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  • This is a common take and maybe it has merit, but I’m not convinced.

    Hillary had decades of propaganda to compete with, a general attitude is “it’s my turn” (political dynasties are bad) and made some major gaffes.

    Kamala was chosen without any voter input at all, was not popular as a primary candidate in 2020, ran on being “the top cop” in an environment where only the right likes cops, and lurched right to compete for the Republican base, completely betraying the base that voted for Biden. I was personally sick to my stomach listening to her praise Dick Cheney and parade around with Liz Cheney. (I voted for her anyway because what choice did I have). Harris was a weak Democrat candidate to begin with AND the campaign basically did everything wrong.

    Anyway, it’s possible that the US electorate won’t elect a woman for president out of sexism but I personally don’t think that’s what has happened because I don’t think a woman that also happens to be a good candidate that ran a good campaign has gotten past primaries.





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    5 days ago

    The fact that people think promoting depopulation is extreme is part of the problem. There is obviously a limit to the population we can reasonably support (we call this carrying capacity in biology) and whether you think it’s now or later, at some point we have to stop growing the population. Unlimited population growth is literally impossible.

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    The idea that we’ll have more if there are fewer people serves only those who already have the most.

    And this is the opposite of true. The oligarchs want more bodies to feed the pyramid scheme that is capitalism.