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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A cute women that knows what she wants?
Silence her!

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Her appearance has nothing to do with this.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 38 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

i follow her, she's awesome and I really hope she wins.

but it would be false to claim her youth and aesthetic don't help her charisma.

it does, but that doesn't mean she isn't serious or competent.

Hope she wins, we need her and people like her.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

helps and hurts. wish I was in her geography as I would vote for her.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

doesn't really hurt her. just bigots will insult her for being pretty, or if she wasn't, they would insult her for not being pretty. they'll always use misogyny against any woman who's against them.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You don't think being a young woman has ANY negative affect on being elected in the USA?

i meant that conservatives are going to hate her no matter what.

She could be a 60 year old grandma, and they'll use that against her.

if course she has an uphill battle.

[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To her opponents, appearance is basically the whole of her worth.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 5 points 19 hours ago

They understand in the current media environment that attention is power and attractive people get attention

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 28 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Kat made a post on Bluesky once where she showed a tweet by a Republican who was asking people to "stop posting photos of [Kat] when they attack her because she's genuinely attractive and that makes the attack not land" or something along those lines. I wish I'd saved it. It was a solid self-burn.

That Republican was basically afraid that Kat would steal male GOP votes simply by looking good lol

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

She is cute af on that real though

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

I mean, it kinda does. The fact that she is young, attractive, and media savvy means that people will pay more attention to her (not saying that's good, just that it's how our society works). The more attention she gets, the more of a threat she is to the regime, which is why the they're trying to prosecute her for getting assaulted by ICE.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Aren't you a smart one

You haven't been paying attention to the Republicans have you.