• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    It’s almost like the Israel/Palestine issue was completely irrelevant to the election since there were only two choices and both treated it the same. Yet only the Democrat candidate lost votes over it. Funny how they worked. It’s almost like someone engineered it

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      8 days ago

      Dems lost votes because they count on votes from the very people they are genocide, or votes from people very opposed to supporting genocides.

      The GOP didn’t, because they don’t count on those votes.

      It’s not “engineered” it’s a matter of respecting your voters.

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        8 days ago

        It’s hard to admit you fell for propaganda but you did. The genocide was irrelevant to the election. Anyone telling you it was relevant wanted your vote nullified.

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          8 days ago

          Harris’ support of genocide was a very bright line for many voters they would not cross.

          Hell, how could I, with a straight face, ask my Palestinian neighbor to vote for her?

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            7 days ago

            Because one of them was going to be president, neither would do anything different regarding Israel, and there are many other issues to vote for or against.

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              7 days ago

              Oh you mean like the economy, that Harris was telling everyone was great?

              I’m sure that rung true with voters facing food insecurity, or losing their home…

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                7 days ago

                The economy was improving. The problem was that people confuse the economy with their income. Income inequality has been a growing problem for decades. Biden and Harris actually did quite a bit to fight this by putting caps on medicine costs, pushing for school debt forgiveness, the child tax credit, and dozens of other programs which Trump is already dismantling.

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                  7 days ago

                  The economy for who was improving?

                  Certainly not the working class… it has gotten so bad, we have people shooting CEOs lol