Harris distances herself from Biden's 'garbage' comment: 'I strongly disagree' with criticizing people based on their vote
Harris distances herself from Biden's 'garbage' comment: 'I strongly disagree' with criticizing people based on their vote
Kamala Harris continues to distance herself from Biden's "garbage" comment, telling ABC News she disagrees "with any criticism of the people based on who they vote for."
Trump voters are not garbage, most of them are frankly just ignorant and maybe a little dull. Calling Trump supporters garbage on the other hand would be an insult to garbage
At what point is the ignorance a choice? Most of us have the wealth of knowledge the internet provides in our pocket.
Lol, no distance on support for genocide, but criticizing people voting for someone she herself called a fascist is out of bounds.
MLs aren't leftists.
Dear Kamala: they don’t care what you think. You’re the bogeyman.
Isn't how somebody votes one of the only things you can ethically criticize someone for?
Like, people often treat their party like it's part of their tribe, but it's not like you're born into it. It's not the same thing as race, colour, creed, gender, orientation, or any other prohibited grounds.
Voting is exercising a choice. If you can't criticize someone because of the choices they make, what can you criticize them for?
She literally just called Trump a fascist. But like, I guess supporting fascists is like just one of those "agree to disagree" matters that shouldn't be held against someone? They can still be good people who just want mass deportations, military tribunals of political enemies, and for trans people to just cease to exist.
I would guess that she's trying to separate the voters from the representatives, so that when someone calls out a republican politician for being racist, they have a harder time convincing their voters that she was calling them racist as well.
Right now it seems like people see their political party as their identity, there are both democrats and republicans who do it but I'd say it is far, far more common with republicans.
You can, and should, hold your representatives accountable when they do bad shit, regardless of whether you voted for them or not, and if your party starts standing for things that are worse than another party then you should change who you vote for.
It's a long road to get back from this division in the US, but I hope there's a future where it's possible.
They can be garbage and still be governed fairly at the same time.
She's just trying to avoid Hillary's deplorables comment. It's true, of course, and you should absolutely cut those people from you life, but it was misconstrued and so could this.
Although, Kamala really wants a "Not all Republicans" message, so there's that too. No use alienating those snowflakes so close to Election Day.
Would you cut out your own family members over voting choices?
Edit: not sure why am I getting downvoted, I'm genuinely curious, not a suggestive question
I stopped talking to my grandparents not strictly because of their vote but because every single conversation turned into them screaming and ranting about the black/asian/mexican/etc menace, and saying anything in disagreement got you screamed at or sometimes threatened with violence. we could be pleasantly chatting about the wildlife in their backyard and then suddenly it's all about how the 'n----rs' are ruining the country and we need to bring lynching back. these same people will loudly say they aren't racist, somehow. they couldn't even behave themselves in public and would talk like this at restaurants in full hearing of anyone around!
Way ahead of you, as I cut them from my life years ago for being shit human beings. I have much higher standards than the average politician though.
Not over the voting choices but the choice at that point is a symptom of their view on life based on the political values of the party they voted for, you don't vote before you embody at least in some form the values of said party.
You will notice that it is usually Democrats who have no qualms with cutting ties with their families over trivial ideological differences.
Incidentally, it's also Democrats who complain to no end that they have no familial support system (through absolutely no fault of their own), and society now OWES them that support structure by way of "GIVE ME YOUR MONEY! I DESERVE IT MORE THAN YOU!!"
Absolutely. These aren't just "differences of opinion" as conservatives would pretend. Jews, gays and intellectuals didn't just have "differences of opinion" with nazis in Weimar Germany.
Yes, absolutely, and I think anyone who says otherwise is a liar, given shitty enough candidates in an election
Yes
Not over John McCain or Mitt Romney, but over cunty fatson? Yeah obviously. No nazis is a pretty easy life rule to agree on.
Tough question, but you spend though time online and you hear stories of abuse from Trump parents and people ghosting them. It's not so much about the voting choices though, but who those people are--- which of course is correlated.
That said, you shouldn't think in absolutes. I certainly quarantine family to once-a-year if they're terrible, if even that. It's not as direct as making a pact to never see them, you just avoid unpleasant people. That just happens to be Trump supporters lately since he appeals to the worst kind of people, but before that it was my folks like my grandpa who called Obama the n word and kicked my dad out at 15.
