disaster children, or were you calling the people who failed at their job children?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The children are the people vehemently demanding the DNC unilaterally employ their chosen platform, under the pretense that it would instantly solve their problems, and then subsequently abstaining out of protest. The political landscape is more complicated than that.

I've said elsewhere, elections are won on popularity, not policy. If the DNC unilaterally shifts to a pro-worker platform, all their wealthy donors shift to attack ads against them. Adopting more popular policies can ironically lose them votes as those policies get misrepresented to voters by propagandists.

Add to that the habit of progressives to abstain when a platform isn't perfectly catered to them, and you have an impossible situation where you're trying to court multiple conflicting demographics while the financial support you once had has been turned against you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the children in this case being the people who don't support genocides? got it. and you wonder why harris lost the 'popularity' contest. jesus christ.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We play the hand we're dealt. Accelerated genocide + fascism is a worse outcome than performative resistance to genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You were not dealt this hand, you chose it by not telling them 'no'. it is the most powerful word you have in your arsenal learn to use it. there is a reason utilitarianism is panned basically universally in ethics classes. Had you been willing to exercise it against the DNC you might not be in the very situation you find yourself in now.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How did that work out for all the people who said no? Now Trump will help Bibi annex the West Bank. I've taken Ethics, utilitarianism was absolutely not panned.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. you had a shit ethics professor.
  2. bibi already has the west bank and it was done under biden's watch and harris supported it.
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Every ethics course pans utilitarianism"

"I took ethics and they gave very serious consideration to utilitarianism"

"Am I out of touch? No, it's the ethics professors who are wrong"

Do you hear yourself?