Alright, the dust has largely settled, post mortem time on why it went wrong for Kamala:

>The vast majority of exit polls are indicating this was about the economy. Whether you can attribute that to the Biden administration or the post pandemic recovery period is utterly irrelevant to the average voter. It happened under Biden's watch. Voters associated Kamala as the continuity candidate for the current state of economic affairs. She was doomed from the start. The Trump team nailed it on the head by hammering home the simple question of; are you better off now or when I was in charge?

>She lost the POC voting bloc, particularly with males. Latino and black men abandoned her in the droves. I think this is largely down to her west coast elite upbringing just not resonating with POC men. It also doesn't help that she was the Attorney General of California, and if I'm not mistaken, locked a lot of POC men up during her tenure. Not a great image for securing POC votes.

Just genuinely a horrendous pick from the Democrats in hindsight. I'm starting to think she might actually be worse than Hillary.

Of course she was worse than Hillary—let's not forget she was an "also ran" in 2020. She was never considered a serious candidate for anything; when Biden stepped down and the DNC didn't hold a primary, it had the same energy of crossing their fingers and hoping things would just work out.

>She relied to heavily on vibes and not enough on policy. In retrospect I really think we should have been sounding the alarm bells as her short lived campaign went on. Seriously, I never once heard of a policy position or a concrete step by step plan on how she was going to fix the economy or deal with Gaza if she was to take over. She really just thought coconut memes and brat girl summer tik tok edits were gonna win her the white house.

This is untrue, however. Kamala had several policy positions which she discussed frequently, such as

• Expanding the child tax credit, and wanting to cut taxes for middle class families in general
• Providing first time home buyers with $25K to help with down payments
• ACA expansion
• She wanted to stop price fixing by landlords
• Protecting and strengthening Medicare and Social Security
• Restoring Roe v Wade

...among others.
You can criticize these policy positions by saying she didn't have a concrete step-by-step plan—but I would argue this is totally irrelevant and wouldn't have made a difference. I think you nailed it on your first and third bullet points. She was doomed from the start. The MAGA cult is literally just too big now, and I genuinely believe that we were going to lose no matter what. But she DID discuss policy and she had several of them, especially compared to Trump who had tariffs, and uh.... uh.... uh.... wanting to glass Palestine?... Wanting to kill minorities?... Trump was the one who lacked policies, but policy literally doesn't matter anymore.

The most salient observation you can make, I think, is that she was a generally lame and uncharismatic woman running against an extremely charismatic cult leader in an increasingly racist and misogynistic country where being a liberal is seen as being soft and weak and uncool (lefties hating liberals so much certainly doesn't help—thanks Hasan Piker, you fucking piece of shit). The democrats have utterly forgotten the concept of charisma—they don't know how to be inspiring anymore. Trump knows how to inspire people with sub 100 IQs, and that's how you win. In this country, that has proven to be an unbeatable strategy.

well, we lost, although it's not official at the time of me typing this
PA going red puts Trump at 267, and AK (worth 3) will be a layup for him, so it's over
we also lost the senate—and will likely lose the house, too

i don't know what to say. i don't have the energy anymore to spit bile at those who allowed this to happen, and i can't think of anything to say to those who did their part to prevent this from happening.

just stay safe, i guess. tough times ahead. there is no silver lining to this outcome—no light at the end of the tunnel.

Am I missing some positives about him?

genuinely, no.

anyone who supports trump at this point in time is simply an anti-american cultist in support of an increasingly demented 34-time convicted felon, seditious traitor, rapist, and hateful bigot

his followers will tell you things like
- "he's going to fix the economy" (even though tariffs are his only economic policy)
- "he's anti-woke / he's not politically correct"
- "he's going to solve the immigrant crisis"
but these are just distractions built on falsehoods. the fact of the matter is that anyone who supports this man is in a cult. it's either that, or they're an ontologically evil person. the former could be (charitably) described as victims of their lack of education and susceptibility to propaganda. the latter should be considered enemies of the state.

it cannot be overstated that Trump has literally zero redeeming qualities to discuss—and even if he did have any, there is simply no overcoming the mountain of things that damn him.
i do not recommend attempting to reason with any of his supporters; most of them are too far gone. all we can do is hope he loses and fucks off forever.

