• UsernameHere@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    What are you not getting?

    Spending more doesn’t guarantee a win because not everything a campaign does to increase votes is equally effective or equal in cost. Is that not reality?

    But spending less means less resources for the campaign which limits what the campaign is capable of. Is that not reality?

    Bernie can’t compete with only grassroots donations. You’re feelings and opinions won’t change that.

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      3 hours ago

      Bernie can’t compete with only grassroots donations.

      Literally all of the data I shared says the fucking opposite, dude! On top of that, Trump was running a grassroots campaign in 2016 that broke GOP records for small-donor money, and he won even though Clinton out-spent him. So, what actual evidence do you have to back up your assertions here? Or is it just the vibes?

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        2 hours ago

        Literally none of the data you shared says the opposite.

        You shared an opinion piece about Bloomberg and a chart of Super PAC spending.

        Literally none of the data you shared says the opposite.

        On top of that, Trump was running a grassroots campaign in 2016 that broke GOP records for small-donor money, and he won even though Clinton out-spent him.

        Fact Sheet: What We Know about Russia’s Interference Operations

        You’re gonna pretend Trump is running a grassroots campaign without Russian backing?

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          1 hour ago

          OK, so gonna recap here; you think it didn’t matter that the DNC conspired against Bernie in 2020 because billionaires would have used their wealth to crush his grassroots campaign. I’ve shown you data that proves the Harris campaign spent a half-billion more than Trump in 2016, that more dark money went to Harris than Trump, and that Trump won with the type of small-donor grassroots campaign that Bernie had, and your conter argument is a fact sheet on Russian disinformation campaigns. Nice vibes dude.

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            14 minutes ago

            You’re still pretending that Trump ran a grassroots campaign? Even though that requires you to pretend Russian bot farms don’t exist? Even though Trump got help from billionaires that didn’t involve campaign financing? Why do you refuse to base your decisions on reality?

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              5 minutes ago

              Show me data then. How much of Trump’s grassroots campaign is actually astroturfed Russian propaganda? What non-financial support did billionaires give Trump, and what are the quantifiable outcomes of that support. Say something other than, “[X] event happened, and this is my unsubstantiated opinion on how that changed the outcome of the election,” or just stop talking.