• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    She mentioned in other interviews that she wasn’t planning on doing things exactly the same as the Biden admin - I don’t think it was ever an expectation for her to, from the voters or admin. Even if she was wanting to walk on eggshells about it, it would have been as easy as “The Biden administration feels…” and leaving it that. The unspoken “But my opinion on it…” would have been enough to avoid the shitstorm she caused.

    Her comments on Israel were unquestioning support for ravaging Gaza, with zero ambiguity about a potential misalignment with her personal stance.

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      2 months ago

      I mean, obviously she should have done everything at least a little differently. She was horrible at communicating, didn’t appeal well to progressives, and in general just came off sounding wishy-washy on everything.

      She made it impossible for anyone to actually “know” what she intended to do once she was president.

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        2 months ago

        I mean specifically the issue of Israel’s genocide on Gaza and Harris’s support for it. She made her intentions perfectly clear. This wasn’t like a minor tweak she should have made to her campaign - she revealed to the world that she’s an evil sack of shit whose only appeal comes from the contrast with people who are even more evil and even more shit.

        The strategic action was to vote for her anyway, cuz the other guy was a LOT more evil/shit, but people get predictably irrational about their purity tests, and between her malice and the ensuing wave of voter apathy, we got the much, much, much greater evil.