33 points

Doesn’t matter - dems lost because people are constantly hearing the right’s narrative over and over and over again, reinforcing the idea that it’s reality.

It reminds me of how the majority of Americans thought the ACA was actually called Obamacare by Obama because he must be so vain, but now it’s on a massive scale.

We live in a world where people get to choose what is real and what is fake, and that choice is largely based on which idea is more entertaining, more emotionally satisfying to them. The right is capitalizing on this and the left is being left devastated.

The popular quote used to be ‘reality has a well-known liberal bias’. Well, now reality is whatever makes me feel angriest or scaredest and that has a well known conservative bias.

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“President Trump, he continuously came and he was in the community. While I don’t believe that he’s going to enact policies that will benefit the community, he at least showed that he was willing to show up for the community,” Misner said.

Not only will his policies not benefit the Arab-American communities in the US, they will end up actively harming them, as well as any chance of Palestinians even having a tiny slice of their own in the Middle East.

Congrats, Misner, you played yourself.

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Did they forget about his travel ban for Muslims? Trump made it clear he hate their kind and is a racist. Why are they surprised? For fucks sake he told Israel that he hopes they finish the job and that gaza make great real estate for them. So they deserve what they get.

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It’s hard to feel bad for the people that Voted for Trump, and are now going to be hurt by him. All the information was there, and they refused to accept it in favor of an alternate , counterfactual reality.

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I have said time and time again that it’s not the voters fault, it’s the campaigns fault, but my gosh are people upsetting. I’d prefer someone not know my community exists than show up just to tout harmful policies. Like, how is stepping foot in a building just to burn it down showing you care about the people there? I’m so saddened by the whole situation.

Here’s a clip of an undecided voter talking about their politics and it makes me feel completely helpless (it’s a crowd work clip, but it’s just depressing): https://youtu.be/KTlhX0BkzGY

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I kept saying since last year Biden was throwing away his campaign but noooooooo, its the voters who are wrong.

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Yeah people still don’t get it. It’s sad.

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Wahhh, they didn’t cater directly to me for literally no reason as I’m not part of any significant voting bloc. Why would they personally attack me like that?

Anything to absolve yourself of the consequences for your stupid decision, right? Pathetic.

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8 points

If they’re too insignificant to listen to, they’re too insignificant to blame.

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9 points

… what makes you think they didn’t vote for Kamala? I rolled through their last posts, nothing screams Trump.

… do you assume that because they criticized the democrats, they must be some form of evil? Why are you so gung-ho on defending the campaign. It really could’ve been a vastly better campaign, in so many ways.

Why are people not allowed to criticize the democratic party for botching this so badly?

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do you assume that because they criticized the democrats, they must be some form of evil?

People are doing it now to Ozma, mgl, VikingHippie, Ensign Crab, and others.

Logical criticism = aiding the enemy

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significant voting bloc

loses every single swing state

Yeah no I’m sure we were a pissant minority made up of 5 people. There’s just no possible way the uncommitted movement actually contained a significant amount of Democrat constituents.

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Wahhh, they didn’t cater directly to me for literally no reason as I’m not part of any significant voting bloc. Why would they personally attack me like that?

That’s a lot of interesting ways to avoid saying the Democratic party, through the mechanisms of the US government, directly funded, gave intelligence to, aided and supported a terrorist government committing the first live steamed genocide.

Maybe you didn’t pay attention. Maybe you weren’t aware that was happening.

But it was.

And others were paying attention.

You don’t get to fake quote someone like that and not mention the word Genocide without everyone knowing you are intentionally avoiding the word, and why.

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Damn, genocide, huh. Good thing you showed them genociders what’s what, now there will be no genocides at all

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calls themselves core voters

don’t vote

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4 points

Sorry, did I miss something and the democrats actually won? No? Then they were pretty fucking important it seems.

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And those ignored core voter issues were?

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5 points

Hard to muster a lot of sympathy for this mindset. SMH.

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What do you mean trump won?! We spent all our time fighting against Harris?! How did she lose?!

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Had she condemned the genocide and promised to cut off military aid to Israel, I think a lot of young people who didn’t vote might have acted differently.

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The silly thing in this thinking that that it would somehow only bring in voters.

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I really can’t understand this comment.

Are you saying that criticizing the genocide would not have brought in young voters?

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Well, they get what they voted for. I hope those “young people” like the result.

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