• drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Kind of bothers me that her age and gender are such deciding factors for some. I think some of these people would have voted mtg if she ran.

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      2 months ago

      this is a more surface level take than actually saying “i will vote because she’s a woman”

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        2 months ago

        How so? I am glad she is running she has shifted things back in favor of democrats. I just think if someone would have really cared about what would happen under another four years under trump they would have voted biden anyway.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve been thinking about this story for almost a decade.

      Right after the 2016 election, there was a panel with the creative teams behind US TV’s biggest political dramas. Veep, Scandal, West Wing, House of Cards, and other shows. All the panelists agreed on one point; if they’d presented a fictional character who said they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the networks and advertisers would have demanded that the character be shown to lose the election and be hated by all sides.

      We can’t pretend that voters will do the right thing