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Kamala Harris appears to blame ‘people not voting’ for 2024 loss to Trump as book tour gets off to rocky start
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2025
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It's not always a strictly logical choice for people. I can totally see how someone with family there would be unable to vote for either candidate. Yes, I was personally able to see my vote as anti trump, but if things were similar under a harris presidency I'd spend my whole life having to reconcile the fact that I did indeed vote for genocide (even if it was justified in my mind at the time). Not everyone wants to do that. And if I can see that problem I don't understand how professional politicians can't. People weren't saying 'dont vote for her cause genocide' they were saying 'some people won't vote for her cause genocide, maybe enough to swing the thing' - and they were right. I don't know why we're attacking them again and again when they were clearly right.
I get your point, but I'm strictly talking about people on this website whom I probably wrongly assume are more literate about politics and can see right through Trump based on the trends of thought on Lemmy. You can't tell me that a platform devoted to USA politics that vehemently criticizes his hypocrisy and lies doesn't realize he's talking out of both sides of his mouth while doing exactly what Biden would've done, but worse.
It seems awfully convenient to US enemies that people on online forums would prefer genocide with their destructive fascism rather than plain old genocide, while actively playing down both under this administration. This shit makes no sense.