Alteon

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

Taxing the upper class was part of their platform though.....so....still unsure as to where there against the "working class".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Exactly. I think most of us have identified that the fucking corporate media can't be trusted to be reliable. This is partially their fault for sane-washing Trump over and over again.

That said, there is resistance. Please check out the subreddit /r/SomethingIsWrong2024.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

.... there's an argument to be made that....maybe they didn't vote that way.

There's some serious irregularities in the way votes are appearing in key battleground states. The number of bullet votes is insanely off (historically 0.1%, but somehow 7% in BG states), a historical amount of people voting blue down ballot but then voted Trump, the number of bomb threats called into ballot counting areas in BG states, and how all of the irregularities are only being found in BG states.

It makes you step back and say.... something weird is going on here.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, kindness, compassion, and empathy being considered "wokeness". Can't have that. Much better to have hate, disgust, and cruelty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, I find I need to read a book or find some other way to engage my brain - woodworking, painting, gardening, etc.. The enjoyment comes back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Gummies are incredibly easy to make. I just made a batch 2 days ago that are sitting in my counter drying before I put a powdered sugar on the outside of them and stick them in the freezer. I use moulds so that I know EXACTLY how much I'm dosing. And the best part? I'm not destroying my lungs by any means.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I would agree.....but he's working under Trump. The second that Rubio is "too moderate" he's going to ask Rubio to resign.

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

He gave them table scraps while feasting with his cronies (remember those COVID checks?).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

What's is a "liberal hegemonic order"? Because what we already had was a democracy, and we were making grassroots efforts to make it better. Was it perfect? Fuck no, but at least we had a chance to make things better. States were brining in Ranked Choice Voting, other states were enshrining human rights where it wasn't always guaranteed. Smashing it all down and starting over with a Christo-fascist authoritarian government is about the dumbest way to "collaborate, cooperate, and strive for peaceful coexistence." We're about to get the Christian Taliban with the most powerful military in the world backing it. Trump is about to give our government officials purity tests and will throw out anyone that doesn't swear to him (literally per P2025), and he's going to be stacking the government with lackeys. We're on track for Nazism 2.0.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't believe that it is. I believe that the problem lies in the fact that we're not communicating effectively with the voting base. Her policies we're not bad and effectively DID target the working class, for example child care and expanding taxes on the upper class. Her economic policies were strong and we would have seen benefits. However, none of this matters if this information isn't getting to the voter base.

Conservatives are actively targeting Gen Z and nonpoliticals with absolutely bullshit lies - for example, staying that liberals are actually racist, that DEI is making things worse for people, and that our whole policy is based on insults and hatred. Of course, to anyone paying any attention, this is blatantly false....but to an outside viewer, whose struggling to make ends meet, who's single and insular, whose constantly told that women have it rough (and nothing about how to deal with men's problems) they find the conservative arguments start to gain roots.

We want to win next time? We need to talk to people. Tell them what being a man really means. That empathy, not control, is what a society like the US should be based on.

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

Hey, so the 15 million thing isn't true. That was the number before all of the votes came in. She actually gained votes in battleground states, but lost them in non-battleground states (states that didn't really matter). Just a heads up. We need to be using facts here (not trying to attack, just trying to get that information out).

 

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