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“I knew all along! You’re all so dumb for hoping!”

When I chose to believe she would win, I chose to live in a reality that would get me through the moment. I still do the work phonebanking and canvassing. But at the time my best option was to choose to believe it would be enough. It wasn’t. Some of our lives are ruined. Must we be smug for never having hope?

@magicalgirlsabrina If you think the naysayers don't have hope, you're not listening very well.

There is hope. It just lies elsewhere.

@LucyG I FUCKING KNOW THAT BUT SHE WAS A BETTER ANSWER THAN HIM. AND WE CAN HOPE WHILE STILL CHOOSING SOMETHING OTHER THAN THIS.

@magicalgirlsabrina ok you're confusing me because you straight up said "smug for having NO hope" but maybe now isn't the time to try to clarify

@LucyG Oh fuck you

@magicalgirlsabrina @LucyG
She had months to prove she was more than just Biden's genocidal lapdog and failed. This is on her.

@magicalgirlsabrina Nothing wrong with having hope, and if anything, hope is more important now than ever. Probably not the best time to say this, but hope, for all the good that it is, is not a strategy. For months I've seen people ignore huge issues with the democrats affecting their voting base in the hopes that it just won't be an issue, and Kamala turning against a big part of her voting base ended up costing her dearly.

@magicalgirlsabrina I won't be smug about it because I hoped she would win. I wouldn't have been particularly happy about it, but besides her poor foreign policy the democratic campaign set forth one of the progressive campaigns ever, and a democratic win would've been a lot better for the US, for individual rights for people in the US, medicare, workers rights, and for climate change. This *should* have been a slam-dunk, but unfortunately she chose to be dismissive to voters.
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@magicalgirlsabrina

I feel for you and all the thousands who worked so hard to try to prevent this from happening.

In solidarity, keep the hope.