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Josh Shapiro Is a Terrible Choice for VP
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The more folks on Lemmy complain about this guy, the more I am convinced he might be the right choice. It worked for Harris, after all.
Didn't work so great for Biden.
Stopped clock.
Ok. do whatever stupid shit you want. Keep thinking that enthusiasm doesn't matter and that second worst is always a winner.
You'll blame anyone but yourself when you're wrong, like you did in 2016.
Enthusiasm is fine. Fanaticism is a problem. Know the difference.
Second worst has always been the winner throughout American history. Much the rest of the world too. Apart from that one time a Republican invented his own party to run on and won on his name recognition. Because the Republican party abandoned him. But hey if you got the stats to prove otherwise. We'd all like to see them.
Name calling and casting baseless aspersions won't make your points anymore reasonable or sound. Honestly it just makes people see you as a cringy obsessed weirdo. Which isn't helping any of the people you and I both want to see helped.
You may think that Trump was second worst to Clinton, but I don't.
Definitely unsurprising. Irrationality definitely doesn't appear to be against your modus operandi when it comes to these topics.
If second worst always wins and Trump beat Clinton, you're saying that Trump was second worst to Clinton.
As always with centrists, abuse is what you use in lieu of defensible positions.
Oh I see you back to making strawman and calling names again? Is that really all you have. Just so you know that's rhetorical question.
You're accusing me of the only thing you've been doing for this entire conversation.
I see so you have no actual replies. That's on brand for you.
I already replied to you. You made the idiotic assertion that second worst always wins. I countered it by saying that Trump won in 2016 and wasn't second worst.
Since you can't take being called out on being so obviously wrong about this, you did the only thing any centrist ever does when they're wrong: start slinging abuse.
Do you haven't posted an actual serious reply to any response I make you in this whole chain. Not just that one. But it was obvious that that when you were not replying in good faith. Which is your modus operandi. All you can do is call me wine and split hair in order to find any technical out.
You said something provably false and evidently expect me to immediately and unquestioningly accept it as incontrovertible fact. You can't admit you're wrong.
The only thing you accept as serious is agreeing with you about everything. Or maybe being to the right of you.
I said something that any reasonable person in the context it was being discussed would have understood that the second worse always winning was in the context of the absolute worst not winning. If the absolute worst wins. Then yes of course the second worst doesn't win. But I made the mistake of assuming that you were a reasonable person.
Nope I accept people giving me serious replies all the time that don't agree with me. I find having a discussion with someone in good faith whether or not they agree can be very informative and refreshing. Having a discussion with you is tedious and pointless. Because you are nothing but bad faith.
Harris nominated the better candidate.
That's great and?
The more I hear centrists talk about how he's a smart pick, the more convinced I am he'll be a disaster. It was true for Biden, after all.