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[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

i truly would love to know how good it feels to be smooth-brained, empty head. it must be so freeing. full-time grillman

[–] Des@hexbear.net 16 points 17 hours ago

legit i would almost pay for this if it was available as a medical treatment. just extremely selective memory erasure

[–] robinn_@hexbear.net 48 points 19 hours ago
[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 48 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I've seen people try to say this was because the US is just to racist and misogynist to elect a black woman... and maybe we are, but I don't think we got the chance to actually learn that. If there was a campaign, most people never saw it. I'm a dirty pathetic politics watcher, and all I saw was "We're not gonna do anything different from what we're already doing" A lot of people I talked to in real life weren't aware this was an election year, and they definitely weren't aware Biden wasn't running again.

[–] dat_math@hexbear.net 48 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

weren't aware this was an election year

woah

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 43 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

to qualify that, I don't live in a swing state, so it's not like either side is jumping to spend time and money here... but still

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago

You'd think people at least would know the presidential years (since they start a century and/or have a February 29)

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 4 points 14 hours ago

what do you mean maybe we are? we are absolutely living in a demon cracker nation make no mistake about it

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Weird cause I got spammed and called and people knocking on my door like crazy and I’m in a safe blue state.

Seems like they just squandered their resources

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

oh, yeah, I forgot I've been ignoring text messages this whole time

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 41 points 19 hours ago

Really smart to not have a primary. Definitely got everyone on the same page and reduced confusion!

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 37 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

this google search trends stuff is the laziest commentary ever. It's tea leaf reading level political analysis. Google Trends is not a reliable source of information.

[–] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 36 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago

for a while until you've seen the 20th one on the same day with equally boring search queries.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 31 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

back when Alta vista was the best search engine, it had this cool/funny feature where you could look at a random collection of what was being searched right then. I would show my friends and we would laugh so hard at some of them, especially repeated searches because they told a story of someone desperate for more info.

  • "butt hole smells weird"
  • "was Paul riser in my 2 dads"
  • "is my son gay"
  • "my son is gay"
  • "prayers for gay son"
  • "cool money pictures"
[–] join_the_iww@hexbear.net 18 points 19 hours ago

Yeah you're right. Furthermore, the graph that they show for "Did Joe Biden drop out" isn't even in absolute units, so we can't actually tell how many people are making this query. They normalize it so that the maximum is always represented by 100, but that still might only be like <1000 people.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 5 points 16 hours ago

It’s a meme, calm down

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 33 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

wait, there was an election?

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 14 points 18 hours ago

STAY IN LINE, OR ELSE hillary-assassin

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 10 points 17 hours ago

Onion was right to endorse Joe Biden - still the most trusted name in news

[–] 2812481591@hexbear.net 15 points 18 hours ago

Pushing past the security cordon to rush the Lathe "Biden Grover Cleveland 2028!"

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 10 points 19 hours ago

I know, my supervisor was one of them