Kamala Harris unveils “Headquarters 67” to mobilize Gen Z through a new digital media hub : news

[–] s@piefed.world 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But I already Pokémon Goed to the polls

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

6 million people who voted for Biden did not for Kamala, and there is a large measurable shift in favor of Trump among Gen Z compared to the trend of previous generations moving left.

[–] Paragone@piefed.social 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Among MALES, not among females.

There was an article, perhaps the FT, which showed drastic divergance between the 2 populations of the same age.

https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-be-more-likely-to-vote-conservative-than-men-but-that-all-changed-in-2017-we-wanted-to-find-out-why-214019

shows a HARD left-swing for women, XOR a HARD right-swing for men, in the UK, ( both would look the same, on that chart ) only-recently.

That trend, though, is global, male-supremacism hand-in-hand with the upswing of male fascism/authoritarianism.

Males generally back male-supremacy.

Females generally do not.

"journalism" nowadays works hard to NOT show the correct granularity-of-view, showing what's actually going on: the oversimplifications & dumbing-down are too beloved of the establishment.

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A majority of male youth voted for Trump but EVEN AMONG FEMALES there was a large shift to the right.

In 2020 Biden had a 36 point lead in young women over Trump, while Harris only had a 24 point lead. Thats a huge shift.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

When people spend 14 hours a day on their phones exclusively on one of a handful of social platforms it becomes trivial to mass manipulate the population. Almost as if... It was by design.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It lends itself particularly well to a two-party system. I mean a two-party system is basically a one-party system with an extra step. Right or Left, Black or White, Up or Down, This Thing or That Thing. Very easy to pit people against each other. Candidate A wants lower taxes and reinstitute slavery. Candidate B wants higher taxes and blanket death penalty for all crimes. Which side are YOU on?

I cannot believe how broken the American political system is, and I do not see it surviving, it is going to just slowly crumble like Rome did, only faster. It just can't survive, it is fundamentally flawed and is incapable of scaling over time, it's like a perpetually growing Jenga tower that also constantly has load bearing pieces plucked out of it.

I'm genuinely surprised it is actually still standing, I thought it would be over by now, like when the needle has been firmly stuck on red for twenty minutes and your car just inexplicably keeps going on fumes, like, how can this fucker still be going?!

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 4 months ago

A two party system is infinitely better than one.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social -1 points 4 months ago

6 million? Or a little bit more than that, like, 7? SIX SEVENNNNNNNNNN oh my god I'm going to vote for Kamala now, damn that got a good laugh out of me, definitely changed my opinion of her for the better!

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I voted for her, but if she knew how to mobilize anyone, we wouldn't have nazis running the country.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or more nazis. Because she's also american and a cop. Seeing cops being able to execute people probably got her hard.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Since when are lawyers cops?

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2 points 4 months ago

Since when they serve the prosecution.

[+] Paragone@piefed.social -13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

She was ruthlessly & systematically sabotaged by the Biden establishment, by male-supremacists, AND by white-supremacists.

& the left felt it ought coast on its victorious-feelings, which .. handed leverage to their opponents..

She never had a fair chance.

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You may be right, I can't say. I didn't pay much attention to the campaign, because my vote was decided as soon as Trump got the nomination.

My vote was 99% decided before that. I've seen one GOP candidate that I was open to the possibility of voting for, but he didn't win the nomination, and since Obama was our candidate that year, it wouldn't have mattered if he did.

[–] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Jon Huntsman?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

Don't recall. Was long ago.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, yes, the Biden establishment, those guys who gave her the nomination. They totally secretly wanted her to lose. And all those radical leftists who voted for her while holding back vomit, they're the reason she lost. It's absolutely not her being a donor-friendly neoliberal ghoul being backseat driven by donor-friendly neoliberal ghouls.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A large number of leftists demonstrably didn't vote for her, actually. 81,283,501 people voted for Biden and 75,017,613 people voted for Harris. That's the sole reason we have a second Trump term.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Proof those 9 million are leftists?

[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a result of "First Past the Post" electoral system being what is currently in place, voting for the DNC candidate in the presidential race is the left-most position. They voted for Biden, against the GOP, therefor they are left.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You fucking know that that's not what that word means. Nobody is going to hear "leftist" and think "anybody who voted for Biden."

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Biden audited the rich, expanded green power, investigated monopolies to deny mergers, and protected gay marriage. Not only was Joe Biden comparatively left but also globally left.

