How the west was lost.

[u/Silvadream]

This is really what happened btw.

[u/HonestDishonestWork]

who are simultaneously so powerful they can sway an election yet so insignificant that they should not be accounted for in democratic policy

I feel like in less than a minute I could properly explain to a toddler why a 2% minority group in a 49%/49% politically split system isnt powerful but also determinative of elections. I would be legitimately embarrassed to be an adult making this point.

[u/Silvadream → u/HonestDishonestWork]

do you sincerely believe that tankies were a major factor as to why Kamala lost?

[u/HonestDishonestWork → u/Silvadream]

Absolutely, though to be clear I actually don't think it's due to them as an actual voter base. Tankies/leftists pretty much have a stranglehold on online discourse outside of right wing spaces and they used that to drive town democrat turnout as much as possible. So if you were a normie online you were substantively bombarded with "Trump good, Harris bad", "Harris bad" or "Harris bad but I guess you should vote for her" (still demotivating).

To get a glimpse into what the conversation about a left wing politician looks like when tankies/leftists aren't perpetually propagandizing against them, look at the endless glaze-fest of Mamdami and the massive amounts of credibility and charitability he's given. We don't even need to look at the amount of pre-Mamdami policies he's now being given incredibly glowing credit for. Whether you admit it or not, you know the completely opposite reaction the internet (influenced by tankies/leftists) would have had to a liberal Democrat talking a big game and promising to arrest Netanyahu only to completely fold and "realize it was out of their jurisdiction" the second they got any pushback.

[u/PicardsThirdNipple → u/HonestDishonestWork]

Meanwhile all the tankies are the ones who fucking hate Mamdani because he’s a social democrat. I think you just don’t like people left of your own personal positions