Made one earlier—turns out, we're in 100% agreement.
My PA  selection is more wishful thinking than anything else, though, since I think we're fucked if Kamala loses it.

Allow me to rectify.

I was dead, no heartbeat, for 8ish minutes before I was successfully resuscitated. The previous me died, there is no getting that brain matter back after being so oxygen starved. I don't write the same, I don't talk the same, I don't think the same way I did before that happened. The me before died and I am the one living in this body until it expires.

I have the same wants, the same dreams, but what I (probably?) gained in emotional intelligence, I lost in the actual thing.

I saw nothing. Just the void ripping shit away from me and I am lesser for it.

that's still not the same thing as outright death, obviously—so it's silly to say that you've experienced it.
i abhor the term "clinical death" because it mindfucks people into thinking they know what it's like to pass on just before being resuscitated, when the reality is, you still have no idea what happens when you truly do die

i should hope you'd find that somewhat reassuring, because you could do what the average person does and simply believe whatever you want. you should allow yourself to entertain alternative possibilities if it gives you peace of mind to do so

anyways—no, i think i've reached a point in my life where i don't really fear death at all

i think it's because i know it's going to happen and i know i can't do anything to stop it, and at my age i've become pretty good at just accepting these realities without fussing about them. unfortunately, i can't really describe the process to you. it came more or less naturally to me

of course, i would prefer to keep living for at least five more decades if i had any say in the matter just to give me ample time to accomplish the things that i intend to accomplish in this life—but even then, if i learned that i was going to die tomorrow, it would actually be quite easy for me to accept that idea

and now biden has COVID

biden could look like that crusty old fish in spongebob who hates chocolate and i'd run over a mile of hot fucking coals to vote for him if it means stopping trump

but of course, all for naught, because trump is obviously going to win now. thanks thomas

i don't suppose it can't be about both

increase supply (build more houses)
decrease demand (stop having kids, normalize living at home)

yeah, that's fair enough. SFV at least let you buy characters with grindable in-game currency, though, if you didn't want to cough up real money for them. i was able to get everyone up to season 3 without paying an extra dime (though i stopped playing after that season). it's yet to be seen if SF6 will allow you to do the same thing, but we'll know when Rashid comes out on the 24th.

Very nice.  I'll be picking it up in a few years once it's out of early access.

if you think SF6 looks like it's in early access now, you should've seen SF5 at launch

Stop eating shit processed food loaded with sugar, carbs, and oils.

would your 10 year old self listen just because it was you from the future

mine wouldn't

lmao, did path1k PM multiple people the same fucking question? what a weirdo

anyway, i think chronic has the right idea here. it's sort of an evolution. if you ask me, the relationship between incels and simps is more comparable to squares and rectangles than "nerds" and "jocks"—that is to say, all incels are simps (because they're both losers pining for sexual attention), but not all simps are incels

what separates incels from simps is their disposition—incels are simps who fail to develop sex lives and become bitter misogynists as a result; simps are similarly desperate for female attention, but they haven't developed the bitterness that characterizes inceldom

most simps are neurotypical and won't become incels—the ones that do become incels only end up this way because they're mentally ill, and since they never get help for it, they dwell on all their failures and perceived inadequacies until they develop inferiority complexes that they don't know how to cope with, and then they project all that self-hatred outwards ("if women just liked me, i wouldn't have to hate myself, so it's their fault," etc)

I've played a couple of the older KoF games. I rocked with Heidern, King, and Billy Kane. They're pretty cool games, but having to learn three characters is definitely a barrier. I have a hard enough time learning just one character.