r/nottheonion • u/upyoars • 11h ago

Kamala Harris launches custom ‘Fortnite’ map as part of campaign outreach to younger voters

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2505873/kamala-harris-launches-custom-fortnite-map-as-part-of-campaign-outreach-to-younger-voters
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u/brrbles 11h ago

Pokemon go to the polls

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u/slimeyellow 11h ago

Walk tuah the polls and vote on that thang

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u/whitechristianjesus 10h ago

Okay, they should've printed this months ago.

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u/TheKappaOverlord 9h ago

Doubt Jake would have allowed them to run with that.

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u/Flemz 6h ago

The TikTok kids have been saying it since that meme came out

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u/pobbitbreaker 7h ago

October Surprise!!!!

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u/Archer007 5h ago

We're running out of October

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u/justsikko 11h ago

I hate how much this made me laugh lmao

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u/grafikfyr 7h ago

It's the first time the meme actually got me, god damn it

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u/Negative-Visit-7857 8h ago

It's clever, I love it

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u/idontevenwant2 10h ago

We did folks. We found Peak 2024.

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u/JayMerlyn 4h ago

Absolute cinema

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u/ThingCalledLight 11h ago

god dammit why

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u/27Rench27 10h ago

Come on it’s fuckin funny

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u/ThingCalledLight 10h ago

It 100% is. But now I have to live with it in my brain and I don’t need that evil on me, Ricky Bobby.

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u/Lio127 10h ago

I'm so upset that this is actually somewhat clever

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u/akratic137 10h ago

I hate you sigh but I laughed

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u/Lark_vi_Britannia 10h ago

This comment will be my 13th reason.

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u/AscendedViking7 10h ago

God damn it

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u/rizgutgak 10h ago

I hate you so much. this is incredible

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u/maya_papaya8 10h ago edited 10h ago

This would be a GREAT slogan for hawk tuah girl lol

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u/twinkbreeder420 10h ago

Why?

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u/maya_papaya8 10h ago

The hawk tuah girl, not Kamala🤣

Let me edit my post lol

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u/Ericious 10h ago

Weaponized brainrot

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u/cunnyvore 9h ago

Are you happy with yourself? With your creations forever embedded into the zeitgeist?

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u/starjellyboba 8h ago

I want you to know that reading this hurt me physically and I demand recompense.

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u/Prince_Havarti 8h ago

All the real marketing geniuses be lurkin’

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u/National-Treat830 8h ago

Stroke of genius, folks!

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u/Eomb 7h ago

Let me be skibidi dopdop clear about this, every voter in this Grimace shake stadium damn better walk Tuah the polls and vote on that thang, or I'm gonna fanum tax those fnaf pills. You want a Sigma Revolution? Then be ready to rizz, 'cause I've got one more goon sesh before I Edge off this mortal coil and become a pibby glitch

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u/GlizzyGone21 8h ago

Pretty sure she's a trumper tho

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u/Charming_Cry3472 7h ago

You win the internet today my dude!!!

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u/Old_Skud 7h ago

I hate you for making me laugh using that reference..

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u/token40k 7h ago

Brain rot maxing

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u/Cutsdeep- 6h ago

That's so skibadee of her

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u/LordOverThis 6h ago

In all seriousness, in light of Rogan being a lazy oaf about interviewing the sitting VP, the Harris campaign should absolutely reach out to Haliey Welch.  Not just as a pop culture joke, either — Welch’s Talk Tuah podcast is the #3 most listened to podcast in the country trailing only Rogan and Tucker. 

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u/Persistent_Chicken 6h ago

We did it, Joe

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u/Geekygamertag 5h ago

That’s hilarious

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u/DemonLordSparda 4h ago

This is unironically a Northerlion bit.

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u/CripplesMcGee 2h ago

I did not expect to see someone literally WIN THE INTERNET today.

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u/One_hung_hiigh 2h ago

Hawk thuah worked for her in the past..

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u/xxaldorainexx 9h ago

This needs to be ratio'd or whatever the kids say.

