• sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org
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    8 hours ago

    if you havent been paying attention closely enough to notice that american voters do not want a woman in the white house im not sure what to tell you

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      8 hours ago

      Yah because people really warmed to Harris and Clinton (despite Clinton winning the popular vote.) 🙄

      Don’t worry, a lot of people will dismiss her for being a woman, but if she can wrangle trump’s base of armed patriots she has all the cards and the system will bend for her no matter what she says or does. I do understand how political capital works and why gender only matters so far in the big game.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah I dont know. I work in a field where I hear a lot of the details of people’s employment stories and if I can tell you one universal thing its that women need to be 5x better than a confident sounding man in order to be taken half as seriously.

        never underestimate how much the world dislikes a woman who knows more than anything than they do

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          4 hours ago

          I know this well, as someone in the corporate world I have been witness to just how bad it is, and faced consequences for trying to advocate for fairness.

          I am saying, well aware of what a mistake it is to field a female candidate in present America, that the GOP may make the same mistake, but predictability in elections has been abandoned, and it might actually work. I don’t think the chances of this are too far off.

          Rightoids: “Well she’s even more MAGA than MAGA, I 'member her talking 'bout dem jews, she may be a chick but she got my vote.”

          Lefties: “She has made amends and abandoned trumpism, and we NEED a woman in charge!”

          Liberals: “If I vote for a woman who basically been on both sides, does that make this the ULTRA liberal choice? Right up the middle? If it means preserving status quo I’m in!”

          Everyone Else: “LAWL LET’S SEE WHAT HAPPENS”