• ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world
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    16 minutes ago

    Time and time again I remember this meme

    Basically democracy is government after the people, by the people, for the people . . . but people are retarded . . .

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    56 minutes ago

    Is it too early to start talking about the abysmal failure of the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” strategy?

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      25 minutes ago

      It’s more like: wut! I gotta get off my couch and what in line. Fuck that. It can’t be that bad.

      Oh it’s going to be bad now but don’t worry about voting again. He said so. You can stay on your couch and never vote again…even if you really want to.

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    46 minutes ago

    Biden must be laughing his ass off right now. Should have let the old guy run. Turns out no one really cared about the presidents age.

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      28 minutes ago

      The old guy should have never run for a second term so we could have had a chance at an actual full dedemocratic campaign out of someone.

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    2 hours ago

    There is a saying…

    Make a mistake once and you can call it learning, make a mistake twice and you are eh… not so smart

    Americans need education.

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    People need to stop blaming voters, we all need to start understand why this happen more and more in the world and not judge the voters for their decision. I have some theories but its not the time or place, but stop say “people are dumb” or “People need educations”… 100 million people cant be all dumb or uneducated, go deeper!

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        I also think part of the problem is that with the internet, we may just have a lot of data readily available, so much so people are overwhelmed they just tune it all out. We can spend a lot of time wondering why people vote the way they do but if the losing party doesn’t take the time to be retrospective and humble as to why they lost then I can’t blame people for that too much.

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      They’ve been conditioned for 8 years that any negative thing they read or hear about their leader is “fake news”, and likely their own pride of not wanting to consider the possibility they could be mistaken has made them easy targets for the misinformation machine at Fox News to avoid telling them objective facts to instead pander to their emotions and tell them what opinion they should have. Mass manipulation by biased media.

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      trump may be the iceberg that sinks the ship but people must not forget that it was obama that steered it so expertly there.

      whatever he has done in his eight years to engender such deeply entrenched hatred within the populace – so much that even morons like mr. 47 can exploit it so readily – needs to be studied so that it can be avoided in the future.

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      Im sorry, but if Gaza, egg prices, and Harris not havjng a Y chromosome is enough for a magat trifecta, the voters are the problem. Not just the ones who stay home or vote third party, all of them. Americans are whats wrong with America

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    What devil has this guy made a deal with? No matter how stupid, obnoxious or abrasive he is, people worship him. He constantly screws himself over and then before he has to face serious consequences he trips on a rock and somehow everything’s alright again for him. At this point he literally can shoot someone on 6th Avenue and get away of it. I think Trump is solid evidence that we’re living in a simulation and somebody is fucking with us, because life just doesn’t work the way it works for him. Somebody’s thumb is on the scale.

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      What devil has this guy made a deal with?

      He cut a Faustian Bargain with the soul of America. And like Faust, he gets to spend his days capering and clowning about his social superiors, making unholy mischief in a kingdom that is itself revealed to be terminally corrupt and wholely damned.

      Trump took the Objectivist philosophy that’s guided this country for a generation and embodied it. He is Reaganism in its manifest state. Just a guy entirely out for himself who has convinced 71M other people to do the same.

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        Putin didn’t GAF about Donald Trump until he became useful enough. By that time the Orange Sack of Shit had already been stiffing creditors and skirting the law for decades, somehow living a life of abject luxury anyway, when if nature had taken its usual course he would have been a bankrupt nobody hustling $10 bar bets.

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    6 hours ago

    It’s 80 degrees in November. America has reelected a climate change denier. SUV sales continue to rise.

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    Hopefully dems nominate someone who actually has soul instead of a walking checklist like Kamala. Oh, who am I kidding? They won’t learn anything from this either.

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      Was that really the issue? She felt pretty “souly” to me. I’m wondering if it’s more voter turnout and people not being ready to vote for a woman (for whatever reason).

      I mean was Biden really above and beyond Harris? He beat Trump, and Trump arguably has even less going for him this election.

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        It was Martin Prince vs Bart Simpson.

        She ran a traditional campaign on issues, Trump got them chanting “More asbestos” difference is they voted.

        The Dems need to realise that this is now a popularity contest and you have to fight a cult of personality with a cult of personality.

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        He beat Trump,

        Yes, but after four years of being traumatized by Trump voters would have turned out for a blow-up doll. The same will probably happen in four years’ time, I reckon.

        I’d say Harris actually had a lot more “Not Trump” energy than Biden could ever muster, but her inability to promise the voting anything other than just more of the same and the fact that Biden and the Dems have actually done zilch to stop the right-wing insanity in the past four years just demoralized the voting public.