if you (not you specifically but anyone reading) find this happens often enough to be debilitating you may benefit from seeing a psychiatrist for anxiety/depression medication. My wife was like that and it made an immediate difference for her.

All that sounds like your subjective view not based on data. Not saying the DNC is perfect by any means, but it’s clear the economy was by far the #1 issue in this election. I mentioned exit polls earlier, and also Trump was way up compared to 2020 even in extremely rural counties. Israel, Cheney, Stein, etc have nothing to do with that.

exactly. I think whoever ended up as the D candidate was going to take the blame for the massive pandemic inflation. They were destined for failure from the beginning.

Looking at exit polls, people were far more concerned with the economy than anything else. I don’t think Israel mattered much to average people. Biden/Harris got fucked with pandemic inflation and people are too dumb to realize it had nothing to do with them. And that will be further reinforced because inflation is under control now so Trump will look great having done nothing whatsoever.

“I’m unhappy, financially so I’m going to vote for the felon, racist, sexist, fascist” still doesn’t add up.

sure it does. people are not 100% rational. they will use motivated reasoning to justify whatever they need to vote for (what they perceive to be) their best interests.

I agree, I think it’s 100% inflation related which has nothing to do with Biden or Harris. And inflation is already back to normal, so Trump’s economy is going to look better having done nothing at all.

they think trump is better for the economy because Biden got fucked with the pandemic inflation fallout.

the fact that it’s even close is still disturbing.

because blowing sucks.

da ali g show. not entirely interviews of people in the public sphere, but a significant portion are.

this is also likely explicitly outside their jurisdiction since it involves a federal election

states run federal elections though, plus there are probably local issues on the ballot too. why are police even there if it’s outside their jurisdiction? and how do you expect federal entities to enforce laws at every single poll in the country? it makes no sense.

it doesn’t swing both ways. They are claiming the position of being “pro life” which is clearly hypocritical. No one on the other side is claiming to be “pro death” or “anti life”.

no idea, the redneck joke phrasing just came to mind as I was reading.

yeah they don’t line up exactly, but I think each one is still applicable to other points.

thanks for the warning because I considering crashing into you.

I’m talking mostly about the vibrant niche communities the comment above mentioned. That all happened well after the Digg and slashdot stuff. Niche communities grew on reddit relatively unchallenged.

Sure, reddit could have a similar meltdown to Digg, but I don’t think it’s a forgone conclusion. Social media has inertia. The bigger a platform is is the harder it is to lose people, because the mass is the feature.

But reddit also didn’t have that when I started using it.

reddit also didn’t have to compete with reddit.

because The_Picard_Maneuver can be in two places at one time.

give it more than 14 days.

in the 90s my dentist had a sega genesis to play between cleanings and inspection. the only thing i ever played was echo the dolphin.