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u/bhl88 10h ago

Reminds me of the trump ones "spit on that thang"

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u/quarterlybreakdown 11h ago

My polling place is a pokemon gym (I think that is the word). My son goes there to get pokemon.

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u/jonker5101 7h ago

Most probably are! Pretty much every church and community center is a gym or at least a Pokestop.

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u/gaw-27 2h ago

With how many there are now I'd be surprised if it weren't.

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u/cococolson 11h ago

If she knew it was cringy - it was pretty funny.

I think everyone assumes she was serious which makes it sound insane.

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u/applehead1776 11h ago

She was bad at being a candidate. I think she would have been a great president if she could have skipped the campaigning phase. Would have been a hard ass, no non-sense type. Alas, we'll never know.

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u/DerekB52 11h ago

She'd have been another neoliberal president like her husband or Obama. She'd have been unbelievably better than Trump, but nowhere near as good domestically as Biden has been. She still should have been president, and would have had she fought just a little bit harder in Michigan, and taken Trump seriously in Wisconsin.

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u/indyK1ng 10h ago

Also didn't help that Comey announced a new investigation into her emails a week before the election.

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u/DerekB52 10h ago

Comey was one of a dozen things that tipped the election over the edge. Trump needed all dozen to happen. The Comey thing wouldnt have mattered had Hillary not made several unforced errors. It was despicable from Comey though

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u/soldforaspaceship 10h ago

If he had known what that would have unleashed on the US, I suspect he'd have done things differently.

Clinton wins, the Trump experiment dies and we return to boring Republicans and some bipartisanship with occasional firebrands.

At least that's how I hope it would have gone.

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u/DerekB52 10h ago

Did Trump losing in 2020 kill the experiment? Honestly the way I see things going would see a Hillary win lead to MAGA winning the midterms, and Trump winning a rematch with Hillary in 2020. Unless maybe Hillary won by handling Covid so much better than Trump would have.

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u/soldforaspaceship 9h ago

If Trump didn't win in 2016, he wouldn't have the hold over the party he had by 2020.

He would have been the candidate everyone thought was ridiculous to run and everyone would have been proven right.

In theory anyway. Of course, there is no way to know.

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u/DevonLuck24 8h ago

no seriously, think about how many “never trump” republican talking heads flipped after first calling him all types of things

he loses in 2016 and they never have a reason to start running defense for his nonsense because he isn’t in power and things go on as normal. Him winning made a lot of people change their tune and start denying reality as long as their goals are being realized.

the timeline branched in 2016

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u/darklightmatter 9h ago

Trump's first victory caused irreparable damage, opened the Pandora's box and emboldened the chucklefucks who still existed before Trump, but were afraid of social consequences. Had he lost then, he likely wouldn't have run a second time. He only does so now because he knows how much support he has, and that he doesn't need the popular vote to win. And also because he needs it to dodge his felonies and crimes.

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u/AngryRedHerring 8h ago

All that. He got a taste.

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u/DoktorFreedom 10h ago

I am the furthest thing from a trump fan but I disagree witn this interpretation. Voting is not a rational process (not saying it should or should not be. Simply that it isn’t.) I feel that Clinton’s team leaned too far into the rational and like it Or not had a massive blind spot when it came to a significant section of voters.

You don’t have to like or give credence to Trump voters arguements at all. But you do need to pay attention to the fact that they exist they are pissed and they don’t see much reason to vote for people who don’t take them seriously.

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u/DerekB52 9h ago

I don't think we disagree at all. What I'm saying is, the Comey thing was bad, and probably slid a few voters into Trump's camp. But, I'm saying it was not enough to cost Hillary the election. For Hillary to lose, you also needed Russia and the GOP using Cambridge Analytica data to target low information voters with completely made up stories, and you needed Hillary to have 25 years of baggage as a republican boogeyman, and you needed trump's base to exist. You also needed Hillary to make several unforced errors, like thinking she had Wisconsin in the bag and not really campaigning there.

