Hex wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 10:32 pm
kokorodoko wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 4:48 pm
Following the reactions to the US election over the past weeks my thoughts are that I want to kill every centrist Democrat and that every woman should get to kill men freely for one month.
Pretty much felt that already but after watching them go “we lost because we moved to far left!” after one of the most conservative campaigns they’ve ever run
Yeah... Not to mention that there are about 7 different, mutually incompatible, explanations for why they lost floating around. They moved too far left, they moved too far right, the candidate was a black woman, they did too much identity politics, they dropped their main candidate, they didn't run a primary...
Some commenters said that "The party should become more bigoted to win back voters" is something that comes up after every election, and maybe so. I'm not getting too attached to it right now since these people are quite obviously grasping desperately. Still, this election wasn't like others.
And this McBride thing, it's so depressing. Demoralization and defeat right from the get-go. Like forget about pragmatics, what about will and vigour? Since they're so concerned about their image, how do they think this looks to other people? People, that is, who are not afterglowing on their own election-hype like they are. Why would I trust you? I wouldn't even want to be near you. It would be bad for my mental health. Shit like this seriously makes me nauseated and contemptuous of them, of their plain existence. Lifeless, bloodless, like they're committed to a slow death.
(And yes I have heard that this is supposedly a very very clever strategy by McBride to whatever I can't even listen to the end of the argument. So pathetically desperate.)