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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The ones that get their information from places like Fox, Threads, Facebook, Nextdoor, X, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lost the ones more easily duped by soundbites of lies.

"I love the poorly educated!" -Trump, 2/2016

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It's too bad she didn't offer any soundbites of truth. Her entire campaign was built around being inoffensive to everyone which meant saying nothing that might evoke meaning. Lies thrive in that environment.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I have spoken to two kinds of voters.

First off, was my dad. He never ever voted in his life. This was his first year of voting and he went Harris. Simply because he knew enough of what she was about and liked her character.

Meanwhile, the other party was my formerly adoptive mother. She voted Trump because "I just don't like the other party". That was her only reason. And that was just simply dishonest and uneducated.

So, it is possible that someone is capable of just even doing the tiniest research can give you an idea of who to vote for.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (31 children)

No, SHE didn't.

Corporate News Fucked Up Again.

For some reason all the headlines about this seem to be about what the DNC or the Harris campaign should have done.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Democrats ran another perfect losing campaign. Some people might say that losing makes a campaign definitionally imperfect, but that's only sane people.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is what happens when you sell all of the major news outlets to billionaires - they publish pro billionaire propaganda

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I don't think it's fair to just dump all the blame on corporate media. The news media landscape hasn't meaningfully changed since Trump was first elected, but despite having 8 years to formulate a sound media strategy the DNC is still campaigning like it's 2015.

Like, sure, the Democrats are running with a handicap in the current media landscape, but that isn't new, and it's the responsibility of the DNC to figure out how to overcome that disadvantage — a task that the current leadership has proven itself woefully incompetent at.

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