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1. xp84+(OP)[view] [source] 2026-01-27 16:31:00
No, it seriously was not that. We didn't refuse to vote for Harris because of the idiotic cats nonsense. It was in large part her and the whole DNC's explicit embrace of DEI (note: "i don't like DEI" isn't anti-minority. Plenty of minorities also want to get jobs and admitted to schools because they qualify for and earn those things and not as a free handout because of their skin).

Not 20 years ago, like 90% of Americans would have agreed that it's insane to use racial quotas and different standards of qualification for different groups. Today, the 20% or so who disagree with me on that have dragged the DNC into this unpopular position, abandoning a lot of their previous voters. This has consequences.

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2. JCatth+BK[view] [source] 2026-01-27 19:28:01
>>xp84+(OP)
And for that you threw the entire country away? Based on mostly fear and misunderstanding? There was another user I saw on here who defended voting for T because, despite apparently having always voted D in the past, he "could not look his white teenage sons in the eye and tell them he voted for people that would make them the enemy" - what absolute nonsense.

DEI may have gone too far in some areas, but that would largely be corporations trying to cash in, not anything planned by the possible Harris administration, and nothing demonstrable by the Biden administration.

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3. termin+A51[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-27 20:48:15
>>JCatth+BK
DEI went too far the second it violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which explicitly bans all discrimination based on race in hiring. It doesn't matter if Biden or Harris or any other democrat leader didn't explicitly initiate any of these policies. Their failure to prosecute for these obvious (and sometimes even publicly bragged about by the companies) violations of civil rights law that is supposed to protect me is more than enough to lose any chance of getting my vote. I am willing to watch quite a lot of things burn if the alternative is a racist regime against me.
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4. JCatth+z81[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-27 20:58:55
>>termin+A51
The fact that you are white and claiming to be a victim of racism because minorities are getting more opportunities is laughable, but also absolutely means you were part of the problem.

The only way for the US is to progress is to eliminate the electoral college so views such as yours count for as little as they should.

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5. termin+dx1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-27 22:38:48
>>JCatth+z81
Yeah you're right, I'm gonna be a big problem for you because I'm going to keep voting for Republicans no matter how much I hate some of the stuff they do. And the more cruelty towards progressives the better because I have nothing but contempt and malice for the people who want to institute racism against.
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6. JCatth+4D1[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-01-27 23:09:19
>>termin+dx1
> Yeah you're right, I'm gonna be a big problem for you because I'm going to keep voting for Republicans no matter how much I hate some of the stuff they do.

You obviously don't hate it that much lol, you clearly want white people to keep the unfair advantages they have had for most of modern history.

They wrote a book about people with you views: 'White Fragility' - you should check it out.

> And the more cruelty towards progressives the better because I have nothing but contempt and malice for the people who want to institute racism against.

Giving oppressed people equal opportunities isn't racism. We'll get rid of the EC eventually, and the votes of people like you simply won't matter.

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7. xp84+D0i[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-02 01:47:56
>>JCatth+4D1
Lol, no you're not going to pass a constitutional amendment that effectively removes all the voting power of everyone outside the major coastal areas. You couldn't even pass the ERA, and that one was actually the pre-2010s version of feminism, where actual equality was being advocated (and which, overall, I'd have supported, short of forcing women to be draft-eligible).

And the main reason why you'll never pass that, or any other legislation you promise, is that Democrats lost their ability to convince anyone else. They threw it in the trash and replaced it with screaming "__ist and __phobe" at literally half the country anytime they step out of line of the latest Official Beliefs, which keep getting revised.

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