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  • Turret3857@infosec.pubtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•A modest proposal. Solving 4 problems at once. English
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    7 days ago

    Ah yes, we’re all just one collective! Of course! No one has any defining traits that would make them vote one way or another. Were all a hivemind without any characteristics and its the young peoples fault for having no faith in the current government system that was completely fucking destroyed by Regan’s policies. It is the fault of the people who were not even born yet and have no wealth, living paycheck to paycheck. It is the fault of the single mother with 3 jobs thay she couldn’t vote. It is the fault of the 2nd generational immigrant that they got deported to a county they’ve never set foot in. It is definitely not the older generations fault for not standing up to this shit while it was being set up, its the people who werent even a semen in their daddy’s ballsacks fault

    but actually were all one group and have no differences, so its really no ones fault. this was inevitable and could not have been prevented.

  • Turret3857@infosec.pubtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•A modest proposal. Solving 4 problems at once. English
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    7 days ago

    The baby boomer generation holds 51.1% of the total populations wealth. They watched Regan rise to power, strip new deal legislation, neuter unions, kill millions with the AIDS crisis, and funnel cocaine into minority neighborhoods. In response to all that, the baby boomers… elected him to a second term. You all have had a literal lifetime to take that wealth and fight for the future generations to have a better life. Instead of doing that, the vocal majority told ALL OF US (Gen X, Gen Y, Millenials, Gen Z and now Gen Alpha) that we are entitled little shits who are lazy, and need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

    If you want the old people hate to stop, maybe look at your peers and get them to realize the mess that has been made fell largely on your shoulders to clean up, and you did nothing.

    Maybe you’ve spent your whole life protesting and promoting progressive candidates. I dont know you. I only know the statistics and history about the generations. If you have been fighting for progress your whole life, thats great and I’m happy you did that. but understand when people say things like the OP, it isnt directed at those who tried to make a positive change, it’s directed at the majority who sat around and let fascism happen.

  • Turret3857@infosec.pubtoNews@lemmy.world•DOJ Scrubs Record of Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein FilesEnglish
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    16 days ago

    You said people wanted radical change. They elected Trump in 2016 so what change?

    When Trump left office in 2021, he left the country in complete disarray due to his poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Joe Biden came in and did what neoliberal democrats do. He cleaned up the mess the previous republican made, but he made damn sure not to toe the line outside of being a neoliberal democrat. He applied duct tape to a sinking ship. He did nothing to stop the alt-right propaganda machine. He did nothing to the large corporate bodies that run all the mainstream and social media that people get their information from that got Trump 2016 elected. What Joe Biden did do in regards to anything related to propaganda, was set Trumps buddies up to buy TikTok, because neolibs were upset that people on TikTok were spreading the truth about what Israel is doing. And he made damn sure to drag the Trump prosecution out as long as possible, because what if it looks like a political prosecution? When they punch low, we go high!

    So, we had a population that is on the unregulated propaganda machine 24/7. We had a President who was unwilling to actually prevent Trump from running in 2024.

    You said Americans were feeling Biden was failing them due to their bank accounts. Yet they re-elected Trump while he was president during one of the worst economic times in US history. Trump marketed that he would fix the economy, but during his first term he tanked it and Biden brought it back up.

    Of the entire population in 2024 roughly 25% of them felt they were living paycheck to paycheck. Accounting for the different age groups surveyed in this study, that is a roughly 2-3% increase over 2019 (Pre-pandemic). What the takeaway from this information is that while Biden may have “fixed” the economy, he did not fix it for the average US family. Being charitable would be saying he restored it to a pre-pandemic state. Trump may have done massive damage to the economy, but it is worse to be the oppositional party, and not do anything to improve the circumstances to prevent such an occurrence in the future. The reason Trump’s COVID-19 was so devastating to the economy was the unregulated propaganda, the conspiracy theories about the vaccine giving you autism and having tracking chips, the people who refused to wear masks and Trumps inability to actually enforce an actual fucking lockdown. Biden could have passed anti-disinformation laws, could have put the screws to Fox, OAN, and friends with the FCC. Could have regulated vaccines for citizens. He did NOTHING.

    What we have at the point leading up to July 2024 is a population of voters who are either full of propaganda talking points, or people completely apathetic to the current administration due to the fact they are either back where they started, or they are worse off than they were in 2019. Speaking of, who was running for election in July of 2024? OH! It was Joe Biden! typically, under normal circumstances, (And let’s not forget, Joe Biden was promising in 2020 that he would only run for one term and this should have been normal circumstances) candidates would have roughly a years time to get their name out in the media. Then, the primary starts in January. Once again, if we are charitable here and not counting pre-primary time, Kamala was already getting rat fucked by having lost over 6 months advertising & campaigning time. In comparison, do you know how much time Trump had to get his name out there? 10 fucking years.

    Not ONLY do we have a population of voters who are apathetic due to their lives being shitty due to the economy, you also have to add in that Kamala only had 4 months to not only get people to know who she was (Remember, we are talking about Americans, who do not know the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground), but to convince those same people to vote for her. Compare this with Trumps roughly 120 months and it is ridiculous to even begin to start with the assumption that Kamala was passed over because she was a woman. In the 2024 election Trump had 77,302,580 votes to Kamalas 75,017,613. This is a difference of 2,284,967 or 1% of voters. Every year roughly 36%-46% of the US population just straight up does not vote in the presidential election, and this has been documented since the 1930s. In 2024 41% did not show up, which is an almost perfect average of the last 90 years.

    The only statistic you can even argue is “I did not vote for her because she is a woman” is that 1% of voters that pushed trump over the top, but you’d be stretching it assuming that 1% would ever vote for a Republican. You can try and argue that “Well the people who stayed at home stayed at home because she is a woman!!”, except, 44% of people stayed home in the 2016 election (More than in 2024), the election in which, HILLARY WON THE POPULAR VOTE, WHICH IS A FACT YOU COMPLETELY FUCKING IGNORED THE FIRST TIME I BROUGHT IT UP. If you can find some statistics that point to the main reason Kamala losing is because she is a woman, I would love to see them. You won’t though, because she didn’t lose because she was a woman. She lost because she had 4 months to campaign. She lost because she was the same old neoliberal shrill that the DNC loves to push. She lost because no one knew who the fuck she was or what her platforms are (You admitted it yourself, Americans are not smart). She lost because Trump had brand recognition, She lost because she did not say ANYTHING on the campaign trail that inspired confidence in the voter base, nothing that would have caused them to go out and vote. Do you know who did give them lip service? Trump did. Trump told them he would fix the grocery prices. Trump told them he would “get rid of the violent illegals”. Trump told them everything they wanted to hear. Hook, line and sinker. When he won, all of that went away. and the core Trump voter base in none the wiser. Too bad democrats aren’t allowed to lie on the campaign trail.

    But yeah, maybe you’re right. Maybe it’s because she had a uterus and there were no other factors that lead to this happening. Ugh, typical misogynistic USA (Who just 9 years ago had a woman win the popular vote but we’re going to ignore that because it’s convenient for my argument)