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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I find all of this Monday morning quarterbacking pretty silly. Trump was literally fellating the mic and rambling incoherently a few days before the vote. "Strategy," hahah. Nothing Kamala's campaign coulda done was gonna get those 15 million people that chose not to vote, if simply listening to Trump didn't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The issue is it is a two party system. The Dems ran a safe but weak campaign while people are pissed off at the world. Trump was a colossal ass who is likely to collapse the free world clowning it up at every chance.

This was a referendum on the status quo, and they got a solid no in favor of tearing it all down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Accelerationism is a helluva drug. Hey, at least we'll get unfettered corpo AI, haha.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That or a locked down internet in the US. Was it not from that document that this came from?

"Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned," the document says. "Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Drag hopes they do that one first. Number one strategy to start a revolution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Ah, but it works both ways. One great way to radicalize young men is sexual frustration (see: incels). The right has mastered this FAR better than the left ever thought about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

P0o agrees it would be fun to see them try it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I do think that when harris said stuff like "stop price gouging" fascist media made the mistake of airing her and combatting the point - which is weak sauce on their part. More of that would probably have worked. Less ads about trump unfitness more about reducing grocery costs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Grocery costs will continue to go up, because climate change has disrupted food production and distribution (among other things.) We could make prices fall artificially, but the actual cost is higher. And anything we do to change that must be paid in more externalities. Americans don't want to have the hard conversations. We want pleasant half- truths and lies. That's what we elected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Nah. The comparative price of food will go down if wages rise. And wages are artificially low. Food scarcity is not yet a serious issue in the USA. It's a purely political issue.

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

Harris should have lied, then. There's no punishment for promising the world and failing to deliver.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Or maybe voting against something that you don't personally like is not a strong strategy for a nationwide election?

Suggesting that there was "nothing" at all she could have done to inspire voters is a cope. And refusal to listen to the reasons people vote the way they do.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

No. Y'all did this exact same mental gymnastics routine in '16. We elected a senile con man instead of a qualified woman because America has a deeply rooted misogyny problem. That's all. Well, that and because pressures from climate change have made people afraid and easier to con.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

We elected a senile con man instead of a qualified woman [In 2016] because America has a deeply rooted misogyny problem.

I mean she also had a 20+ year smear campaign against her, that probably shaved a few votes I gotta imagine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Right.... It's everyone else that's the problem that the same tired tactics aren't working over and over again.

It's just those darn voters who need to be taught a lesson on how to vote properly. Those people that are hungry and poor just need to listen to what's good for them and their disagreement is obviously because they are shitty people who hate women.

Great talk. Can't wait to see all the outpour of support for that now and the 3rd victory in a row for Democrats. Because nothing need change and it's everyone else that's doing mental gymnastics.