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[–] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 27 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

The message was loud and clear: America writ large is not ready for anything less than a straight, white, male president. Its time to stop being delusional, Obama was a fluke, and not going to be repeated. You might not like hearing it, but its the reality on the ground, don't take it from me.

In retrospect, I think Biden could have shat himself on live TV while asleep at the podium and probably have still gotten elected, the bar was so, so low. Kamala basically ran a prefect campaign, its just not what America wants.

[–] clot27@lemm.ee 35 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Obama was a once in many generation politician, he had charisma and appeal no democrat president ever had. Democrats better field a white straight male from now on if they want to win, forget women president for 3-4 decades now. The kind of misogyny in america is crazy, I am from India, a third world country and even we had a female Prime Minister in our 75 year of independent history, and she was very much respected and one of the most popular. America in its 250 year of history had none, thats just crazy for a so called superpower

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[–] Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

This post proves Bernie Sanders right about at least one person.

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[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (36 children)

Alright! So Palestine is free now, right guys?....right?

Palestine is freed... from existing.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 22 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

The guy won the popular vote. The people who sat the election out would probably have broken for Trump too.

The problem here isn't voter turnout, it's voter preference for a fascist.

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 16 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Actually, the problem appears to be exactly voter turn out. With a healthy heaping of Neo-Liberal rot in the Democratic Party.

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago

That's just not true. You have no idea what the people who stayed home would have done if they were forced to vote. You have no idea how the campaign would have turned out if Harris had tried to win the popular vote.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (11 children)

When you lose an election this badly, people are clearly not buying you’re selling.

But damn I did not expect so many people to sit out against the guy who did the coup and amongst all the other shit. If there is any light ahead, I think it’s that this L forces the Democratic Party to lean back left with their campaign promises, and whatever power they have left to affect policy.

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If there is any light ahead, I think it’s that this L forces the Democratic Party to lean back left with their campaign promises, and whatever power they have left to affect policy.

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[–] KimjongTOOILL@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago

They are fucking incapable of learning this.

Bernie polled great against Trump but they snubbed him for Hillary and we lost because of it.

The only reason Biden won was because he wasn't Trump and we were tired of him at that point.

Kamala had a chance to swing a little more left but continued to try to court moderate conservatives and the suburbs instead.

They just can't get it through their heads that: Trump and maga are winning as a reaction of "fuck the system". This mostly stems from corporations and the filthy rich not being taxed enough and us not spending enough on social programs. That energy could have been captured and utilized by running a leftist.

But instead we get milquetoast business as usual bullshit

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 227 points 1 day ago (60 children)

Big ups to those people who “voted against genocide”.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 141 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Utterly bizarre. I expected Trump might squeak out an electoral win, but the popular vote as well? Thanks everyone who stayed the fuck home. You sat by as fascism was ushered in to the US.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Yes, a Very Special Thanks to the morally pure angels who refused to vote for Kamala Harris because they were standing on high ground about some issue they disliked her on. Well done, fuckheads.

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[–] chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That genocide is gonna stop any day now

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago

“He didn’t elaborate on what would be ‘nasty.’”

Bullies usually don't elaborate. Being vague lets you fill in your own demons, which is more frightening.

Also plausible deniability when the thugs he's whistling to go out and bash gays or blacks or Mexicans or whoever (athough in their minds he was giving them permission). "I never said go bash heads. No, I meant nasty as in peacefully, as in not sugarcoating the hard truth, which can be nasty."

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