The craziest part is stats isn’t even complicated.

We could teach it to 6th graders and they’d do fine, same with logic classes.

The point of school isn’t teaching kids to think, it’s teaching them to follow directions, two very different things.

Just look at what we teach them.

That wasn’t success for them, it was almost their deathknell.

If Obama had appointed progressive leadership in 2008 shit would be a lot different and Bernie would likely be leaving his second term right now.

The people running the DNC retain power when a moderate Dem wins because they’ll stay the course and appoint the same DNC leadership.

They retain power when a republican wins because they vote for their own leadership then.

The literal only way they can lose is if a progressive becomes president and doesn’t decide to ignore the DNC like Obama did.

That’s why they’d rather have trump than someone that wants to ban fracking.

The DNC isn’t fighting fascism, it’s just the left boot.

By that same logic…

People could ask why Kamala insisted on doubling down on support of a genocide knowing it was seriously hurting her chances to stop trump.

If voters always have to compromise and politicians can do what they want with no consequences…

That’s how Republicans got stuck with trump.

Not having standards is not an effective way to fight fascism, especially when the alternative you’re holding your nose for won’t actually try to get rid of fascists because the only other option being fascist is the only reason they can win (sometimes).

But WHY??

Because Dem voters have always needed something to vote for, voting against works for Republicans.

But there’s significant brain differences between the two groups, what’s effective for one isn’t for the other

The problem is the “moderates” running the DNC think like Republicans, and part of that is a reduction in empathy that prevents them from understanding others think differently. They legitimately have no idea what went wrong right now, their brains can’t comprehend another person’s point of view.

So we’ve got two political parties ran by conservatives, it’s just only one actually understands how their voters think. So they keep winning even with trump.

We could have ran a candidate who’s policy positions aligned with the Dem voter base…

Call me crazy, but I think that would have resulted in more Dema voting.

The entire point of a political campaign is to motivate voters to vote for the candidate…

If not enough people voted, then it’s the fault of the campaign/candidate.

Like imagine if you sold cars, you could blame not selling on potential customers not wanting to buy a car, but your manager isn’t going to listen when the other guy can still sell cars despite being a giant piece of shit.

You’ll be called a bad salesperson.

And if you don’t improve in almost a decade, it would be crazy to keep paying you to not sell cars.

Yeah, exit polling is literally asking people as they walk out of the polls

This could also just simply boil down to why do we trust polls so much anyways

Statistical analysis is a science.

The problem is it’s not taught in k-12 and most never learn it in college

So people don’t understand it, media represents it however they’ll get the most clicks/views.

The problem with polling isn’t polling, it’s the media’s and viewers’ misinterpreting the results that’s the problem

Not really.

There’s have to be a population where a large amount not only voted that way, but when they voted that way it was statistically different.

Like, there may very well be something where a population like women voted differently by mail because their husbands watch.

But in my state someone is allowed to “help” so the couple in front of me the man voted, then went to the woman’s booth and “helped” her.

All while outside the cops talked to a screaming red hatter who apparently had to turn his trump shirt inside out and when he did poll workers say the multiple hand guns in his waistband.

Don’t worry tho, the poll workers let him skip the line and vote while the cops showed up and talked to him for 2 minutes before letting him drive off.

So before you think of what shady shit may happen with mail in, you need to realize plenty of shady shit happens day of too.

Yeah, cool for you and a priceless reminder of a childhood vacation.

Just not something worth any money or even worth passing down thru the family.

If you ever watch Mitchell and Webb they have a bit where archeologists find a VHS cassette of a toga party and insist it’s an authentic recording from ancient Rome.

Yeah. It’s just random (relatively) modern piece of tubing that either fell off a boat or was tossed over board.

Cool memory for OP, and they picked up a piece of trash from the ocean.

We just started skipping the step where we pick a candidate people want to vote for, and jump straight to fundraising and then never get around to focusing on using the money to get votes.

The modern DNC literally only cares about money and it keeps letting trump get elected

Lol, you haven’t heard what the “victory fund” really is yet, have you?

The state parties have to toe the line, or they’re abandoned.

Terrible strategy if the plan is getting Dems in office, great move if you’re blocking any real progress in exchange for bribes donations.

Shit. I was more worried in 2016.

He didn’t leave office peacefully, but he still left.

That’s how human brains work, we avoided the worst case scenario and life moved on. So we run into the same danger, but the response is lowered.

Which is why Dem turnout was so low this time

I’ve been saying this would happen for a long time, lots of people were.

The difference is the people running the DNC are just the people who can raise the most money. And the people with psychology degrees rarely have money as a priority.

We need to start having a party run by sociologists, psychologists, hell even go back to lawyers

The current strategy of 80s go-go Reaganites who only care about money ain’t working.

I lived thru 9/11 and 2016.

For over 20 years everytime a republican became president I’ve been told we’ll never have another election.

Maybe this time the wolf is real, but it’s a basic part of human psychology that more and more people will stop having a fear response everytime they hear “wolf”.

If we really don’t have an election in 2028, we’ll have a civil war before 2032. Maybe what comes after will be better than what we have now.

It sucks to live in interesting times, but that’s what’s happening.

This is literally the day after the election, don’t fucking tell me it’s too late to plan how to fix shit for 2028

I’ll never understand why people think the people running the DNC aren’t total fucking liars that will say anything for money.

Beating trump isn’t hard.

But beating him while grifting a billion dollar campaign funded by the people your voting base hates is very difficult.

Unfortunately when confronted with the choice, the DNC has shown us three elections straight that they’ll always pick money over votes.

So we either need to leave the party or replace leadership.

If we don’t do either 2028 will be exactly the same as the last three elections.

You’re still assuming it’s intentional…

A leaky pipe that slowly forms a stain that looks like the Virgin Mary doesn’t mean something made that simulation of an intentional representation of a religious figure show up.

And regardless of if anyone ever noticed the similarities or even sees it, it’s still there.

The entire universe might just be leaky pipes and if something “bigger” out there looks at the resulting water stain, maybe out of everything they could observe, something would remind them of their existence and they might chuckle.

But it’s very unlikely to be humans just statistically speaking.

and the charger often quite warm.

People hate on bricks, but they’re still around because of heat dissipation.

Charging a phone in an hour is a lot different than keeping a laptop going for 8 hrs.

That and it was over a decade ago.

Like, Kamala is by no means perfect. But she’s a hell of a lot better than Biden, obviously better than trump, and literally the only option at this point.

If you want to try and pull her to the left on prison reform, then that could be a good use of time and effort. But complaining about something from over a decade ago doesn’t help anything.

The twitter knockoffs always “mention” the person they’re replying to.

I block them because 99% of the post they make they don’t mean to make, and they never seem to understand what’s happening, explaining is just a waste of time.

But as long as they “@ you” you’ll still get new notifications.

If you’re talking about wanting to just get rid of their replies that are still in your inbox without clearing it…

Not sure why, but at least on my instance there’s a green check to acknowledge a notification and it’ll go away

“Pure vision” is just “too cheap to buy LiDAR”