• merdaverse@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    To all the “pragmatic” Americans will never vote for a woman crowd… There are already women in high positions of government all around the world, including Italy, not exactly a bastion of progressiveness.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_government#Current_heads_of_state_or_government

    Hillary Clinton and Harris lost because they were terrible. Maybe the Dems should run a candidate who’s not terrible??

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      15 hours ago

      The “never women” crowd would never vote for a progressive candidate to begin with, so I don’t think it really matters.

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      9 hours ago

      Clinton and Harris lost because they supported the status quo of people not being able to afford things! they like genocide! they’re WOMEN!

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      The “people will never vote for a woman” crowd is sort of right. A woman will never be elected with the current DNC, but only because they view a woman candidate as an excuse to be shittier. They think their base will hold their nose and vote for a worse candidate just because of what’s in her pants.

      AOC might get elected because she’s interesting on her own merits and has enough name recognition to not be buried by the DNC. They’ll do their best to prevent it though.

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      13 hours ago

      The “never a woman” crowd confuses me because I’ve never seen a president or my father take his dick out to fix anything.