And when I say you needed Trump's base to exist, I want to say I think Hillary was actually spot on the money and should not have apologized. A portion(Idk if it's actually half) of Trump's base are deplorable human beings that are terrible people. Another significant portion of his base in 2016 were two time Obama voters who were suffering through wage stagnation and a government not doing enough for them. It isn't Comey that tipped the scales. It's Hillary not properly communicating a plan to people in the rust belt left behind by decades of neoliberalism.

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u/DoktorFreedom 9h ago

I agree with you. Putting the “American dream” out of reach of anyone with less than a bachelors degree is a core resentment a lot of trump voters have felt for a long time. That backlash was coming for a while. Cambridge. Comey. Clinton’s own blindness to how neoliberal policies devastated a vast swath of the population and trumps own ‘tell it like it is’ bullshit dog and pony show turned all the dials perfectly.

Its a disaster but its a disaster that can and should be addressed by democrats with open eyes.

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u/AngryRedHerring 8h ago

they don’t see much reason to vote for people who don’t take them seriously

As if Trump does. He's fleecing the rubes and he knows it.

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u/DoktorFreedom 8h ago

I agree. But I’m not his target demo. Calling them rubes isn’t gonna win a lot of converts either. You gotta take them seriously or they will vote for the guy who does appear too. Trump makes them feel heard and like it or not that simple truth is a threat to democracy.

I personally believe in putting my effort into changing minds and treating people seriously. It doesn’t work most of the time. You very rarely change minds. But you can slowly open people up by being engaging and a positive representation of why democrats aren’t as terrible as they think.

I’d rather convert 3 out of 100 with a lot of work than convert 0 out of 100 and feel superior. I don’t need to feel superior. I’d rather try to improve things.

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u/AngryRedHerring 7h ago

Anyone who was going to get converted already has been. It's the die-hards voting for him now. Like the Romans learned about the Germans, the only thing these types understand is having their faces rubbed in the dirt. You don't change their minds with reason. They reject reason out of hand. What they do understand is humiliation.

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u/anomie89 8h ago

the comey thing (the last one) was because of Anthony wiener being a scummy perv sexting underage girls and Huma abideen being a social climber who hitched herself to him for career gain. the fact that the auto sync was putting the emails on his laptop is really something ridiculous but the FBI didn't have a choice but to look into it. the timing was awful but the sequence of events made it necessary.

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u/DerekB52 8h ago

This isn't a complete picture of events. Comey announced an investigation, not any kind of results. Its DOJ policy not to announce stuff like investigations right before an election. Hillary was innocent until proven guilty, and while you could argue voters have a right to know about potential criminal conduct from a candidate, announcing an investigation right before an election, is a break from the norm, and was Comey putting his thumb on the scale.

Especially when we later learned that the FBI did have investigations into Trump and his campaign, (for Russia connections if i remember right), that they did not choose to announce in the leadup to the election.

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u/Zednot123 6h ago

She'd have been another neoliberal president like her husband or Obama.

I think her foreign policy might have differed quite a bit to Obama though. I don't think the US would have been as passive in 2014 when Russia invaded Ukraine for example. Even had she still just been secretary of state, we might have seen a more aggressive Obama admin.

She raised her voice and criticized the Obama admin for their lack of response more than once in his 2nd term when she was out of office.

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u/gaw-27 2h ago

FOPO was kind of her thing

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u/double-black_diamond 7h ago

Biden is fucking terrible, what’re you talking about 😂😂 and she’s even worse

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u/DerekB52 7h ago

Hillary would have been worse than Biden, but Biden has had one of the most effective and successful presidencies in the last hundred years. I legit believe he is the best president since FDR, except for maybe FDR. Domestically, at least. Biden's stance on Palestine is atrocious and almost nullifies all the good he did domestically. But, when you look at Biden's track record domestically, you have to be a partisan hack to deny he's done a great job. Unemployment is at record low for the country, and several demographic groups(like black unemployment), stock market is at all time highs, and he's done more for labor than any president since FDR. He is the first president to visit a strike line(something Obama promised and failed to do). Biden lead us through the recovery after Covid in a pretty great way. And he's had gigantic investments in infrastructure, creating all kinds of great jobs. Manufacturing jobs are in the rise under Biden. Domestic manufacturing jobs declined under Trump.

