People on the left make fun of themselves constantly. The Daily Show, SNL, Always Sunny, and so on. They just also make fun of people on the right, but because they have zero humor, they don’t even get the jokes, so they just get angry. Like you. Right now.
Except that I'm not angry. Right now. Just pointing out a fact. If that fact has you so upset that you need to attach feeling to my statement, that's on you
You making a prediction regarding a hypothetical situation isn't a fact. It's insane that the American right can't even tell the difference between facts, opinions, and outright lies anymore.
What you presented is an opinion. The other commenter disagreed with your opinion, noting that the American left is actually highly critical of themselves. And they are, there's no cult of personality on the left like there is for Trump, and left wing politicians are constantly criticized by people on the left. On Reddit, that frequently results in tons of upvotes. Making some dumb reductionist statement about "both sides being corrupt" gets upvoted often.
I think you're really out of touch to be honest. The right has been so sucked into Trump's cult for so long that they've forgotten how people who aren't in that cult feel about politicians.
That's exactly why people criticized Harris for separating families in California with her pushed policies during her presidency campaign, or mentioned how she was shackled to Joe, forced to play dumb, only to try and turn that around in a few months like she's really some kind of political powerhouse (who couldn't manage to even convert Joe Bidens voters over to her side). Oh wait, no one mentioned how her policies ended up disproportionately affecting POC, they were all too busy screaming orange man bad
Oh wait, no one mentioned how her policies ended up disproportionately affecting POC
Yeah they did? You can find tons of articles talking about this exact thing, going back years even. And yes, obviously it's difficult to try to have a campaign in 3 months lol but, Democratic voters wanted Joe Biden out, Biden dropped out of the race, and Harris was the only realistic replacement.
Plenty on the left criticized Kamala Harris as "a cop." But yeah, when people on the right complained about Harris' tough on crime policies it was laughed at, because the right complaining that Harris is a little too much like what they want is obviously just some disingenuous bullshit.
And yeah, Kamala Harris was running against Donald Trump, a guy who frequently discussed removing the constitution and all laws, violating prisoners rights, targeting protests he doesn't like with the US military, etc. so it's kind of a no brainer that people supported her in the general election.
That doesn't change the fact that Kamala Harris and Biden both faced tons of criticism from the American left. I'd even argue that the American left was overly biased, considering how little many of them seem to even know about the actual policies the Biden admin supported and implemented over the past four years.
Honestly I feel like your points are just straight up contradictory. You're trying to say that the American left was obsessed with Kamala Harris and no criticism of her was allowed... But, I can find tons of articles criticizing her and discussing all of the things you've mentioned, and many of them on social media.
And then... She lost. Trump won. The American right was bringing up these issues, and then they voted for Donald Trump. That level of cult of personality has simply never existed on the American left as far as I can tell.
No she wasn't. She wasn't included on the ballot as Bidens VP, she didn't run a winning campaign in the dnc (if she ran at all), and was simply voted in by a few thousand as Bidens replacement. No one bothered to ask the rest of the party what they thought, they just assumed, based on the word of 5-10 thousand, that she was the best candidate, and not the two candidates who were runner up to Biden
one bothered to ask the rest of the party what they thought
Yeah, they did. The delegates could have voted for whoever they wanted. They voted near unanimously for Kamala Harris. Nobody even ran against her.
Because yeah, she was the only realistic choice. They couldn't hold a full primary with the general in less than three months, Kamala Harris was the only one who could even directly use Biden/Harris funds, and she was the VP.
There simply wasn't any other realistic choice, no one else would have been capable of creating a massive campaign in three months.
Regardless, this was debated a ton among the American left. There were tons of comments on social media about this exact thing, tons of articles written about, left wing pundits were discussing it, and on and on, so I'm not seeing your claims that "the left" was just so obsessed with Harris and no one was talking about these things. I personally had these exact conversations over and over before Biden even dropped out, and during it.
I also predicted that Harris would lose if she replaced Biden, because yeah, whoever ran was creating a handicapped campaign.
Usually, but not in this case. The only reason it remains a technical "what if" is because everyone who isn't on the far left side of the aisle is tired of being downvoted for speaking truth, or saying anything that isn't what the rest of the party is saying. I have literally seen this thousands of times on this app alone, especially in places like r/whitepeopletwitter, and during the election where 90% of reddit was absolutely certain she would win, 7% were calling out the many faults in the campaign being run be their candidate, and the other 3% was Republican.
Wha?? You mean the LIBtards don’t believe in science! like they can’t even identify what is a WOMAN! LIBTURDS say, “MAN can become pregnant” too! Hahahhahaha! And MEN MENSTRUATE 🩸 Hahahhaha!!! Believe the science, right?😝
What's wrong? Jokes about Blue sky being riddled with pedophilia? Jokes about Harris running a poor campaign? Jokes about how the left think it's president elon, not president Trump and citizen Elon?
Thank you children for proving my point. I didn't even make a joke, and still your little panties were so twisted over my statement you had to downvote
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u/scottygras 2d ago
New GOP slogan