Obama tells Black men itā€™s ā€˜not acceptableā€™ to sit out election | CNN Politics
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Former President Barack Obama on Thursday admonished Black men who he believes have not adequately supported Vice President Kamala Harrisā€™ presidential campaign, telling them itā€™s ā€œnot acceptableā€ to sit out this election and suggesting they might be reluctant to vote for Harris because sheā€™s a woman.

He then ends up suggesting the reason they donā€™t like Harris is because sheā€™s a woman -

ā€œBecause part of it makes me think ā€“ and Iā€™m speaking to men directly ā€“ part of it makes me think that, well, you just arenā€™t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and youā€™re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.ā€

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOPEnglish
    1511Ā·
    17 hours ago

    Hillary lost because she openly mocked and derided the people she needed to vote for her, marginalized people who had real needs that werenā€™t being met by her policy proposals and who were urging her to take more progressive stances.

    so you would rather we fall to the Nazis

    Better to fall to the nazis fighting them than welcome them to the table. Fuck the Cheneyā€™s, and fuck the democrats for proudly welcoming them into their coalition and then condescending to voters who rightfully see them as war-mongering demons.

    Democrats will lose if they keep daring people not to vote for them rather than addressing the interests of their constituents. It is the single worst campaign strategy Iā€™ve ever seen, and it amazes me that it isnā€™t even the first time theyā€™ve decided to fuck themselves in the ass with it.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      36Ā·
      14 hours ago

      I heard a commentator yesterday state: ā€œDemocrats can not fail; they can only ā€œbe failedā€ by their voters.ā€

      Its always ā€œthe votersā€ who are to blame when Democrats fail. Iā€™m not interested in voting for the party of Cheney; Iā€™m not interested in voting for a pro-genocide party. And maybe Iā€™ll be able to suck it up enough to as so many would have you believe, ā€œdo the right thingā€, as if voting for a pro-genoicde, pro-buisness, now also neo-conservative party is really that. But what really matters is that there are people far more who are better than I, who simply wonā€™t vote in favor of a genocide. But yeah Obama. Keep telling the voters its their fault.

      • havocpants@lemm.ee
        12Ā·
        2 hours ago

        Itā€™s amazing how one country committing genocide on another 6,000 miles away from the US is the fault of the Democrats.

        The moment I hear anyone talk about genocide when referring to the US elections, I write them off as a useful idiot or Russian troll.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialOPEnglish
        33Ā·
        13 hours ago

        Democrats will tell you that nothing can change in FPTP voting, and in then spend 100% of their time every 2 years directing their efforts towards a FPTP election system.

        I swear to god, electoralism is sisyphusā€™ fucking boulder, and libs are completely convinced that if they push that damned thing up the mountain just a few more times theyā€™ll finally escape the task