Oh… you mean even without having counted the mail-in ballots?

Damn, my brain is not wanting to make sense of this so hard right now.:-(

I am so glad that Jon Stewart decided to renew for another year - I need him so much!:-)

Oh… I literally did not notice it, hehe kudos! :-P

Hey, we won’t be fascist for at least another month or two!? 🗓️

There used to be dmv.social, which iirc was in Washington DC? It got shut down due to the CSAM attacks, before the automated software, and iirc just frustration in general with how toxic people were being.

And I see a bunch more actually, at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer. 2 of the top 20 instances even are located in the USA. Lemmy.sdf.org with >500 MAUs, beehaw.org with ~400, StarTrek.website with ~200, lemmy.today, ttrpgnetwork, and discuss.online (where jgrim of SubLinks is an admin) are all recognizable. Ofc, the caveat being if I am reading that page correctly - or like perhaps some proxy was used, even a random one and this data could be all wrong who knows - but it at least looks this way?:-)

So… you DO want to be pedantic then? 😘

Sigh, I just want there to be fewer Nazis.

working class voters are like “we’re already losing big time - let’s roll the dice.”

AGAIN. Yup. Riding high on Obama’s economy (who himself was blamed for Bush’s) and now Biden receiving the blame for Trump’s, the working class folk yearn for what they used to have - not realizing where it came from or how to get it back.

It’s probably too soon to expect something like that. Simply withdrawing support is likely to accomplish the same goal, and with far less fuss, plus leaves Russia looking all strong to do it without American help, and also the lowered friction reduces the chances of like another assassination attempt on Trump’s life or an attempted upheaval of the entire government.

Anyway, I’m saying that if Russia doesn’t absolutely need those boots, then it’s better for Russia actually, in the long term, to refuse such aid even if it were offered.

Tbf, while liberals realize that we need to change the electoral college system, so long as it is in place, there are a good many states where votes don’t actually matter. Either bc >70% of the state will vote blue (Democrats) in which case it is over-kill or similarly red (Republicans) in which case it is under-kill.

Also, remember that some votes remain yet to be counted, bc they were sent in via mail. Mind you, we already know (bc of the electoral college system) that these will not change the outcome of the election - though they will increase the amount of the popular vote, especially since the people that tend to send those in tens to be liberal.

On the other hand, maybe a massive showing up of liberals would have helped if Kamala had won, to show how much more massive the popular vote for her was, in comparison to for Trump? Except… would that really have convinced people who were literally gearing up for an actual civil war (or at least an “event” along those lines - perhaps another January 6th style occurrence) to forestall such? I am not convinced that it would.

Also, some people never got their mailers to use for their mail-in ballots, e.g. that story (was it ever validated?) of the landlord in I want to say California who was caught sending in the mailers for his renters. If all you need is the envelope, that’s a security concern, and I would like to know how many people report not ever receiving those envelopes to begin with.

Bc those aren’t merely votes that could potentially have gone to Kamala - bc then again, a lot of seniors were voting for Trump so we certainly can’t say that all would - and instead some may count double if they were made out to Trump. But possibly a low number, I dunno?

And COVID may have changed the game in terms of how readily people will step outside to vote. Also especially younger people have trouble getting time off their jobs, and lines this year were SUPER long - I mean hours and hours long, and with only rudimentary toilet facilities available. I UNDERSTAND why people would want to use more mail-in votes than having to do that.

But, quite possibly it was simply the Gaza situation that caused people to not be enthused about voting for her? I hope we see some kind of analysis to reveal what the true answer ends up being. In the meantime I wanted to mention the above factors that at least make the situation more complex than your one person did not vote story was able to get into:-).

“Nazi” does not always mean “authoritarian”, e.g. we see how Russia is another form of a totalitarian state without being strictly speaking “Nazis” (though there are some similarities, in conservative thought).

But more to the point, life exists on a spectrum. Those with Nazi proclivities used to feel that they had to “hide” their thoughts, almost like being ashamed of them. Now, they boldly proclaim them in the open - that is, as you say (correctly), not exactly “new”, but in modern times it has not been nearly so accepted by society at large, as much as it is now.

So not “always”, but yeah I agree that it was not “never” either. Still, I hope that this is merely a setback on our way to overall progress - e.g. set aside cops for the moment and look at society, especially younger people: racism isn’t nearly as prevalent as it was among the older generations? Nor sexism either. Not to the same “degree” anyway?

Classism probably always though - yeah that one’s a bitch to try to solve, especially as it ties in with factors making a huge difference such as lack of edumacashun and healthcare and transportation and from now on even access to a literal home to live in (all the more relevant as climate change makes being outside more problematic). e.g. by cutting off access to COVID vaccines, rich people will live longer lives while poorer people won’t, and will also suffer more from long COVID symptoms.

We definitely are not moving in a superb direction right now for sure… except in the long-term measurement in which case it’s still awesome what progress has been made so far.😀 Now the trick: hold onto that as best we can, even if democracy itself dies out around the globe.:-(

Damnit I missed my 2-minute window of opportunity!? /s :-P

I get more the sense that people don’t care about her so much - or him either for that matter - so much as how things in general just “feel wrong”. I’m no expert but the news media having been bought out seems a likely culprit. Jon Stewart tried to warn us but we would not listen. He did his part, but if people don’t value things, they tend to fall - or in this case be taken - apart.

All of them.

I get it but for real was not always this way. We need to wake up and see what’s actually there not recall what used to be.

Henceforth it shall be admiration.

And… wow they are correct! 😂

That’s kneet.:-)

I found this video to be quite positive. It’s titled "Why I’m not worried about the election, so ofc I expected some BS but I’ve liked him in the past and sure enough, he came up with some surprisingly good thoughts.

Unless… maybe… he WASN’T???😅