• AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
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    11 days ago

    You know, as someone outside the US, I was pretty confident in this election. Harris seemed like a candidate that could stand against Trump in a way that Hillary Clinton never was. I had stopped worrying and even thought the people here were being dramatic in thinking Trump was actually going to get reelected.

    Well, there goes that…

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      11 days ago

      Harris seemed like a candidate that could stand against Trump in a way that Hillary Clinton never was.

      How? Harris was/is the same centrist neoliberal “hold your nose and vote for her” slop Clinton was.

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        Hillary was the lightning rod of the party for 20 years. If thought that that had something to do with it. There’s something we aren’t acknowledging. There’s a something wrong in the heart of America and its growing, not shrinking. Whatever that emotion that’s driven it, it’s not going away.

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        It’s because after she was the nominee the same campaign team that Clinton had took over. All the good work her team did was for nothing as everything was scraped and 2016 came again