• Rentlar
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    728 hours ago

    At this point, don’t let the news, horserace polls, TV and social media’s narratives of false equivalency (like how Trump wanting generals like Hitler’s is equally newsworthy as Harris not going on Joe Rogan’s show) paint your attitude.

    Give it your all, give it your best, vote, volunteer, encourage your friends, DO NOT GIVE UP until the day after Voting Day at least.

    As a Canadian I can’t vote, so I can feel especially helpless sometimes with what’s happening to the USA. What I can do is inject hope and positivity and courage to give Harris the best chance to cross the finish line. So take this energy and run with it until the end.

    • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      418 hours ago

      I remain optimistic about Harris’s chances, completely honestly. But even if my optimism is well-placed, it is vital that we remember this bullshit, not only in the lead-up to the election, but in the days after it. Fascist cunts will try to pretend none of this ever happened. We have to remember it, and cite it, and push it forward every time one of them tries to convince some burned-out swing voter that both sides are ‘just as bad’ or ‘the mainstream media is in the pockets of the DEMS!’

    • @fine_sandy_bottom
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      To be fair the Harris campaign hasn’t been able to get traction.

      It’s infuriating Harris is taking about medical records while Trump is planning to undermine the results.

        • @fine_sandy_bottom
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          No she’s not.

          There’s every chance she’s going to lose the election to a criminal, fascist, rapist, lying, insurrectionist octogenarian who’s only policies are lynching political opponents and tanking the global economy with a tarrif war.

          I like Harris immensely and I think she would make a fine president, and maybe go a long way to healing the yawning chasm between progressives and conservatives.

          However given the remaining likelihood that she will lose against such an opponent you have to agree that her campaign hasn’t really gotten traction.

          • @hemmes@lemmy.world
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            54 hours ago

            No, I actually don’t agree respectfully. I wholeheartedly disagree. I think she’s on fire.

            🔥🔥🔥Harris🔥🔥🔥

            • @fine_sandy_bottom
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              It’s like you haven’t watched any commentary at all.

              I desperately want her to win but every indication is that she has even odds.

              • @hemmes@lemmy.world
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                16 minutes ago

                Sounds like you’ve been listening to the wrong people instead of watching her interviews and rallies for yourself.

    • @Saleh@feddit.org
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      DO NOT GIVE UP until the day after Voting Day at least.

      This kind of brought us into this place in the first place. If people had cared to push the Democratic party to deliver, rather than being the other right wing economic choice for the tech billionaires, the Reps being for the oil billionaires (although the tech billionaires seem to have grown much more fascist these years) they could actually bring proper policy. Especially the unwillingness to make deeply needed economic, social and political reforms is a result of the party remaining in the firm grip of established elites like Biden, Clintons, Obama… Of course the fascist get stronger every election, if the two choices are fascists and economic right to far right.

      Voting is not enough. It can merely be the start of digging the US out of the whole that it has moved itself into deeper and deeper.

      • Rentlar
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        You’re right, voting is the first step of many to fix the country. People need a bit of a break from it all at some point. While tuning out for 4 years is what gets us in this situation, power through to election day then give a few weeks for voters to reward themselves if Harris succeeds.

        Remember that Harris and Walz aren’t even elites. For now they have to cater to voters of all stripes and billionaire, religious leader and warmongerer sympathies to an extent. Only once the nation has evaded the worst of outcomes, is there an opportunity for things to be fixed using normal processes. Downballot effects if it’s a massive blue wave would be huge for the country, and when Harris is preparing to take charge in January, people everywhere petition for change in the system from the people they freshly elected or re-elected.