All the libs will go back to brunch and sleepwalk for another 4 years. Harris will fail at everything she does and make life worse, especially for Muslims, and the left will be blamed for everything. The right will dig their heels in even more on reaction, yada yada, y'all know how this show goes.

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[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 50 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I’m now pretty convinced that Trump is the harm reduction candidate. The best case scenario is Dems control Congress with Trump as President.

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 58 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m not sure harm reduction is even possible in the confines of the American bourgeois electoral system

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not the normal way but perhaps through sheer laziness and incompetence

[–] Roonerino@hexbear.net 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

If Trump is as easily manipulated by Russia and China as the Democrats say he is, then he's definitely the better candidate for avoiding global thermonuclear war.

(Of course in reality it doesn't actually matter who's president, the system ensures that we're charging headlong into WW3 as the main antagonist regardless of who the figurehead is.)

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago

The distant possibility of Official US Envoy to the DPRK Dennis Rodman serving in Trump Administration 2 would be kinda fun

[–] Maturin@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've had similar thoughts about 2020 in retrospect, except with accelerationism. The common sense was that accelerationists should support Trump over Biden, but Biden actually turned out to be the accelerationist candidate.

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 30 points 3 weeks ago

I'm starting to be convinced that we can't predict shit about shit when it comes to electoral politics, other than the obviously correct take that this thing is on rails to fascism and WWIII at an unknowable time in the future regardless of who wins

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah I really can't think of anything that would actually be better under a Harris administration. Trans issues I suppose? And maybe reproductive rights? Although roe v wade was overturned under a dem administration so even that falls flat.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

Harris would do nothing at a federal level to support trans or reproductive rights. Trump (or rather, his people) would probably try to pass more restrictions on both at a federal level but that would get tied up in the courts and would leave things in the same place they are now: states free to be as hitlerian as they want.