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US Election Day November 2024 Containment Megathread (hexbear.net)

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put all of your election posting here so it doesn't bother anyone else!

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

literally like 8 hours ago I was looking at the recaps of all the celebrities endorsing Harris and what went down at the DNC and so on, and I was thinking "if Harris loses, this is going to be so fucking embarrassing for everybody involved." like, Lil Jon showing up to do a vote version of Turn Down For What at the democrat convention was only ever going to be looked upon in retrospect as a) an inspiring and fun way to get the message out to vote for Harris, or b) unbelieveably cringe and will always be associated with the Democrats' failure at least a little, in a Fight Song-esque way

personally I'd just not take the risk of having it all blow up in my face and keep celebrities generally out of the picture but maybe I'm just a boring politics guy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

The hundreds of celeb endorsements just gives the impression that Harris is the candidate of the liberal elite class, the last thing you want when running against Trump.

The celeb stuff was deeply embarrassing and unserious, by far the worst was all the celebs pretending that Harris was some great egalitarian securing people's rights across the globe. For example, one celeb (think it was Billie Eilish) said that "Harris makes me feel safer as a woman". I'm sure all the women in Palestine and Sudan appreciated that... Talk about Eurocentrism being alive in the 21st century.

personally I'd just not take the risk of having it all blow up in my face and keep celebrities generally out of the picture but maybe I'm just a boring politics guy

The fact that Chappell Roan, a celeb who had such a bad PR team (now fired I think) which led to her cancelling concerts last minute to perform at award shows, managed to come up with a better take on the presidential election than 99% of celebs by not endorsing Harris, should be embarrassing for all the PR people out there v

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

(my reputation) Burned Down For What