Boycott US

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 6 days ago

Waste their money. They'll just grab more of it from the tax trough to make up for it.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I’m sure lore will come out. And probably MAGA is losing some small numbers. But are those margins enough to overcome the purging of voter rolls and other literal election fraud? I hope so.

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 4 points 6 days ago

I don't expect more to come out. Election after election, Americans don't go to the polls. You don't need electoral gambits. You just need good, ol' old-timey American sloth.

In the past half century the average percent voting at midterms has been 40% VEP or so. It's been as low as about 35% (2014) and it's been as high as about 50% (2018), but over all, year after year, it dials in to about 40%. And for presidential elections it's been about 58% over the same rough time period, again with some variation here and there, but not by enough to make any meaningful difference.

I see no reason to think that this one will be any different. I would very much like to be surprised and see turnouts in the 80+% VEP range, but I won't. I'll be very surprised if this one exceeds 60%. Or even 50%.

Sloth is too powerful a force.

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[+] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz -7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In 2016, he was the only one talking about jobs, in 2024, he was correctly acknowledging that things hadn't improved under Biden. Culture War bullshit is always going to be secondary to paying rent.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 point 5 days ago

Sure but they didn't tank.

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[–] ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

That must be why they aren't doing shit about rent, but invent new culture war bs all the time.

No, I'm sorry, but propaganda is all you need.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz -2 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

The republicans don't actually want to help the working class, but creating a lie that explains what you're experiencing is infinitely more effective than denying the material reality for nearly all americans and telling us better things aren't possible.

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[–] ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

I...guess? I mean, your hypothetical kinda doesn't make sense is all. I mean, every single announcement outta this illegitimate administration flat out contradicts reality, and obviously they've convinced people better things aren't possible - until you get rid of the undesirables, of course.

So not really sure what you're trying to say here...

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 point 6 days ago

This admin's popularity is in the gutter and they will lose both the midterms and next election.

But if another Biden wins in 2028, maintaining Trump's policies while pretending to be powerless to help the people who voted for him, it guarantees they get knocked out in the midterms and then Trump jr or kegsbreath or some other fascist ghoul wins in 2032.

they’ve convinced people better things aren’t possible - until you get rid of the undesirables, of course.

Correct, thats not a good story, but it matches his base's expectations. It appeals to racists more than "better things aren't possible because the scotus, the parliamentarian, John fetterman, the AG just needs time to button everything up" or whatever horse shit the dems feed their base and expect to be reelected.