• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You’ve not convinced me. I don’t know why anyone would use that argument if it completely betrayed their feelings. Plenty others you could use which make more sense

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      3 months ago

      Uhhuh.

      You don’t believe people can be manipulative assholes? Or that they lie?

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          3 months ago

          You don’t see the motivation to push your preferred candidate onto people? To manipulate people who disagree with that choice?

          Or to manipulate an entire base?

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            3 months ago

            Oh no, they manipulated the entire democratic base to vote democratic!

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              3 months ago

              Great argument on the day of the Election Day.

              Lousy argument during primaries. It’s the kind of argument that gave us a Hillary candidacy when anyone who wasn’t deluded knew she’d lose. (An anti-establishment platform against the one person who embodies “the establishment”- and not in a good way?)

              It’s the kind of argument that gives us fucking manchin or menendez, too.

              But making that argument during the primary? Before the nominee has ever been decided? Naw. If they were serious, it wouldn’t matter so much and they’d let the best candidate win.