put all of your election posting here so it doesn't bother anyone else!
from @CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net:
For Agitprop purposes, I’m asking comrades to help aggregate any and all effortpost responses, critiques, or general thoughts that you have seen or written pertaining to yesterday’s U.S. election that you think have standalone value for discussion either online or IRL.
I made a post for that purpose here, and ideally it can be used not only for general discussion, but as a reference for well thought out responses in discussions about the election to save all of us some brainpower.
No shitposts please, as we’d like to highlight some comrades’ actual effort in constructing responses or analysis, but humor is 100% welcome to help make your point!
I’m too young to remember (I was fucking 11) was it like this in 2016?
Nah 2016 was closer and more of a shock. Trump is winning by much bigger margins this time round.
Someone should explain to Kamala that running on committing crimes against humanity doesn't make people want to vote for you before it's too late!
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(work in progress 🚧)Both the major parties do that and one or the other wins every time
Democracy is when neither political party runs a platform of not committing crimes against humanity
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(work in progress 🚧)They usually at least pay lip service to not doing crimes.
Yeah ikr
I refuse to believe that I won’t be a teen anymore next year
Trump winning in 2016 was (at least to my lib-ish brain at the time) akin to stepping out your front door and finding yourself on the surface of Venus in terms of sheer shock and confusion. I went to bed the day before not even paying the slightest amount of attention (I might have even forgot it was even election day until I woke up and saw the results) because it was so obvious that Hillary was going to win that I was making absurdist jokes with my friends about how Trump was going to win, because the whole idea that it would even happen was so laughably far-fetched.
So I think this year, it's a little less surprising than that - everybody knew that it was at least a possibility because it had happened before - but still, given all the triumphant rhetoric from the Harris campaign and smug overconfidence and Trump's relative lack of energy this time around, this is still a major, major shock. So I'd say that this is within 90% of the feeling of 2016. Like, 24 hours ago, if you asked me who I thought was going to win, I would have said Harris without much hesitation.
Dems saw their midterm performance, figured it was a sure win, and checked out.
Being absurdly correct is what turned you into a Hexbear leftist, isn't it?
Yes lol, almost exactly, except it's even more glaringly obvious why the Democrats lost
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(work in progress 🚧)And they'll probably be even more insufferable about completely denying reality. It's just going to get added on to their version of "Stabbed in the Back"
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Imagine this but even more. Like way more. Especially given polls weren't nearly as close, most thought it would be a Hillary blowout.
I remember a video from the Hillary campaign where you can see the light leaving Hillary's eyes as she figures it out. Anyone have that?
Ping me if you find it
There was once light in those eyes?
Yeah 1:1 same
Nah. In 2016 all the polling pre-election had like 95% Clinton victory, this year it was 50/50.
difference of degree rather than substance imo, like imagine if we went into today with everyone giving kamala a 95% chance to win instead of a coin flip
Trump winning in 2016 hit like 9-11, another event you’re too young to remember
This is funnier
This gives you a good idea of the vibes last time
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: