I can't decide whether it would be funnier for her to get confirmed or not. Either way, some group of extremely annoying people is going to be crying about it, so it's kind of a win-win.

"Disappear" is a great word because it immediately conjures up images of having a bag thrown over their head and being whisked away never to be seen again, but it's also vague enough that you can use it any time someone doesn't make a public appearance for any amount of time. When Western media says someone "disappears," it typically just means they haven't seen them on TV recently, it's not like they're checking in at their houses or contacting neighbors or relatives or anything like that, and obviously it doesn't mean anyone's reported them missing. If the person reappears, first off they never technically said anything bad happened to them, but also, once they've got the audience primed to believe something's going on, they can keep running stories about how "questions remain" to keep the story going for a couple more cycles even though the only thing that raised any questions in the first place has been resolved.

See Peng Shuai for an example of this.

I came up with a pretty good one I think

All Darth Vader did was help Palpatine build the Death Star, and it was Tarkin who actually gave the order. Do these anti-Vader people even understand what his role is as Sith Lord?

These single-issue voters who refuse to vote for Vader just because of the Aderaan issue are just helping Palpatine. Why does everyone suddenly care so much about Alderaan anyway?

I think Kamala Harris would be an objectively great president (1000 upvotes)

Kamala Harris is like Princess Leia and blaming her for Gaza is analogous to blaming Leia for Alderaan (1100 upvotes)

Kamala Harris is a "former prosecutor with a spotless record" (1200 upvotes)

Oh shit, the leftists are here, everyone, fall back!

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Ahem. Of course we agree with your criticisms of Kamala, she's a deeply flawed candidate, but we're just holding our nose and voting for her only because Trump is so bad.

OK, I think they're gone now, everybody relax, we can come back out and go back to talking about how wonderful she is.

You're right, but the real answer is they didn't rig the senate races because the libs aren't emotionally invested in the senate races, so it's not as compelling as a story.

I have lib friends who believe that stuff. It's hard to know what to say in response because like it's obviously not true but I guess it's how they're coping. Fortunately I'm not the only one in the group pushing back on it.

Kamala Harris is so not worth doing a conspiracy theory over.

I'll be Gorbachev. I'll use the site funds to throw a pizza party and then bring in the lemmy.world mods to manage everything.

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• Poison Bow so you can hit them once then run away

• Darkness Axe because it makes me think of the Devil Axe from Fire Emblem

• Nature Whip because vines

• Thunder Hammer because big impact

• Spear of Light feels a common thing

• Earth Shield because sturdiness

• Wind Claws because you gotta be quick and mobile

• Ice Knuckles pack a wallop

• Water Dagger because the only other one left is fire and you don't want that close to you

• Fire Sword just fits

Haha, look at stinky mouse breath over here.

Don't worry, I'm not making fun of Hubert. I'm making fun of YOU! GOTTEM!

While theoretically possible, I think it's a stretch to say that that represents a significant portion of the electorate that isn't already voting Republican. The only real evidence for that idea is that Clinton and Harris lost, and there are plenty of other explanations for their losses. If you make the claim that specific to where downballot races don't apply, then there just isn't enough data to make that a reliable conclusion. It also feels to me like it's just a talking point to absolve the Democrats of responsibility for running bad campaigns.

Btw with Nevada being called for Jacky Rosen, that makes three female senators winning in states Kamala lost, and there's Ruben Gallego, a Latino, who's ahead in Arizona.

“People don’t want to be in a coalition with the devil,” says the source, speaking about Dick Cheney. They say a Harris staffer responded that it was not the staff’s role to challenge the campaign’s decisions.

I see the Russian bots managed to infiltrate the Harris campaign.

Interestingly, Bill Kristol, a top Never Trump Republican, publicly urged Harris in the final weeks of the campaign to pitch a progressive, populist economic message against Trump and his army of billionaire supporters.

In late October, he wrote on X: “Feels like maybe Kamala Harris should embrace Elizabeth Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax and barnstorm on that for the next ten days.”

Omfg

I'm Leftists Who Need To Touch Grass

Why hasn't anarchism been done already (on a large scale)? "It would have, but the tankies keep subverting revolutions and doing states, and they give a bad name to leftists which turns people away from anarchism," is a pretty convenient answer to that. Plus, by distancing themselves from us and from past revolutions, they can try to pass themselves off as "one of the good ones" while preserving an image of how they want things to be without having to defend any messiness of actually getting there. It's much simpler to write off projects entirely as not being genuine attempts because the bad people took charge than to actually study them and confront the complex problems they faced.

Should be called c/the_tank_tank

It's a mistake to treat these issues as disconnected. People saw the Biden administration writing blank checks to Ukraine and Israel when they were struggling to make ends meet. Foreign policy had both a material effect and a perceived effect on the economy, and people might not have a correct understanding of exactly how or why but I'm inclined to believe people made some connections there.

Obviously it's disappointing that more people aren't opposed to genocide on principle, but there are people who blame it for interrupting their treats, or who are upset about treat disruption resulting from it but don't connect the two.

Damn, saw right through me

All I can say about 2028 is that I look forward to telling libs, "Election? What election? Trump ended democracy forever, remember? There aren't elections anymore" when they inevitably tell me I have to vote the lesser Hitler.

Are you going to do communism now? As a Hater and Loser, I cannot express how incredibly owned I would be if you did and it turned out the MAGA communists were actually right all along.

Actually, all of those votes are votes for Trump, which means he has won (nearly?) every state in every election he's ever run in.