• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    IMO she lost because her entire platform was:

    • i’m a woman
    • i’m non-white
    • support trans rights

    none of that tackles the cost-of-living crisis, none of that gives people an economic future.

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      7 hours ago

      To me her platform was:

      • I’m not Trump
      • I’m going to keep on doing what Biden was doing
      • Republicans you should vote for me because I’m not that different than you

      The bottom two is what really did her in. Being the status quo candidate when people aren’t happy with the status quo isn’t a winning strategy. Neither is ignoring your base to pander to a group of people who will never for vote for you.

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      6 hours ago

      support trans rights

      Why do you surrender so easily to right-wing framing? What ads did she run supporting trans rights? What did she possibly do to make it an issue of her campaign?

      There were two sides on trans rights. On one side, we had literal Nazis. On the other, silence. You conclude that the side that stayed silent made their whole campaign about trans rights, which is completely delusional.

      Read the article. Kamala made her opinion of LGBT rights abundantly clear. She explicitly rejected Pete Buttigieg using the same logic a thousand other passive bigots I’ve met use. “I have no problem with queer people, but I can’t be near queer people because of what people might think of me.”

    • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Not sure why you’re downvoted when you’re absolutely right and Mamdani proved it too. People are suffocating under the economic pressure, they consider other issues less important until that one is resolved.

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      9 hours ago

      The right was the side that wouldn’t stop talking about trans issues as if they were a pressing matter. More manufactured outrage from the side that has been manufacturing outrage from every non-issue for decades.

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      9 hours ago

      Vs. a fascist dictator? It should have been a no-brainer, but instead it proved that a lack of brains is exactly what causes someone to choose not to vote or to protest via 3rd party nobodies.