• RubberDuck
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    6316 days ago

    I doubt Gaza was the deciding factor for 20 million people, but I could be wrong. Especially since anyone that aware of the whole would see trump would worsen the situation not improve it. I’m curious why they did stay home.

    I also guess Americans don’t want a woman president and they do want a hard crackdown on migrants. Especially Latinos, who apparently overwhelmingly came out for trump.

    • P03 Locke
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      4916 days ago

      I also guess Americans don’t want a woman president and they do want a hard crackdown on migrants. Especially Latinos, who apparently overwhelmingly came out for trump.

      Latinos voting for hard crackdowns on immigrants is the biggest “fuck you, I’ve got mine” energy I’ve ever seen.

    • @humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      2016 days ago

      By far, the overwhelming Biden derangement syndrome factor was “transgenders exist and are in my news feed”. That healthcare is available to prisoners and immigrants, means that they are all receiving gender reassignment surgeries. This is democrats fault.

      • RubberDuck
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        2216 days ago

        The fact people can’t differentiate edge cases from the norm is a general education issue. But their pushback was anemic.

        • @horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
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          1415 days ago

          General education in the US is underfunded on purpose. It’s how the right have won on every issue that counts. Distracted, lazy, frightened and greedy. These are the levers the media pull to get whatever the billionaires want to happen. They tried it with Smedley Butler way back when and learned their lesson. Have the dumbass voter just do what they want with outrage. It doesn’t matter who’s president or who’s in Congress. It matters what’s on the news and who they can pay to put it there. The rest falls into place.

          • RubberDuck
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            515 days ago

            The Democrats also need better spokespersons. They might have better policy, but the infrastructure bill, chips act and lower drug prices will kick in during Trumps reighn.

    • @bishbosh@lemm.ee
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      1616 days ago

      It wasn’t deciding factor at all. People get far too internet poisoned and fail to realize how the median voter is actually motivated in this country. Foreign policy is nearly irrelevant to most voters.

      If there is any validity to the idea that Harris’ position on gaza tanked the campaign it’s in the motivated active base lost interest in giving their time, sweat, and energy to putting boots on the ground for someone that has made every promise to continue bombing children.

      • @bamfic@lemmy.world
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        715 days ago

        It was, as it always is, and as Clinton said over 30 years ago, “the economy, stupid”.

        People who do not pay attention to politics vote like someone pressing random buttons on an elevator. They push the up button, no elevator comes, then they push the down button, no elevator comes, and all they know to do is to keep pushing buttons randomly hoping an elevator comes one way or another. And no elevator ever comes.

    • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      415 days ago

      It was a multitude of reasons, Twitter being in the hands of Elon (who pushed the hashtags #genocidejoe and #holocaustharris, but I wouldn’t be surprized if he also misinformed people about the election dates), other social media stopped enforcing their community guidelines to be “unbiased”, media was way harder on Kamala than on Trump (including the downplaying of the mental decay and insanity of Trump), the whole “let’s try to appeal to moderate conservatives” thing, etc.

      • RubberDuck
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        715 days ago

        The entire capital class rallied around trump. Bezos and Musk… media is owned by them, so the bias against Harris, asking things of her they did not ask from Trump… sanewashing Trumps ramblings.

        Your elections where “stolen”… by the billionaires… through totally legit means.

    • @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      -1015 days ago

      If it mattered: Fuck the Dems for doing a genocide that cost us the Republic.

      If it didn’t matter: Fuck the Dems for doing a genocide that didn’t even matter in costing us the Republic.