• pyre@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Americans did have the ability to vote in SCOTUS. it’s called the general election. and they did in 2016, except democratic voters didn’t feel like it. so now you get 6-3 decisions that are dismantling the whole country.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, the FBI director got ahold of Anthony Wiener’s laptop because he’s a fucking awful dirtbag, and at some point his wife had logged into her work email, so IDENTICAL information from The State Department was on it, so FBI big brain decides to make a big ol press conference to reopen the case against Hillary Clinton days before the election just in case maybe there was more than just duplicate information. Except, he already knew it was all duplicate information. Everyone with a brain new it was all duplicate information.

      What a brilliant guy. He deserves a lot more blame than he’s ever gotten.

    • bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      Blaming voters for not voting hard enough in 2016 is pretty asinine.

      Hillary had the most popular votes. But she didn’t do a good job campaigning in the states that mattered and banked too hard on the “i’m not trump” factor.

      Blaming the voters takes the blame away from the parties that deserve it more, like Clinton, the DNC, etc.

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      4 months ago

      The base voted. The left even voted, despite the party’s claims. Her result is what happens when you take your victory for granted and insult the demographics you need in swing states.