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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That sums it up well. Leia wasn't unclear about her morals and goals. She was working in government with the intention of making things better, instead of sitting outside of government and bitching while doing nothing to help.

The baddies were sick of her constant efforts to derail their plans, so once they had enough fascist power to start going after their political rivals, they went after her.

Being in government does not make everyone automatically a willing participant of all of that government's policies. You wouldn't accuse Bernie or AOC of being cozy with GOP bullshit. But people around here are very happy to blame Harris for everything they perceive to be going wrong in the gov, while casually dismissing that Trump is 10X worse at the same topics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Michelle Obama made a speech on this. Trump is not getting demands. She is.

Mr Concept of a Plan after 8 years isn’t pushed at all. Meanwhile, we need more details on the articulated plans of Harris. It’s quite the mismatched standard.

Also, Biden is her boss. She’s not the boss yet. New bosses do different things with the company when they take over.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And they don’t publicly undercut the old bosses while being second in charge especially in sensitive diplomatic situations.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exactly. Maybe Harris is in lockstep with Biden on Israel or maybe it would just be a really bad idea to undercut him while she needs his support.

Who knows? We won't know until she's actually in charge.

I'm old enough to remember that Al Gore didn't rock the Clinton boat either. I doubt he would have been another Bill Clinton.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

If only we got to see what Gore would have done differently... Sigh.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

She was working in government with the intention of making things better

She was literally working for an armed rebellion actively fighting a war with the aim of overthrowing the government.