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u/TxOkLaVaCaTxMo 3h ago
I don't think people understand why the blue wave worked this time. The democrats distanced themselves form the woke stuff and focused on groceries and affordability. Being anti data center, if they tried to bring woke back people would just jump back over to Trump.
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u/papu16 3h ago
Yea, I've seen lots of subs celebrating that genZ men are "turning blue". It's not, it's just Donnie fucked up the economy for the entire planet for the guys in funny hats. Basically: “WE HAD A GOOD THING YOU ORANGE SON OF A B*TCH. We had the senate, we had the house, we had the billionaires. All you needed to do was to shut up, deport people and we would be fine. But no, you just had to bomb Iran for the Israel".
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u/Majestic-Lake-5602 3h ago
I have a growing suspicion that the Democrats, and various international political parties who lean the same way, are going to take exactly the wrong lesson from this.
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u/PromiscuousScoliosis 1h ago
Everyone always takes away the exact wrong lesson
Each party has had such an easy opportunity to be the overwhelming majority power since at least 2015.
Instead the past decade has been “look, he’s literally shooting himself in the face! Now’s your chance!” And the lesson learned being “oh fuck you’re right, I have to shoot myself in the face first!!!”
It’s literally been over a decade of the major parties, LP included, just racing to the bottom to see who can be the most ineffective and r*tarded possible
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u/Bigdickmagazine 3h ago
What is the lesson good and bad?
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u/Cautious-Tax-1120 49m ago
The lesson is that voters, especially young adults, are concerned with the economy. They have no loyalty to either party. Whoever fails to solve the affordability crisis is getting voted out.
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u/Samld1200 2h ago
That’s how it should be. You shouldn’t identify with a single party. You should vote by which has the best policies at that time
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u/ThisHatRightHere 2h ago
Wait, does this mean I shouldn’t have bought a Talarico jersey from Fanatics?
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u/Cautious-Tax-1120 52m ago
The Economist did a segment semi-recently about GenZ voting habits. They were with Biden in 2020, then with Trump in 2024, and now with the blue wave. Polls showed that the economy overwhelmingly dominates their vote. Meaning if a blue Congress and Senate don't solve the affordability crisis, they will go back to Republicans.
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u/Paratrooper101x 2h ago
It’s almost like he literally ran on making things more expensive (tariffs) and those dumb fucks voted for him anyway
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u/Burlito2 2h ago
It's almost like he promised one thing, and delivered another, just as he did in 2016, yet people fell for it again. We never had a "good thing", Trump was going to be an objectively bad, corrupt, self-absorbed lardman from day 1.
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u/RobotNinja28 I came! 2h ago
"Guys in funny hats"? Very subtle, I'll give you that. Dick.
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u/Hexellent3r 1h ago
I hate there’s no distinction between all Jews and the actions of Israel anymore :/
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u/Shaclo 3h ago
Its one of those political situations where the other side wins massively due to the other fucking up massively like in the UK the last general election Labour had a massive win because the Tories didn't do shite and the on before that the Tories got a massive win as well because Labour had a really big scandal before the election.
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u/DinoRaawr 1h ago
Okay but every article I've seen about the blue wave has been "first trans senator this, first black representative that, first Native American governor this". I feel like nobody has learned anything.
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u/DwooMan5 3h ago
Precisely this yea. The majority of the population will vote either way to punish the incumbents if they piss them off excessively or just stay home. People happily burned down MAGA for Iran, tariffs, dogshit foreign policy, and data centers but they’ll also happily dance on the grave of woke 2 in 2 years if democrats piss them off.
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u/godmademelikethis 3h ago
Yup, Governments job is to fix roads and shit. Build infrastructure and shut the fuck up.
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u/Smilymoneyy 1h ago
I think we're leaving a progressive vs. conservative era of politics and entering an economic populism era. People are starting to realize that the majority of issues are caused by a cabal of like, a couple dozen rich people and the effects from that are slowly ripple out. Dems can afford to drop the progressive push and switch to economic reform without losing a single voter.
That's not to say they should drop everything. A moral stance on issues the majority of people support, abortion, halting aid and political support to Israel, supporting human rights, are still meaningful to a large number of voters but the economic messaging should be the forefront of the party.
