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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

But you’re not gonna give up. You just feel like you are.

If you were gonna give up, you’d have done it the first time, but ya didn’t. There’s something in you that whispers NO FUCKIN WAY AM I GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I am genuinely disgusted at how this could even happen like this. He got the popular vote? By 5 million?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it wasn't even the electoral college fucking us. He straight up won, by a significant amount too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

He's lost at everything in his life, despite trying so much and having every advantage. At a certain point the law of large numbers has to kick in.

And the one time he does it's because of nazis lol. Still not really a victory.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Oh its worse then that.

Just winning would be bad, but with the popular vote that is a mandate.

Having a clear mandate would be very bad but the house/senate would both need to go red to be able to execute the sort of mandate promised. You know that thing that also happened.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Dean Phillips would have won

Hell, I think even Witmer would have won

We're a racist country, to a lesser degree sexist

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure that we are more racist than sexist. We had a black president, who even got elected to 2 terms. We have yet to have a woman.

Either way, awful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

None of the women who have run had Obama's charisma. Harris was a bit of a wet blanket and clinton was just unpleasant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

And we need to be honest about what a presidential election really is at its core: a popularity contest.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

If George Clooney was the democratic nominee, he would have won easily.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I've been thinking this for a while now. Nothing gets people more excited than a celebrity, and Trump is proof of that. Dems definitely need to fight back with a classically "alpha" seeming white male celebrity to fight back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Until education is fixed in America it's reckless not running a celebrity figurehead. This is the ugly fact.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

While I highly disagree with the concept of turning the office of president into even more of a joke by purposefully electing more celebrities, someone like Nick Offerman or Robert Downey Jr. Would easily be able to defeat just about any Republican candidate just on popularity alone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

yeah, but George Clooney has multiple oscars.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Many terrible things are coming, but my heart is aching for Ukraine this morning...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The list of people fucked by this is pretty long.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

This is my biggest fear as well.

We in Europe need to focus on our own security and military future without being to dependant on our unstable partner overseas.
He won fair and square, which means that this was not just some fluke. It can and probably will happen again in the future.

If the GOP asks Ukraine to surrender what they have lost, I hope both Zelensky and we as Europe collectively give him a fat middle finger in return.
Russia must lose!

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Congratulations America! Corruption, greed and hate just won.

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[–] [email protected] 307 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (71 children)

Yeah, I'm giving up after this.

The Democratic party just can't deal with the stupidity and racism that is the American population.

I mean for fucks sake, Black and Latino voters increased their votes for Trump this time around.

Just time to hang up the hat and let America burn.

Also:

Biden got 81,282,916 votes

Harris got 66,153,556 votes

Americans didn't even bother to show up and now we have a Republicans in control of all three branches again. Yeah, there's no saving this democracy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I volunteered at county Dem HQ and was tasked with texting Dem voters who hadn't shown up at the polls by noon. Each page had maybe 50 names on it. And only 3 or 4 voters typically voted. It was a disaster.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe now the party will learn that guilting and harassing people doesn't work. If I get an unsolicited text from a campaign, it makes me significantly less likely to vote for that candidate. I'm not going to reward that sort of tactic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So… what do you propose to do instead with respect to organizing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Encouraging the DNC to hold primaries and take their thumb off the scale would be a good start. Don't call me. Call them.

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