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U.S. Election (Day?) 2024 Megathread

With apologies to our many friends and posters outside the United States... it's time for another one of these! Culture war thread rules apply, and you are permitted to openly advocate for or against an issue or candidate on the ballot (if you clearly identify which ballot, and can do so without knocking down any strawmen along the way). "Small-scale" questions and answers are also permitted if you refrain from shitposting or being otherwise insulting to others here. Please keep the spirit of the law--this is a discussion forum!--carefully in mind.

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It may be poetic justice for democrats to storm the capitol and refuse to certify the election results, but it wouldn't accomplish anything except guaranteeing that democracy ends. Somebody has to stop defecting.

I mean, there will almost certainly be mass violence. Democrats are just better about having plausible deniability, like claiming "Antifa is just an idea". Or "Fiery but mostly peaceful protest."

I don't know, this one seems more subdued than 2016. IIRC people were on the streets pretty much the day after 2016, and there doesn't seem to be too much of that this time around. People seem... exhausted? Defeated? I wonder if the popular vote result has something to do with it. Or how sure everybody seemed on both sides of the aisle that Hillary had it in the bag—complete with prepared victory theatrics about breaking a glass ceiling etc—making 2016 an almost traumatic shock, which we don't have this time around.

Frankly, the online left has sniffed its farts for far too long and crafted its own reality in leftist echo chambers like reddit. The popular vote is a key factor for sure, but Trump was a "phenomenon" in 2016. The media hysteria surrounding his first victory was quite a novel wave too, that would inevitably play a role in fragmenting society and its culture core. A lot has changed since then. People know what a Trump presidency looks like, it may not be very good, but he sure as hell isn't some fascist building para-military groups or rounding up gays and blacks in labour camps or turning America into the Handmaid's Tale. He is certainly not a war hawk either. Trust in media institutions is at a record low now. The left as a whole needs to reel in its media/social media game, it's giving them horrible PR at this point. The usual appeal to emotion and hysteria and "istophobic" shaming tactics are no longer working, not to mention they have COMPLETELY alienated young Gen Z men (the most lost generation of men by far) many of whom were in like 5th grade during Trump 1.0 and would spend the rest of their growing up years hearing the left demonise, blame and even mock men and downplay their issues. Basically, the left needs a platform that is more creative than anti-Trump.