Really doesn’t matter and you’re missing the point. I agree there was obvious voter suppression. But it was probably 1% swing at most. She might have squeaked out a win if the math works out in hypotheticals… at the end of the day it doesn’t matter.

Point is, she could have easily crushed Trump if she had appealed to a better narrative. She stuck with the status quo and ultimately that was about as equally appealing to voters as fascism…

Tbf, it’s been in decay since Reagan. Long time coming to get here. Trump was inevitable when we didn’t address inequality, lowered taxes on the wealthy, and allowed Citizen’s United.

Yeah, everyone underestimates climate impact and the fact that we are already past points of no return. It feeds into the cultural nihilism we have today. We’re kinda doomed. People just dissociating and pointing fingers at each other. The system is designed to cater to sociopathy and no good leaders can rise to the top to navigate us around the icebergs we’re headed straight towards.

Medical research.

You’re exactly right. Which is why my point is that in our two party system, the “left” has to put up an inspiring candidate to beat him. Hitler and Trump are essentially the same archetype, rejected narcissists who prey on people’s fear by feeding them scapegoats. About 30% of the population has narcissistic, authoritarian sentiments at any given time. So for such a person to come to power, they only need to suppress the opposition below a plurality of 30%.

In Nazi Germany, Hitler came to power because the left was fractured by bickering among the many factions. They refused to unite into a coalition to address the problems of the Great Depression.

In MAGA America, we have the two party system which prevents voter fracturing, but the liberals are refusing to embrace the need for change and thus suppressing their own voter base below the 30% by platforming the status quo while people are suffering and unhappy.

It doesn’t mention it in the article but the administration cancelled her visa without notifying her 5 days before she was arrested. This is part of the reasoning they were using to detain her. Is her visa re-instated? If not, then she is now illegal and has been effectively deported, nonetheless.

Not the reason Kamala wasn’t elected.

People want change. Kamala did not represent that. We are at a point where people will choose a fucking orange clown NPD if it means change. Dems have to put up or shut up.

This is on them as much as it is on Trump and his followers. Those people always exist. It’s on the alternatives in politics to offer a better option. They have not for some time now.

Not to mention that the dems have actively subverted anyone who steps forward to offer said alternative.

Particularly the NFL, which operates as a cartel with monopoly on what is effectively a blood sport.

America really is an idiocracy.

Bots were the first step to ruining Reddit.

Elon Musk’s grandfather left Canada for South Africa because of his admiration for Apartheid. He was extremely critical of Hitler for not being anti-semitic enough.

The headline is a bit misleading or at least ambiguous. But these are US pork imports to China, I assume.

EDIT: From the article, "China, behind Mexico and Japan, was the U.S.’s third-biggest market for pork in 2024, importing some 475,000 metric tons valued at more than $1.1 billion. "

These are US exports to China.

We have a national narcissism crisis.