• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Vance is an absolute dud of a candidate but I’m sure the Democrats will manage to come up with someone even more ludicrously unsuited.

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      By unsuited, do you mean for the job or to get the vote of fickle progressives?

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        “Dem candidates are never bad, progressives are just fickle!” - you

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          They’re not worse than JD Vance, which was the contention. If the commenter is not coming at it from the disgruntled progressive stance, as so many here are, then that part of my response was off the mark.

          The commenter is being very coy about what was meant.

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            You don’t even know who it’s gonna be and you’re already stating they’ll be better than Vance as if it’s a truism. I can absolutely see the DNC fucking up so badly that Vance looks like a better alternative. INB4 we end up with two Peter Thiel acolytes running against each other; “abundance” vs. “Christian” nationalism, a true clash of ideas.

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              You don’t even know who it’s gonna be and you’re already stating they’ll be better than Vance as if it’s a truism.

              This thread has gotten quite derailed. The original commenter made the supposition that the nominee will be even more ludicrously unsuited than Vance. I take issue with that assumption. Like you said, we don’t even know who the nominee is.

              I’m saying that historically the Dem candidates have not been ludicrously unsuited compared to their opponents. If that’s the case, where’s this thought that the next one will be coming from?

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        What job exactly would that be? To do the bidding of the oligarchs or to actually represent the electorate?

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          I’m asking what you mean, so feel free to add details. Let’s just use Kamala Harris as an example.

          Who would be better suited to do the bidding of the oligarchs? Trump or Harris.

          Who would be better suited to actually represent the electorate? Trump or Harris.

          Who would be better suited to get the vote of fickle progressives? Trump or Harris.

          Your answers will help me determine what your comment meant. Let me know if you were thinking of someone other than Harris who that was and if your answers would be any different.

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              I was reading into your original comment that you thought in the past Democrats have put forth candidates that are “even more ludicrously unsuited” than their Republican opponents. I assumed, regrettably, that you were basing your remark on historical evidence.

              You can clear this up pretty quickly by just explaining what you meant. Here’s your comment:

              Vance is an absolute dud of a candidate but I’m sure the Democrats will manage to come up with someone even more ludicrously unsuited.

              Why do you think that? Did you find Harris more unsuited than Trump? If so, for what? If not, what do you mean?

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                Did you find Harris more unsuited than Trump?

                She lost. If the topic is “unsuited as a candidate”, we have our answer.

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                  That could be an answer. Unsuited to win. But that’s a little hard to judge ahead of time.

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    I’m finding this interesting—- I’ve heard two hypotheses around JD running for President—

    1, he will divorce Usha, as she’s not Xian; and marry Erika….

    2, Usha will convert

    In my universe; #1 is ahead by a nose at this point. The Hug and this just keep adding to #1…