this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
900 points (97.2% liked)

News

23600 readers
3212 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
  • Trump and his supporters are slamming Joe Biden for quitting the race and endorsing Kamala Harris. 
  • Some members of MAGA world are bemoaning the millions of dollars spent running against Joe Biden.
  • Biden's withdrawal also means Trump is now the oldest candidate in the presidential race.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] raef 219 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Maybe they should have spent time and money promoting their candidate instead of attacking the other

[–] [email protected] 140 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is really what it boils down to. But with Trump there is nothing to promote. The only way they can win is by ruining the reputation of their opponent to try to make them look worse.

[–] SuckMyWang 76 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What about hunters laptop? That’s still going to be a huge deal right? Right??

[–] rustyfish 70 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t you know Kamala let her tamagotchi die 30 years ago? Do you know where that tamagotchi has been buried? You might not know about this, but everyone is talking about this. But they don’t because they are too scared to talk about it. A lot of good people. They talk about it. And the world is laughing at us. The good people talking about this are too scared to talk because the world is laughing.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The best people tell me Hillary Clinton had a tamagotchi just like it. So sad. So sad.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rumour has it she used it for e-mail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Have they looked for it on that underground pizza place? All them libruls have secret meetings in there, for realsies!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Kalama has stepchildren. They are about to be dragged through the mud.

[–] BrokenGlepnir 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But it doesn't matter if he had nothing to promote. He's not above lying. This was just a bad decision on their part. Even if biden hadn't dropped out, there's no guarantee that a man that age will be here in four months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He's not above lying.

Lying is one of the things he has a lot of practice doing.

He's not very good at it, though, he contradicts his lies with other lies on a regular basis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

In the same sentence even.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I said the exact same thing this morning to a coworker. They have no policies, just hate.

[–] TrickDacy 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Project 2025 tends to disagree

[–] ccunning 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True. Their policies are so bad they have to disavow them…

[–] TrickDacy 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Except to the right audience they are extremely proud of them. Yes overall their policies are unpopular but they aren't without support

[–] ccunning 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure - but they don’t need to win those folks votes

[–] TrickDacy 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What's the point here? I'm trying to point out the very real danger they represent. Are you really going to downplay that danger? This is how we lost roe v wade

[–] ccunning 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Whoa…I agree with you. And I’m not sure why what I said upset you. I am just speaking in the context of the discussion of the post which is campaign strategy.

We need to shout about Project 2025 from the rooftops because it’s so toxic the Trump campaign wants it to stay hidden.

[–] TrickDacy 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I find it counterproductive to say Republicans have no policy because they do, and it's ugly

[–] ccunning 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was an excellent point and was glad you pointed it out

[–] TrickDacy 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Alright good. And it's good to see a misunderstanding not go ugly online, as it too often does.

[–] ccunning 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ve seen and had way more go this way on Lemmy than on Reddit.

Just a better culture around here.

[–] TrickDacy 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well thank you for holding up your end. I admittedly lose my cool with people sometimes. It's hard to read tone, but I will say that you did a good job of avoiding condescension, which is probably the biggest problem in online discourse that I see.

[–] ccunning 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be honest I had to edit the tone of my comment a couple times before submitting it 😉

[–] TrickDacy 2 points 4 months ago

That's ok -- at least you did it. I need to do more of that

[–] raef 1 points 4 months ago

It's that they don't need to be won over. They are going to vote for Trump regardless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That seems like a hatred manifesto more than policy.

[–] TrickDacy 9 points 4 months ago

Call it what you want. The document is very clearly full of harmful policy goals.

[–] raef 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's not a difficult concept

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 10 points 4 months ago

I was thinking this when everyone was saying it's too late to change candidates. While that might have been true if a campaign consisted of promoting people's positives, that's not what it is. It's all about finding the dirt on the other and switching candidates late just means there has been less shit talked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That and attacking the ideas, not the person.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Policies don’t sell in the current political climate. It has been all about Trump vs not Trump since 2016.

[–] raef 2 points 4 months ago

Oh, I understand, but if was still their strategy choice.