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Taliban Official Mocks US for Rejecting Kamala Harris: 'Americans Are Not Ready to Hand Over' Country 'to a Woman' (www.latintimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Correlation != Causation
It's a small sample size
Consider the source poking fun - are they interested in a proper diagnosis to fix the issue, or merely casting aspersions? Don't allow them to "control the conversation", even borne out of grief rather than malice.
Frankly, Kamala Harris might have done better than Joe Biden, due to factors including his age and direct involvement in the situations such as Israel - she may not have sufficiently distanced herself from him, but he would have had a significantly harder time distancing himself from himself, especially given as he seemed to not plan on changing anything about his approaches.
I'm not convinced that "Trump won" so much as "Democrats lost", though not quite in the same sense as the last time with Clinton. Disinformation campaigns were in full force, combined now with (partial) shutting down of more traditional avenues of news, some possibly politically related, others sadly could be due to pure greed, e.g. Biden spent months working with railway workers who wanted to strike, but the media hardly mentioned that (Lemmy is an odd mixture combining both sources of disinformation / alternative "facts" as well as alternate avenues to find real information such as that).
Separately from all of that, yes many Americans seem not keen on the idea of a woman as President. But it may be difficult to separate that from all of the other factors. Though those factors are not entirely unrelated either, bc conservatives love to "divide" the population, whereas liberals try to "unite" it, and yet ironically that did not work out all that well when it came time to vote. Also, part of what I'm saying is that while Harris may not have lost due to her being a woman, yes the likes of AOC may be prevented from winning in the future due to being such - and yet she leans more towards Bernie Sanders, who likewise kept losing, even as a man? We probably all should rewatch the Innuendo Studios' The Alt Right Playbook, or watch the first time if someone hasn't seen it yet. For those people: the plug for it is that it will help make sense of what happened to have led us here, as well as what is about to come. TLDR for it: conservatives lie, it's what they do, and mostly they don't even know they are doing it, but it's up to us who are willing to see more clearly, and wake up to what's happening even as they dig their heads further deeper into the ground to hide from the truth.