Americans are all about aesthetics. A borderline illiterate people who cannot use logic or reason and work backwards from imagery and feelings.
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Shoe, you know this stuff is going to be used against you in negative attack ads, right?
may 9, 2025, 6:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Dammit
may 9, 2025, 6:09 pm • 2 0 • view
America is, IMO, on track to become the first "post-literate" society in the history of the human race.
may 9, 2025, 6:05 pm • 18 4 • view
Wooohooo!! Progress!!
may 9, 2025, 6:10 pm • 2 0 • view
At my work today I heard someone say they were amazed someone else has read 5 books this year.
may 9, 2025, 6:07 pm • 3 0 • view
I read 10 books in January.
may 9, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
What scared me, and I can't find the statistics now, was the percentage of people who had not read a single book, at all, in the past year. It was far higher than I expected.
may 9, 2025, 6:14 pm • 3 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 6:23 pm • 3 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 6:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. Although, I would like to rerun the experiment and give her more time and no David Plouffe.
may 9, 2025, 6:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, though I'm not convinced the rest of the world is really that much better. They just have different memes.
may 9, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
I do not think Biden or Harris could have won. They had about the same chance of winning and the low infos and new voters broke for Trump. Harris maxed out too. I don't believe more runway would have helped her or if Biden has stepped aside any length of time earlier. But it's just a guess
may 9, 2025, 6:07 pm • 41 1 • view
Dens did better than any other incumbent party in 2024, the world over. If "better than anyone else in the world" wasn't good enough, maybe just maybe there were other factors in play.
may 9, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
No incumbent government in the west survived their elections in 2024. They only started surviving elections after Trump won.
may 9, 2025, 6:08 pm • 14 3 • view
That Trump barely campaigned and still won on the strength (?!?!?!??) of his first presidential term makes it really hard for me to believe anything the Democrats could have done would’ve mattered (found an Obama 2.0 I guess?)
may 9, 2025, 7:02 pm • 11 0 • view
Honestly I feel like not campaigning helped Trump. The media stepped up its efforts to sanewash him, people could project their beliefs onto him, everyone forgot how much they hated him.
may 9, 2025, 7:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah and as others have said, it was a worldwide backlash on inflation. Dems actually fared better by many measures.
may 9, 2025, 7:06 pm • 12 0 • view
So dumb. Backlash against a concept.
may 9, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
So many people voted for Trump checks. I’ve literally heard like five people tell me this about family or themselves
may 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 23 1 • view
This should really be disqualifying.
may 9, 2025, 7:21 pm • 4 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 8 0 • view
If we just accept half of Americans are dumb and selfish, it all makes sense
may 9, 2025, 7:10 pm • 9 0 • view
Ha, I'm dumb and selfish too, but not malicious. Maybe that's the dividing line?
may 10, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
When they send us Trump voters they’re not sending their best
may 9, 2025, 7:13 pm • 4 0 • view
even as they whined about inflation!!! makes me wanna die
may 9, 2025, 7:19 pm • 8 0 • view
Or whined about waste fraud and abuse. Or about socialism. Or about government handouts.
may 9, 2025, 7:22 pm • 4 0 • view
They cannot think linearly.
may 9, 2025, 7:20 pm • 7 0 • view
Or abstractly!
may 9, 2025, 7:21 pm • 3 0 • view
lbr they don’t think period
may 9, 2025, 7:21 pm • 4 0 • view
yeah it’s scary lol. Midwestern brain is very focused on “doing” and “working” and their day to day life of doing and working. They don’t like to think outside of that often. Southerners are just, well….
may 9, 2025, 7:23 pm • 4 0 • view
many Americans are very fucking bored
may 9, 2025, 7:20 pm • 4 0 • view
He barely campaigned, but the media worked overtime for him.
may 9, 2025, 7:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Sadly true, we are a bad people
may 9, 2025, 6:04 pm • 5 0 • view
I think we're aesthetically-challenged as well. It's not aesthetic appreciation that makes a baby watch something shiny. I can't think of a more precise word, though.
may 9, 2025, 6:44 pm • 2 0 • view
We may be doomed. Electing Trump twice is a stark symptom of terminal national illness.
may 10, 2025, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view