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Does Dasani suck on purpose because Coke wants you to think you don’t like water so you drink more soda?

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The fact that the ad is so poorly designed that you can’t read the logo at the top left just adds to it

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@fenrirsclaws I had this exact experience and I’m curious why you picked her

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benturion

pillow princeps

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You gotta have the next paragraph

Many Democratic elites appear to have landed on a familiar tactic: blaming everyone’s favorite scapegoat, Big Woke. Everywhere you look, you’ll see someone—often, but not always, on CNN—railing against the far-left extremists that supposedly held the party’s mainstream faction in its vise-like grip in 2024. There’s just one problem with this: the campaign these insiders are describing bears virtually no resemblance to the actual campaign we all just suffered through. They have simply invented an alternate universe out of thin air.

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The ugly truth for these people is that Kamala Harris ran as right-wing a campaign as any Democrat in living memory. She downplayed discussions of her race and gender. She bent over backward to welcome billionaires, corporate titans, and Republicans into the fold. She told Black men that one of her priorities for them was…crypto. She made her past as a prosecutor a cornerstone of her pitch. She bragged about owning a Glock and joked that she would shoot people who broke into her house. She stuffed the Democratic National Convention to the gills with cops and Border Patrol agents while crushing even the tiniest dissent over her support for the genocide in Gaza. She promised the most “lethal” military in the world. She was seemingly joined at the hip with Liz Cheney for weeks. She even praised Dick Cheney! It’s hard to think of what more she could have done to satisfy the people clamoring for her to pander to conservatives.

11 November 2024

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When you ask a water elemental girl is she would survive being heated to 100°C

I have no self of steam

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womp womp [x]

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I keep seeing posts that say the issue of Palestine was electorally inconsequential but I would push back and say that it is a symptom of the Democrats’ sick strategy to style themselves as just as hawkish and authoritarian as Republicans. Instead of trying to inspire the American people to have a better attitude toward each other and the world, they appealed to their worst impulses. And like everyone who wasn’t an insider told them, they could not compete with Trump in that regard. They counted on Trump being unelectably compromised by his record to the point that his voters were up for grabs but anyone could’ve told them that his voters don’t care, believe, or as often even know about his record. So they wasted all their time and money courting voters they were never going to get and not doing things like—and I think you’re all forgetting what we’re talking about here—stopping a genocide to guarantee more voters.

I don’t care if it wouldn’t have been enough in itself, the fact is that it would have been part of a pattern of behavior that would’ve worked better than what they did instead.

The only way the Democrats could have made such a foolish miscalculation is if they are hopelessly disconnected from reality and/or if they are as ideologically malignant as the Republicans.

Or worse, and this is what I think: they’ve so deeply bought into the strategy of “triangulation” that they are ideologically vacant. So they will do things that they simply would not do if they had consistent ideological direction, like buying into fascism to “resist” it.

They are fundamentally unable to meet the moment and in every arena the vast majority of their party politicians don’t even want to. Because they are not coherent enough to want anything but voters, whose demands they are demonstrably unable to even comprehend.

I pray for the world. We need the US, a people largely intellectually incapable of humility, to reflect on themselves and get over their “fuck you, got mine” attitude. When they—when we fail to do that, the world will punish us and hopefully the next 9/11 doesn’t make us double down again.

It’s too early to call but regardless when this is all over I’d like Democratic strategists to look at the statistic for 2016 or 2020 Trump voters who chose Harris in 2024. Just to see if it turned out to be a solid plan to appeal to them instead of stopping a genocide.

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How come only they had the spine to try an insurrection though? I said this when it happened but the only thing wrong with it was the ideology behind it. Imagine how far a violent anti government mob could go if it was made up of people who actually know which things the government is doing wrong.

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AP is saying she lost by 5 million votes. which means even if all 2 million third party voters had voted for kamala harris (which would never have happened because of the libertarian party & RFK to be clear), she still would have lost.

instead of blaming leftists and palestinians for voting third party, you should be blaming the democrats for running a trash campaign. a campaign based in genocide, ethnic cleansing, cracking down on the border, children in cages, endless war with russia, endless war in korea, endless war in SWANA, the promise of war with china, refusing to actually defend (let alone protect) trans and queer people, and the list goes on. the democratic party is actively contributing to the rise of fascism in the united states, and they have been for 50 years.

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It’s too early to call but regardless when this is all over I’d like Democratic strategists to look at the statistic for 2016 or 2020 Trump voters who chose Harris in 2024. Just to see if it turned out to be a solid plan to appeal to them instead of stopping a genocide.

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tbh foreign policy was listed as the least important issue for exit polls, arab and muslim heavy states like minnesota and michigan are not what lost harris the vote, and jill stein got under like one percent. everyone making this about leftists who didnt vote either pro or against is making something out of basically nothing. americans are fundamentally boring and apolitical and above all completely self centered. they do not give a fuck about the suffering of people in palestine or ukraine. they just know that gas was cheaper 4 years ago or whatever. the amount of incredibly normal people i know who arent even right wing so much as just sort of uneducated and incurious about any issues / had no interests beyond like big ten sports or binge drinking or getting ahead at work and getting rich are voting for him not people who agonized over a single thing ever. this is unfortunately a non issue bc americans dont care about anything but themselves, you just happen to be around small groups of the exception

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The implication that Harris didn’t appeal to the general right wing sentiment of the electorate enough is the kind of idea that will lose them 2028

This is pretty fucking delusional

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This is pretty fucking delusional

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Thing that seems very clear now in hindsight: trump would have been reelected in 2020 if COVID hadn't started in the same year

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harris promised to maintain a status quo no-one wanted and trump promised change and that’s what cost the democrats the election but everyone would rather blame the arabs and the latine people than admit the democrats are the problem.