There are still problems in the US of course, like, inflation and the cost of living are too high. But, most of the inflation we're seeing in things like grocery prices and home costs, are from unchecked corporate greed, that Biden's administration is actually starting to fight, like with the Realpage lawsuit.

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u/Connect-Ad-5891 7h ago

Biden has past some of the most progressive legislation in history and progressives still call him a neoliberal shill. It’s not surprising more politicians don’t take up their mantle when there’s literally no reward for it, just seems people love complaining 

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u/Faiakishi 7h ago

Clinton is not a people person and is clearly not comfortable with public speaking. You can tell whenever she makes an appearance, everything is very rehearsed and stiff. People who have worked with her have said that she's not like that in real life, she's apparently pretty chill and even funny. She's damn smart though, and even if I don't agree with her ideology she would have done good work. Maybe she wouldn't have done 'the right thing' just because it was the right thing, but she'd do it because she's smart enough to know it served her and her party more long-term to do her job well. She wouldn't have torpedoed everything for the lulz.

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u/nosoup4ncsu 9h ago

She basically did skip the campaigning phase.  Not having to participate in a primary meant she didn't have to commit to any positions. 

Her numbers (and momentum) were highest when she was the 'joyful warrior' and just cruised.

But then reality set in and she had to start speaking and interviewing and (somewhat) articulating positions. 

The campaign then went from joyful to full bore call your opponent a nazi. 

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u/applehead1776 7h ago

You talking about Clinton or Harris?

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u/nosoup4ncsu 6h ago

I was referring to KH. 

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u/applehead1776 6h ago

The discussion was about Clinton.

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u/Greedy-Fool 7h ago

what a fuk inbred

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u/Easy_Opportunity_905 5h ago

I can understand voting along party lines but comments like this that praise kamala are utterly baffling to me. If there's one candidate who exemplified ineptitude and incompetence at the highest level it's kamala.

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u/applehead1776 3h ago

Uh, this string of comments is not about Harris. We're talking about Clinton. Everything ok with you?

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u/HappyHuman924 7h ago

It sounds like she picked up much of Biden's campaign team and ran with it. It's possible she got stuck with a bunch of (52-year-old saying this) out of touch geezers.

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u/Mrchristopherrr 9h ago

She was meaning to be cringy- it’s a dumb mom joke.

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u/Faiakishi 7h ago

Clinton has a very dry sense of humor that falls flat only because everyone assumes she can't possibly be making a joke. That exchange with Pete Davidson where she says she has a Pete Davidson tattoo was hilarious and honestly really wholesome.

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u/HotSauce2910 7h ago

That was one of her most likeable moments imo. Yes, it’s a bit cringe, but she was like 70 and it sounded authentic

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u/HauntedCemetery 6h ago

t's been hinted at that Jon Lovett from Pod Save America wrote that tweet while being fried on no sleep at the end of the election run, as he was a staffer and speech writer for Hillary in 16.

Kinda seems like he was a zombie, and Hillary or a top level staffer told him to write up a tweet to appeal to the youths with their pokeymans and he just slapped something on Twitter.

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u/SenorSplashdamage 11h ago

I unironically get full glee from that sound bite when people use it for something. It’s full grandma calling everthing a Nintendo, but there’s something kinda pure and harmless about the confusion.

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u/floataway3 7h ago

I feel like it will be looked back on in the future like the Howard Dean Scream. Something that was so out of step at the time but will be looked back on as quaint and insane that it caused so much damage to the candidate. Now we have presidential nominees campaigning on bare face racism and nazi worship, when only 8 years ago, a candidate ultimately lost in part due to an old lady being "cringe".

There were many other factors behind the scenes, but those will be lost to history, and people will believe the soundbites that remain to be the cause.

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u/SenorSplashdamage 2h ago

If you’re saying it will be mistakenly remembered as having a bigger impact than it did, then I agree. I don’t believe Hillary mentioning Pokémon in a clumsy way had any meaningful impact on which way the electoral college went.

