Wasn’t there a recent conspiracy theory that the establishment doesn’t want Trump (hence the assassination attempts) because he’s an easily manipulated loose canon who doesn’t follow orders like a good shill should lol?

Point being that dems lost this election because they are inherently more pro establishment and have been for a while.

Dude Flatscreen HDTVs were expensive even in 2008, and cable actually got worse for higher price so most people were hooked into local broadcast.

The top image gave me flashbacks to reddit, r/chodi, and the wave of Indians spamming r/Pakistan complaining about “love jihad”

It was funny because there actually were several studies and polls that suggested women in India preferred Muslim men because they were well groomed and more respectable than their Hindu counterparts.

No it’s more because these typa comments are showing up after 13 straight months of dems giving a free pass to Israel and then expecting demanding people to vote for them.

I hate all of these because it’s just insurance companies trying to grift as hard as they possibly can because insurance in the US is yet another legalized scam business.

Lol I remember how this dude only lasted a whopping 5 seconds pretending to be a progressive before accepting a shit ton of AIPAC money and talking about how much we need to defend Israel.

I think that’s actually what caused him to tank in the primaries in 2016 as well.

I know people here are laughing but they’d probably offer something serious.

Solar power blew up in neighboring Pakistan because the government forgot to make a reliable power grid, so now even the cheapest homes have an array on the roof.

Taliban probably want some of that action and will look to see where they can buy.

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.

Yeah their immigration website crashed in 2016 when Trump won the first time.

So I will be sitting over here in the corner watching the repeat of history and people’s short term memory.

See you all in 2028 for Covid 2: electric boogaloo.

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).

To quote a user from another thread:

Theyre not the ones that need to learn. Voters need to learn DNC is a bunch of wealthy moderates grifting voters.

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.

Okay I exaggerated lol, you can look at the sun while it’s setting.

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.

R+1.4%, Michigan still stuck at 99% reporting because they’re still counting for Wayne County, but I don’t think it’ll change much now.

So I definitely exaggerated, but called it lol

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.

Lahore always so full of smog you can look directly at the sun.

IPFS?

Never even mentioned Republicans.

My point is she spent her entire campaign ignoring this problem until literally the last minute.

People already voted on Sunday in Michigan. Even if you think this would have changed people’s minds, she could have said it 2 days ago and still had more effect.

Literal last minute shilling bruh

If she had said this once like even 2 weeks ago, people might have actually listened