It’s not… I was aware of her 82 page economic plan. How come you weren’t aware of it? It’s your fault that you weren’t aware of her economic plan while people like me were aware of it. If I did you then you could have done it.

I’m afraid thats not entirely true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate

It is entirely true. No superdelegate can vote in the initial primary vote.

They are a private entity and can run primaries however they want.

Subject to the DNC charter. They are bound by the DNC charter in the same way that the government is bound by the Constitution.

they successfully argued that they can elect canddates in a smoke filled back room if they so chose

They argued they could change the DNC charter, which it technically true. The USA how the power to change its Constituion, but it is still bound by it.

Okay but there must have been some actual reason that you didn’t state. The actual reason could not have been the reason you stated, that “she seemed fake”. Because nobody could be stupid enough to have that as their actual reason.

I don’t understand what attacking the user for sharing their feelings gets you. It’s the vibe that enough voters shared

Because voting or not voting based on a “vibe” is the single stupidest reason anybody can have in making a voting choice. It is based on the idiotic idea that you are doing the candidate some sort of favor, rather than doing yourself a favor, by voting for a good candidate.

That doesn’t remove the toxic mod.

There is no way to remove toxic mods. That’s why you have to work around them.

How many alts and sock puppets do you think the average person should have? This doesn’t sound healthy

You only need one at a time. I use to spin up an entirely new reddit account whenever I got a ban on any sub. That’s what you can do on Lemmy.

Elected delegates from a primary that most voters were never even aware of?

How can anybody not know there is a primary held every 4 years?

This was almost two months before voting started! Oh, and Bernie actually did come in second.

Wow I checked and you are right. Bernie did come in 2nd in delegates! Harris was apparently 2nd in the polls but she did drop out before any of the primaries.

Still, the fact that Harris was the Vice President made her the obvious choice of the 2024 delegates after Biden dropped out.

Bernie split the progressive votes with Warren (who quit campaigning but inexplicably refused to drop out) so Biden won.

Warren not dropping out ticked me off too. But it wasn’t necessarily the reason Biden won. I think he got more than Sanders and Warren combined.

Does any of that sound like democracy to you?

After Biden dropped out, having the elected delegates chose the nominee sounded like the most democratic option and the only option in line with the DNC charter. You had a better option?

Usenet to me seems more like Lemmy than anything else. All conversations are groups by topic, just like Lemmy. Although they are all just “text posts”.

I don’t see how a “Chrome” company would make any money. Now if the Chrome Company also owned ChromeOS and Chromebooks that might be interesting. But it could also be bad, because such a company would probably want to take a cut of every Chromebook in order to actually make money.

Isn’t forex just foreign currency trading? I don’t understand how a foreign currency could be worth 50000USD one minute and only 600USD 5 minutes later unless it was a country with hyperinflation.

Are you saying Google funds node.js development?

Again there is just no possible way the DNC is financially related to the very candidate it is promoting.

Actually the Harris campaign gave money to the DNC (or some other fund) to help fund other candidates, not the other way around. That didn’t give the DNC the slightest bit of leverage over Harris. If anything it was the opposite. The suggestion that someone at the DNC ran the Harris campaign instead of Harris is ludicrous.

Google abuses that market share by breaking web standards,

Has this actually happened? Are there examples?

There is nothing at all wrong with Kamala being endorsed by Republicans if the reason is that Republicans are putting party before country. All that matters would be if they affected her policy positions, which they did not.

I’m fine with people being offended as long as it is something legit to be offended about. Sometimes people are offended by legit things and sometimes not. That’s why “woke” is to vague to be meaningful. I have to hear the specific thing to know whether I agree/disagree.

The party did not “thrust a candidate on you”. The elected delegates chosen by the voters chose a nominee. As for Harris, she was chosen by the delegates because she was the VP. And she was the VP because she came in 2nd place behind Biden in the 2020 primary. The 2020 voters “demanded” Biden first, and “demanded” Harris 2nd. Unfortunately Bernie was not first or 2nd.

My conscience is clear, I voted for no evil.

Neither did I vote for Donald Trainwreck. I voted D for democracy.

Harris was going to raise taxes on billionaires and corporations. Why the fuck would you NOT vote for that?

The DNC has equal “involvement” in every election, which is to hold primary elections so voters can choose a nominee. The nominees chosen by the voters all run their own campaigns.

Harris is not the DNC. The DNC is not a person. The DNC did not “campaign with they Cheneys”. The DNC did not “push 10 year old GOP politicies.” Nor did Harris, to my knowledge.

The only job of the DNC was to hold primaries. And they did that. Biden dropped out after the primaries were over.

All they will learn from this is losing elections still lets you amass a “warchest” of one billion dollars

The DNC’s only main job is to hold primaries. It’s not up to them to “learn” anything. They always go with the choice of the voters. The only people who can learn anything from this is the voters. The DNC is not a person. It is an fluid organization controlled by the primary voters.

Harris was running the campaign and funding the advertisements. Not the DNC.