• upto60percentoff@kbin.run
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    3 months ago

    I think both are incredibly weird but you do you, boo

    I take it this means you’ve reconsidered your previous opinion that Biden is the only viable candidate for the democrats

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      3 months ago

      That was never my opinion. My opinion was that Biden (and a lot of others) believed that, and almost no one ran against him. So if people wanted someone else to run instead of Biden, it was too late. And they didn’t canvass for anyone else anyway, something they got mad about when I asked them who they canvassed for.

      But I was wrong about it being too late because I honestly did not think Biden would do this.

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        3 months ago

        Pointedly asking people who their preferred candidate is to Biden doesn’t fit that narrative, though.

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          How does it not fit that narrative? If everyone canvassed for another candidate, there might have been a legitimate primary challenge. But almost all the people who complained about Biden didn’t do that. So asking who their preferred candidate was and asking them why they didn’t canvass for them seems apt to me.

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            3 months ago

            Ignoring that asking about canvassing isn’t all you did, expecting people to canvas to have an opinion on politics is so nonsensical it actually brings us full circle to the deliberately ridiculous original comment I left.

            How is expecting people to canvas before having an opinion any better than expecting people to donate? It reeks of elitism.

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              3 months ago

              What? Canvass before having an opinion? It had been three years into Biden’s presidency when the election year started. People didn’t have an opinion of whether or not he should run or who else should be president by then?

              You’re right, I don’t expect them to canvass. They clearly are very politically unaware.

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                3 months ago

                You’re really doubling down at every opportunity?

                How is expecting people to canvas before having an opinion more justifiable than expecting them to donate before having one?

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                    3 months ago

                    The point being that you went from not believing anybody else could do the job to believing in Harris because it turns out that if somebody isn’t campaigning then they don’t seem a viable candidate?