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The Streisand Defect (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by JennieBreeden@lemmy.sdf.org to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
 
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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This was Hillary's strategy for winning in 2016, believe it or not. This was revealed by WikiLeaks.

No way they could've predicted that backfiring, right?

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just imagine how much better the world would be right now if she fucked off and allowed Bernie to win

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That’s assuming that her moderate voters wouldn’t have gravitated around another moderate Dem early in the game.

[–] force@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

"moderate" americans are just conservatives without the nazism lol

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

This is our punishment for shooting the Kwanza gorilla

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

To be fair, the onslaught of negative Trump coverage also helped him lose the house in 2018, the general in 2020 and a shit load of easy Republican house seats in 2022.

People seem to forget that a lot of folks stayed home in 2016 because they thought it was impossible for that clown shoe to get elected. No one believes that anymore.