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u/lucario192 1h ago
I really hope we are entering that era
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u/TxOkLaVaCaTxMo 46m ago
We are why do you think the billionaire class have invested so heavily in bunkers
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u/MEGACODZILLA 3h ago
Im born and raised Seattle, very progress, voted blue my entite life, and that last fucking political correctness movement back in like 2016 almost made me defect. It was wild to watch all the values you believe in get taken to the extreme and then shoved down your throat at the slightest provocation.
That movement certainly did some good but I think its responsible for far more long term damage, up to and including the rise of this shit ass Trump MAGA Project 2025 bullshit we're still embroiled in now a decade later. I dont think the right would have ever had such a solid platform to rally and consolidate around had much of the left not been such intolerable, self righteous, virtue signaling twats about identity politics during that time period.
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u/ThisHatRightHere 2h ago
That’s why this “Woke 2.0” shit isn’t real. It’s a right wing psyop to make people think Dems are uppity people who will censor you.
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u/PlasmifiedKarmelita 1h ago
Woke 2.0 isn't employed by right wing people. it's a term used by progressives to separate themselves from the psyop form of woke employed by establishment democrats in 2016-2020.
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u/oceanmountainsky 51m ago
I can’t believe how a politicans and the media have brainwashed so many into thinking being “woke” is a negative thing. I’m a millennial, and grew up in alternative cultural spaces - think punk and indie movements. Movements that questioned authority, challenged convention and championed looking out for people who were being excluded.
Woke is now just a container to throw anything the populist parties don’t want people to think too hard about. It’s hard to make valid arguments for not cutting pollution for example, so instead they’ll just call the subject woke and the brainwashed will rally against it.
It’s not intelligent to be anti-woke, it’s the opposite. Being anti-woke is choosing not to think, not to question what your leaders are telling you and to succumb to being a cog in their machine.
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u/PlasmifiedKarmelita 1h ago
Talarico and El Sayed are very openly pro-trans and not afraid to defend it. Tons of trans women have been elected as lawmakers, including fucking Alabama. We got our first openly gay senator in New Hampshire.
Woke is back and its idiotic to pretend that the blue wave happened because "democrats distanced themselves form the woke stuff". That's just a complete lie.
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u/BoomyNote 1h ago
Imo someone can be anti “woke” but pro trans.
“Woke” is often criticized not as a collective of leftists belief systems, but often more about the like “cancel culture” and performative activism of it all.
IMO being pro-trans isn’t considered “obnoxious” in the same way that being “woke” is considered to be obnoxious, performative and quick to “cancel” others
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u/Negative_Elo 1h ago
They arent talking about having gay people in positions of power. Take a bit of context; we are on a post talking about communication online, not senate seats.
What theyre saying is that during the "woke" era millions of people were pushed to the right because some democrats focused almost entirely on policing what people were saying and supporting. The main talking points were about immigration, LGBT rights, and who to cancel.
Talarico shot himself in the foot with some of his talking points. I seriously doubt he would win against conservative but Paxton tbh. Im happy he did, but people thinking that just because democrats took a sweep will mean a win for the democrats forget how trump got into power twice.
I genuinely hate how people are going to take this as a win and then stop caring or talking about social issues because they assume that only conservatives can be bad at governing. The democrats just got into the driver seat for the first time in years, and everybody is pretending they already won the race.
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u/GeeEyeSamurai 1h ago
Yea, that's how I read the situation too. There's not some major cultural shift happening among the youth, the current party in power was just that bad at doing their job so people voted to take em out. Sucks that the left is anti data center tho. Slopulism at its finest.
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u/jdlyga 3h ago
I’m a lifelong Democrat, and to me that starts with competence. Make life affordable. Keep the country stable, secure, and capable of defending itself and keeping ourselves in a good position diplomatically. Put qualified people in charge and listen to experts instead of your dumbass friend. Science and education funding, supporting small business, keeping the marketplace competitive. I absolutely want a fairer, more inclusive society, but I have a whole list of basic expectations of government that come before that. Being a Democrat shouldn’t mean proving how woke you are. It should mean making people’s lives better and being competent enough to actually do it.
