I don’t know many things but the voters are obviously to blame. We drew 100 different trolley problems and told them democracy and women’s rights were on the line. We even had Bill Clinton logically explain that Palestinians were human shields. We even had better policy even though most voters didn’t know it. I can only conclude voters are selfish and that’s why they vote against their own interests.

History starts when I say it does

When they say it’s about race, it’s about class. When they say it is about class, it’s about gender. And when they say it’s out gender, it’s about race.

Or at least that’s how it feels sometimes.

I am completely wrong and yet completely vindicated by your response.

People didn’t care enough to show up to stop forced births, you think they care about puberty blockers? Doubt.

That’s like splitting hairs over whether a abortion is banned in Texas, cuz technically it is allowed under very narrow circumstances that no hospital is willing to try.

I got the same vibe but it seems the ambiguity was a large enough liability.

I voted for Harris but if “you guys” were really responsible for loosing then we should have given “them” more representation. But hey, at least this way we don’t have to blame Zionists, transphobies, xenophobes, or misogynists. Right?

I get the feeling we need to be doing the work the Democrats refused to do: creating a political mandate. Protesting is part of creating that mandate, but one thing I would like to see is the inverse of the “ground game” l; where instead of going door to door to convince people of a solution, you get them involved in the decision process.

Yeah, with those margins fine tuning Biden or Harris’s policy proposals would not have been enough. Which I think is Bernie’s point: we need something like Medicare for all or a detailed Gaza peace plan to excite the base and the non-xenophobic voters

I guess now is an appropriate time to stop empathizing with people who empathize with the victims.

Oooph, that tracts with a lot of tech companies you hear about. It does fit a pattern of spending so much time courting a base that has proven to be very misogynistic.

Are you a Christian? Because this is how they act when their love is conditioned on agreeing with them.

Jesus Christ people, you’re talking about a genocide.

If Genocide wasn’t on the ballot than how can you accuse anyone of supporting a genocide by the way they voted?

Political parties don’t learn, they respond to power.

They failed to predict voter sentiment so obviously they’re right about the voters being at fault.

I don’t think we were financing loans with GPUs as collateral back in 2012 or 2016: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/04/silicon-valley-and-wall-street-invent-collateralized-gpu-obligations-surely-this-will-work-out-fine/

Big difference between this and 2016 is JD Vance is the adult, not Mike Pence. His ties to Peter Thiel is scary. Also we just had a billionaire buy votes, no way that is going to stop now.

Markets are cyclic and we’re overdue for the AI bubble to pop. But I don’t think that automatically means the Democrats can win another presidential election or win the Senate.