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    37 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

    Comparing to Cuomo isn’t going to add much since he’s a 90’s style New Yorker with various scandals and a history of achieving little. He was the perfect candidate for a more fringe type candidate to beat at this moment in time.

    More donors is a silly metric. Anybody representing socialism will get more donors as there is an ideology behind it tons of people follow. That’s like someone appealing to evangelicals. This is nothing to do with working class I would imagine most donors were the group I’m talking about anyway.

    Walking out among ordinary people? Come on now. This is like a royal saying oh you actually interact with the commoners? You take that ghastly tube to work? This is very normal and standard. Is this really your idea of working class relatability? You have to be kidding me here.

    Not really seeing the relevance to working class on the Israel questions. It’s a standard New York obsession thing because of the big Jewish population.

    Yeah of course truck drivers are included but somebody being a part-time barista while they’re at college is probably not most of the time. I think a lot of people cosplay as working class so much they forget what it is. They forget they’re not it. Then they ignore the actual working class and think the issues they’re interested in are working class issues. That’s how the this disconnect exists particularly in left wing spaces and college/uni spaces. Better information environments? Seems a bit of a reach. Everyone has access to the same info. Most people hadn’t heard of him because he’s new and they don’t follow politics and don’t really give a damn. It’s really that simple.

    what is "working class relatability" to you? walking out on the street in ratty clothes carrying a bindle? "working class" =/= abject poverty lmfao. it's "normal and standard" precisely bc the vast majority of people are working class.

    and yeah a part time barista working for a college degree is working class. many working class people get or have degrees, not without enormous sacrifice on their part. the people most invested in claiming otherwise are usually Peter thiel culture war types who resent higher education as a bastion of wokeness.

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    50k-100k is not upper middle class even outside of NY. that’s like public school teachers and librarians and postal workers. unless you have a Peter thiel “you’re only working class when you grunt and hit things with a wrench (even though plumbers can make over 100k)” view of labor, then yeah alright.

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    I don't really think it's looking good in pa btw, just looking at my county. went for biden by a hair, now down 5 for Harris in PA with 88%. this county is usually a bellwether for the state and the rest of the country, I don't think she'll be down 5 in the rest of the state but she'll either lose by a point or two or barely eke out a win by like less than half a percentage point thanks to whatever's left of Philly and the burbs. grain of salt im kind of drunk and nowhere near an analyst, just vibes

    It was the rightward near-complete results drop of Loudoun County Virginia (wealthy DC suburbs) that suggested it might be time to start dooming.

    wasn't aware of that but here's a possible explanation for it:

     

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    hopium or copium, only time will tell!

     

    re: georgia, it seems (from people I follow who know what they're talking about) the current results represent early votes, which skewed older and GOP this year. so a red mirage is possible.

    also the end of roe (something that did happen, is not a hypothetical, and has had dire consequences) was kind of the precursor to "fear mongering about project 2025" and "something trump had to do with" via his Supreme Court picks. yes it's possible people are voting based on the consequences of the previous administration's policies and in anticipation of what's to come if he comes back into power. wtf are you even talking about? lmfao

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    Worse than burning people alive in tents with bombs and weapons supplied even after 12 months of pure brutality? All in 4k for the world to see? Can’t think of anything worse in my lifetime certainly not that was clearly enabled and funded by the US Gov. to do that and get almost a hundred million votes or win an election it’s a bleak message, one terrorist groups will be using to radicalize for decades I think. I don’t even see what Kamala is offering or is good for foreign policy horrors aside either? Pretty much similar on the border, fracking etc. the Economy isn’t up to much, what’s this great need for her to win? Abortion? Something she can’t do anything about if they could they would have the past few years. Just some craziness fearmongering about project2025 which is basically sharia law for super fundamentalist Christian’s and clearly not a serious thing for mainstream America and Trump is nothing to do with. I know people don’t want to view it in these terms but Kamala winning is basically saying genocide isn’t a red-line which is an horrendous message

    I'm not sure what you think the endgame should be other than people not voting/voting third party which is what a lot of the pro-palestine camp are doing (will not be doing the same personally as I live in a swing county but to each their own)