I have lib friends who believe that stuff. It's hard to know what to say in response because like it's obviously not true but I guess it's how they're coping. Fortunately I'm not the only one in the group pushing back on it.
Kamala Harris is so not worth doing a conspiracy theory over.
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.
“People don’t want to be in a coalition with the devil,” says the source, speaking about Dick Cheney. They say a Harris staffer responded that it was not the staff’s role to challenge the campaign’s decisions.
I see the Russian bots managed to infiltrate the Harris campaign.
Interestingly, Bill Kristol, a top Never Trump Republican, publicly urged Harris in the final weeks of the campaign to pitch a progressive, populist economic message against Trump and his army of billionaire supporters.
In late October, he wrote on X: “Feels like maybe Kamala Harris should embrace Elizabeth Warren’s Ultra-Millionaire Tax and barnstorm on that for the next ten days.”
Omfg
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.
Should be called c/the_tank_tank
It's a mistake to treat these issues as disconnected. People saw the Biden administration writing blank checks to Ukraine and Israel when they were struggling to make ends meet. Foreign policy had both a material effect and a perceived effect on the economy, and people might not have a correct understanding of exactly how or why but I'm inclined to believe people made some connections there.
Obviously it's disappointing that more people aren't opposed to genocide on principle, but there are people who blame it for interrupting their treats, or who are upset about treat disruption resulting from it but don't connect the two.
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.
Actually, all of those votes are votes for Trump, which means he has won (nearly?) every state in every election he's ever run in.
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.
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 on stuff like immigration and the military, and the people who like right-wing policies already have a party waiting on them hand-and-foot, they're not gonna switch over to you, and you're just going to alienate the parts of your base/coalition that are affected by those policies.
People are gonna blame the left or say it's because she's a woman of color. But Tammy Baldwin, a queer woman, looks set to win Wisconsin, and Elissa Slotkin is ahead by a hair in Michigan, so that narrative is dead in the water.
Don't blame me, I 
d for Kodos
Kamala Harris IS The Deadliest Warrior.
You're right, but the real answer is they didn't rig the senate races because the libs aren't emotionally invested in the senate races, so it's not as compelling as a story.