That make sense?
I haven't yet, but I'm prepared to if he wins and they continue to support him as he starts doing the overtly fascist shit that he's said he will do.
It really depends.
I'm in Australia so while I detest our conservative party leader (not presently prime minister but probably one day), he's not really as abhorrent as Trump.
If someone very close to me who I care about quietly mentioned that they voted for someone as awful as Trump, that wouldn't be immediate irrevocable dismissable from my "inner circle", but it would certainly change how I thought of them.
Perhaps oddly, it would be a bit like someone saying they believed vaccines were harmful or that the earth is flat. They're not stupid (necessarily), but there's some complex and concerning psychological stuff going on.
Democrats: "Vote for Harris if you want to save the country from Trump and the Republicans!" Also Democrats: "We need a strong Republican party and we love the Cheney's!" The Left: "WTF is going on?"
I don't really understand your issue... She doesn't "love" them, she's just associating with them. Are you so drunk on Trump's bullshit that you think we should seek only division?
20 years ago it was Bush and the Cheneys that were so bad we would have been told to vote for anyone running Blue.
Can't wait to vote for the Democratic candidate in 2048 based on the idea that they'll only conscript first-born children into mandatory asteroid farming and have Barron Trump's enforcement over Megahitler.
Okay now explain how bad the alternative is that we need to support genocide
If she honestly believes that she's an idiot, and if she doesn't she's way too comfortable with lying to the American people about important issues. The truth of the matter is that if a person has supported the Republican party in the last five decades they are dangerous garbage, and unless they're willing to put in the work to recycle themselves into something more positive we need to contain them and have their toxicity diluted to the point where it can't hurt anyone, just like we would with any other waste. Elected Dems ignoring this difficult but painfully obvious truth is why our politics have kept getting worse as the Republicans have gotten crazier and faced no consequences for it.
You can only achieve a fair and civil society through fairness and civility. That is what (most of) the democrats have been working on for the last 50 years.
It's always tempting to think that you could "defeat" evil through violence, repression, suppression, and exclusion. Instead, you only become it.
edit: I really don't mean to lecture here. I wrote this because I saw myself in the comment I replied to, and I needed to remind myself to be kind.
I mean, our country was founded through a bunch of people getting really uncivil and violent. Sure, it still needed - and still needs - a lot of improvement to be fair for everyone who wasn't part of the "in-group," but the same could be said for most countries at the time ours was founded.
I certainly don't believe that it's necessary to be uncivil and violent to achieve a fair and civil society, but it has shown past success at ridding a country of leaders who don't have the people's best interests at heart.
I agree, but following with the "garbage" comment also feeds into the Republicans sense of somehow being both the greatest and the victims.
Their victim-games are theatrical manipulations and should be ignored completely. Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. They are not capable of shame or remorse. If you are not with them, you are against them. Period.
Also, who gives a shit about the opinions or feelings of a fascist?
You have no idea how electoral politics works, do you? Of course it's true, and of course she agrees with it.
Just trying to avoid a basket of deplorables moment.
Jesus Christ lady you're not getting maga votes, stop trying.
And yet, she's getting GOP endorsements left and right...
I mean I hate the Cheneys more than most people on Lemmy, which believe me has come as quite a shock to see how popular they are on here, but even I wouldn't describe them as magas.
Their votes are garbage but not the people.
No the people who vote for Trump are garbage as well. Garbage all the way. I will vote for Harris; but disagree with her stance. I get why she did it but fuck Mega she not going win their votes. My Trumper neighbor just yesterday said only reason anyobe voting for her is because she is a N word woman.
Keep in mind he knows I support Harris and will vote for her tomorrow. He even asked if I was voting early. Isaid yes sir and for Harris. He is a racist, but he didn't attack me for my decision so I got that going for me. What worries me is his wife works at the polling station.
I have huge fear that Trump going steal this election and he has enough support to do so. Lets fucking vote all for Harris make it so large a gap he can't steal it.
The people voting for Trump lack self-awareness, empathy, and critical thinking, but they are still humans.
Conservatives do not see non-conservatives as humans. You'll forgive me if I don't award them any humanity medals.