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hexbear.net has raised over $1500 for Palestine over the past few weeks (hexbear.net)

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Some comrades over at Hexbear have organized a donation drive for Palestine and, over the past few weeks, have managed to raise over $1500 for verified Palestinian fundraisers. The fediverse is a good place full of good people.

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[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Kamala fought 'herself'.

In USA you need independents to win elections. This has been established fact for many years. Independents outnumber Ds and Rs, at 40% registered (with R30/D30%).

Harris ran an odd campaign, you can see many articles about it... she did a huge amount of Republican outreach, more than I've ever seen or heard of... and even ads, like "He doesn't have to know how you voted" and so on, for months when she was already short on time.

They don't do that in my experience, it's unusual to say the least. Independent votes are their target, much more susceptible for voting D than any R.

Why did they waste all of this time and money on REPUBLICANS?

I know why, and so does Kamala and the DNC. They aren't stupid.

She went against the math and went for her opposition's votes... she took a knee.

If you disagree, if you're familiar with US politics and know of a different reason, please share. I want to be wrong.

[-] EldritchFeminity 6 points 2 days ago

TBH, it wasn't that far outside of the basic corporate Dem playbook. Incredibly stupid and definitely lost her the election, for sure, but Dems have been "courting the moderate Republican" (is this "moderate Republican" in the room with us right now?) since Clinton left office - if not longer. It was the most strange and open version of it I've ever seen, but I wonder how much of it was her doing and how much was pushed by the party and the party's campaign managers. Practically all the party ever talks about is how they have to reach across the aisle and convince conservatives to vote for them. We saw it with Hillary as well. They alienated the leftist vote and their own voters to push more conservative policies and lost themselves the election.

Kamala and Walz had a goldmine when they started calling Republicans weird, and they suddenly stopped like 8 days later. If that wasn't the party muzzling them, I don't know what is.

[-] Auth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

She stuck to all her leftwing policy position and only compromised on 80/20 issues like border security.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

She stuck to all her leftwing policy position

All zero of them.

[-] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There seems to be some confusion. When I say leftwing policies, I’m referring to liberal democratic policies, universal healthcare, robust public transit, social equity, environmental protections and human rights. You think leftwing means authoritarianism, state violence and the suppression of human rights so I understand why you're upset that Harris doesnt have those policies.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I’m referring to liberal democratic policies, universal healthcare, robust public transit, social equity, environmental protections and human rights.

If liberals ever start actually doing any of those, you can start calling them liberal policies. Liberals have fought for none of those as hard as they fought to make sure netanyahu got his genocidin' weapons. Liberals usually find just enough no votes, and if they cared at all about human rights, they wouldn't keep insisting that everyone vote for genocide.

You think leftwing means authoritarianism, state violence and the suppression of human rights so I understand why you’re upset that Harris doesnt have those policies.

Leftwing means the policies you listed that no centrist has ever wanted. Especially Harris.