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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • Don’t know why this is getting downvoted when it’s literally the core reason she lost.

    Trump did bargain basement campaigning whilst Harris told the entire uncommitted movement to fuck off.

    Like yeah no shit all the swing states went red, you alienated your own voterbase and then demanded votes because “the other guy is worse”.

    Even a seasoned Democrat would at least go through the effort of pretending to care about issues and demands to get votes (Obama?). She straight up dropped actual constituents for chump change in PAC money like that somehow substitutes the electoral process.

    It’s been 5 days and lemmy is still getting spammed with braindead posts blaming the 5 communists that live in the US along with concluding 20 million Democrat voters were actually just Republicans in disguise.

    It almost feels like reddit again where people can’t put two and two together.



  • Yes, read history or take a serious gov class.

    This was almost a 1:1 repeat of 2016 and yet lemmy is still getting spammed with denialism posts with hundreds of upvotes.

    Trump is representative of the systemic issues America has left unresolved, not a cause, and the writing has been on the wall for decades; so much so that people think old media (ex: simpsons) was very cunningly predicting the future when in reality it was parodying the same issues at the time.

    The one key difference has been the rather recent introduction of the internet. You can often find both much more reliable and higher quality information in less than a minute that what you could get from something like 10 newspapers combined 30 years ago. Especially for the younger generation, not everyone is falling for the same stupid tricks anymore.

    Great example is Washington Post. People think it dropped in quality after it was bought by Bezos, but ask any international academic and they’ll probably tell you WaPo was always hot trash.

    All this stuff you see being “worse” has been predicted for years on end, so while you can technically say it is “new”, it’s nothing unexpected. Even the next level filthy mouth ramblings of Trump are just something the previous guy did off camera (cough bush).



  • Love this comments section in denial because they refused to read past the title in both the post and article that clearly states most Palestinians don’t expect a difference.

    The Palestinians in the biggest city on the West Bank seem to have already come to a provisional consensus: that the US election result has no real impact here because things could not possibly be worse.

    The recently fired Israeli defense minister was allegedly claiming all the military objectives in Gaza were achieved, and that there’s no need for ignoring a hostage deal.

    So I’m really failing to see how this isn’t already rock bottom.

    13 straight months of giving Israel a free pass, Trump literally can’t improve the maxed out arm sales even if he tried.

    And I can bet you my life saving Biden will do jack shit to stop Israel in his remaining 3 months even though he has nothing to lose.



  • I’m fairly certain Biden would have done the same if not worse considering his lower popularity that resulted in Democrats switching to Harris.

    Had they planned this out and done a primary, there’d probably be a new candidate who would have done better and possibly won.

    Of course that would involve letting people decide their candidate which is a big no no and too expensive to rig and risk losing anyway just like Hillary’s campaign.



  • Someone joke bet $500 Michigan will be blue with a +4% lead so I think I’ll joke bet $500 it will just be a repeat of 2016-2020 except 1.5x worse and then by next election maybe the DNC will learn to run a normal primary again and promote a popular candidate who actually promises to meet constituents’ demands instead of ignoring them.

    Also someone on this community asked what everyone would do if Trump won and I said I’d probably make a collage of a years worth of my comments telling people ignoring genocide would cost Democrats the election.

    So I guess I might go do that now and say “I told you so” to everyone who told me I was wrong.