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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The lesson: some people just like disruption, and equate being against the status quo with being better than the status quo. I think any left-leaning candidate who tries to court these people in the future should tread very carefully.

They care more about the headlines you produce than your policies.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Their excuses are baffling. Harris didn't have policy. Okay, but Trump did? He kept walking about "concepts" of a plan, and lying about wanting P25. Trump is for the people? He is hanging out with, like, the national league of assholes and duchebags. "Harris was scary." BUT NAZIS AREN'T!?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

For the people that don't want to scroll a bunch of stupid stories for the answers

comments from the video

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Every single one of those answers is straight out of the mouths of Fox News. If you don't disable open nationwide propaganda broadcasts, you'll never fix the problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That would be true if every one of those answers didn't also strongly support AOC, Democrats, or Bernie.

That's the whole point of this exercise. A bunch of deep red voters citing Fox is expected and doesn't tell us anything new. When a bunch of deep vlue voters do that, something is going on.

We normally expect AOC and Bernie supporters to be very Blue. If Fox is resonating with those voters we should really be asking ourselves, "Why?"
Why is it that some Democrats hear Fox News and immediately judge them as naked propaganda while other Democrats give them consideration?

edit: grammar

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I had to stop reading the replies she received; the stupidity made my head hurt. My hatred for humanity is growing by leaps and bounds daily. I think I'll be a full blown misanthrope within 2 or 3 days. It has become crystal clear that we need to pull the weeds out of the gene pool. I'm for instituting a national license program to breed. You may obtain a license if you can pass a test which consist of a common sense section and the civics section of the U.S. naturalization test. 🤨😁

Edit: For the morons that can't tell. This was fucking sarcasm.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well the good news is that the probability of such a program happening has gone up.

The bad news is that you are disqualified if you have all your teeth or any kind of college degree.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I couldnt care less for the why. If you voted Trump, a third party candidate or not at all you are responsible for the coming fascism you waste of cells

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I sincerely hope that Democrats do care.

Like it or not, MAGA can currently take that attitude. They control the SC, both chambers of Congress, and the White House. If they decide to say, "Fsck it. We'll ignore the Demorcrats," they'll still have all the process in place to enact their agenda.

MAGA doesn't need to analyze what went wrong during the election. They got everything they wanted.

For at least the next 2 years, Democrats will be able to do nothing that Republicans don't approve of. The law says that they get to set the standards.

If Democrats want any chance of checking that power or reversing it at the next election, we are the ones who need to adapt.

There's an "ancient Chinese saying", "卧 薪 尝 胆". You don't do it because it's fun or because you obliged to, you do it so you can win next time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Maybe if the democrats had given 50% of the populace something they considered worth turning up to vote for they wouldn't have stayed at home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, still having a country was something to vote for for me, but you do you dawg. You'll reap what you sow.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Getting out of bed, going down the street, standing in line, spending 3 minutes casting a ballot; is that a lot to ask of people to safeguard democracy?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Ah the Highly intellectual argument that liberals use to win over voters... or is it?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I honestly doubt people who vote for AOC and Trump in her district are in any way representative of the swing state voters that actually decide the election. Engagement is what went wrong, obviously, but how it went wrong in those two places can be very different.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

My state actually overwhelmingly voted for a Blue Governor.... and a Red President

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