• TillieNeuen [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Isn't being right supposed to feel good? It would be so nice to be wrong.

      • Jorick [he/him]
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        4 years ago
        • "I warned you about climate change, I told you bro. I fucking warned you."
        • "I warned you about exploitation, I told you bro. I fucking warned you."
        • "I warned you about fascism, I told you bro. I fucking warned you".

        And sho on and sho forth, you shall suffer Cassandre's fate.

        • Adkliam [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          “Mueller isn’t gonna do shit” “The tax bill is gonna fly through no problem” “Trumps not gonna be removed from office” “Coronavirus is gonna fuck us hard because we don’t have a healthcare system” “Trump could still win a second term”

          I’d love to be wrong for a change

      • IceWallowCum [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        and nobody believes you until they actually happen

        Then they pretend you didn't warn about them and blame you for them happening

    • Adkliam [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Sure would be, getting real sick of sighing rubbing my forehead and saying I told you so.

  • TemporalMembrane [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    The DNC is just gonna keep running the 2016 campaign until the American electorate finally makes the "correct" choice.

    • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Hillary lost because of the Comey memo about reopening her case in the last days of the campaign and how the Trump campaign messaged that to people.

      Every presidential campaign since Reagan has come down to the state the race is in during the very last days. Turnout is everything, and it's why Trump could very easily win this.

      The point is, the dems won't change their strategy because they don't have to. It has a certain probability of working and isn't predestined to lose.

    • kilternkafuffle [any]
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      4 years ago

      Trump didn't want to win either...

      Grand theory: Serving in office is hard, you have little control over most people's lives because the state is increasingly ineffective and the corporations are in charge, people will hate you no matter what. Being the opposition is great - you complain about the obviously unpopular capitalist state, raise money from sections of the elites angry at the people in charge.

    • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think it was on a grillpill stream where Matt brilliantly sad that the big tent left is only being held together right now is the universal hatred of Trump. The dems do have a "platform" but idk how much the average voter cares about that platform as much as they just want to not have to hear about politics constantly, and rather be at brunch with the girls taking about the new episode of desperate house wives or whatever people do at brunch.

        • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Oh for sure, I didn't mean to imply we were part of that big tent. If anything, I feel more like OSHA right now trying to call out all the issues with our current "big tent."

        • NickLandsCrackpipe [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          its because trump is rude. that's it. he's nasty and lacks decorum, they don't give a shit if he does the same things as long as he's the blue team and is nice

      • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        rather be at brunch with the girls taking about the new episode of desperate house wives or whatever people do at brunch.

        What are they gonna do if Biden wins and they still can't return to that.

        Because this virus is gonna be around for at least another year or two

  • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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    4 years ago

    Another gem

    Roughly 30 Trump supporters gathered to protest outside the Biden event last week, waving their flags and cheering as passing cars honked. (Roughly eight Biden supporters showed up.)

  • JucheSanders [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Biden “won” the primaries without campaigning. Surely that same strategy will work for the general election!

      • Galli [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        They have already got greens candidates removed from ballots. I think this is their unironic strategy.

      • Deadend [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Obama needs to be willing to get peed on to save America.

  • RedArmor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Hmm. Where have I heard “not visiting or campaigning in a key midwestern state” before?

  • butt [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    "like, physically on the surface of the earth?"

  • Blarglefargle [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Alright story time!

    I live in a subarb of Michigan right outside Detroit, one of these vital communities of centrists and moderate republicans the dems are relying on desperatly to win the election. There has been ZERO presence of Biden or his supporters in the area. When Bernie dropped out as a favor to my friend who was one of the Bernie organizers I reached out to the local Biden head to offer to volunteer (didn't have any desire to, but gotta follow through with a favor) I was flat out told that they did not want me or anyone who had volunteered for Bernie working for them. I said fuck it and moved on with my life.

    About three weeks later I got a call from someone else working for the Biden campaign who didn't know that Hamtramck (the city Rashida's district is in) was different from Detroit and acted genuinly confused when I tried explaining that to her.

    I have several lib friends in the area that I use to work with who have volunteered and they have pretty much told me the exact same shit that the article reports. The focuss on republicans who would flip, the lack of any real leadership, a general lack of anyone knowing what the plan is.

    MEANWHILE the Trump campaign has set up a fucking campaign office in the main part of my town, and has been sending people out non stop to the ccommunity. I have NEVER seen a republican campaign office in this town in my entire life.

    TLDR: Can confirm article, Biden is fucked.

    • Poison_Ivy [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Meanwhile I'm getting constant emails and text messages IN CALIFORNIA from the Biden campaign reminding me to vote

      • Blarglefargle [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ive been getting non stop emails begging me to donate. I have also got nothing but the same 3 Biden adds on youtube adds that have nothing on policy and are just "vote for me because not trump, i will hypothetically give you shit" The debates are gonna be distrous for him

  • SovietyWoomy [any]
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    4 years ago

    I think both parties want to lose. They're both servants of the rich so they won't even try to fix anything if they win which will make people mad. The losing party can blame the winning party and direct that anger towards the winning party and away from the losing party's preferred color of maga.

  • NoEyed [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Biden is running a quantum campaign in Michigan. If campaign offices and staff are confirmed the wave function will collapse.

    • Civility [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Step 1: Brave Antifa Organisers infiltrate Biden's Michigan campaign apparatus

      Step 2: Brave Antifa Computer Scientists define an objective function C that calculates, based solely on the actions of Biden's Michigan campaign apparatus who won the US 2020 presidential election and how good a candidate they are, as a sum of how many of the constraints we care about the winning candidate satisfies.

      Step 3: Brave Antifa Theorietical Quantum Physicists redefine this objective function into a unitary operator U(C,y) where y is a bit string capable of representating all the actions Biden's Michigan Campaign apparatus can take.

      Step 4: Brave Antifa Experimental Quantum Phyisicists and cat burglars steal all the D-Waves and voltron them together.

      Step 5: Our brave Antifa Organisers seize control of Biden's Michigan campaign apparatus, and frogmarch them into the D-Waves

      Step 6: Here's how Bernie can still win: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4028.pdf

  • Adkliam [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Damn Russians stealing all the emails about how they should campaign in swing states again.