Beans are the foundation of chili. You can remove all the meat from a chili and still call it chili. You cannot remove all the beans and still call it chili.

RBG was 80+, had cancer, and was likely to die in office.

Sotomayor isn’t a spring chicken, but just turned 70 this year. That makes her a full 17 years younger than RBG was, nearly two decades. It’s pretty likely that Sotomayor will be able to live for another 8 years at least, and likely much longer. Yeah, you can make the argument that maybe the U.S. won’t have elections anymore and this may be the last chance the Dems will ever have to appoint a Supreme Court Justice, but I think there’ll be bigger problems to worry about if the U.S. stops having elections.

The Democrats have tried the same shit for over a decade and you’re saying we don’t have enough data? People were calling out reasons before Harris had even lost and you think nobody has answers?

You lacking information doesn’t mean the information doesn’t exist.

Hilarious that you would bring up software engineering considering one of the largest names in PC gaming, Valve, has a flat management structure. Seems like they’re able to manage running the Steam store, game development, and hardware development just fine.

If anyone wants to make an actual difference, the big time to do so would actually be midterms. I’m pretty sure we’ll still have 2026 midterm elections, so working to replace pro-corporate Democrats in historically safe Dem districts would be the place to start. Checking in with any politically active leftist groups in your area is a good way to start finding candidates to rally around, and local protests are generally a great place to connect with leftist groups.

Sure, but what’s your solution to that? What can Dems do differently next time that will stop the GOP cult from voting?

The answer is nothing, that’s why they are a cult. Nobody can break through to the entire group, just trying to get through to individual members is difficult enough. The time to try and prevent the cult from rising was two decades ago. Now that it’s here, our only option is to acknowledge its existence and fight it directly.

Blaming the GOP for running an effective campaign that motivated their cult to vote is how nobody learns anything. The Dems have to realize that they failed to run an effective campaign in opposition.

because it’s not what she campaigned on. She very easily could have run a policy focused campaign and shown the American public how much they would benefit from a Dem president.

Instead, she campaigned on maintaining the status quo, working alongside Republicans, being pro-Israel and being anti-immigration. If the DNC weren’t trying to lose, then I think they’re incompetent.

The way I see it, one of two things is true. Either the DNC is incompetent, or they are malicious. In either case, they need to be replaced.

This really was the year that Dems took the mask off huh. They can act as smug and superior as they want; they don’t realize they’re exactly as stupid and gullible as Trump supporters. The only difference is that their parents voted Dem so they get to think of themselves as a “good liberal.”

If you’re blaming minorities for not voting for a party that supports their ongoing genocide, then you are Blue MAGA. It’s not even a joke anymore, they will unironically tell you to shut up and fall in line to try and fight fascism.

The conspiracy that no one wants to acknowledge is that we’re moving towards a country that is privately owned by a handful of billionaires.

We’re already there. Their prized pig already swindled the uneducated voters, and their “brave opposition” fulfilled their role by constantly seeking failure. The U.S. was sold in 2010. It’s been owned for so long that the masks can start coming off now.

This post is my reminder that I should probably upgrade my graphics card this December, rather than waiting for any other time.

The thing is, I was certain it would take more time than this. I thought the election would be close enough for him to contest it, and that the Supreme Court would end up deciding the election 6-3. Instead the presidency was just…handed to him directly.

What use is there in taking your own life?

If you cannot flee, then prepare to fight.

There very certainly is, because the Democrats should not be the party for Nazis.

As has been shown this election, the Republican party are Nazis. Trying to influence the mythical “good” Nazis to vote for Harris was a terrible idea to begin with.

I mean, is it really humanity though? Life in the Imperium of Man is misery on a scale incomprehensible to our human minds. Ritualistic self-sacrifice is seen as preferable to existence. They survive because they became the monsters.

Harris could have won, she just needed to throw Biden under the bus like he deserves. Her written platform is honestly fine, I think she could have run a progressive campaign of change, but instead she chose to run on upholding the staus quo. Maybe she wasn’t given the choice by the DNC.

“Really well run” seems like a bit of an exaggeration when people were doing vote-swaps in swing states with liberals who didn’t want to vote for her.

Look as bad as today is, I’ve gotten some amount of chuckles imagining my potential role in the future of underground furry porn trading, so thank you.

Yeah, but might as well have him in a cell for those months than free. What else are the courts going to do until January.