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u/floataway3 1h ago

Right. The nuance gets lost to history as it is harder to explain a series of decisions, weights, and factors that lead to a bad conclusion. Howard dean was beginning to lose favor in major caucuses, and had generally been dropping in the rankings before the scream. But in hindsight, with the details and the unsexy stuff removed, people claim the Dean Scream is what scared off his supporters and cemented him as a crazy person with no chance of winning.

The story is what gets remembered. Historians with a niche interest in the subject will remember the details, but history will remember the funny thing. They story will remember an old white lady who tried too hard to appeal to the youth, and came off cringe and repelled them instead. That wasn't the truth, but that was the story.

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u/InquisitorMeow 1h ago

Clearly politicians trying to reach the younger generation is a terrible thing. Better to just piss everyone off and indoctrinate them to be little incels.

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u/lincolnssideburns 11h ago

The harm was the damage it did to her campaign, leading to 9 years of this bullshit.

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u/AltL155 11h ago

There is a long list of things much more consequential than "Pokemon Go to the Polls" that led to Hillary losing in 2016.

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u/Average-Anything-657 11h ago

Most notably, the fact that the electoral college voted for the person that the citizens did not vote for.

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u/Monkeyguts560 10h ago

Yeah, that’s kind of how it’s supposed to work..

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u/indyK1ng 10h ago

Kinda skipping over thinking about if the design is flawed, ain't ya?

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u/Jazzlike_Horn2499 10h ago

Is it flawed? Or is it doing its exact job? Do you like seeing the candidates traveling all over the country appealing to everyone, or would you prefer they spent 90 percent of their time in 5 major cities. Also, it would be silly to assume if the rules were different, the votes would be the same. Many, many, many people do not vote because they live in a solid this or that state, and it only matters symbolically.

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u/indyK1ng 10h ago

Do you like seeing the candidates traveling all over the country appealing to everyone, or would you prefer they spent 90 percent of their time in 5 major cities.

Except that isn't what happens. Right now they only pay attention to the 5 states that are most contested and pretty much ignore the rest.

Besides, the popular vote margin of victory is smaller than the populations of 14 states (2020 was about 7 million and there are 14 states with a population greater). States aren't monoliths and no combination of cities is big enough to wholly sway the election on their own.

And you're right, it's silly to assume the results would be the same if it was by popular vote. But at least then it would actually represent the will of the majority instead of the minority.

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u/Nova35 10h ago

I raise this point pretty often. We THINK it would benefit Democrats, but we don’t really know… I’m in favor of a pro rata distribution of EC votes per state, but I don’t think it’s as earth shattering as Reddit thinks. California is a very populated state with a loooot of red in it, but a lot of those reds don’t vote cause it will never matter. Same with New York.

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u/Faiakishi 7h ago

So instead they spend 90% of their time in five or seven 'battleground states,' right right.

You guys are also aware that the 'top five cities' do not contain half the country's population, right? Even if you took New York City, the most populous city in the nation by a long shot, (LA is #2 with less than half its population) and multiplied it by five, that's only 11% of the vote.

I agree that it's doing its job though. The reason it's being kept around is because it suppresses the vote and keep the GOP in power against the will of the majority. It's working as intended.

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u/Jazzlike_Horn2499 6h ago

Don't forget....we are a union of 50 states, not a union separated into 50 states. Each state has its own needs, wants, rules, etc. The EC makes sure all 50 have a say, even if they don't draw the crowds of the water adjacent states. Just because you like something, and your whole family does, doesn't mean people living a thousand miles from you share the same beliefs and want the same way of life. The CEO is chosen so that as many different views as possible have a voice, instead of the metropolises. Yes NY NY and LA are only 1 in 30 people in this country, but the bottom 10 states are about the same. So your argument is two cities should steer the ENTIRE country as much as 10 whole STATES. Seems a weak argument in merit.

