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Americans: Never, EVER question again how Hitler came to power in 1933 Germany (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by Treczoks@lemmy.world to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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Because you now did it to yourself.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 77 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

My one takeaway from this is that primaries are important. Republicans held a primary, nominated an incomprehensibly stupid candidate, and managed to win. ~~Dems held no primary~~, Biden strong armed his way into the de-facto nomination for a second term, and was replaced by his VP when he imploded on the campaign trail. At no point did Dem voters ever get to have a say in their candidate this year. Not that Kamala or Joe are bad candidates, but clearly, they're lacking something if Trump was able to win again after changing nothing from 2020.

So, the DNC fucked us again and we got Trump a second time in exactly the same way.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dems held no primary, Biden strong armed his way into the de-facto nomination for a second term, and was replaced by his VP when he imploded on the campaign trail.

Wrong., Dems held their primaries as usual, and Biden won them as the incumbent (almost) always does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2024_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries

Of course he shouldn't have run again, but he did. Maybe some other Dems should have challenged him in the primaries, but they didn't, and they would have failed anyway. By the time he dropped out there was no time to hold another primary and still get a campaign going for a new nominee. So pretty much all they could do was rally around the VP as the successor.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Geez, the primaries were such a sham that I forgot they even happened. Anyway, I corrected my OP. Thanks.

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