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These people like to cosplay as swing voters.
Real swing voters might have voted Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020.
But anyone who voted for Trump twice and is seriously entertaining a third vote for Trump after Jan. 6, Dobbs and his felonies is not a swing voter.
Swing voters will sway democratic this election.
The real question is simply how hard each base turns up.
Nobody cares about his felonies.
I don't get this site, why does everyone with Lemmy in their username have weird BlueMAGA takes?
Not sure if you're doing a bit, but they're users from other Lemmy instances outside of Hexbear, and they usually have lib-ass takes.
I am not doing a bit, it just has been baffling scrolling Hexbear then suddenly seeing a comment about the marketplace of ideas sorting everything out or whatever, and it's always from someone with Lemmy in their name. They all seem like the Carl Diggler character Felix Biederman used to do, but more on-the-nose.
Because on their home instance, that's the normal perspective. They wander in here, like a lost dog, thinking it's their backyard, and start barking, expecting to get a chorus of howls in response but instead get told to shut up.
They're not from here, their instance is full of other libs, and lib communities. They're probably browsing their instance's "All" feed and see these posts because someone from their instance has subscribed to [email protected]. They have "lemmy" in their username because many of these instances have it in their domain name. lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.ee, etc. When our comments show up in their instance, the names have @hexbear.net on the end [email protected] . Lemmy is a federated system, that means these sites are all interconnected, but otherwise their own self-contained ecosystem.
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lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works posters are worse about it, regular lemmy.ml users have an even 50/50 between being on the cusp of getting it and being a liberal nutrag
I mean, it makes sense, Hexbear has been around for years and chased away all of the libby-est of libs to the other instances (or back to reddit).
With federation, our instance's posts can be seen by other instances and occasionally some brave soul will engage with it. It can be very jarring.
Untrue for lemmygrad specifically, they usually have better takes than hexbear tbh (sorry)
Seriously, half the reason a lot of people like Trump is he's a wacky, edgy, "outsider" who doesn't give a fuck about decorum. Only nerd ass West Wing fans care that he's a felon, for everyone else it just adds to his bad boy mystique.
Everyone also knows he's done much worse things that he'll never get punished for in any way. I don't understand why Trump getting a slap on the wrist over some financial regulations is supposed to be some huge win.
Liberals:
Be directly responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of innocent people, mostly women and children: I SLEEP
Commit a felony by not filling out the proper paperwork for usage of campaign funds: REAL SHIT
i dont think you should treat this statement as 100% true, from what i have learn swing voters are centrists who while they like to act that they care about policy and stuff they only really care about which candidate looks the strongest/coolest, its good biden dropped because he looks frail and with dementia, but the dems will still have to get someone that at least can clap back at trump or look ok or his strategy of "unifying" the country by getting a Never trump republican as VP with give him the small lead he needs to win.
i dont think either base will decide the election
Swing voters... want to gamble that they are voting for the "winning" candidate and get more satisfaction from this than from any potential policies the winning administration might implement.
and if you keep repeating this mantra to yourself maybe it will become true
There is one odd vibe shift I am noticing, which is people who say the r-slur and use "gay" in a derogatory manner backing Dems this cycle
the dem base is shedding all of the progressive posturing they've been doing for the past decade just like they tossed "me too" aside once there was a credible accusation against biden
soon the differences between the parties won't even be aesthetic beyond the color palette of the ties and banners
Nobody cares about jan 6 or some weird accounting crimes. You'd have to be extremely unhinged to be concerned at paperwork being filed slightly wrong. And Jan 6 is a joke.
Swing voters, seems like a concept that just means, "unreliable voters."
Or maybe it just means that nobody has asked them what they want out of a candidate.