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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

yup its called a public forum welcome. didn't want people calling out your nonsense should have done it privately.

The convo was about whether or not Harris campaigned on taxing billionaires. All you did was change the subject to argue about something you repeatedly proven you don’t understand. Just like you are now proving you did not understand the topic of the convo.

do you realize her tax policy would … mitigated the loss of spending power americans have lost over the last 4 years?

Yes that was the point you have been arguing against this whole time. Thanks for finally admitting you are wrong.

Americans lost 22% of their purchasing power due to inflation.

This is controlled by the federal reserve. Not the president. Thanks for again proving you dont understand basic economics.

she could absolute on day one said 'yeah we didn't get what we needed done economically’

How can you be so stupid that you don’t see how this would be used against her? You must be trolling. No one is that stupid.

trump didn't (ad wise, policy wise hes far worse). she lost.

its not a voter problem when you don't have good policies or good communication skills.

Look at how you contradict yourself. You say Trump had worse policy but he won. But claim that Harris lost because of her policy. Maybe you think Trump is a good communicator. You’re incoherent rambling sounds just like him.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

sigh this conversation was never worth the time. oh well. at least we're past the 'blahblah dont understand economics nonsense' I'll toss some final notes and then ignore you. =)

  1. my original point in this whole conversation is that the billionaire tax wasnt going to win votes. its a fine policy, I said that multiple times. but it wasnt going to win votes.
  2. no I didnt contradict myself, this is your reasoning/reading comprehension issue again. Harris lost because of her poor communication and poor policies. I didn't say which policies were explicitly poor outside of pointing out the ones that explicitly didn't address the main points I was making which is that voters care more about putting food on the table than taxing billionaires.

Harris both failed to communicate effectively that she wasn't a fucking inhumane monster over gaza, and that she actually understood americans needs economically. and as a result it doesn't matter which of her actual policies were actually useful since she already lost people on all 3 of the base motivators: food, shelter, safety. if you fail those 3 issues you will have a hard time making a case for why people should vote for you.

And if you don't understand why harris absolutely needed to distance herself from bidenomics well frankly there is no hope for you at this point since it just goes back to food, shelter, safety.