• ameancow@lemmy.world
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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”