• mindgoblin7@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    isn’t the left saying this is a vibes election and it doesn’t matter what her policy positions are? I could have sworn I heard that somewhere…

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      2 months ago

      I heard some idiot say he has “concepts of a plan” but no actual plan the other night

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      2 months ago

      To clarify, Harris is being mindful of “the vibes” because it’s something her predecessors neglected. Doom and gloom does discourage turn out, on both sides, and it seems to be working. This isn’t zero sum with substance, and she has made clear some policy positions (and more at than Trump, unless you count Project 2025). You can do multiple approaches to appeal to multiple audiences.

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      Of course it is - the median voter seems to have all the brains of an ox - half of them still have Trump as their gender identity. People would like to think they’re better than that, but the outcomes beg to differ.

      Trump’s only asset has been his vibes. He (and the GOP broadly) are an utter failure on anything of substance - their contempt for voters is clear in their policy. Problem is that his vibes are collapsing at an exponential rate.

      Dems undeniably have the substance (only relatively speaking), but their contempt for voters fucks their vibes. The GOP is now so obviously unhinged they’ve seen an opportunity, and un-fucked their vibes.

      Getting the job is mostly the vibes, doing the job is mostly the substance - and the current winner on both fronts is pretty fucking straightforward. It’ll still be a toss-up, sadly.

    • DandomRude@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      At least Harris has policy positions and a corresponding agenda. Trump has none of that, at least nothing that he could talk about in public. Did you not watch the debate? Did you not notice that he made no factual arguments whatsoever, but responded to every question on every topic with the same old empty polemics and unfounded recriminations?

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      2 months ago

      Nice try troggie, but slightly imperfect policies are still better than the fucking return of Hitler.

      • davel@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        A policy to continue supplying weapons to a genocide is not a slightly imperfect one, it is a genocidal one.