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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I think long COVID has impacted more Americans than we realize. Everyone out there suffering from diminished capacities thinking that the fascist sex-pest goomba is somehow more reliable than the nice black lady. I dunno about you guys, but I've just been seeing a whole lot of mistakes lately. On television, in News, in articles, just... everywhere.

And while a lot of it is probably people quiet quitting and not giving a fuck, I think a lot more people are suffering from the extended brain fog of long COVID than we think, and it's affecting everything around us. Unfortunately, that includes voting practices in elections.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

mine isn't a brain fog but COVID and a trump presidency made me not trust humans at all.

i no longer trust friends, family, neighbors, governments, leaders, police, doctors, businesses. none of them maintained trust during the Trump presidency and the pandemic.

but i still vote straight ticket democrat. because their platform doesn't include NAZI-ism

The NYTimes wrote it out for me:

The playbook for transforming a democracy into a soft autocracy was clear: Win power with a populist message against elites. Redraw parliamentary districts. Change voting laws. Harass civil society. Pack courts with judges willing to support power grabs. Enrich cronies through corruption. Buy up newspapers and television stations and turn them into right-wing propaganda. Use social media to energize supporters. Wrap it up in an Us versus Them message: Us, the “real” Russians or Hungarians or Americans, against a rotating cast of Them: the migrants, the Muslims, the liberals, the gays, George Soros and on and on.

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

Eh, it's always been a convenient myth for the republican party that Americans genuinely seem to believe they are better on "macro" even though it's always been probably the reverse (that democrat politicians have to clean up the mess that lower taxes and deregulation generate). For at least 40 years. In some states the reverse is true, like mass/NJ/ny voting blue pres while having a pretty regular flip flop in the governor's seat and then solidly blue house/senate.

Similarly Dems always have a worse than average spin on wars, the comment being "republicans want a massive military that does nothing, Dems want a tiny military that goes everywhere" when in reality our foreign policy doesn't really change (except Biden actually pulled out of Afghanistan).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The quality of many things seems to be broken down to a grade school level. Which is pretty crazy to me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Most definitely. Whenever I mentioned that my short term memory got bad after I had covid the first time (before vaccines), many people chimed in and agreed that they have it too.

It got better after about 18 months.

The point I'm trying to make is, that people usually keep it for themselves unless they have someone that takes away the shame.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (8 children)

trump only picked up 500,000 more votes than last time. Lets hear from the 10,000,000 that voted in 2020 but not this election

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

Maybe related to massive mail voting - just speculation haven’t seen breakdowns.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Those people could only be motivated to vote when it was as easy as possible and they had nothing better to do. They voted for the party that would handle COVID better and let them get back to their lives of not worrying about politics.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When your platform is all about "hey at least I'm not that guy", it doesn't inspire people to vote

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

you're funny, maybe they might put you in the camps last.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That was also Biden’s platform. It worked then because we were still in the grips of covid

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I saw on more than one occasion that guys didn't vote for Kamala because she didn't go on Joe Rogan's podcast.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus christ, this is what unaffordable education does to people. For fucks sake. I mean it's only fitting for a population that can't figure out that someone advertising a 1/3lb burger and directly comparing it to the competition 1/4lb, bragging about the price being the same, might indicate that 1/3lb is more despite 3 being a smaller number. What a combination, people that belive their thoughts are the only source of truth while having no clue what they're talking about.

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

Education is free

Attention is not

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