The Mastodon For Harris campaign has raised close to $500,000 within two weeks of being live. It is probably the largest attempt for political organizing on the Fediverse, and may provide a playbook for other efforts going forward.

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    5 months ago

    Yes, my point is that it seems that the Democratic party is trying to loose and put Trump in office again. That or they’re just completely unaware of history and too dumb to realize the consequences of their choices.

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      5 months ago

      Wdym? Harris looks like she might win over Trump. And yes, the Democrats would prefer Trump over someone like Sanders who wants to change the country in a fundamental way to benefit the people instead of corporations and the rich - the two groups that both parties work for.

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        5 months ago

        Most people in the US aren’t Democrats or Republicans. Most people in the US don’t vote because those parties don’t meet their needs.

        I’m saying that even more people who might have voted Democrat won’t vote for Harris and won’t vote for Trump. They just won’t vote at all.

        If we had an actual progressive that stood firmly opposed to the genocide, they would easily beat Trump. Harris will probably loose for nearly the same reason that Hilary lost to Trump.

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          Most people in the US don’t vote because those parties don’t meet their needs.

          Even if that’s true that doesn’t mean they all agree and would vote for the same candidate. In fact that seems very unlikely given how distributions usually look. And in a first past the post system people usually vote for the party that has the biggest chance of beating the party they dislike the most, not for the party they like the most, and over time that usually leaves the system with only two viable parties that a lot of people don’t like. But it doesn’t mean they all agree.