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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you mean her rhetoric, she was just playing the game of politics, and I don't fault her for that.

If you mean not dropping out after it was apparent the moderate candidates were going to coalesce behind Biden, yeah, fuck her.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Would dropping out have done anything? Biden got over 50% of the vote. Burnie and Warren together were only around 33%.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A lot of issues come with the fact that success tends to snowball in primaries, hence why candidates always try to eke out early wins in Iowa, and why Super Tuesday is so important.

https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/super-tuesday/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This right here, I lived in Georgia in 2020, our votes in the general mattered quite a bit, but by the time we held our primaries it was clear Biden was going to be the nominee even if Bernie won Ga. So my only voice was “not fascism”

[–] skulbuny 3 points 4 months ago

Not sure how long "not fascism" will be on the ticket at this rate