Most conspiracy theories are either stuff the CIA actually did, or antisemitism.

Yeah. I agree with the sentiment, but the cartoon is not at all clever or subversive.

You’d think people who want to live forever would care more about the environment. But I guess the worst consequences they’ll face is a shorter ski season.

Standard furniture kink, just in water? Sounds like fun. I’m curious about buoyancy though.

Etcetera knows what it did. 😤

I support gay rights but I LOVE gay wrongs.

Throughout history, a terrible number of people have died because some zealot thought they were doing the right thing.

If a police officer “knows” someone is guilty, what do you think about breaking the rules to ensure they are punished?

Most restaurants keep reservations in a $2.75 spiral notebook.

I doubt an online reservation calendar would be $10k for a single restaurant, but still…the only profit is marginal: the people who eat there who would have without the online calendar, and I doubt it would recoup the costs in a quarter or two. Especially considering that the wealth gap and tech gap mean that the number of people who want to schedule online is inversely related to the people who can afford to eat out a lot.

I am shocked and disgusted with myself for not having read this already. To the library!

I’ve decided to believe that there was a grueling audition process and he ultimately had to go forward with his second choice.

why aren’t you guys screaming?

I screamed when Bush won a second term. I screamed when Trump won his first term. The American people can’t really let me down any further than they already have.

Do you mean rioting? The guy even won the popular vote, possibly fair and square. Are you under the impression that there is some action we can take at this point to improve the situation?

because people couldn’t get no injustice, they stayed home

That’s not a valid interpretation of the situation. Millions of people who voted for Biden did not come out for Kamala. There’ll be a lot of people trying to discern why and you probably won’t like my guess, but it’s too early to really have good information. Exit polls said only about 10 percent of people cared about Gaza at all. This idea of progressives not voting, sending the election to Trump doesn’t hold water at all. Dems first instinct is to punch left. I hope they learn a better lesson from this loss.

People who don’t vote aren’t hanging out on Lemmy talking about politics. All of the vitriol from Democrats is even more misplaced than usual. This outcome was pretty much what I thought would happen, but when I talk about how Dem decisions aren’t exciting voters, the response is to admonish me to vote, missing the point entirely.

it’s broken deliberately by one side to suit them,

Refusing to admit the part the Dems play is part of the problem as well. We can’t keep doing the same thing we’ve always done, and if we don’t learn from this we are truly doomed.

That’s fair and I respect your decision.

I was excited about Obama. For whatever reason I thought he’d be a lot more progressive than he ended up being.

I phone banked for Clinton. Was never a fan, but I agree that Trump was/is uniquely dangerous.

I voted for Biden. He was explicitly picked to be the conservative balance to the liberal firebrand, Obama (😬), but hey vote Blue no matter who, right?

The counterpoint to this thinking, for me: Where does this end? Do I stick it out until the next “unimportant” Presidential election? At what point am I just enabling the Dems to run rightward to pick up imaginary centrist Republicans while ignoring the left and the working class?

I doubt the DNC will learn their lesson from this election. I hoped they’d learn from a win, but I pray they take this loss to heart. The idea that Republicans somehow convinced people that they’re the party of unions and the working class is laughable, but if they could do that, that says Dems aren’t making the difference in people’s lives that they should be.

I voted for the Unity party largely to make this point. I live in Colorado. That’s “shooting myself in the head”?

I heard someone say “Well what if so many voters vote third party that they lose the state?” If the Dems lose Colorado…if Colorado is even close…do you really think they have a path to 270?

I respect the right of people in swing states to vote their conscience as well, but that’s obviously a different consideration. But the vitriol a lot of Dems have without even asking where someone lives is just… unhelpful.

This is meaningless though.

You said “a clear majority voted for Trump”. In fact: a majority of Americans didn’t vote for a fascist. That is a good thing.

Neither did a majority of Americans vote for a milquetoast centrist, but I don’t expect anyone to take a great deal of comfort or pain in that fact.

Harems seem to seldom be consensual. It’s too bad really. But also one just doesn’t hear about consensual nonmonogamy much in the mainstream, so I suppose there probably are some.

It is on the candidate to inspire people. Yeah, the left was lukewarm to a candidate that was trying her best to court Republicans. How else could you expect that to play out?

Only 10% of the electorate even cared about Gaza. You’re giving the American people entirely too much credit.

You really think the 15 million people who voted for Biden but not Kamala was “misplaced sense of moral superiority”? Why?

Imagine thinking that billions of dollars in campaign funds were overturned by a picture posted on Lemmy.

The Left is a group so insignificant that we don’t need to cater to their positions at all, but so massive that they’re completely responsible any time we lose.