• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Sure. Do that behind the scenes privately reassuring the donors then.

    In public? Benefit from people not associating you with it all. Clean slate.

    • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      I’m with you. This is political malpractice. They had a unique opportunity to pivot to slightly different rhetoric that might win votes while not obligating them to anything. The undisputed heavyweight champion of meaningless word salad decided that this was the one issue where she needed to be explicit. I guess they’d rather lose than give anyone the impression that public opinion affects policy.

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        look at how Israel’s politicians talk about Biden for pausing one single shipment of one type of munition while giving them every other thing they want for almost a year. The money wasn’t going to show up if there was any public distancing whatsoever, Zionists require absolute public devotion