Running unpopular candidates with unpopular positions is a bad idea. And being unwilling to call the DNC out for it is why we got such terrible candidates. Biden was the Emperor with New Clothes, and everyone could clearly see that. To place the blame on those who wanted a candidate that was popular with voters, instead of a naked emperor is disingenuous.
Well, I was talking about Harris, not Biden, but if you really want to know: Backing Genocide. Bad economic policy. Increased military spending. Half-assed fixes for healthcare costs. Half-assed fixes for policing. Half-assed fixes for climate-change. Just look at the polling at the time. It was clear that Americans didn’t like him or his policies.
It is relevant, because the DNC telling everyone that their clearly cognitively impared candidate wasn’t cognitively impared. That disenfranchised a lot of voters who gave up on the Democratic party after that. Harris had to spend her campaign with Biden and his legacy dragging her down.
You may think that the outrage at a clearly corrupt organization that handed the election over to fascists is silly, but a lot of people find that pretty important.
I’m arguing with you because you are lying. Plenty of people said that the Republicans are worse. I don’t think the coverage was one sided, it’s just that the Democrats couldn’t see how bad their candidate was. Yes, some voters are dumb, and thought Trump would be better, that’s how voters are. Maybe if we could have pointed to a party that was actually trying to fix things, we could have had better ammo to sway them.
I saw plenty of people criticizing Trump AND Biden. Saying that everyone constantly and only criticized Biden is openly false.
Well, I think being a terrible candidate that ran on unpopular platforms and alienated voters, all while trying to be as similar to a highly unpopular president might have also had something to do with it. I don’t think being a woman was that big of a factor. The fact that we tried to warn you is highly relevant. Learning from your mistakes is how you stop making them, but the Democratic leadership keeps refusing to do that.
Yeah, after gaslighting and alienating voters, which led to Trump getting elected. I feel like he should be called out for handing the elction over to Trump on a silver platter, because that’s exactly what he did.
Me and a lot of others were pointing out that the Republicans were worse, and that’s why we wanted Democrats to pick a candidate that the voters actually wanted. Your revisionist history is a bad faith attempt to shift blame from those that refuse to learn why they keep losing elections to a fascist party.
Which fascist talking points? That genocide is unpopular? That screwing over the working class was a bad idea? That alienating your voter-base during an election is a bad idea? That putting up a candidate that were in clear cognitive decline was a bad idea?
If the Democrats had listened to us, instead of handing the election to Trump on a silver platter, we wouldn’t be where we are today. We spent all our time calling out Biden and the Democrats specfically to avoid getting Trump reelected. The Democratic leadership are the ones that told us to fuck off when we tried to get them to stop making obvious mistakes, and start running serious candidates.
lol, no. He got kicked out right when it was obvious that he was in severe mental decline. Everyone knew he wasn’t fit before the debate, but after his disasterous performance during the debate, everyone had to admit that the emporer wasn’t wearing any clothes.
Of course it matters. Everyone backing the clearly and obviously mentally unfit Biden is why Trump is in power. Maybe if the Democrats had admitted what was obviously true from the beginning, we wouldn’t be stuck with Trump.
Only because he did such an embarrasingly and obviously bad job. Maybe his party should have been pointing out that the emporer wasn’t wearing any clothes, instead of pretending that he was qualified.
You mean the ethnic cleansing that Biden also supported?
Yeah, maybe Biden should be called out for that.
Yep an Administration is more than just the president. It’s the competent people that surround him.
Yeah, having a bunch of anti-worker, pro-coporate, war-mongers led to people being desperate enough to vote for Trump. Maybe Biden should have done something about that when he had the chance, so that people wouldn’t be so disenfranchised with the Democrats that made Trump seem eligible.
What part? Pointing out that the Democrats clear failures led to Trump being elected?
It seems like people who point out why Trump got elected should be taken seriously instead of being dismissed. Maybe learning and avoiding the obvious mistakes of the past is a good idea.
The current president is doing terrible. But Trump wouldn’t be president if Biden hadn’t been such a terrible president.
Maybe Biden should have fought for the people he proposed to represent, so that everyone wouldn’t be so desperate to see the system burn down that they were willing to vote for Trump.
The same Biden who hung on desperately until the last minute? Until he was forced out after being insanely and obviously unfit for the position?
The same Biden who refused to act against when a dictatorship knocked on his front door? The same Biden who sacrificed the “good of the Republic” because he cared more about holding on to power than the cared about fighting against fascism?
“May have…”? It was pretty clear early on that Harris wasn’t popular. Maybe if the Democratic party had actually given a shit about winning, we wouldn’t have Trump as a president. But the Democratic leadership cared more about propping up a terrible candidate like Biden than they cared about keeping Trump out of office.
Why not shit on a terrible president, and a terrible candidate that directly led to Trump getting re-elected? Maybe if the dems had been willing to call out their own, we wouldn’t be where we are now.
lol, you mean the guy that gave hand-outs to the rich? Lets be real: He was forced out because he did such a bad job during the debate that the rich could no longer deny how bad of a job he was doing. Spin this any way you want, but he got the boot because he was in clear cognitive decline.
I use LUKS and backup to a usb-drive that I have at home. I rsync those backups to my work once a week. Not everyone can backup to their office, but as others have said, backing up to a friend/family member’s house is doable. The nice thing about rsync is that you can limit the bandwidth, so that even though it takes longer, it doesn’t saturate their internet connection.
Those are both completely untrue. I saw the election coverage. I saw a bunch of shit being thrown at Biden/Harris and Trump. The idea that it was one-sided is just ignoring how bad the Democratic candidates were.