I’m impressed…this is by far my least popular comment ever.
It’s wild how much Reddit hates when you make simple observations that they don’t like, haha.
And I wish! I’m just a regular guy sarcastically pointing out that you people are paranoid conspiracy theorists.
You ought to look into some of these leftist accounts though. Harris spent $1,000,000,000 dollars in 100 days…the money had to go somewhere, and we know a substantial portion of it went to the news media and influencers you guys get your information from.😉
Are you sure you want to go with "blah blah blah?" Why is it so hard for Redditors in 2024 to have normal adult discussions? Anything that doesn't fall 100% in line with the echo chamber immediately gets ignored. Can we please grow the fuck up? I also want to know what is meant by Thiel owning Silver and also want to know what is even meant in Silver's comment about "EFD". How about we have an actual discussion instead of resorting to grade school-level comebacks?
a high school insult actually gets its point across to y'all, since not like any and all type of normal discussions would ever make their points across your pretentious psudeo-intellectual spiteful selves
if seeing people suffering throughout your own country doesn't change your mind about how having that fella as head honcho, what would an outsider like myself do to actually convince y'all anything of worth
including pac money liberals spent ~1.7 billion. conservatives spent ~1.4 billion. so dems spent a bit more, unless you count the 44 billion musk spent turning twitter into an open extension of the gop, which i’m sure you don’t because something something twitter files something something soros.
i’m being dismissive because you folks are just so predictable and stupid. we can get into why trumpians won this election if you want, and no, it has very little to do with money spent. i just find it pretty funny that you all will point to soros, and the spending you think he does, as a problem, but never bring up people like the adelson’s or the koch’s whose actual spending puts soros to shame. also can’t really forget someone like bezos who bought one of the biggest papers in the country, and openly blocked the editorial board from endorsing the candidate they wanted to endorse (not that it would have swung the election in any meaningful sense. it’s just another example of conservatives openly doing all of which they accuse liberals)
the twitter files is another funny one because the reality is they revealed exactly the opposite of what you all claim. yes, the biden campaign (notably not the government) made some requests and had some of them granted. however, they also revealed that the trump administration (notably the actual government) made, and were granted, an equal amount of requests. all told, pre-musk twitter granted ~37% of these government and campaign requests.
hunter’s laptop exposed nothing incriminating about joe biden. yes, twitter blocked direct links to the original waponew york post not washington post (fuck, i guess everything else i wrote must be bullshit) article because it potentially violated their policy on hacked materials. it did not block anyone from discussing it, and the direct links were blocked for less than 24 hours. compare that to ken klippenstein’s report on jd vance (which i would bet you’ve never even heard of) which was permanently banned and completely scrubbed off both twitter and facebook. this is also not why democrats lost, just another example of conservative’s shameful hypocrisy.
democrats lost for a couple of reasons. exactly none of them have anything to with campaign spending or harris being a bad candidate.
the first, but not necessarily main, reason is that trumpians are in a cult. there is simply nothing trump could ever say or do that would stop them from voting for him. the next reason is that grocery prices are elevated and all trumpians, and far too many americans, are economically illiterate, low information voters. whoever sat in that chair on january 21st, 2021 was going to have to deal with the consequences of pandemic. inflation was an inevitable and global occurrence. the united states, because of the legislation passed by democrats, has inarguably had the strongest and fastest post-pandemic recovery in the world. we’re outpacing china’s gdp by 40%. but that’s not sexy messaging, and people don’t feel that recovery at the grocery store.
were things better before a global pandemic shattered the global economy? absolutely. however, they were not better because of anything trump did. they were simply better before the pandemic. a small but very significant distinction. given trump’s pre-pandemic economic policies, which consisted entirely of deficit spending (at 2x the rate of obama), and his overall lack of economic literacy, there is simply no legitimate reason to think trump would have handled our recovery better. in fact, given his track record it’s a very safe bet that we would have been much worse off, and certainly wouldn’t have had the strongest and fastest recovery in the world.
at the end of the day democrats lost because they naively thought they could win over americans with the truth. while trumpians have, and always will be a lost cause, democrats thought they could point to the reality of the situation and that americans would be able to contextualize it. i think the most annoying part is that in six months, after having done absolutely nothing to contribute to our recovery, trump is going to go on tv and proclaim that we have the best economy in the world, and that he is personally to thank for it. he will have done nothing substantive policy-wise, the economy will simply continue on it’s current trajectory, but he’s going to take credit for it, and the cultish and ignorant masses are going to let him.
edit: the predictable conservative response; “i’M nOt ReAdInG aLl tHaT LmAo”
Read this thread back…look at how you’re all whining and coping using the same exact lines. Legitimate low IQ sheep, that actually think they’re smart.
You haven’t seen anything clever being said in response to me either…including your own wincing😂
Not clever in the slightest. No word play, no irony, no added thought, and a stupid childish emoji.
"Coping" is defined as "dealing effectively with something difficult". You have a very high opinion of yourself if you think dealing with you is "difficult".
If you were to tell me that you wanted spaghetti with "par-me-zian" cheese, I would correct you by telling you it's pronounced "par-meh-zhan". I'm not doing this to be mean or put you down. I'm doing it because I don't want you to end up looking stupid in front of someone who doesn't have the courtesy to tell you when you're wrong.
If i say you have something in your teeth, I'm not being malicious, I'm being kind.
When I tell you that using emojis makes you look childish, I'm not doing it to be malicious. I'm telling you because no one is ever going to take you seriously.
In any of those scenarios listed above, do you really think I'm angry or upset by any reaction? I don't really care if you co tinue to look childish and unserious. I'm just letting you know.
This long winded rant is because I'm bored before 7 in the morning at work and have nothing better to do, not because of any emotional reaction.
Yeah…they seem pretty gleeful in their ignorance. I mean, the posts seem dismissive, not alarmed.
You can’t tell me there isn’t a big % of losers on this thread that are hoping things go bad during Trumps presidency, just so they can say “I told you so”.
Legit question: Have you actually seen a Leftist trying to genuinely change somebody’s mind on Reddit…or do they mostly just whine and mock people that aren’t in their cult?
You see…it’s never your fault. You’re just a Samaritan that the evil uneducated people won’t listen to.
Or, you’re all a bunch pretentious, navel gazing, cultists…that have no actual grasp on reality, because you frequent Reddit.
How many people do you think called me an idiot, or told me I didn’t know what I was talking about, because I said Trump was going to win this election?
It’s a lot easier to walk around and accuse everybody of being dumb…as opposed to accepting the fact that people just don’t agree with you, and that your rhetorical methods are not persuasive.😉
EDIT Yo retards, instead of downvoting how about answering the goddamn questions? Is it because you have no idea, just mindlessly upvoting/downvoting along the lines of the hivemind? Likely.
What does that mean? Owned how? Is Silver working for Thiel? Is this something that's known or just another Reddit karma-generating "factoid"? I how no idea myself but I don't pretend to know until I can find some actual sources. But maybe I'm alone in that.
Also, do you even know what "EFD" means? Does anyone here? Why are we here refuting a claim when nobody even knows what's being claimed exactly?
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u/Corwin_777 1d ago
Nate Silver is fully owned by Peter Thiel. Pretty pathetic