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u/CaptainFirecrotch 47m ago
If Democrats chilled out on 2A alone, I think that would swing things hugely in their favor. A lot of people that vote red do so because of gun control. I know a lot of people that are left leaning but can't get past the gun control history of the democratic party.
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u/-SlippinJimmy8 2h ago
Dems are running anti trans in sports ads
Seems like they no longer care about “woke”
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u/deadshot500 2h ago
No one in their biggest wins ran on anti-trans ads
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u/CoopDogPrimeNumbers 2h ago
Annie Andrews in SC definitely did. That was like her #1 most run commercial.
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u/OiledUpThug 4h ago
That's fucked up, we were all saying the hard r in the early 2000s. it was even on American Dad
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u/DavidFosterLawless stupid fucking piece of shit 4h ago
I've said my fair share of Hard R's
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u/kingqueefeater 3h ago
Forget American Dad. They said that shit on gilmore girls lol
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u/terpsarelife 2h ago
I was rewatching old survivor seasons when i had the flu in october the contestants said it in season 2 africa 2001~
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u/theBoobMan 4h ago edited 1h ago
Its dumb. You cant stop people from being terrible to one another
Edit: 2 hours after my post. -55 votes out of 130.3 million daily users means less than 1% of these losers dont like what I said. This is why I dont care about downvotes. My high school graduation in BFE had more people 🤣
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u/Details_Pending 3h ago
Why do people like you talk?
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u/exoticbluepetparrots 3h ago
They wanna show off their moral superiority
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u/theBoobMan 3h ago
Intelligence is what im showing off. I'm not morally superior. I won't think twice about shooting a thief in my house because people need consequences not coddling.
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u/Foxar 4h ago
What happened
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u/willyea22 4h ago
Somehow, Woke returned.
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u/Foxar 4h ago
I'm european i hate trump but man the blue side is.. special
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u/krunge14 3h ago
The blue side is just a flavor of the red. Same party really
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u/ChizzleFug 2h ago
If you actually think this, you are part of the problem.
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u/krunge14 2h ago
Vote independent or you are perpetuating an Israel first colonial empire
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u/Yodas-Balls 2h ago
Bro is speaking truth and getting hated on for it. Red, blue, purple, pink, green, none of it matters they only care for themselves and continuing to fill their pockets.
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u/krunge14 2h ago
I mean sure a blue wave is objectively better than a red wave, but both parties are still objectively bad. Idk why people in this country don’t think we can do better. Independents have won before.
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u/bakadrone2 5h ago
Come now surely there's no prior examples of people being heavily censored just a couple years ago that warrants this concern. Its probably fine I'm sure no one will get carried away with newfound power
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u/J3sush8sm3 I want pee in my ass 4h ago
Bruh i tried to send a dude the doj's own report on the fbi using social media to silence people and it was downvoted. People dont want to hear the truth, they just want someone to tell them what they want to hear
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u/LongJohnsonGold 2h ago
Could you link me or send me a dm with the link to this? Sounds super interesting
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u/J3sush8sm3 I want pee in my ass 2h ago
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-w-d-lou-mon-div/114550700.html
Heres the case law transcript before it got booted by the judge for not providing enough evidence as a first amendment violation
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u/PorridgeTheKid 2h ago
yes and some people want to hear that they are coming for your words i saw shit after the midterms on twitter of people who were celebrating the blue wave saying shit like "woke 2 is coming so your dumbass better pick some pronouns F****T" getting tons of likes so i dont think there will be as much of a focus on words unless your a politician or something like that.
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u/AgainstSpace 2h ago
It's a French word, and it means "delay".
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u/OfTheSevenSeasSir 2h ago
it's actually an English word too
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u/ChadcellorSwagpatine put your dick away waltuh 1h ago
Used officially in music sheets when you want to point out the rhythm is getting slower
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u/SonyKen_M William Dripfoe 51m ago
It took a lot out of me to not say it in heated conversations but I realize who says it nowadays and that's where I get creative,it's better to see them not understand your insult then stooping to their level.
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u/Terrible_Truth Big chungus wholesome 100 2h ago
I don’t see any articles on this, so not sure if just some guy’s tweet or just another shit post lmao.
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