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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

You're still underplaying what happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

Wisconsin as a whole does tend to lean blue. The margins aren't large though. Last mid term Evers (D) won for governor but the same election Johnson (R) won for senate. The Democrat opposition for that election was Barnes, who was definitely progressive leaning, but ran a terrible campaign that the DNC didn't help until it was too late. We are still a swing state.

isn't the result of conservatives turning on Trump

Nobody is saying it is. It's that group of swing voters that have immediately changed from liking Trump to rejecting Elon and Trump. You'll never turn his cult base, but you also don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago

I agree with your idea, but I also appreciate that they've dropped the facade.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (11 children)

But it is a refute to the idea that there is a "voter mandate" for Trump. This was a state wide election that just a few months ago voted for Trump. It also isn't as simple as the democrats keeping their seat. The incumbent left, so the seat was vacant. Not a "trouncing," but you're downplaying it too much.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sell targeted ads based on information they learn about you. It's a pretty straightforward business model.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Oblate spheroid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I think you can throw Colbert on that list.

[–] [email protected] 167 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I don't think that they think that. I do think that they think you don't deserve a house if you work at McDonalds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You're not remembering it accurately. It was purposely disorganized in that there wasn't a defined leader and everything was done through direct democracy. It collapsed under planted cops that incited riots so that riot police could break up encampments.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Were they drinking before they confirmed him?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's what the Occupy Wallstreet was supposed to be all those years ago. Anything that can create real change in the class war will be stomped out by the ruling class.

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