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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨8⊠â¨hours⊠ago
I am also reasonably confident that you can explain Trumpâs 2020 election loss by way of the disproportionate number of COVID casualties and deaths in Red areas vs Blue areas.
Basically, if Trump/MAGA had actually responded to COVID sensibly, as sensibly as Blue areas did, on average, accounting for population densityâŚ
Trump would have actually won.
But so many MAGA voters died or were disabled from voting, by COVID, that they instead lost, snd then further went nuts, and didnât believe it, and attempted an insurrection.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨hours⊠ago
Trump won in '24 because of inflation. Itâs that simple. People hated the economy under Biden and walked to âgo backâ to the Trump years when things were better.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca â¨4⊠â¨hours⊠ago
Process going up and wages staying the same?
The same way itâs been for more than a decade?
And this is the basis that people used to justify voting for Trump?
People really are fucking stupid, arenât they?
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca â¨41⊠â¨minutes⊠ago
To put it mildly.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨4⊠â¨hours⊠ago
I didnât expect to catch one in the wild, but evidently they just canât help themselves.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today â¨4⊠â¨hours⊠ago
Bullshit. Trump won because he, Musk, and Putin rigged the election, then MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries betrayed AMERICA, and let them get away with it, and EVERYBODY knows it.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨5⊠â¨hours⊠ago
Ok.
I was talking about 2020.
The one before the one you are talking about.
Also, most âdie hard leftistsâ were disgusted by Kamalaâs pro-Genocide stance.
And a pretty good deal of actual leftists were saying âall these economic numbers that politicians and the media are touting are bullshit, theyâre incomplete, they are not reflective of realityâ.
And well now we have all the job revisions and yep that was correct, I think the BLS has now âun adddedâ something like 2-3 million jobs between 2022 and present.
Youâre conflating liberals and leftists, which betrays that you have no idea what a leftist is.
Its liberals that fall in line with standard corporate Dem talking points.
Leftists tend to challenge and critique them.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨hours⊠ago
corporate Dems have power, leftists donât, and never will because theyâd rather sit around bitching and whining and agonizing about what is âreally leftistâ.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨5⊠â¨hours⊠ago
Well its not like youâd have any understanding of what is or isnât really leftist.
Hereâs a hint:
Opposing massive government handouts to huge megacorporations.
Opposing biased legal standards and tax structures that massively favor the wealthy being able to accumulate more wealth, at the expense of the poor.
Opposing idiotic broad general tariffs that have historically and are currently exacerbating an ongoing Great Depression.
But, fascists love doing all those things, because they are economically illiterate and/or openly, brazenly corrupt.
And now, for more vocab, if you oppose these fascist policies, you are now anti-fascist, otherwise known as antifa.
But fascists cannot comprehend the idea that anyone could disagree with them, so they label everyone who does as a terrorist, and have lately started executing such people in the street.