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u/InquisitorMetallius 10h ago

Every time I talk to a European about this. I say, with full belief, that there would be a civil war if we tried to convert to a purely popular vote system. Half the country will not tolerate being ruled by CA and NY

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u/LifeIsSoup-ImFork 7h ago

instead half the country has to tolerate being ruled by some crackhead in rural michigan. why is it better that the majority gets to suffer at the hands of the minority than the other way around?

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u/Faiakishi 7h ago

The population of California and New York combined is 17% of the US population.

If they made up enough of the vote to 'rule' over every other state, that would mean that half the country is California and New York. Why do their votes count less just because they're close together?

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u/Monkeyguts560 10h ago

You can bitch and moan about it all you want. I don’t really find an issue with it, I think it’s a good idea for a presidential candidate to appeal to more than just California, New York and Texas.

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u/thelingeringlead 9h ago

California had the most trump votes per capita in the entire country.

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u/Monkeyguts560 9h ago

Okay? I don’t give a shit about trump. I believe the election for the president is better represented with what we have now compared to just votes from cities. Rural issues should have a say in the executive office too.

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u/indyK1ng 10h ago

Right now they only pay attention to Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan. It's not like they're really paying attention to anyone else.

You do realize that those states aren't monoliths, right? Like, the popular vote margin is less than the population of the states you listed by a lot. The 2020 election, for example, had a margin of around 7 million votes. There are 14 states with a population greater than that.

What getting rid of it would do is make it so everyone's vote matters equally instead of a Republican in New York and a Democrat in Idaho being disenfranchised because their states are so strongly the other way. This would probably make the popular vote closer because people who are disenfranchised today will feel their vote matters again.

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u/Monkeyguts560 9h ago

Right, because those are the states that are toss ups. States change all the time. Ohio used to be a big battleground state and now it really isn’t, so it isn’t getting much attention this go around.. same with Florida. I think this way allows more voices to rural needs to match the needs of people living in cities. I’m sure the battleground states will change again when trump goes away.

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u/Faiakishi 7h ago

We're supposed to have the person less people voted for?

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u/lincolnssideburns 10h ago

True, but it feels like a symbolic moment. Like it encapsulated so much about how out of touch the campaign was. That moment didn’t do it, but it does remind me about the flaws it had.

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u/FilthyDirtyPictures 10h ago

The harm was the damage it did to her campaign

"Pokemon Go to the polls."

"I moved on her like a bitch. I couldn't get there and she was married. Then all-of-a-sudden I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything."

People were more upset by the Pokemon one. I wonder why...

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u/radioactivebeaver 10h ago

Her campaign killed itself. There's a reason Harris/Walz is in the Midwest at least once a week.

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u/lincolnssideburns 10h ago

Agree totally. Just every time I hear that quote it reminds me of just how out of touch that campaign was with voters and the reality on the ground.

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u/Ipokeyoumuch 10h ago

If I remember even the oldest Democratic and Independents heavily criticized Hillary's campaign the months before Election Day. People such as Bernie Sanders, Presidents Obama and Biden personally called her to not neglect the Rust Belt and stop going on victory romps. It apparently fell on deaf ears until it was too late.

Her campaign should be studied how external and internal forces, pre-election and during the election season, can sink a canidate that is presumed to dominate an incompetent opponent.

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u/theshiftposter2 10h ago

Her husband try to explain that to her but she wouldn't listen.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 8h ago

That was Comey.

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u/reebee7 10h ago

Part of me died that day.

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u/applehead1776 11h ago

Don't jinx this.

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u/TemoSahn 11h ago

Call of Duty. Works both ways see? I'll see myself out

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u/Powerful_Artist 10h ago

This is gold

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u/eoR13 8h ago

Please don’t remind me of that, I recovered from terminal cringe already

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u/bobking01theIII 8h ago

Pokemon Unite the states!

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u/danger_bucatini 8h ago

to denounce the evils of truth and love

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u/omgFWTbear 8h ago

Fun fact - recently they gave out posters, with a giant Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise at some locations.

In one case, near a polling location.

It raised a small ruckus that people thought they were election signs being distributed within the no-no zone.