No this is actually pretty on-brand for 2002

More than a few teeth/entire jaws were lost over this I reckon

Not with that attitude

This isn’t a leftist phenomenon, it’s a liberal one. As the saying goes: Scratch a lib, a fascist bleeds.

All over the internet you’ll see liberals blaming brown people, LGBTQ, and women for democrat’s loss; assuming Kamala lost because she’s a black woman, despite all evidence pointing to her campaign; and even taking joy in the misery that Republicans will bring to all Americans as a way to get back at those people. They will learn all the wrong lessons from this, and the news media will feed those lessons to them.

They will never reflect on why the Democrats weren’t able to reach those people. Instead they choose to direct their hate at their fellow Americans for not falling in line, enthusiastically going to vote, and somehow convincing anyone else to do so, for a party that promised them nothing. They will act like this makes them any better than Republican voters, or the third-party and non-voters they hate so much. They will not see the wedge being driven between them and the left who stands for their class interests.

They won’t see that what really split their vote was Democrats’ legitimizing of Republicans stances by adopting Republican framing on the issues, and as a result, looking like a weak and feckless alternative to Republicans. This strategy only got the center to vote Republican and depressed turnout on the left, because they weren’t even going to be an obstacle for all the things Republicans wanted to do.

They refuse to see the democrats for what they are, doing everything they could to lose that election if the alternative meant they’d even nominally have to appear left of center. Americans are looking for answers, and Democrats utterly failed to provide them, utterly failed to counter a particularly weak republican platform. No amount of catastrophising can defeat the bad messaging and politics of an incompetent national campaign.

They stand for nothing, so they’ll fall for anything.

Oh I’m totally with you, it’s the rest of this instance that you have to contend with

Right, which is why you educate them and make the case for them to vote for you, or else the other side will spread their disinformation without any competing narrative. That’s kind of the entire point of a presidential campaign. Just calling people idiots isn’t going to make them not be idiots.

How do you expect people to think any differently when there is nobody combatting that narrative at the national level? That is something the Democrats could have been hammering on.

He won because Kamala underperformed. They both underperformed compared to 2020 actually, Kamala just moreso.

Voters are disillusioned with Democrats, and it’s no wonder why when the Democrats keep running on policy that is unpopular with their base and relying on orange man bad to get their voters to the polls. It worked once, and then nothing changed, so of course it wasn’t going to work again. Stop trying to push the blame off on voters and use this time to reflect on your own party’s election strategy.

Which one was that again?

Usually I have to start from a reel that a friend sent me, which I would want to see more of, to get good algo picks.

I like the dumb algo. Same with youtube shorts. Makes it somewhat easier to stop scrolling at some point and do something more productive with my time. I also get my short form content fix without getting sucked into the ecosystem/community/mentality of tiktok.

It’s regular English, they’re just swapping in different phonetic characters for some reason

Close your eyes and lie very still

Hard disagree on all points.

On the topic of changing minds I’m personally really interested in learning more about deep canvassing since I listened to the You Are Not So Smart podcast episode about it (I think that was the one at least, cant remember who turned me onto it but it was someone here on lemmy). Gonna hunt down some training when I get a chance. My life is also pretty hectic at the moment as I’m in the middle of becoming a homeowner (!)

And yeah I don’t totally understand why .world is so rabid right now. Everything they’re expecting from Kamala are almost total fabrications based on the optics of either party, conveniently forgetting that Republicans get whatever they want regardless of who’s president and Kamala doesn’t even dare to hint at ending that dynamic. It completely lacks any and all analysis on how all these reactionary bills are actually being passed, as in, today, right now, under Biden, and Kamala’s total lack of a strategy to address that or win back any ground.

They don’t even agree with the platform that they are voting for, it’s just, “we can move her” and “she will listen” when she is clearly demonstrating that they cannot, in fact, “move her” and she is not listening and she isn’t even running on anything they want. All they have is fear of what even Biden said is fundamentally no different from his own Admin. It’s pure copium. sigh.

Side note, am I the only one noticing that the “BoTh SiDeS” argument used to refer to both sides being too extreme on opposite ends of the spectrum (y’know, bullshit that served republicans/enlightened centrists before MAGA came along), and now it’s being thrown back at us leftists when we point out that both parties exist on the same end of the spectrum, in service of capital and rightward momentum? Hoping someone else can finish my thought there but it feels like a complete manipulation and rewriting of that fallacy. Maybe I understood it differently when I was a lib though.

Anyways, I realize I’m kinda off the rails and preaching to the choir now but it feels like theres fewer and fewer safe spaces to vent and discuss these frustrations as the election draws near.

Shit.

Not sure why you would think Germany is the best in this respect as I’ve often heard the opposite in my travels there. They are very anti-tech in government, privacy/cybersecurity reasons are what’s usually cited.

Yes

I just pirate them lol. fuck EA. I wouldn’t have paid money for this slop anyways.

I don’t think that’s okay for military purposes either tbh. Actually it’s pretty disgusting.

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