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[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Have you seen the numbers of people who think they were better off 4 years ago?

People think they were better off during the height of COVID deaths. Our attention span is 27 seconds. We're idiots

Also, Harris doesn't have a penis and somehow that's supposed to matter

[–] knightly@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of folks actually were better off back then due to the stimulus checks...

[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, getting less than one month's living expenses over a period of 18 months of un or underemployment really had me living large!

[–] knightly@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not discounting that, but if you were disabled or on a fixed income then that one month's living expenses might be the biggest windfall you've had in decades.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Biden's years were the best of my life, I had stability for once....

That was nice, can't wait to fucking get laid off.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A California lawyer trying to win a centrist campaign is like Tiger Woods trying to win a World Series ring. Harris wasn't the right person to run a centrist campaign. But, if she had run a progressive campaign from July, she would have won the popular vote and still lost the election. She wouldn't have gotten past a primary.

Elizabeth Warren would have been a better progressive choice. Mark Kelly could have run a progressive or a centrist campaign.

[–] Zacpod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Gods, I'd have loved seeing an astronaut in the big chair.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You cannot put a woman or a minority on the ticket and expect Right Wingers to care.

Back in 2015 when it was either Trump or Ben Carson for nomination, I knew it would be Trump. Simply because I knew once the debates started and Boomers were actually looking at Ben Carson instead of just reading newspaper articles about him, they'd abandon him for being the wrong color...

And I was right

Too many people will simply never submit to Female Rule.

It's why I knew Nikki Hailey wasn't going to get the 2024 nomination despite Trump being the most idiotic and easily beatable choice (and if Kamela ran a progressive campaign and actually had time to make her campaign)

American Men simply do not respect women.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The man staged a coup when he lost then we voted him in 4 years later. He called my state and tried to overgrow our results and 4 years later Georgia voted him in.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Indeed. We elected someone who shits all over democracy. Idiots abound

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Old white man, old white man, if he can't do it, no one can!

Yeah I wouldn't discount sexism, or racism - I do think it's hard for Democrats to win elections here unless people are in the middle of a conservative administration, they just don't remember how bad it is, it's like people who remember their time in school fondly once it's over.

But in general, it's also true that women have to be near perfect, to be promoted over a man. And same thing with race. Like they can't just be the better choice it has to be a blowout. Now to a sensible person, she met that bar and flew past it, but we aren't all sensible and people are stupidly nostalgic for times that were objectively worse.