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OK, so your complaint isn’t about the factual nature of the reporting (Harris’s policy stance hasn’t been misrepresented as far as I can tell) your complaint is how it’s being contextualized and presented.
So it’s not “made up” hostile nonsense, it’s maybe just simply “hostile nonsense” from your perspective.
I mean, Obama really did wear a tan suit. He really did ask for Dijon mustard. Maybe it would have been more accurate for me to say “ginned up” instead of “made up,” because generally speaking they are more or less factual yes.
Like I say, someone from the left who’s all upset about Obama’s drone strikes and saying hey WTF we need better than this, that 100% makes sense to me. But if someone is attacking Obama about the tan suit, and then when they’re called out they say well what about the drone strikes, I’m just trying to push him to the left, that seems dishonest to me. Doesn’t that accusation make sense?
Idk, I think fracking is a much bigger deal than the tan-suit panic but who knows, maybe that’s how chuds felt about Obama’s fashion choices.
edit: just as an aside, seeing as how this is a climate community, i would have thought Harris’s energy policy would be very relevant to discussion and not in any way irrelevant.
Oh, fracking is a huge deal. As is the rest of energy policy, as is the half a billion tons per year CO2e that Biden’s policies have removed from our emissions.
I was referring to the idea of removing any level of qualified analysis from the evaluation of Harris’s real policies proposed or otherwise, and replacing it with “she made THIS one-off comment several years ago about something that is purely a performative aspect of any policy because the current congressional climate simply will not allow a ban on fracking anyway, and then that contradicts this OTHER one-off comment she made just recently about something SHE’S A FUCKIN FLIP FLOPPER” horse race disingenuous bullshit
Hope this helps