If you don't consider left to be progressive, opposed to right as in conservative, then what does it mean to you?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Setting aside how "leftist" and "progressive" aren't synonyms (one has to be at least somewhat anti-capitalist to be a leftist), and how Biden is a far cry from a proper progressive (though he still was the most progressive president America had for a good while), voting for a progressive doesn't necessarily make one a progressive. What if the 9 million were mostly centrists or neoliberals? You need to address that possibility.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -2 points 4 months ago

Ah, I see, your definition is that Red Fascists are Left and that Blue Fascists are Right.

That tracks for tankies like you, actually. Not recognizing any actual progressivism as a legitimate political ideology.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Marge we need a candidate that can win even if people actually run against them.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, I'm sure if we just keep asking for fairness the white supremacists will give her a chance this time.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 4 months ago

The best thing we can do to prevent a Trump dictatorship here on the Fediverse is call out the people who've been conned into doing the Biden Administration's dirty work of defaming minority candidates.

[–] noride@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This can't be real life. Reality has jumped the shark.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is what it’s gonna take to kill 6-7

[–] JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 5 points 4 months ago

Shame it's already been dead for a few weeks now.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, can this woman just disappear from existence? Like at least Biden learned to keep his fucking mouth shit after killing American democracy, or maybe that's just the cancer.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -1 points 4 months ago

We kind of need her.

We need leadership to unite the splintered left the way that Republicans are united.

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Why do I feel like I'm seeing an ex-girlfriend I've wanted to avoid after a year

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Go away

[+] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] Paragone@piefed.social 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It absolutely is true that she backed Netanyahu, & that cost her significant support.

I don't know why, but she did.

Losing the country, however, because of that .. doesn't help the Palestinians.

NEITHER candidate was good for them!!

Trump's Gaza converted into a resort .. isn't good for them, either!

Maybe, possibly, she could have been got to see the light, on that issue: I don't know.

The genocide in the US is going to make Gaza's genocide look .. like a civilized sunday picnic.

Trump's nearly there, all he needs now is the Insurrection Act, & then he can activate his de-naturalization law, to remove citizenship from all the Democrats, & then they all get ICE'd.

Netanyahu's war against the lives of Palestinians is going to be tiddlywinks, compared with Trump's war against the hated "woke", within the US.

Not tens-of-thousands, but millions, will die, in that, soon-enough.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know why, but she did.

AIPAC funding.

That's the answer. It's not complicated.

The Democratic leadership always does whatever the mega donors want, regardless of what that will end up doing at the polls, or to the country.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

More likely that Israel is the USA's longest and most reliable foothold into the Middle East which is an important ground to repel eastern expansionism from Russia and China in an infinite proxy war. Nobody with half a brain would chose to lose voters for a paltry sum of campaign funds which may or may not attract comparably few voters, the math just doesn't pan out.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

paltry sum of campaign funds

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

AIPAC was one of the largest outside donors in the 2024 elections, spending $100 million in 389 congressional races (26 in the Senate, 363 in the House). 318 Zionist candidates who received money from AIPAC were elected that year.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The Harris Campaign spent $1,176,074,620.47

The total spending on all campaigns in 2024 was over 21 Billion Dollars.

How many votes do you think $100M in advertisements is going to earn? That's hardly enough money to put an ad in the face of 1 of 3 people in the USA one time.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

How many votes do you think $100M in advertisements is going to earn?

Apparently 318 seats worth.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it can't be the military-industrial complex, oil and shipping companies, it has to be the scary Russians.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It can be multiple things but let's not compare filthy Republicans like Bush and Rex Tillerson the Tex Driller-man to the DNC, that would just be disingenuous to its core.

Also, you say "the scary Russians" like they haven't been actively invading and claiming more land for 10 years, now.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 4 months ago

I know why she backed Netanyahu. It's part of the Democrats' secret plan to destroy democracy.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -1 points 4 months ago

If you can't stand with others when they're facing genocide, why would you expect anyone to stand with you when you face your own genocide? I have absolutely zero sympathy for people like you. I'm going to stop there so my comment doesn't get removed.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes! As a Gen Z I LOVE ~~Joe Biden!~~ Kamala Harris!

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 4 months ago

Because you did not use a /s, I commend you for your enthusiasm.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Pokémon go-to-the-fuck off already.

[+] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 4 months ago

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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

She should have launched on fediverse instead of Twitter, then she couldn't be censored because she would own the platform.

Good on Dems for organizing a grassroots resistance. We need more people on the ground, we need a force greater than one hundred millions strong.