• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    This is the realistic take. Racism is bad enough in this country that we just barely squeaked Obama into office as a half-black man. Misogyny is way more widespread. Spend about 5 minutes in an online game chat room and you’ll see what I mean. Not to mention the manosphere/blackpilling are actually growing movements rather than shrinking.

    I think AOC is great and that she would make a fine administrator, but let’s keep her in congress for now where she can still do a lot of good for the progressive cause. There’s no need to put someone who the right has spent years building up as the antichrist boogeyman as the frontrunner when we already have a poor track record of prominent female politicians losing the presidential race to the most embarrassingly unqualified candidate in American history.

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      7 hours ago

      we just barely squeaked Obama into office

      ???

      Obama won in 2008 with 52.9% of the popular vote, a larger % of the popular vote than any President since.

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        7 hours ago

        Well, consider me corrected. I remember that race being much closer than it was. I guess I forgot that he came off of the G.W. Bush presidency so it makes sense that there was a huge shift towards the left.

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      15 hours ago

      This is what I was saying to the poster above, that thinks there’d be no problem with a woman running. They clearly haven’t been outside or even in 1 gaming lobby or they’d know how bad it is.