• @theangryseal
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    451 day ago

    I’m am so fucking furious that Harris got 6 million less votes than Biden.

    Sure, she was a terrible candidate, but how in the world did Trump not motivate people to vote for her?

    Those 6 million people had to be afraid of what was coming, right? I thought Trump motivated people to vote for Biden. I sure as shit didn’t vote for him with any enthusiasm. I was personally terrified that he’d have a mental decline and hand everything back to Trump, and, well, that’s exactly what happened.

    It all just blows my mind.

    Maybe after the world burns down and the people of the future build the next Rome, they’ll use some examples from all of this.

    I doubt it though. They’d get it perfect and some cult would spring up and shoot it to shit again. I swear it’s hard not to be a nihilist when humanity just goes in circles. For every 100 decent people there’s one monster who crushes them all because he never thinks about what other people might go through. He only thinks about himself and everyone else pays for it.

    I’m also angry as shit that all of the people who stormed the capitol are just off the hook. A few days before they were pardoned my uncle was saying, “He won’t pardon them all. They’ll look at it case by case.” I said, “ok, when he pardons them all I hope that you hear what I’m saying when I say his ego is bigger than his interest in making our country better. I would bet my balls on the fact that it will be a blanket pardon.”

    “We’ll, they’ve got this woman who was talking about looking case by case on Fox the other day…”

    “They’re lying. He’ll pardon them all.” I said.

    He and I will be working together this week. I bet he justifies it. Maybe not, but it’s too late now anyway. The damage is done, is being done, and will not stand a chance of being undone in my lifetime.

    Sorry for this. My brain just hurts. I worry for all of these people who will have their lives ripped apart. It just sucks.

    • @MehBlah
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      She could have got those votes if she had shown any kind of backbone on israel. Depite how the media and all of those corrupt people try to spin it. The majority of the silent majority can see that situation for what it really is. She came out the day before election day saying she would put a end to it and it was way too late.

    • @njm1314
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      At the end of the day saying vote for me because the other guy’s worse is never going to inspire voters. Elections about getting people to vote for you. It’s as simple as that, you have to sell people on you. They have to vote for you. That’s an incontrovertible rule of politics that will never be overcome and the Democrats don’t fucking understand it.

    • @drunkpostdisaster
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      618 hours ago

      They keep trying to get the moderate vote for the same reason they are so baffled why people see luigi as a hero. They are clueless.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 day ago

      she was a terrible candidate, but how in the world did Trump not motivate people to vote for her?

      Easy, as you said: she was a terrible candidate

      They wanted to get that first woman “status quo” president again. It lost them more votes than it won. I can’t believe they didn’t even have another round of primaries.

      When they shut out bernie they really fucked the party. This timeline is their fault as much as anyone else’s.

      • @[email protected]
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        151 day ago

        AOC would have been a better “woman” candidate

        The problem was that they needed someone to the right of Biden

      • @theangryseal
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        101 day ago

        You’re goddamn right about that. I have voted for Bernie every time I could.

        In the beginning of the last primary when he had that lead for like a week, I was so happy that I cried every time I heard “front runner Bernie Sanders”.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 day ago

        Dems are controlled opposition and everyone knows it.

        I still vote for them, at least until a better alternative comes along. But we have to build better systems because the establishment will not save us.

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      111 day ago

      will not stand a chance of being undone in my lifetime

      I feel that in my bones. There’s so much backward progress, that it feels like I’ll never see any fruit of what I’m fighting for; just trying to regain some ground at this point. I’ve given up on my own timeline and am simply fighting for future generations. I may never see it, but I’ll be damned if I concede

      It still hurts though, seeing how much progress is being lost and feeling helpless to stop the backslide. It’s mind-numbing to think about, honestly