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I can't decide whether it would be funnier for her to get confirmed or not. Either way, some group of extremely annoying people is going to be crying about it, so it's kind of a win-win.

I'll be Gorbachev. I'll use the site funds to throw a pizza party and then bring in the lemmy.world mods to manage everything.

• Poison Bow so you can hit them once then run away

• Darkness Axe because it makes me think of the Devil Axe from Fire Emblem

• Nature Whip because vines

• Thunder Hammer because big impact

• Spear of Light feels a common thing

• Earth Shield because sturdiness

• Wind Claws because you gotta be quick and mobile

• Ice Knuckles pack a wallop

• Water Dagger because the only other one left is fire and you don't want that close to you

• Fire Sword just fits

Haha, look at stinky mouse breath over here.

Don't worry, I'm not making fun of Hubert. I'm making fun of YOU! GOTTEM!

While theoretically possible, I think it's a stretch to say that that represents a significant portion of the electorate that isn't already voting Republican. The only real evidence for that idea is that Clinton and Harris lost, and there are plenty of other explanations for their losses. If you make the claim that specific to where downballot races don't apply, then there just isn't enough data to make that a reliable conclusion. It also feels to me like it's just a talking point to absolve the Democrats of responsibility for running bad campaigns.

Btw with Nevada being called for Jacky Rosen, that makes three female senators winning in states Kamala lost, and there's Ruben Gallego, a Latino, who's ahead in Arizona.

I'm Leftists Who Need To Touch Grass

Why hasn't anarchism been done already (on a large scale)? "It would have, but the tankies keep subverting revolutions and doing states, and they give a bad name to leftists which turns people away from anarchism," is a pretty convenient answer to that. Plus, by distancing themselves from us and from past revolutions, they can try to pass themselves off as "one of the good ones" while preserving an image of how they want things to be without having to defend any messiness of actually getting there. It's much simpler to write off projects entirely as not being genuine attempts because the bad people took charge than to actually study them and confront the complex problems they faced.

Damn, saw right through me

All I can say about 2028 is that I look forward to telling libs, "Election? What election? Trump ended democracy forever, remember? There aren't elections anymore" when they inevitably tell me I have to vote the lesser Hitler.

Are you going to do communism now? As a Hater and Loser, I cannot express how incredibly owned I would be if you did and it turned out the MAGA communists were actually right all along.

Write-in votes tend to be processed slower, I assume. My county has 95% reporting with zero write-ins, but I know it has at least one.

When you run on the status quo, and the status quo sucks, people are gonna turn to whoever manages to present themselves as an alternative.

When you run to the right, and the people who like right-wing policies already have a party giving them the policies they want, they're not gonna switch parties, and you're just going to alienate the parts of your base/coalition that are affected by those policies.

Not an effortpost but I think those are two simple, straightforward responses to anyone being like, "How could this possibly happen?"

I'm also running around countering any "she lost because she's a woman" takes with with Tammy Baldwin in WI and Elissa Slotkin in MI winning despite their states going to Trump, which are two invaluable rhetorical data points, imo.